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Richard Lawson (Richie Affluent) was the DJ for 3rd Bass on the two Def Jam LPs in the first ’90s.

3rd Bass was among a still-small amount of white hip-hop performers to attain wide approval in the bigger community. Combined with the Beastie Guys, 3rd Bass demonstrated that white hip-hop wasn’t always going to turn into a watered-down, commercially exploitative rip-off of the original article, as a lot of white …

His rapping design an influence on Snoop Doggy Dogg (by Snoop’s own entrance), Richie High first entered music in the late ’80s using the Oakland-based group 415. With D-Loc, DJ Darryl, and JED, High crafted a Bay Region classic known as 41Fivin’, which offered well around the spot and spawned …