Foreign Legion

Foreign Legion began in the past due ’80s in San Jose, CA, where layabouts Prozack and DJ Style would amuse themselves by stealing bicycles and making rhymes. Years later on, after conference and collaborating with Marc Stretch out, the duo became a trio, and International Legion’s cynical, lyrical undertake underground hip-hop was created. REGULAR B-Boy, the group’s debut 12″ one, was released by ABB Information in 1999; the Nowhere to cover up 12″ followed per year down the road Insidious Urban. With Marc Extend and Prozack’s call-and-response choruses as well as the quirky beats of DJ Style, the songs had been an instant achievement. Right now, Foreign Legion got established its head office in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, the house of likeminded performers such as for example Del tha Funkee Homosapien and DJ Darkness. In Sept of 2000, the group’s debut full-length, Kidnapper Truck: Beats to Rock and roll While Bike-Stealin’, premiered on Insidious Urban. The record presented International Legion being a rap staff that wasn’t scared to poke fun over dope beats; preferred focuses on included themselves as well as the condition of hip-hop music generally. After a short hiatus, the trio came back in past due 2002 using the Happy Drunk and Voodoo Superstar 12″s, which led as much as Playtight, Foreign Legion’s second sophomore full-length work for Insidious Urban. The group embarked on a Western european tour in March of 2003.