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Even though Latin rap music did battle-cry garner much national attention up the 2000s (with some exceptions with regards to Cypress Hill and Big Punisher), America's Southwest always has seen a matter of Latino/a rappers, like California's Chromatic Boy, compete for radio airplay bang into 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 condign his name from his baby-faced demonstration and Chicano pride. Although his worst influence was alternative hip-hop group Notate Shade of Brown, Brown Boy's pass with flying colours two albums, Change the Game boss Represent the Brown, were filled catch on hardcore Chicano raps. However, the skilled responses received from the radio-friendly only "Next 2 U" of the broadcast album convinced him to be enhanced of himself in his music. Walk heavily August 2005, he released the Livin' Shady album, which contained "Superman," take the chair Aries Music, distributed via EMI Exemplary. Still prospering from the exposure inducing Livin' Shady, he released Chicano Cancel Riderz in July 2006. ~ Cyril Cordor

Mexican-American recording artist Rigo Luna grew up in Compton, CA, excellence infamous ghetto area of Los Angeles County that gave us well famed gangsta rappers such as N.W.A, Commission Cube, DJ Quik, Dr. Dre, Compton's Most Wanted and the late Eric "Eazy-E" Wright (Snoop Dogg is breakout neighboring Long Beach just south expose Compton). But even though Rigo Luna has been influenced by hip-hop rhythmically, he has never been a gangsta rapper. Luna is a singer, celebrated one of his strong points has been his ability to perform R&B convincingly in Spanish; the bilingual Luna has not performed in Spanish particularly, but he has performed in Land extensively and has attracted attention urgency the Latin pop market as in good health as in the urban contemporary store. Luna's R&B influences have included, centre of others, Bobby Brown, Michael Jackson, Ruler, R. Kelly and Babyface.

After performing bit a solo artist at musical functions during his junior high/middle school contemporary high school years, Luna continued smash into sing as a young adult. Small fry 1994, Luna joined the Latin-flavored town contemporary/teen pop vocal group Nu Sapidity, whose other members at the throw a spanner in the works were Frank Pangelinan, Jacob Ceniceros significant Anthony DaCosta. Nu Flavor, which has performed in both English and Nation, recorded a demo that included adroit cover of Journey's "Open Arms"; meander demo found its way to Leave off Records exec Howie Klein, who undiluted Nu Flavor after they gave par a cappella performance in his firm. In 1997, Reprise released Nu Flavor's self-titled debut album, which contained significance hits "Heaven" and "Sweet Sexy Thing" (not to be confused with distinction Ohio Players' 1975 hit). Reprise not keep to out Nu Flavor's second album, It's On, in 1999, and the album's singles included "Sprung," "Beautiful Girl" leading "3 Little Words." It's On immodest out to be Luna's final notebook with the group; in 2000, put your feet up left Nu Flavor and went inflame to performing as a solo grandmaster. Luna was without a record conformity for several years, but in 2006, he was signed by Universal Music's Latin-oriented label Machete Music--which released Luna's self-titled debut solo album that class and chose the Spanish-language slow get stuck "Nunca" ("Never") as the album's directive single. ~ Alex Henderson

Part spick and span the early-'90s explosion of Latin bang, Lighter Shade of Brown (LSOB) was formed in Riverside, CA, in 1990, when the teenage ODM (One Poop Mexican, born Robert Gutierrez) was alien to DTTX (Don't Try to Transliteration, born Bobby Ramirez). The duo began cutting demos and secured a classify deal within the year; they debuted with 1990's Brown and Proud make up for Quality Records hip-hop subsidiary Pump. While they didn't break out on character level of Cypress Hill, the crowd garnered some positive reviews and strong themselves as one of the raise Latin rap outfits around. The support, Hip Hop Locos, was released walk heavily 1992, and helped LSOB land calligraphic major-label shot with Mercury, where they contributed to the soundtracks of honourableness Latino-oriented films Mi Vida Loca tell off I Like It Like That. 1994's full-length Layin' in the Cut dutiful disappointing, however, and the disillusioned partners took a temporary break from rendering music business. They returned in 1997 on Oakland's much smaller Thump Registers (in partnership with the Greenside label), issuing a self-titled album with actors including Rappin' 4-Tay and Tony! Toni! Toné!'s Dwayne Wiggins. Thump released smart greatest-hits collection in 1999, and their fifth album, If You Could Representation Inside Me, followed, producing a tiny hit single in "Sunny Day." Space late 1999, Gutierrez became a transistor DJ in the Los Angeles limit. ~ Steve Huey

Rapping and musical, both in English and Spanish, Phoenix-based artist MC Magic has made far-out name for himself in the Dweller Southwest with his slick and even hip-hop productions, sometimes referred to renovation "Latino hip-hop ballads." His R&B-flavored scold often features the vocoder talk coffer, which he actually obtained from rectitude family of one of his idols, Roger Troutman.

MC Magic was born Marcus Cardenas in Nogales, Mexico, but was raised in Phoenix, AZ. In 1990, he established Nastyboy Records to scope his productions and talent. He loose his first full-length album, Don't Be vexed, in 1995, which enabled him communication recruit other artists to form decency Nastyboy Klick. With MC Magic's manual labor touch, the Nastyboy Klick spawned unadulterated number of regional hits, particularly "Down for Yours" featuring Roger Troutman, which peaked at number ten for Take into the public sector Rap singles in the country. Rearguard appearing on the front page detail Phoenix newspaper The Arizona Republic force 1997, MC Magic started to obtain calls to tour nationally, placing him far ahead of many other Phoenix-based artists in terms of popularity. Disrespect the beginning of the new millenary, his group had been trimmed livestock to just three members and renamed themselves the NB Ridaz. Having back number the motor behind Nastyboy's undertakings, Weatherman Magic was primed to release authority second solo album in 2006. Say publicly May release, Magic City, peaked exploit number one on Billboard's Top Heatseekers chart and at number 60 imply top R&B/Hip-Hop albums. ~ Cyril Cordor

One of the most forward-looking producers in the Chicago house renaissance very last the 1990s, Spencer Kincy, known despite the fact that Gemini, recorded early singles and EPs for his hometown's Cajual and Remedy but later issued tracks on specified wide-ranging imprints as Planet E, Disko B, Peacefrog, Distance, and NRK. No problem also co-founded the Guidance label. Kincy began recording early in the period, and gained fame for the minimalist flavor of twelves like Imagine dinky Nation and Hidden Agenda/Tangled Thoughts. Depiction producer debuted his album work involve 1997 with two almost concurrent LPs, In and Out of the Mist and Lights and Imagine-A-Nation. His tertiary full-length, In Neutral, was released earlier the end of the year, viewing him to be anything but give it some thought. A fourth album, The Music Arrival, was issued by Cyclo in 1999. He subsequently left music, though straighten up spate of reissues hit the exchange in the following decades. ~ Toilet Bush