Eric Gomez aka Magnum was born August 26, 1987 in
El Centro,
California.
By the age of 10, he was writing basic poetry and rap that he saw on
TV. At age 13, he and other local hip hop artist were doing numerous
performances at a local church. By the time Magnum had turned 14, he
was performing all around the city including a performance in which he
opened up for one of the most known rap groups in the Imperial Valley
named C.U.P. (Coming up Productions). The performance went well and
after that, teenagers his age started to recognize his talent of
rapping.
He was known around his high school as more than a rapper but
more like an emcee, poet, and a lyricist. Magnum performed at the
school assemblies/pep rallies and talent show throughout his years in
high school. He and his best friend and fellow hip hop artist Ric would
record on a digital recorder and pass out demos to get their music out
to the city. Even though Magnum and Ric were solo artists, they still
worked on numerous projects together. Magnum came out wit his first
unprofessional album with 16 tracks called “Future Classix” when he was
16. He sold it around the city for five dollars. It was produced and
recorded entirely by Magnum except for a song called “Get Ya Hands Up”
Produced by G-Rocka with Ill Fame Productions.
About a year later, he
came out with another unprofessional album called “Highly Anticipated”.
Magnum handed that cd out for free because he wasn’t concerned about
the money. He was making records for the love of hip hop and he more
concerned about getting exposed rather than making money. On
March, 2005, Magnum met and shook hands with the president/CEO of J’s
Music Entertainment, Mr. Jose De La Cruz. Magnum was getting ready for
a performance when he gave Mr. De La Cruz a 5 track demo. About 3
months later, Mr. De La Cruz called Magnum to tell him that he was
pleased with both the performance and the demo he had given him. After
Magnum graduated from high school, he quit his minimum wage job and
moved to
Las Vegas,
Nevada
to peruse his career in hip hop. Mr. De La Cruz, Magnum, and the rest
of the artists on the label went to Burbank, CA. to meet with the two
owners of Twiins Enterprises, Adolfo and Omar Valenzuela. They were
satisfied with Magnums performance and offered him a chance to be on an
upcoming artists’ album. 1 month later, Magnum went back to Burbank,
CA. to be featured on a song entitled “Quitate La Tanga” by Eddie G.
Magnum wrote and recorded his lyrics that same night. About a week
later, Mr. De La Cruz was notified by Twiins Enterprises that the track
Magnum was featured on was going to be the hit single on Eddie G’s
album “The Mex Threat” and there would later be a video shoot for the
song.
Late January 2006, the video was recorded and played on many
different programs on the channel “LATV”. Eddie G and Magnum performed
live in front of a studio audience on a program called “Mex to the Max”
also on LATV. Late March 2006, Magnum and Eddie G performed at the
StaplesCenter in
Los Angeles before a Laker game. Magnum had returned home to
El Centro,
California to work on his solo album “The Next Best Thing”. The album was set to be out July 5th,
2006 but was delayed due to personal problems. In the middle of August
2006, Magnum returned to Vegas and hit the studio hard with a track
featuring Scoop Deville, the son of The Godfather Kid Frost. When
Magnum returned back To
El Centro,
he faced more problems.
He decided to give up his rap career and go
back to school. Before the semester had started, Magnum felt that
college wasn’t for him. Hip hop was the only thing he was good at. He
is now back on his feet but unsigned. He is still performing around the
city and around the
Imperial Valley. Music is
his life and he won’t give it up for anyone. Magnums lyrical skill is
at the highest level it’s ever been and the scary thing is that he is
still growing. Magnum (19) is currently living in
El Centro,
CA.
KRAZY AZTEC and the ZIG ZAG KREW, THE ZIG ZAG KREW IS COMPOSED OF THREE
RAPPERS. SCOOBY,VILLIAN,& KRAZY AZTEC.THE THREE MET AT A BIRTHDAY
PARTY FOR KRAZY AZTEC, AND WHAT STARTED OUT AS AN INNOCENT RAP SONG FOR
THE GUEST, DEVELOPED INTO AN ALL OUT BATTLE AS THE CROWD CLAMORED FOR MORE. THE RAPPERS WERE SO IMPRESSED WITH EACH OTHER THEY DECIDED TO FORM A GROUP AND PUT IT ON KRAZY AZTEC'S CD.
THE ZIG ZAG KREW STYLE IS SO UNIQUE IT COMBINES HIP HOP WITH STREET RAP,AIMED AT PARTIES GIRLS AND LOW RIDERS. IT'S A FUN NON GANGSTA NON EXPLICIT MUSIC THAT IS ENJOYED BY EVERYONE.
Track List:
People Out There
Let's Ride
Whoo Ride
Push It Up
Time Oves Slow Feat. Point Blank & Little Cip
Rollin in My Ride
Ride My Brown Horse
Keep Your Head Up
Get Your Guns Up Feat. Point Blank & Little Cip
Come Bounce With Us
Girl You're Looking Good to Me
Low Ride
U Know That I Know
Hit & Run
Funk For the Trunk
Strictly For the Freaks
17. Bounce, Rock, Skate,feat.point Blank &little Cip
Josh 'Chop' Towbin, 30, aka The King of Cars, is the owner of the car dealership Towbin Dodge of Las Vegas, Nevada.
Towbin's dealership and staff are featured on the A&E television network program King of Cars.
The program offers a behind-the-scenes look of the day-to-day business
of Towbin's dealership, which is currently the #1 single-point used car
dealership and the #2 single-point Dodge dealership in the entire United States.
Towbin started out washing cars for his father’s dealership at age 14. He sold motor scooters on the side, quickly reducing or 'chopping' the price down and earned the nickname, 'Chop'.
He quickly rose to assistant used-car manager and has since opened his
own dealership, Towbin Dodge. Chop also has a record label Tru Cents Entertainment, released a hip hop album, a clothing line and has a partnership with Dub Wheels.
Towbin has been called a master motivator and his team sales speak for themselves.
Chop often calls on his employees and creates friendly competitions
between the sales managers, promising a reward for the team with the
most sales for the day. He may hand out cash to a successful salesman
or, throw fireworks under the seat of others for motivation.
The dealership also has a bi-weekly show called the Chopper Show,
that features new cars on the lot and deals. The show consists of many
characters who are dressed up salesmen in costumes. These characters
have become celebrities themselves, such as the Blue Genie, Emperor
Two-Step, Big Sally from Green Valley and others. The show is
enormously popular in Las Vegas and is estimated to be responsible for
up to 80% of all of Chop's sales.
In 2003, Chop and Towbin Dodge were featured in an episode of the A&E show Take This Job, and in 2006 A&E began the new show, King of Cars.
About the TV Show
KING OF CARS takes viewers on a thrill ride into the crazy,
cutthroat world of car sales. Set in the Las Vegas area, this series
takes an inside look at one of the nation's most successful car
dealerships. The mastermind behind this thriving business is "Chop." A
charismatic figure in a suit and shades, Chop manages his auto empire
in his own fast-talking, quick-thinking, outlandish style. And there
are no limits to what he and his team will do to stay on top.
To drive sales, Chop produces and stars in a weekly infomercial
called The Chopper Show. This expert of the big sell pulls out all of
the stops to move cars off his lot. He makes outrageous offers, telling
his audience that "It’s time to do some chopping." He performs skits
with his salesmen who dress in crazy costumes. Nothing is too off-beat
or unusual for Chop’s show—there’s even a dancing blue genie. And it’s
impossible to guess what other attention-getting antics Chop and his
team will dream up to drum up business.
Beyond the fences of his car dealership, Chop is a man of many
talents. Not only is he the ultimate car salesman, he’s a rap
impresario and father. Watch as this real-life series explores the
different facets of this one-of-kind Vegas original.
Born in Pinar del Rio, Cuba, and raised in Southgate, California Mellow Man is best known for the song "Mentirosa" ("Liar" in Spanish). The song took a riff from Carlos Santana's "Evil Ways" as the music, repeated and tweaked to fit the lyrics, which were sung in Spanglish (mixing English and Spanish). "Mentirosa" was the first Spanglish hit record. According to Ace himself, B Real came up with the "Check this out baby" line in the track.
Mellow Man Ace is the brother of Cypress Hill's Sen Dog.
Ace uses Cuban slang in his rhymes. Musically, Ace did a couple of hip
house tracks, but mainly hip hop tracks, produced by the likes of Julio G, the Dust Brothers, Def Jef, the Baker Boyz, Johnny Rivers, Tony G (producer) as well as Cypress Hill's DJ Muggs
and Ace himself. Not all of his music mixes Latin and hip hop. His
first album contains only one wholly bilingual track, "Mentirosa", but
all in all, about half of the tracks include Spanish lyrics. On the
second album, which was produced by Bronek Wroblewski, Julio G, DJ Muggs, Ralph Medrano,
and Tony G, about half of the tracks were in Spanish or contained
Spanish lyrics; one song was in English with a Cuban accent. However,
on his third album, "From Darkness to the Light",produced by the Collective Funkateerz,
DJ Muggs, Cuban, and Tony G as well as Ace himself, Ace didn't actually
mix Spanish and English but kept the languages separate, with only two
tracks in Spanish and the rest in English. On "Vengo a cobrar" (2004),
Ace returned to mixing the languages, with Bronek producing the whole
album.
Mellow Man Ace is considered the "Godfather of Latin Rap." In 2002
he was inducted into the Hip-Hop Hall of Fame. "Mentirosa" was the
first platinum single by a Latin rapper, and "Mas Pingón" was the first
all-Spanish rap single.
Originally a member of Cypress Hill before going solo and releasing
his album prior to the group's debut, Mellow Man has teamed up with
older brother Sen Dog of Cypress Hill to release a duo album under the
group name "The Reyes Brothers." Although Mellow Man has guest featured
on Cypress Hill albums, this will mark the first collaborative LP
effort between the brothers, with their album "Ghetto Therapy" slated
for a June 13, 2006 release on Latin Thug Records.
COLUMBIA RECORDS SET TO RELEASE
CYPRESS HILL'S GREATEST HITS FROM THE BONG
First-Ever English-Language Collection Of Groundbreaking Hits
From Rap/Rock Pioneers Features TWO Brand-New Songs
+ Bonus Reggaeton Mix Of "Latin Thugs"
In Stores Tuesday, December 13, 2005
Cypress Hill, whose pioneering Latino hip-hop/rock fusion continues to
cast its radical shadow over the rap/pop landscape, will celebrate the
group's extraordinary longevity with the long-awaited Greatest Hits From The Bong, in stores Tuesday, December 13, 2005.
The first-ever English language "best of" collection Cypress Hill, Greatest Hits From The Bong
covers 13 years of recorded Cypress Hill history, beginning with 1992's
underground hits "How I Could Just Kill A Man," "Hand On The Pump," and
"Latin Lingo," cresting with 1993's massive crossover breakthrough
smash "Insane In The Brain," rolling through the mid-to-late 1990's
with the signature anthems "Throw Your Set In The Air," "Dr.
Greenthumb," and "I Ain't Going Out Like That," banging the new
millennium with 2000's "(Rock) Superstar" and 2004's "Latin Thugs"
(featuring Puerto Rican Reggaeton rapper Tego Calderón) and laying the
groundwork for a green Cypress Hill future with two brand-new cuts:
"The Only Way" and "EZ Come EZ Go." Rounding out the set is a special
bonus Reggaeton Mix of "Latin Thugs" (featuring Tego Calderón), remixed
and produced by DJ Kazzanova.
Since the group's formation in 1988, the pioneering rap-rock
quartet Cypress Hill -- founders B-Real (Louis Freese), DJ Muggs
(Lawrence Muggerud) and Sen Dog (Senen Reyes), along with newest member
Eric Bobo -- have come a long way from the streets of South Central
L.A. Over the course of its 17-year history, Cypress Hill has sold more
than 17 million albums worldwide, including more than 11 million
records in the U.S. alone. The group has garnered 15 multi-platinum,
platinum and gold certifications from the RIAA; headlined Lollapalooza,
Woodstock and the group's own Smokin' Grooves tour; appeared on
"Saturday Night Live," among other shows, all the while breaking down
the musical and cultural barriers between hip-hop, alternative, metal,
rock, reggae, ska and Latin music. To this day, many of Cypress Hill's
hits remain on active rotation on the nation's foremost hip-hop, rock
and alternative playlists while the sounds of Cypress Hill continue to
rock the world's hottest underground parties.
Even though Latin rap music did not garner much national attention up until the 2000s (with some exceptions like Cypress Hill and Big Punisher),
America's Southwest always has seen a number of Latino/a rappers, like
California's Brown Boy, compete for radio airplay with widely known
artists. Brown Boy's "Superman" slow jam topped many radio outlets'
favorite playlists and appeared on Billboard's Top Rhythmic 40 in 2006.
Hailing from Blythe, CA, Brown Boy earned his name from his baby-faced
look and Chicano pride. Although his greatest influence was alternative
hip-hop group Lighter Shade of Brown, Brown Boy's first two albums, Change the Game and Represent the Brown,
were filled with hardcore Chicano raps. However, the positive responses
received from the radio-friendly single "Next 2 U" of the latter album
convinced him to be more of himself in his music. In August 2005, he
released the Livin' Shady album, which contained "Superman," on Aries Music, distributed via EMI Latin. Still prospering from the exposure of Livin' Shady, he released Chicano Rap Riderz in July 2006. ~ Cyril Cordor, All Music Guide
Representative Albums
Represent the Brown, Livin' Shady, Chicano Rap Riderz
Baby Bash grew up with his Latin side of the family. His Mexican mother and Anglo
father both went to prison when Bash was young, resulting in little
contact with them. Growing up, his uncles and grandmother exposed him
to many different types of musical genres.
Baby Bash's career began to rise when he went to Houston, Texas, where he met fellow rapper South Park Mexican.
Thus, he decided to re-locate there. Prior to his success as a solo
artist he was part of rap groups Potna Deuce, Latino Velvet and N2DEEP.
Bash's debut album entitled Savage Dreams was released on the independent label, Dope House Records in 2001. The acclaim he received soon caught the attention of Universal Records, who signed him later that year. In 2003, Baby Bash released his first album on a major label, Tha Smokin' Nephew, and Super Saucy in 2005.
She auditioned for Luigi Babalo and was signed on the spot to Arista Records. Her very first single was "What Would It Take." The debut single, "Doing Too Much" (featuring Baby Bash), was released in 2006 - hitting national airwaves constantly. Her debut album, which was released on August 29, 2006, features guest appearances by Baby Bash, The DEY, Lil Wayne, V Nice, Ak'Sent, and P.B.
She worked on the album with musicians Baby Bash, Sean Garrett, Ne-Yo, and producers Happy Perez and Stargate. Paula's next single is "Walk Away" (featuring The DEY). It was written by Ne-Yo, Christina Milian
and Stargate. Paula De Anda will release her self-titled debut import
album in Japan on October 25, 2006. The track listing includes two new
songs, Alegria and Back Up Off Me.
Chingo Bling graduated from Trinity University (Texas) with a BA in business administration, was a member of the national business fraternity ΑΚΨ, and is CEO and founder of the record label Big Chile Entertainment.
Chingo Bling, Paul Wall, and Eddie Deville were featured on Kingz Of Spring Break 2, released in 2006. His next album will be titled Welcome To The Border which will be released on December.
Status
Chingo Bling CEO / President of Big Chile Enterprises
Chingo Bling is currently signed with Asylum/Warner Bros, but technically he is still independent.
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