ESTABLISHED IN 1999, FIVE HOMEBOYS FROM DIFFERENT NEIGHBORHOODS, TWO SETS OF BROTHERS, PAYASO & SMILEY, ORIGINALLY FROM THE INLAND EMPIRE VARRIO OF VERDUGO, ALONG WITH MONSTER & WICKED, FROM SAN GABRIEL VALLEY HOOD OF BASSETT & PELON, ALSO FROM THE SAN GABRIEL VALLE....TOGETHER SET OUT TO BECOME THE FIRST GANGSTER RAP GROUP TO REPRESENT FOR "LA RAZA" SINCE BROWNSIDE.THE MAIN INGREDIENT WAS TO KEEP IT REAL, TO STAY TRUE TO EACH'S RESPECTIVE HOODS WHILE REPRESENTING FOR A GREATER CAUSE, SHOWING THAT GANG MEMBERS HAD A CHANCE TO MAKE IT IN LIFE, WITHOUT SELLING OUT THEIR CHOLO ROOTS.
BY RAPPING TOGETHER,DESPITE THEIR DIFFERENT GANG AFFILIATIONS, IN THE STUDIO, ON CD'S & ON STAGE ACCROSS THE SOUTHWEST THEY WERE SETTING TRENDS FAST, GIVING A POSITIVE IMAGE FOR OTHER YOUTH GROWING UP IN THE MEAN STREETS OF BARRIOS EVERYWHERE. THEIR HARDCORE RAPS COUPLED WITH WEST COAST GANGSTER RAP BEATS ALONG WITH SMOOTH OLDIE SOUL OF THE 60'S MADE FOR INSTANT UNDERGROUND HITS & CHICANO RAP CLASSICS.THEIR FIRST SINGLE WAS FEATURED ON G.N.P RECORDS' 1999 COMPILATION TITLED "STREET LIFE", CALLED "HOUSE PARTY", A CHOLO REMAKE OF THE RAP HIT OF THAT TIME FROM DR. DRE'S CRONIC 2001 ALBUM & WAS HEARD AT HOUSE PARTY'S CLUBS & KICK BACKS FROM LA, ARIZONA, TO LAS VEGAS & ROSARITO MEXICO. THAT SINGLE HELPED SPREAD THE DUKES CLICK'S POPULARITY & SOON AFTER, THEIR 2000 ALBUM TITLED PAYASO & THE DUKES CLICK "SOUTHSIDE STORY", WHICH TO DATE SALES ESTIMATE CLOSE TO 50,000 UNITS WITH LITTLE PROMOTION OR RADIO AIR PLAY.
THEIR FOLLOW UP CAME IN 2001 WITH PAYASO PRESENTS THE DUKES CLICK WHICH LAUNCHED THEIR VERY OWN RECORD LABEL, "TEEN ANGELS RECORDS", WHOSE CATALOG OF OVER 20 TITLES HAS TO DATE SOLD CLOSE TO 250,000 UNITS & FAST BECOME ONE OF THE LARGEST & MOST POWERFUL OUTLETS OF LATINO MEDIA, WITH MANY STORES, NOT TO MENTION TEEN ANGELS MAGAZINE WHOSE AUDIENCE HAS SPREAD TO OVER 100,000 READERS TODAY ,ALONG WITH THE FIRST EVER LATIN RAP MAGAZINE & MANY
HIGH TRAFFIC WEB SITES AT THE FORE FRONT OF TODAY'S LATIN RAP INDUSTRY.
ALMOST SIX YEARS LATER, WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THESE 5 HOMIES FROM THE HOOD WOULD HAVE GROWN TO BE SUCH A HUGE SUCCESS IN ONE OF THE MUSIC INDUSTRY'S FASTEST GROWING SUB CULTURES.
WITH FANS FROM THE MEAN STREETS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA,ALL OVER AMERICA & SPREADING FAST IN EUROPE,
ASIA & AUSTRALIA & LATIN AMERICA.
THEIR LATEST RELEASE DUKES CLICK "GANG RELATED" WAS RELEASED NATIONWIDE BY LOW PROFILE RECORDS & DISTRIBUTED INTERNATIONALY BY EMI LATIN, FEATURES SOME NEW ADDITIONS TO THE CLICK, INCLUDING LIL POPEYE, ( YOUNGER BROTHER IN LAW OF PAYASO) FROM THE I.E, LIL WIPSER FROM S.G.V & RISKY ALSO FROM S.G.V ( SAN GABRIEL VALLEY) BUT BY WAY OF DUARTE, CA.
FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE DUKES CLICK GO TO : WWW.SURENORAP.COM
OR WRITE: DUKES CLICK FAN CLUB PO BOX 1515 RIALTO, CA 92377..
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