We met while doing community service. He had two orange vests and let me use one. Bagging up clippings, droppings and trash from the side of the 101 we decided to start a band. It's like, our way to give back or something.

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The Mekanix production team consists of two talented young producers "Kenny Tweed & The Dotrix" Both whom reside in OAKLAND CA. They produce many genres of music but are currently focused on R&B, Rap, Hip Hop. Shock G of Digital Underground says "with so many styles you guys cant... [+] Read More

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Myloekoe ( my- loco ) is a producer, engineer , song writer and rapper who works with many local and some nation wide hip hop and r&b acts. He is also a member of the ground breaking up and coming electric pudding productions (E.P.P) A production team who's range is endless. Any kind of sound you need they got it. Myloekoe is constantly in the... [+] Read More

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Beginning with his 1993 debut, Gas Chamber, C-BO made it clear that he planned on surprising rap listeners with his controversial lyrics, which would eventually land him in jail. Of course, the hardcore Californian's steady rise towards continued popularity increased year by year, with an album being released nearly every year following his... [+] Read More

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Throughout the '90s and into the next decade, E-40 led a generation of Cali Bay Area rappers and attracted a large cult following of listeners that spread from the West Coast to the South. His uncanny rhyme delivery set him apart from the mainstream, as he coined his own lexicon of street-speak and experimented with overdubbed vocals. Moreover,... [+] Read More

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Throughout the '90s and into the next decade, E-40 led a generation of Cali Bay Area rappers and attracted a large cult following of listeners that spread from the West Coast to the South. His uncanny rhyme delivery set him apart from the mainstream, as he coined his own lexicon of street-speak and experimented with overdubbed vocals. Moreover,... [+] Read More

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Along with better-known rappers like E-40 and 2Pac, Mac Mall was one of several who helped put the Cali Bay Area on the map in the mid- to late '90s as a hotspot in the rap game. He collaborated with many of the Bay Area's best producers -- Ant Banks, Khayree, Michael Mosley, and Rick Rock -- and helped define the scene's identity, particularly... [+] Read More

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Sacramento, CA-based hardcore rapper Marvaless debuted in 1994 with Ghetto Blues; in addition to successive solo releases including 1995's Just Marvaless and 1996's Wiccked, she also made a series of guest appearances on records by acts including 2Pac, Conscious Daughters, Mac Mall, Master P's West Coast Bad Boyz, and such AWOL label mates as... [+] Read More

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Originally one of the leading rappers on Master P's No Limit record label, Mystikal quickly evolved beyond the label's clichéd thug trappings and found himself one of the Dirty South's most recognized rappers, alongside Juvenile. Like No Limit itself, Mystikal is a New Orleans native. He released an eponymous debut on the independent label Big... [+] Read More

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Raheem, a member of the Geto Boys' crew back as early as 1986, began recording two years later with The Vigilante. Showcasing production and lyrical themes which echoed the Geto Boys' own, it was followed four years later by The Invincible. Raheem moved to Solar Records by the mid-'90s, releasing Down South Comin' Up and Tight 2 Def during... [+] Read More

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Too $hort discovered rapper Spice 1, who'd been born in Texas before moving to California. His self-titled debut was as vivid and fatalistic a gangsta album as possible, and his hard-edged, angry, and pessimistic rapping style and tone only added to the despair emanating from the disc. He followed it with an even more bitter and nihilistic... [+] Read More

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A Bay Area family affair, Click is a four-member hip-hop posse from Vallejo, CA, headed up by rapper E-40 (Earl Stevens) and including his brother D-Shot, sister Suga T, and cousin B-Legit, who grew up in the same household. Though he first achieved solo success, E-40 actually began his career with the group, which was formed in 1986 as the Most... [+] Read More

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Evolving slowly but steadily over the years, Three 6 Mafia began as an exploitative, horror-themed underground hardcore rap sensation ("666 Mafia," get it?) yet went on to enjoy relatively mainstream success years later, eventually winning an Oscar and scoring some major hits. The Memphis, TN, group's membership varied from album to album, with... [+] Read More

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A local "gangster" turned rapper Kansas City, Mo. native Tony Franks began his long musical career in 1994. It started in Tulsa, Ok. as producer for the group "Gangsta'z Paradice". He turned vocal in 1996
before on the track "Night Stalkaz" and continued on his new found path with a mixtape later that year entitled... [+] Read More

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Born in Los Angeles, but an Oakland resident by the age of 14, Too Short was the first West Coast rap star, recording three albums on his own before he made his major-label debut with 1988's gold album Born to Mack; his next four all went platinum. Anticipating much of the later gangsta phenomenon, he restricted his lyrical themes to tales of... [+] Read More

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