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The Hot Monkey

US musical group

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ7740417 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Hot Monkey is the name under which Memphis musician Scott Taylor (The Grifters, Porch Ghouls, StickyIckyIcky, Chopper Girl and Memphis Babylon) records and performs his solo material, as well as early versions of his Grifters contributions. His album More Than Lazy was described as low-key, lo-fi. Taylor, along with his Grifters bandmate Tripp Lamkins, has played dates in the Midwest and South. According to Billboard Taylor was due to record a Hot Monkey 7-inch for Sub Pop in 1998.

He also runs the Memphis hip hop label, Hoodoo Labs.

Editorial summary

“The Hot Monkey” enters the record as uS musical group. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Monkey, musical and group can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1998—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Monkey, musical and group.
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“The Hot Monkey” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Monkey, musical and group provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7740417. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1998.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Hot Monkey” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.