MUHAMMAD 2G

Muhammad 2G is a music producer/ artist and songwriter with engineering abilities. He has mothered and now fathers a 20 year archive of music and in so many ways is just beginning the real part of his career. In 2003, Muhammad was certified by the RIAA as a platinum producer/ co-writer for the "Whatchalookinat?" single on the 2002 "Just Whitney" album. In 2001, 2G was responsible for producing, writing and performing his regional hit "Don't U Go Nowhere", that re-opened the door to his career as a recording artist."In 1988, I remember borrowing one of those Yamaha RX-7's (a beat machine) from a friend of mine and after kinda figuring out how to work it, I started making lil' beats and writin' my own raps to it. I used to cut a friend of mine's hair every week and afterwards I would let him hear what I was doin'. He seemed pretty reserved but the weekend before the next school year, he and some other guys had formed a group and asked for me to be in it. I was flattered but I still was like, "well let me hear what y'all got." A few months later we was spendin' our parents money in studios. We were called "C.A.P" or Chiefs Among Poets and we recieved a 10 minute documentary on the then popular Fox show "City Under Siege" which coincidentally was the name of our 12" single. We sold out of all of the copies of the single within a weeks time at the school we attended, Langham Creek High. (At the time I went by the name of "FlowPop"). More of a rapper than a producer back then, I took alot of the initiative to make our beats. I really don't remember what switched it around.""Later in 1991, after changing our group name to "Coppertone Conspiracy", I kinda dropped the "Flow" off of my name and just went by "P.O.P" (Prince of Poetry). For the 1st time we relinquished control of our rights to a outside party to try to further our career. I think we signed a 3 year "standard" contract and began working on our first serious album "Funky Overthrow". It was a 15 track project myself and a fellow group member Mark S split the production in half. It is a classic to many because it was one of the first "conscious" albums to come out of the H-Town scene. Coppertone Conspiracy shed the light on racism and politics from a group of black teenagers' perspective.By the time our album released in early 1992, interior differences began to set in causing our 4 man team to split in half. Myself and Mark S (AKA Marcus Mud) kept recording and eventually teamed up with another existing group called "Ruckus" from Houstons southside. "Menace and Mayhem" were the group members and together we eventually became "redruM". At this time, I assumed almost all of the production responsibilities and took more of a supporting role with the lyrics. After our then manager was incarcerated, we were forced to "do for self" and initiated contact with a Urban Music representative with Warner Brothers Records to see about sending a demo. When our responses began to thin out we decided to pack up and go to Los Angeles and force them to hear us. So we packed up with $600 between us and "hijacked" a rental car (it wasn't supposed to leave the state) and drove all day and night to arrive in less than 24 hours. We walked into Warner Bros. looking thugged out, hungry, but focused/ determined. The receptionist was apprehensive of course but let us through on the A&R reps command (I don't think he wanted no trouble/smile). We got in the back and "made it do what it do!". They had no choice but to offer us ATLEAST a demo deal. Our instructions were to do "US". We did 7 songs of US in 7 days with a $1000 budget. Impatiently waiting on a response from our contact, we spent 1 month waiting to hear "no deal", 1 month shopping for another deal and finally an additional month lingering around not knowing where to go from there. I am skipping alot of good details through this to keep my bio to the point but the picture is we came back to H-Town with more stories to tell and music to make but without a label to tell it on. Back then the game was not as independent as it is today....(coming to a close but need more time to lay it out, be back soon to do so....) I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace)