Reef the Lost Cauze

Given birth to Sharif Lacey in Western Philadelphia, Reef the Shed Cauze arrived up in hip-hop like a lethal battle-rap MC. He defeated competitors in all forms of locations, from college grounds to grimy back again alleys to professional contests. In 2000, despite finding a scholarship or grant, he quit film college after just the first 12 months to involve himself even more in hip-hop music. His 1st two albums, The Large Existence (2002) and Invisible Empire (2003), had been released locally and place his name around the map for Philadelphia’s underground rap picture. Nonetheless, it had been the local and nationwide battle-rap contests that offered his career a genuine increase. He finally arrived an album offer jointly with Eastern Meeting and Great Hands, the previous owned by NY underground MC/DJ set the Great & Mighty. The greater well-rounded work Feast or Famine found its way to 2005, boasting the DJ Mighty Mi-produced “Good One,” which also highlighted TRAINING Clik’s best MC Sean Cost, as the business lead 12″ single. Within the years that implemented his third record, a few regional mixtapes had been released, however the Philadelphia MC got success in carrying out many collaborations and features. He was asked in to the Philadelphia staff JuJu Mob, who released their 2005 record Dark Candles on Eastern Meeting, along with the underground super-collective Military from the Pharaohs, led by Jedi Brain Techniques frontman Vinnie Paz, in 2006.