Where Are They Now – By Request

Posted on by Robbie

You know what blogs can do that print magazines can’t? Help track down MIA rappers from the 80’s and 90’s. I finally got a lead on a group I’ve been trying to track down for years (I’ll wait until the interview is in the can before I say any more), but most rap fanatics can be found wondering ‘What the fuck happened to _____ ?’

Hoping to hear what became of Rumpletilskinz or The A-Teem? Drop your request and I’ll do my darnedest to find ’em, or at the very least rag on you for caring about what happened to a shitty rap group from fifteen years ago…

115 thoughts on “Where Are They Now – By Request”

  2. Wasnt “Hot dog” chubb rock’s dancer in A Teem?
    HAHAHA why do I even know this?

  3. Whatever happened to Barsha!!!!! I tried to ask Milk Dee but he never responded to my messages. I guess he only resonds to women.

  4. What ever happened to the other guys in Live Squad that didn’t get killed?

  5. Oh….since you were on the Black Rob tip…what ever happened to The Mighty Ha an those other dudes from CRU?

  8. What about Gregory D (N.O., was with Mannie Fresh)?
    Buck Jump Time!
    Live Squad – yes! Not much info on the web about them.

  9. That other dude Chadeo from the CRU is still rappin. I was thinking the same thing with them, as I was a big fan. I looked him up on myspace and he’s there . ….doing positive rap!…haha..

  10. Super Lover Cee and Casanova Rud, 991 Volts, Bushwhackas, McGruff, Izzy Ice and DJ Majesty (or “The King and I”), Funk Doobiest, Divine Styler, King Tee (he pops up every now and again but not enough to keep tabs on him), Tim Dog, EST (3 x Dope), Boss, Rufus Blaq, TJ Swan (the original hook king), Scientific Shabazz, if I think of anything else, I’ll be back.

  12. Whatever happened to Little Indian? Did he have any unreleased material (other than the One Little Indian 12”)?

  15. Super Lover Cee and Casanova Rud according to their myspace are still involved in the industry but more behind the scenes if I recall

    McGruff put out sme unreleased material on that One Leg Up series about a year ago.

  16. pleasy robbie , tell me you know what happen to:
    Cru *yogi was producing with puffy but what happen to mighty ha and chadi o
    this dude from the hit squad ‘top quality’ i think he was from white plains
    shamus. great ep long long time ago with this crazy song divide and conquer.
    mad lion anyone!?!?
    lune toonez one of dem was the cousin of kool keith, his name was alexander the great…
    flatlinerz???
    what happen to dinco d and charlie brown??
    and yoooo what happen to boss the female rapper, her album born gangsta was incredible she was signed to def jam west….
    she dropped the bomb and disapeared!!!
    da hoodratz??
    l da headtoucha??
    and this guy problemz, he was so nice on the mic!

    come on robbie?!?!

  17. whatever happened to craig mack, lord tariq & peter gunz, skee-lo, positive k and rbl posse? I actually don’t care about 5 out of 6 of these cats but i still would find it interesting to have a where are they now rundown just for fun.

  18. Problemz dropped an album wit dj honda last year… ALL KILLA NO FILLA… def worth a listen

    The Rawcotiks or Black Attack anyone???

  19. What ever happened to Hard 2 Obtain, Ism & blues is always getting played by me.

  22. The Fushnickens; where them cats at? Or better yet, Group Home; they had the hardest beats but the wackest lyrics. On the real where’s the Lifers Group, lol?

  25. Fuck you all! what about School of Hard Knocks!!! that’s what I’m talkin bout!!!! Fuck the rest!

  26. Man, I’ve been wondering about LOTUG (great first album), Quo (remember these kids?), boo ya tribe, Visciousa and this great kid group produced by Erick sermon, can’t remember their name. I Getz busy was their main song.

  28. I sometimes wonder what N-Tyce is up to, and if she still looks as good as she did back then.

    I wonder what movie theater or concession stand King Just is working at nowadays as well.

    -D!

  29. Positively Black????Y’All So Stupid????Medina Green????Scaramanga????Frankie Cutlass????

  30. And by the way, I was bumpin the first NINE album yesterday, dope as fuck…where is he up to???

  33. a few other names for the hat, pop da brown hornet , ill biskits, cella dwellas, guage ,ruthless bastards?

  35. Where the hell is Ugo,ruggedness madd drama,Funkytown pros,SidnBtonn,hansoul,Bas Blasta,Dirt nation,The UBC and Erule?????

  37. Hardknocks?! Say word! Where the most slept on at? And what about Preacher Earl and The Ministry / Zhigge / Brainsick ..err… and that other dude Guru Keithy E????

  38. EST has gone the way of full force and pens hits for the likes of Brittany Spears and Christina Aguilera….Thats kinda dope

  40. This is thread is funny as hell.

    Props to Swordfish on the Sir Ibu request, Divine Force was the first group I thought about when I saw this.

    What the F— ever happened to TLC & Finesse aka The Ultimate Choice?

  41. DJ Richie Rich of 3rd BASS…I’m also interested in CRU (I know Chad is rappin and Yogi is doing beats, but why no follow-up? tat album was dope!!!) and what happened with Audio Two? They don’t eff with each other anymore..Milk won’t answer me either..he just says he’s solo…

  42. Milkbone > 95% of today’s shit. True story.

    Yo, what ever happened to Sporty Thievz. I know Brando was killed by a drunk driver. But, what about Kirk and Dubez? That street cinema album was dope – one off the all time, “wow, this really exceeded my expectations” albums. I hope they got paid of that No Pigeons joint, and the countless rehashes of that same gimmick. But, those dudes could rhyme and, in the long run, that fifteen minutes of fame was to their detriment because it soured a lot of real heads from checking for their shit. Had they not continued to play out that gimmick, I think they’d have had an existent underground fan base.

  43. IG Off & Hazadous. They had some dope cuts, they did a track with G Rap, had a documentary about them on German TV (It followed them around, displaying the struggle off a up and coming artist. That video also had Saigon in it) or whatever. They did some solid tracks. Dudes were from New York.

  45. It would be depressing as hell to find out what the majority of these dudes are up to…especially those who are NOT locked up.

  46. Excellent forum.Most those Dudes for better or worse are still doing music..
    I actually contact a lot of those cats to do music with because I aint feeling hardly anyone new.
    Nine was suppose to do a verse for a song I did with Grand Daddy IU, YZ,DOO WOP, MR.DO IT ALL (L.O.T.U.G.)BUT SHIT FELL THROUGH.
    SUPER LOVER C lives down south but Cassanova is still in nyc but doesnt spit anymore.He was gonna get Super Lover C to do a verse for me but I dont know what happen.
    d
    Dinco Dee is down in atl making diss songs about Busta Ryhmes but theyre kinda weak.
    Barsha is a good question.Frankie Cutless is still doing music too.EST a lot of peeps ask about.I didnt know her wrote singing songs.That’s a suprise.
    Good forum though.
    Peace
    DJ DAVITO
    Tim Dog and a lot of those 90s cats King Sun as well work with european cats who treat them like royalty and pay them well and keep true hip-hop alive.

  47. What about:

    The Whoridas
    The B.U.M.S. (Brothas Under Madness)
    E-Rule
    Questionmark Asylum
    The Dangerous Crew (Goldy, Father Dom)
    Ill Al Skratch
    Da Lench Mob (I know one of them is in prison)
    Solomon Childs

  48. What about NATURAL RESOURCE? I *LOVED* the singles they put out–I thought they were going to be the next big thing in ’06, but Jean Grae broke out and Ocean just vanished. Negro League was such a great track. I was so bummed that they never did a full length. I still have my bright orange MAKIN RECORDS sleeved 12 inches to this day!

  49. Shades of Lingo, UMCs.
    Illegal, justin warfield.nikki d
    Cats off lyricist lounge
    Above the Law. Bushwick Bill
    Lords.Knuckleheads.young black teenagers

  50. Unique (pure dynamite)
    Top Quality
    E Rule
    FT from Street Smartz
    Cella Dwellas
    YG’z
    Jeru
    InI
    Milano

    Yo Brutal, isnt one of the UMC’s NY Oil?

  51. oh yeah hella co-sign on rawcotiks, also the eff happened to the best part of the arsonists d-stroy? that guy mutilated microphones

  53. Yo, funny cars should bring up B-1.

    One of my best friends is a teacher by the border of Queens/Long Island. He works the after school program and likes to, in good nature, but deep down in sincerity, bust the kids’ balls about the awful facsimile of hip hop they listen to. So, one of the kids who actually seems to appreciate the knowledge my boy drops on these lucky kids asks if he can look through my boy’s Ipod. Probably a bad idea in terms of job security, but my boy acquiesces.

    So, this kid is scrolling through the playlist and stumbles on “Emotions” and looks at my boy and is like, “Yo, how do you know about this song?” My boy is like, “What, how do YOU know about this joint?” Kid straight up busts out with, “That’s my dad – referring to B-1.” My boy looks everything up, the kid is “the second” and all that. Crazy shit.

    Now, I have no idea whether the kid lives with his pops (B-1) or if his parents are still together or anything – and it’s probably not my boy’s place to ask. But when I heard the story this past weekend, it blew my mind. My boy was like, “Yo, for real, lots of heads who know about real hip hop know that your father was NICE with it.” I bet that actually made the kid feel real good; it’s probably not all that often B-1’s son’s outside authority figures compliment the professional skills of his father.

  54. What about seeborn and puma??? why did they only have one single??!!!

  55. @Med you are thinking of Illegal

    @digglahhh great story about B-1…he was ill.

    Robbie, I’d love to know what happened to

    Lakim Shabazz
    The Chill MC (CMW)
    Knucklehedz
    Anttex
    Nocturnal
    Jaymanila (Babbletron)

    That’s all I can think of right now

    Peace

  56. @ceedub h20 of Yall So Stupid was a part of Mass Influence and Sha Boogie appeared on Sadat-X’s “Have A Good Life” (2005)

    which brings me to my next question, what happened to Mass Influence?

  57. Excellent post. The (imo) important cats have already been requested but I’ll ad them again.

    * Everybody from from the lyricist lounge show especially Master Foul and that latino dude
    * Skee-lo
    * Boogiemonsters
    * Craig Mack
    * CRU
    * Hitman (was signed to Aftermath)
    * A+
    * O.C.
    * Tone loc (he was doing movies and then just disappeared)
    * Blahzay Blahzay

  58. I forgot to add Nonchalent ( had a hit with Five o’clock in the morning)

  59. ADAGIO!! Never made a wack record, all their shit was ill. Down with the Juggaknots, repped Philly and Uptown manhattan. Dropped a long awaited single in 2003. It was supposed to be the lead to a 2003 album, but they disappeared. WTF?!

    Also, co-sign B-1.

  60. @John Black: OC made an album with AG last year. And lol at “that latino dude”. Do you mean Thirstin Howl The Third? He’s still around, I’m sure.

  61. I would say dred scott, funkdoobiest, nonchalant, justin warfield, kane & abel, snagglepuss (he had some great freestyles on do wop 95 live tape and a couple of other jams) thought he had a really great voice and flow..
    that’s it for now

  62. Whatever happened to Kool Chip(down with Chuck Chillout) and two Philly cats, Pretty Ugly, and MC Rell?

  63. @JohnBlack… Blahzay Blahzay made a brief comeback with a terrible and commercial single and then vanished again.

  64. @ verge
    LOL, I never knew that cat was Thirstin Howl. ALso i didn’t knew O.C. and AG released and album. Thanks for the heads up.

    @Jaz
    I really hoped he would one day return to day boom bap we all love. Every time I hear danger I get tears in my eyes. I’m so fortunate to be a 80’s baby. Dudes nowadays don’t even know what a real mc is supposed to sound like.

  65. What ever happened to HARD 2 OBTAIN??? Their debut album ISM & BLUES was one of my favorites from ’94.

    And of course, what happened to InI??? Why did Pete Rock stop workin with them??? Were they just annoyed of the industry politics regarding their album never dropping??? I know Deda Baby Pa just stopped rappin around ’95 and was into other shit… And Mekolicious stopped cuz of being annoyed of the industry politics.

  66. I’ve always wondered what the fuck happened to Knucklehedz…

    I love their shelved debut album from 1993… I have the actual promo CD and both 12″ singles. I liked Tom J and Steve Austin’s raps and I’ve heard various Hiphop heads in recent times like DJ Premier (on his Sirius radio show) shout Tom J out sayin shit like “big ups to Tom J… ran into him over the weekend…”

  67. Justin Warfield is the lead singer of the rock band “she wants revenge” they had more success than “Season of the Vic”.
    Hard 2 Obtain were from Long Island, they had a few singles.
    Chadio from CRU was pretty well known as a graf writer he wrote CHAD with Louie 167…but this was prior to The Dirty 30.
    Ill and Al Skratch were supposed to drop an album last year, still trying to do their thing
    Milkbone-always thought dude was kinda wack. Where was he from-Jersey?
    I want to know what happened to Anntex too…

  71. I got another one. What ever happened to Danny Boy. He was on I ain’t mad at ya with Tupac

  72. What ever happened to:

    Phase N Rhythm

    Funke Natives

    Melachi The Nutcracker (Group Home)

  76. Haha yeah great post! Whatever happened to Trends of Culture? Digable Planets? Micranots? Heather B? UK act The Brotherhood? o btw the dude asking about Blade, Blade quit the biz after getting more and more fed up with it. New Kingdom? Sistah Souljah? The Goats? Siah & Yeshua? Lord Sear? Def Jef? Hurricane? Hurricane G? Wascals? Juvenile Delinquintz? Smooth B? Cutmaster Cool V? Word A Mouf? Dj Polo? Mad Kap? Eric B? King Sun? Jamal? Terminator X? Donald D? Special Ed? and where the hell is Shorty Shit Stain?! The people has a right to know!

  77. Someone said something about Young Black Teenagers, I have a memory of Ed Lover saying no thanks to Rush Management on Yo for ruining their career, always wondered about that. Anyone knows what happened there?

  78. Well that one YBT dude Kamron was from Freeport LI and was in one of the House Party movies, I heard he may be behind the scenes?! I asked but dont remember-
    And Dj Skribble is obviously still around doing like MTV gigs and club music comps and owns a car shop in South Ozone Park.

  80. Lord Sear got a radio show on Sirius last i heard..u are talkin about Sear of 89tek9-Bobbito&Stretch fame, right?

  81. My boy knows the members of CRU. I saw Mighty Ha last summer in Story ave. Hung out with my boy And Chadio a few years ago. Didn’t Donald D pass away years ago?

  82. UNSPOKEN HEARD!!!! Blue Black and them!!! Asheru does the Boondocks theme, but where are the rest of those cats????

  83. Special Ed is Miami, was in the Rick Ross “magnificent” video, Siah or yeshua is a teacher or social worker now? Terminator X went broke running an ostrich farm

  84. @keatso haha it never occured to me that dj skribble was who he was, thanks!And Special Ed is in Miami, doing some music?
    @blendz yeah thats the guy, he is still around doing his thing? He did some funny shit on the stretch/bobbito thing..
    @trevor Sad to hear about donald ds death, some news never reach sweden, I guess.

  86. Thanks very much PAS, I did know Blade retired from the biz, I just wondered if anyone was still in touch with him and knew what he was doing these days.

  89. @keatso thanks for justin warfield info.. haha.. good for him he found succes elsewhere.. I just remembered that really weird video in the dessert.. and remember thinkin’ what the hell??? haha

  90. No problem Gisli. I see we have several mutual friends in Copenhagen. Ra$ is my brother, as is C. Moeller.

  91. MC RELL
    UPTOWN
    Positively Black
    DJ POLO
    SIR IBU
    MC DOLLER BILL & Cutmaster K.G
    C $money
    Molecular Beat Squadren

  92. Even though they only had one single can ya dig up the Puppets ov Kaos, Zhigge, and Sid & B-Ton?
    I saw the members of Legion last year at my friends funeral. R.I.P ‘Dre

  93. I always wondered about Zhigge too, thats a good question for Salaam Remi

  96. What happened to some of the mid eighties rappers, like The Classical Two, True Mathmatics, Wax Master Torey, Rock Master Scott, etc.?

  100. Whats up with pete rock and c.l smooth? Lakim shabazz works at the hospital in east orange n.j

  101. what ever happend to greyson & jayson , dirt nation & rough house survivors? guess they all chillin with no face & papa chuck lol. damn i miss hiphop. i’m glad i walked away from music. time to go listen to my quinton 12″ quintons on his way .& Da wascals.

  102. Why do anyone of even ask, the fuck that started this shit NEVER came back with a SINGLE answer to “where are they now”. What a bullshit page.

  105. Too many questions to answer but 95% of those asked about STILL make music and 80% you can find on Face Book…..

  108. Illeagal- I find myself asking the same question some other cat asked. “Why do I know this” the answer is… Cause I been down since day 1.

  109. My girl is def Lee man cause reading this blog took too long. AO-What happened to peace? PEACe, PEAce, Peace.

  112. Wow! That was a long read. Here goes….

    @MAAD: Most of The Boogiemonsters became (7th Day Adventist) religious zealots.

    @reeletdef: Mad Lion and Flatlinerz are still going.

    @gstatty: Craig Mack found “God” – or at least some beardy old White dude who thinks he’s God and enjoys calling Craig Mack “Bwoy!”

    @biggist from brooklyn: Group Home (well Lil Dap at least) are/still active. they released an album via some German label a year or so ago. Chip Fu is still touring and keeps threatening to put out an album but i’ll believe it when I own it.

    @tony_dawg:I read an interview with the rapper from SOHK a little while ago.

    @DANJ!: Isn’t King Just a member of U-God’s Hillside Scramblerz or Buddah Monk’s Brooklyn Zoo or one of them affiliate-of-affiliate Wu crews?

    @ceedub: Nine keeps making increasingly poor comeback albums/mixtapes. You don’t want to inflict any of them on your ears.

    @dj blendz: Why do you want to know Miilkbone’s whereabouts? He was shit. He was shit as a “keep it real” mid 90s “I cand rop N bombs because I have Black friends” rapper and he was shit on Suge Knight’s bootleg “Chronic” album.

    @sleepy: Yes Jay Dee is still in prison. Short Dawg released an album 10 years ago or so. It sucked.

    @brutalLee: UMCs have put out some material. Kool Kim returned as “NY Oil” and put out “Hood Treason” but now I believe he runs a bar. Has G has done beats for Ghostface.

    @blitz: Jeru is still touring and about to put out an album with Psycho Les of The Beatnuts called “Certified Bambu” by The Funky Pandas.

    @JohnBlack: Didn’t OC just put out an album with Apathy or Esoteric or one of them Whiteboy rappers? He’s very much still active.

    @gisli: Dredd Scott went into jazz and production for his Mrs’s soul music.

    @PAS: Digable Planets went solo and/or formed Shabbazz Palaces. Micranots work with Atmosphere/Rhyme Sayers. Sister Souljah became a (shit) childrens’ author and worked at Puff Daddy’s summercamps. The Goats became Incognegro and Black Landlord. Pretty sure Hurricane G put out a Bilingual album with Thirstin Howl III a few years back.

    @PAS: I think YBT all own car modification services and restaurants or somemat. Their DJ was an MTV VJ in the early 00s no?

    @juju: DJ Polo made porn.

    People asking re Yall So Stupid/mass Influence: H2O has done a lot of work with Count Bass D and DJ Pocket.

    hth?

    Here’s a few requests of my own:
    -Gripp/Grippsta (female kid rapper from Ice-T’s “Home Invasion”)
    -Governor Bolts/Paul The Apostle (Canadia)
    -Doyen D (England)
    -Ayentee (Bay Area. Dropped some amazing albums in early 00s then fell off the map)
    -MT (Tried to hop on the Method Man/ODB vibe with his single “set it off” and the 1996 album “Lord have mercy on my soul”)
    -Lord Have Mercy (of Flipmode)

    Happy new year.

  115. All I know is Dj Kamron is on fb and maybe instagram. Tryna find out if they made anything else, even solo, shame if not. Know Tommy Never is a businessman, he answered me yrs ago on youtube.

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