Brotha Lynch Bio
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Brotha Lynch Hung
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Born
Kevin Mann in Sacramento, CA
Years Active
1910 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 2000
Genre Styles
Rap
Gangsta Rap
Hardcore Rap
Underground Rap
West Coast Rap
Moods Instruments
Theatrical
Malevolent
Ominous
Confrontational
Menacing
Harsh
Hostile
Angry
Aggressive
Thuggish
Outrageous
Sleazy
Street-Smart
Producer
Vocals
Engineer
AMG Artist ID
P 37618
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Biography by John Bush
A versatile producer as well as an excellent solo rapper in his own right, Brotha Lynch Hung was born Kevin Mann in Sacramento. He hooked up with Master P for a 1993 EP named 24 Deep, but then went out on his own for his debut solo album, 1995's Season of da Siccness. Mann worked on production for Master P's I'm Bout It, E-40's Southwest Riders, and Mr. Serv-On's Life Insurance before turning back to his own career. Given a big push by Master P's breakout success in the middle of 1997, Brotha Lynch Hung's sophomore album, Loaded, followed in 1997. EBK4 followed in 2000 and both Blocc Movement and Virus appeared the next summer. 2002 was less busy, with Appearances: Book 1 being released in the spring and the Plague DVD following it that summer.
Taken From www.allmusic.com
Bio is a bit off claiming that he did 24 Deep with Master P.
Photo by Cedsing
Born
Kevin Mann in Sacramento, CA
Years Active
1910 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 2000
Genre Styles
Rap
Gangsta Rap
Hardcore Rap
Underground Rap
West Coast Rap
Moods Instruments
Theatrical
Malevolent
Ominous
Confrontational
Menacing
Harsh
Hostile
Angry
Aggressive
Thuggish
Outrageous
Sleazy
Street-Smart
Producer
Vocals
Engineer
AMG Artist ID
P 37618
Corrections to this Entry?
Biography by John Bush
A versatile producer as well as an excellent solo rapper in his own right, Brotha Lynch Hung was born Kevin Mann in Sacramento. He hooked up with Master P for a 1993 EP named 24 Deep, but then went out on his own for his debut solo album, 1995's Season of da Siccness. Mann worked on production for Master P's I'm Bout It, E-40's Southwest Riders, and Mr. Serv-On's Life Insurance before turning back to his own career. Given a big push by Master P's breakout success in the middle of 1997, Brotha Lynch Hung's sophomore album, Loaded, followed in 1997. EBK4 followed in 2000 and both Blocc Movement and Virus appeared the next summer. 2002 was less busy, with Appearances: Book 1 being released in the spring and the Plague DVD following it that summer.
Taken From www.allmusic.com
Bio is a bit off claiming that he did 24 Deep with Master P.
Brotha Lynch Hung (born Kevin Mann) is a rapper from Sacramento, CA. Lynch's lyrics are notorious for featuring highly explicit themes, including murder, gang violence, drug use, rape, and cannibalism. Lynch debuted with the 1993 album 24 Deep, which featured stories of the struggles involved with being affiliated with a local street gang in Sacramento's "Garden Blocc." A versatile producer as well as an excellent solo rapper in his own right. He hooked up with Master P for a 1993 EP named 24 Deep, but then went out on his own for his debut solo album, 1995's Season of da Siccness. Mann worked on production for Master P's I'm Bout It, E-40's Southwest Riders, and Mr. Serv-On's Life Insurance before turning back to his own career. Given a big push by Master P's breakout success in the middle of 1997, Brotha Lynch Hung's sophomore album, Loaded, followed in 1997. EBK4 followed in 2000 and both Blocc Movement and Virus appeared the next summer. 2002 was less busy, with Appearances: Book 1 being released in the spring and the Plague DVD following it that summer.
His second album, Season of da Siccness, released in 1995, proved to be the one of the most gruesome and mysogynistic Gangsta Rap albums ever released, graphically chronicling a life of drug use and sale, promiscuity, ultra-violence, rape, infanticide (he often spoke of eating and killing his baby momma's children while still in the womb), and supposed cannibalism. This is Lynch's most commercially successful album, as it has now achieved gold album sales status.
Lynch's lyrics are described as sicc -- having the same meaning as the word sick but utilizing the double "C" which is characteristic of local Crip gangsters (loccs) in Sacramento, CA and other parts of California. Lynch has stated in his song "24 Gone" that he himself is a Crip, residing in Crip areas of Sacramento has had an influence on his lyrics. He has since released Loaded in 1997. The next Lynch album was released in 2000 called EBK4 after a dispute with Black Market Records. The label allegedly restricted his creativity by featuring artists on the album against Lynch's will. Lynch asked his fans not to buy the album. He said "I don't care how they get it just don't buy it or steal it".[citation needed] Brotha Lynch released the DVD of Now Eat in 2000, which features a blood thirsty and cannibalistic Lynch who goes on a rampage, killing and eating many people.
Lynch released Blocc Movement and Virus in 2001, Appearances: Book 1 in 2002, and in that same summer of 2002 he released his first DVD, Plague. Lynch's newer work includes Lynch by Inch: Suicide Note and Uthanizm in 2003, and the Now Eat DVD in 2000. In 2006 he released a collaboration with rapper MC Eiht entitiled "The New Season."
Lynch has also become a highly in demand featured artist, his guest appearances now numbering in the triple digits. Artists Lynch has collaborated with include Grave Plott (Liquid Assassin & Killa c), E-40 , MC Eiht, Tech N9ne, Master P, Snoop Dogg, Explicit and C-Bo.
Brotha Lynch's next album, "Dinner and a Movie", is expected to be released in 2007.
Brotha Lynch was recently a guest on Tech N9ne's Everready (The Religion) CD. The track is called "My World." Lynch was also mentioned in the song "Come Gangsta"; he was being refered to as a gangsta. He also appears on a song titled "Territory" by Snoop Dogg on Snoop's 2007 compilation Snoop Dogg presents : Unreleased Heatrocks.
His second album, Season of da Siccness, released in 1995, proved to be the one of the most gruesome and mysogynistic Gangsta Rap albums ever released, graphically chronicling a life of drug use and sale, promiscuity, ultra-violence, rape, infanticide (he often spoke of eating and killing his baby momma's children while still in the womb), and supposed cannibalism. This is Lynch's most commercially successful album, as it has now achieved gold album sales status.
Lynch's lyrics are described as sicc -- having the same meaning as the word sick but utilizing the double "C" which is characteristic of local Crip gangsters (loccs) in Sacramento, CA and other parts of California. Lynch has stated in his song "24 Gone" that he himself is a Crip, residing in Crip areas of Sacramento has had an influence on his lyrics. He has since released Loaded in 1997. The next Lynch album was released in 2000 called EBK4 after a dispute with Black Market Records. The label allegedly restricted his creativity by featuring artists on the album against Lynch's will. Lynch asked his fans not to buy the album. He said "I don't care how they get it just don't buy it or steal it".[citation needed] Brotha Lynch released the DVD of Now Eat in 2000, which features a blood thirsty and cannibalistic Lynch who goes on a rampage, killing and eating many people.
Lynch released Blocc Movement and Virus in 2001, Appearances: Book 1 in 2002, and in that same summer of 2002 he released his first DVD, Plague. Lynch's newer work includes Lynch by Inch: Suicide Note and Uthanizm in 2003, and the Now Eat DVD in 2000. In 2006 he released a collaboration with rapper MC Eiht entitiled "The New Season."
Lynch has also become a highly in demand featured artist, his guest appearances now numbering in the triple digits. Artists Lynch has collaborated with include Grave Plott (Liquid Assassin & Killa c), E-40 , MC Eiht, Tech N9ne, Master P, Snoop Dogg, Explicit and C-Bo.
Brotha Lynch's next album, "Dinner and a Movie", is expected to be released in 2007.
Brotha Lynch was recently a guest on Tech N9ne's Everready (The Religion) CD. The track is called "My World." Lynch was also mentioned in the song "Come Gangsta"; he was being refered to as a gangsta. He also appears on a song titled "Territory" by Snoop Dogg on Snoop's 2007 compilation Snoop Dogg presents : Unreleased Heatrocks.
he Hannibal Lecter of hip-hop is holed up in his North Sacramento studio. It's a former typewriter repair shop that is obscured from the 5 p.m. sun, and it's as dark in here as the beats from a Brotha Lynch Hung song.
This is the second home to Lynch, the mouth of south Sacramento's 24th Street and one of the most infamous names in underground rap. His late-model Mercedes is parked outside, and he's just stuffed a few hundred dollars in his pocket to buy a new iPod.
And now Brotha Lynch is downstairs, lounging next to a coffee table that's littered with Bud Ice tall cans and Newport cigarette butts. He's remembering the late 1980s, way before he'd sold nearly 2 million records, when his rap career meant rhyme battles, trading one-liners at high schools around town.
"McClatchy, Johnson, Sac High, Kennedy," he says, listing the old high school circuit. "What I used to do was go around the high schools and battle anybody that thought they were the tightest rapper. That's where my name comes from. My brother gave me my name from lynching rappers.'"
Now he's a king of Sacramento hip-hop, even without mainstream radio and video exposure. Lynch has sold more than 1.4 million albums, according to music sales tracker Nielsen SoundScan. He also is estimated to have sold another 600,000 through underground means that aren't tabulated by SoundScan, including Web sites and at concerts. That includes 1997's "Loaded," which debuted at No. 9 on Billboard's R&B chart and sold 43,000 copies in its first week.
Lynch started this year by releasing a collaboration with MC Eiht, the gangsta rap icon from Compton. He also celebrated the 10th anniversary of his record company, Siccmade Muzicc, home to such local underground hip-hop exports as Zigg Zagg, COS and Tall Cann G.
And then there were recording sessions in Hollywood with Snoop Dogg over the summer. They're part of a Snoop Dogg supergroup called the Warzone, a roll call of West Coast rappers.
"It was like a dream," says Lynch, his eyes widening. "(Snoop) was like, 'Man, you are like one of the Northern California artists I felt needed to have his due, (especially) being from Sacramento.' "
To south Sac's hard-core rappers, Lynch already is a godfather. They talk about Lynch's role in Sacramento's music scene like this:
"He's the most important Sac figure," says rapper Michael Colen (a.k.a. First Degree the D.E.). "He's the one person that no matter where I go, people know who he is. He's the face of Sacramento rap."
"He's the big homey," says rapper Brandon "G-Macc" Elston. "(He) started Garden Blocc music, period."
Lynch is best known, infamous really, for such mid-1990s tracks as "Return of Da Baby Killa," which paint scenes of cannibalism and gore to rival any horror movie.
Your repulsion is Brotha Lynch's satisfaction. The rapper with the long pinky nail mines serial killer documentaries such as "The Iceman and the Psychiatrist" for material.
"I try and get in their heads and get my ideas like that," says Lynch. "In my later years, I never really encouraged any kids to do anything crazy, but they know me from the early years doing 'Baby Killa.' Everywhere I go, I get sweated; fans (are) like, 'Why are you talking about killing babies?' They can't read between the lines."
Hint: The song's about abortion.
Fans such as Timika and Jeffery Harris of Tacoma will drive to a neighboring state to see him perform. He's mellowed, Timika says at a concert in Portland, Ore., as she shows off pictures of the cartoon character Strawberry Shortcake that her 7-year-old daughter, Tatiyana, colored for Lynch.
"Her favorite song is (Brotha Lynch's) 'Spydaman,' " says Timika. "She says that Brotha Lynch came up with that movie. I like his music because I've watched him mature. He talked about baby guts at first, but he's not as vulgar as before."
Brotha Lynch now has four kids of his own, including a teenage daughter with a rap act called Triple Figgaz. He says he also thinks about the youngsters back on 24th Street. Lynch, born Kevin Mann, grew up there. He lived hard like the current generation of 24th Street Crips, gangbanging and getting shot once.
"Brotha Lynch, I remember the first time I met him," says Sgt. D.T. Martin, who supervises the Sacramento Police Department's gang suppression unit. "He was doing a concert on Mack Road (and) a big fight broke out. Folks are running into cars, we probably confiscated guns. I ended up stopping Brotha Lynch in front of his home. It was his concert, after all. He told me, 'I'm not gonna quit until I make it.' "
Lynch nods to some trouble with the law in his past, including an arrest for a misdemeanor DUI in 2005. Court records also show that he was ordered to pay off state and federal tax liens that stretch to 2001.
The bullet that's still lodged near his lower rib cage is like a reality check. He was shot near Arden Fair mall not long after "Season of da Siccness" was released, back when he was still gangbanging.
Lynch realized he wasn't willing to surrender his rap career to a thug's bullet. He later wrote a rap about leaving the gangsta life behind, on the album "Lynch by Inch: Suicide Note."
"I had to slow down, do more music these days than be out in the streets," he says.
Now he has money and little interest in the limelight. Even though his Sidekick cell phone rings constantly -- one minute he's confirming a studio session, the next he's coordinating the cake for his godson's birthday party -- Lynch is rather shy.
"I had no brothers," says Lynch. "I had really no friends, but a couple. And when they weren't around, I'd just sit in my room, do anything. That's where I first started writing, right on my bed."
He's a self-described homebody who writes two to three days a week and likes to go fishing with his family. Lynch discovered over the past year how much he likes camping near Colfax. ("It's beautiful up there," he says.)
But right now, Brotha Lynch spends most days at this Siccmade Muzicc studio, where a Swisher Sweets cigar poster hangs on the wall and a broken clock reads "7:35." He's working on a new album called "Dinner and a Movie," a macabre feast that deals with two of his favorite topics: horror movies and eating meat.
Lynch is 38, the past-sell date for many rappers, but says he's not hung up on that. He used to say, "I'll do three more albums and then retire," but not anymore.
"These little kids are looking up to us," he says of the upcoming rappers on 24th Street, "so we want to give them some type of hope."
This is the second home to Lynch, the mouth of south Sacramento's 24th Street and one of the most infamous names in underground rap. His late-model Mercedes is parked outside, and he's just stuffed a few hundred dollars in his pocket to buy a new iPod.
And now Brotha Lynch is downstairs, lounging next to a coffee table that's littered with Bud Ice tall cans and Newport cigarette butts. He's remembering the late 1980s, way before he'd sold nearly 2 million records, when his rap career meant rhyme battles, trading one-liners at high schools around town.
"McClatchy, Johnson, Sac High, Kennedy," he says, listing the old high school circuit. "What I used to do was go around the high schools and battle anybody that thought they were the tightest rapper. That's where my name comes from. My brother gave me my name from lynching rappers.'"
Now he's a king of Sacramento hip-hop, even without mainstream radio and video exposure. Lynch has sold more than 1.4 million albums, according to music sales tracker Nielsen SoundScan. He also is estimated to have sold another 600,000 through underground means that aren't tabulated by SoundScan, including Web sites and at concerts. That includes 1997's "Loaded," which debuted at No. 9 on Billboard's R&B chart and sold 43,000 copies in its first week.
Lynch started this year by releasing a collaboration with MC Eiht, the gangsta rap icon from Compton. He also celebrated the 10th anniversary of his record company, Siccmade Muzicc, home to such local underground hip-hop exports as Zigg Zagg, COS and Tall Cann G.
And then there were recording sessions in Hollywood with Snoop Dogg over the summer. They're part of a Snoop Dogg supergroup called the Warzone, a roll call of West Coast rappers.
"It was like a dream," says Lynch, his eyes widening. "(Snoop) was like, 'Man, you are like one of the Northern California artists I felt needed to have his due, (especially) being from Sacramento.' "
To south Sac's hard-core rappers, Lynch already is a godfather. They talk about Lynch's role in Sacramento's music scene like this:
"He's the most important Sac figure," says rapper Michael Colen (a.k.a. First Degree the D.E.). "He's the one person that no matter where I go, people know who he is. He's the face of Sacramento rap."
"He's the big homey," says rapper Brandon "G-Macc" Elston. "(He) started Garden Blocc music, period."
Lynch is best known, infamous really, for such mid-1990s tracks as "Return of Da Baby Killa," which paint scenes of cannibalism and gore to rival any horror movie.
Your repulsion is Brotha Lynch's satisfaction. The rapper with the long pinky nail mines serial killer documentaries such as "The Iceman and the Psychiatrist" for material.
"I try and get in their heads and get my ideas like that," says Lynch. "In my later years, I never really encouraged any kids to do anything crazy, but they know me from the early years doing 'Baby Killa.' Everywhere I go, I get sweated; fans (are) like, 'Why are you talking about killing babies?' They can't read between the lines."
Hint: The song's about abortion.
Fans such as Timika and Jeffery Harris of Tacoma will drive to a neighboring state to see him perform. He's mellowed, Timika says at a concert in Portland, Ore., as she shows off pictures of the cartoon character Strawberry Shortcake that her 7-year-old daughter, Tatiyana, colored for Lynch.
"Her favorite song is (Brotha Lynch's) 'Spydaman,' " says Timika. "She says that Brotha Lynch came up with that movie. I like his music because I've watched him mature. He talked about baby guts at first, but he's not as vulgar as before."
Brotha Lynch now has four kids of his own, including a teenage daughter with a rap act called Triple Figgaz. He says he also thinks about the youngsters back on 24th Street. Lynch, born Kevin Mann, grew up there. He lived hard like the current generation of 24th Street Crips, gangbanging and getting shot once.
"Brotha Lynch, I remember the first time I met him," says Sgt. D.T. Martin, who supervises the Sacramento Police Department's gang suppression unit. "He was doing a concert on Mack Road (and) a big fight broke out. Folks are running into cars, we probably confiscated guns. I ended up stopping Brotha Lynch in front of his home. It was his concert, after all. He told me, 'I'm not gonna quit until I make it.' "
Lynch nods to some trouble with the law in his past, including an arrest for a misdemeanor DUI in 2005. Court records also show that he was ordered to pay off state and federal tax liens that stretch to 2001.
The bullet that's still lodged near his lower rib cage is like a reality check. He was shot near Arden Fair mall not long after "Season of da Siccness" was released, back when he was still gangbanging.
Lynch realized he wasn't willing to surrender his rap career to a thug's bullet. He later wrote a rap about leaving the gangsta life behind, on the album "Lynch by Inch: Suicide Note."
"I had to slow down, do more music these days than be out in the streets," he says.
Now he has money and little interest in the limelight. Even though his Sidekick cell phone rings constantly -- one minute he's confirming a studio session, the next he's coordinating the cake for his godson's birthday party -- Lynch is rather shy.
"I had no brothers," says Lynch. "I had really no friends, but a couple. And when they weren't around, I'd just sit in my room, do anything. That's where I first started writing, right on my bed."
He's a self-described homebody who writes two to three days a week and likes to go fishing with his family. Lynch discovered over the past year how much he likes camping near Colfax. ("It's beautiful up there," he says.)
But right now, Brotha Lynch spends most days at this Siccmade Muzicc studio, where a Swisher Sweets cigar poster hangs on the wall and a broken clock reads "7:35." He's working on a new album called "Dinner and a Movie," a macabre feast that deals with two of his favorite topics: horror movies and eating meat.
Lynch is 38, the past-sell date for many rappers, but says he's not hung up on that. He used to say, "I'll do three more albums and then retire," but not anymore.
"These little kids are looking up to us," he says of the upcoming rappers on 24th Street, "so we want to give them some type of hope."
