I picked up the new XXL with nas on the cover yesterday they got a lil article on 151, they also got one on sly boogy and they reviewed the new yukmouth (they gave it L) to check out the sly boogy article hit up my site www.dubcnn.com i have both up there but here is the 151 article:
Ask your favorite MC why'd he get into rap, and one will answer like Seattle native 151. "My boy got locked up in 1993 with a big case. I was his right hand, so the Feds and DEA was watching me, expecting me to do th same thing. I couldn't fuck with the street like that anymore. I had no choice bu to turn to this rap shit."
A chance meeting one year later with one of California's most notorious artists at a car wash solidified 151's transition from one dope game to another. "I pulled up on a Regal that was hella cean and holla'd at the owner like, "you sellin' that?", 151 remembers. "He saw my convertible and was like, "you sellin that?" He gave me his number and said his name was C-Bo, I was like 'Gas Chamber C-Bo?!'"
The two didn't meet on some "please listen to my demo" shit. Rather, real recognized real. C-Bo, who was on the run at the time, was new to the Seattle area, so "Fifty" showed him around town. It wasn't until months later while listening to some of 151's newly recorded songs that Bo caught wind of his homie's intoxicating flow. From then on C-Bo claimed him as his artist, singing 1-5 to his label, AWOL Records, in 1995.
AWOL, like their artist, was extremely street-oriented. In 1996, 1-5 retreated back home to get his mind right, after label CEO C-Bo was sent to the pen, leavind his career and the label in limbo.
In 2001, the Seattle MC was invited to join the fresh-out C-Bos's West Coast Mafia Records. This past June, with everything in place, 151 finally released his 10-years in the making solo debut. But just because you can buy Fifty's album in stores doesn't mean Code Of Tha Street is just a title. "I got my hand in the rap world, but I still got the rest of my body in the streets," asserts 151. "If you talk it, you gotta walk it. Check my files, my name's gon' always come back good."
Ask your favorite MC why'd he get into rap, and one will answer like Seattle native 151. "My boy got locked up in 1993 with a big case. I was his right hand, so the Feds and DEA was watching me, expecting me to do th same thing. I couldn't fuck with the street like that anymore. I had no choice bu to turn to this rap shit."
A chance meeting one year later with one of California's most notorious artists at a car wash solidified 151's transition from one dope game to another. "I pulled up on a Regal that was hella cean and holla'd at the owner like, "you sellin' that?", 151 remembers. "He saw my convertible and was like, "you sellin that?" He gave me his number and said his name was C-Bo, I was like 'Gas Chamber C-Bo?!'"
The two didn't meet on some "please listen to my demo" shit. Rather, real recognized real. C-Bo, who was on the run at the time, was new to the Seattle area, so "Fifty" showed him around town. It wasn't until months later while listening to some of 151's newly recorded songs that Bo caught wind of his homie's intoxicating flow. From then on C-Bo claimed him as his artist, singing 1-5 to his label, AWOL Records, in 1995.
AWOL, like their artist, was extremely street-oriented. In 1996, 1-5 retreated back home to get his mind right, after label CEO C-Bo was sent to the pen, leavind his career and the label in limbo.
In 2001, the Seattle MC was invited to join the fresh-out C-Bos's West Coast Mafia Records. This past June, with everything in place, 151 finally released his 10-years in the making solo debut. But just because you can buy Fifty's album in stores doesn't mean Code Of Tha Street is just a title. "I got my hand in the rap world, but I still got the rest of my body in the streets," asserts 151. "If you talk it, you gotta walk it. Check my files, my name's gon' always come back good."
