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ACCORDING TO STREET RULE, THE TITLE OF "STREET LEGEND" CAN'T BE BESTOWED UPON JUST ANYONE, AND ONCE RECEIVED IT CAN'T BE TAKEN LIGHTLY! POSSESSING THE CHARISMA AND STREET CREDIBILITY THAT MOST CHART TOPPING RAPPERS WOULD LIE OR DIE FOR(AND SOME DO!), ICEBERG SUPREME'S TRANSITION FROM STREET CORNER HUSTLER TO MUSIC ENTREPRENEUR IS INDEED FILLED WITH THE STUFF LEGENDS ARE MADE OF! BORN AND RAISED IN MOSS POINT,MISSISSIPPI'S INFAMOUS SOUTHSIDE "CHEVRON BLOCK" NEIGHBORHOOD, HIS LOVE FOR MUSIC AND THE STREET LIFE WAS NOTICED AT AN EARLY AGE. "...I'M A THIRD GENERATION HUSTLER/MUSICIAN, SO DIS SHIT AIN'T NO COINCIDENCE..IT'S IN MY D.N.A!..."AS A FOUNDING MEMBER OF THE CERTIFIED COAST BOYZ MOVEMENT, THEIR 1998 RELEASE "SMOKIN' N RIDIN'", PRODUCED ENTIRELY BY ICEBERG SUPREME AND CARLOS LETT(THE MANHATTANS,OTHERS), HIT THE MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST WITH THE IMPACT OF A CATEGORY 5, LEAVING NO CITY UNTOUCHED! ONE YEAR LATER "STILL RIDIN' VOL.1 & 2", A DOUBLE DISC COMPILATION FEATURING SOME OF THE GULF COASTS HOTTEST UP-AND-COMING ARTISTS WAS RELEASED PUSHING THE COAST BOYZ TO OVER 9,000 SOUNDSCANNED AND O.T.T. SALES WITH LITTLE PROMOTION AND NO RADIO PLAY!
BUT FAR TOO OFTEN IT SEEMS THAT WITH TRIUMPH....TRAGEDY IS AROUND THE CORNER.WITH THE DEATH OF LONGTIME FRIEND AND BUSINESS PARTNER MAJOR"DOLLAR BILL"BARFIELD, BACK-TO-BACK CONVICTIONS FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING AND POSSESSION, IT SEEMED THE PATH TO LEGENDARY STATUS WAS PUT ON "ICE" AS HE WAS SENTENCED TO SERVE 10 YEARS IN THE MISSISSIPPI AND LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS.IN 2001 WHILE STILL INCARCERATED, HIS SOLO ALBUM "P.O.W.E.R" WAS RELEASED, CONTAINING THE STREET BANGERS "GRINDIN' II", "MOST OF MY LIFE", "RIDIN' WIT MY PISTOL", AND "COME SEE ME". THE ALBUM WAS DEEMED A GULF COAST CLASSIC, FURTHER SOLIDIFYING HIS STATUS AS A "WALK-IT-LIKE I-TALK-IT" TYPE OF ARTIST.DESPITE BEING RELEASED IN LATE 2005 RIGHT INTO THE AFTERMATH OF HURRICANE KATRINA, ICEBERG SUPREME HAS WENT ON TO PRODUCE, FEATURE, AND OPEN UP FOR SOME OF THE SOUTH'S HOTTEST ARTIST SUCH AS: PIMP C, DAVID BANNER, BOHAGON, LIL BOOSIE, GUCCI MANE, JUVENILE, KILLER MIKE, YO GOTTI, XVII, BLOCK BOI, BOO ROSSINI, BABY STONE AND A HOST OF UNDERGROUND ARTISTS AS WELL! WITH HIS SOON-TO-BE RELEASED "2.2.8" ALBUM AND DOCUMENTARY MOVIE, OVER 50,000 UNITS AND OVER $300,000 IN SALES TIED TO HIS NAME,THE ROAD TO INDEPENDENT SUCCESS HAS OPENED UP, AND ICEBERG'S CROWN OF STREET LEGEND WILL MOST DEFINITELY BE WELL DESERVED.....
