The Crack Emcee lives in San Francisco but is from Los Angeles. He started with Michael Franti's early cult band, The Beatnigs (1988) industrial agitators, Consolidated (1992) acid jazz favorites, Broun Fellinis (1995) and his own, short-lived, "Pop Rock" band, Little White Radio (1998).
Through it all, The Crack Emcee has, also, been releasing a yearly series of critically acclaimed, extremely sample-heavy, and politically charged, solo mix tapes (starting with 1995's Newt Hates Me) that have solidified his reputation for notoriously outlandish, drug-induced, polemics, as well as radically eclectic sound. This output, finally, morphed into his first real attempt at a self-produced solo album, the minimalist anti-war Rap's Creation (Planet Rock) (2002) which was nominated for Album Of The Year (at, both, Rolling Stone.com and the Village Voice.com) and saw two of it's tracks make that year's Left-Wing list of Hip Hop's Best Anti-War Songs. The Crack Emcee was, also, featured in Donnell Alexander's book, GHETTO CELEBRITY (Crown, 2003).
Today, The Crack Emcee is working on a follow-up (a, full-length, double CD: Maximum Base Liver b/w What Doesn't Kill You,...) and, as Programming Director for Better Propaganda.com, works tirelessly to listen to, and expose, as much new raw talent as possible. And, for the occasional ranting, he maintains a blog, The Macho Response.
