Born, Ricardo Salas on May 7th, of 1979 in the city of Palm Springs California. Raised in the Coachella Valley , it was hard to do anything because there was nothing around for the anyone to do, at that time in order to have fun you had to travel out of town to do it, but we stuck around . As I was growing up I fell in love with music like you would fall in love with a wife or husband, to me music was music good all the way around except country music, could never get into it. I guess when I was little It was pushed on to me by my mom’s family, there the white Mexicans, not that it’s a bad thing but they were quick to put even there own blood down . They never like the things we did so they tried forcing country music on us and I wasn’t feeling that. Plus at that time rap had just hit M.T.V. and it blew me away, amazed with it, I started watching and recording YO M.T.V RAPS like it was the thing to do. Then, N.W.A hit the scene and that’s what triggered me to want to rap. They told the truth of the streets, the truth that people did not want to hear and I dug it. So I started freestyling in my room, at school, when ever I was by myself . At first I was kind of scared of what people would say so I didn’t let anyone know . Then one night at one of the homie’s party they had a set up there and a couple of the homies started to rap, but it was wack, so I was like to hell with it and grabbed the mic and ripped the party in half so from that day on I knew I had it in me, and I ran with it. When I told my family that I wanted to be a rapper they laughed at me and called me a dreamer. It hurt but I didn’t let it stop me because I had one person that kept my drive for it in overdrive, that was my homie Rascal (David Sandoval).Rascal was always pushing me to rap and never letting me slip, he knew I had it in me and he was the only one that told me to stay strong because my time was going to come. So I kept on doing cheap recordings in my house with two tape players , one was playing the music and the other one was recording me and the music. The songs I did I would go show Rascal every time I did a track then he would play them out, and I loved him for that. Its just, unfortunately he wasn’t able to hear my first real recorded track, because he took his life over some dumb shit. It hurt me real bad and it felt like a piece of my heart was torn. He was my music (not to sound gay or anything ) but it was Rascal that motivated me, and being from the valley I was from it was and still is hard to make it, and being Mexican its three times harder. But I kept going and called myself L.R.D which means Lil Rick Dog .I took the initials because there was to many lil people and to many dogs out there and I didn’t want people talking. So its L.R.D. or short L.R. So time passes I get married and two beautiful little girls and now me making it has doubled , I don’t want my kids suffering as much as I did so I linked up with my brother and my cousin and made one of the dopest rap groups in our valley and ended up getting our own radio show called the Sunday Night Street Beat where we got to play our music as payment which was cool to me, so the valley got to know the music plus we had drops for all the radio D.J.s on that station . We ended up loosing that show. Then it took us a good two years to get the money to put out the first album and we gave most of it away for promotion, hey you got to spend money to make money. Then the shows started to come like crazy we opened up for Chicano rap artists like M.R. Lil One and M.R. Capone-e and Lil Rob to the Ying Yang Twins, Tone Loc, and even Brenton Wood. We ended up getting a song on the air again that prepped the listeners up for the second album The Life which did alot better than the first. But now I am doing my solo project, one of the singles is called We Ridin which is playing on the local radio station 92.7 and was being played on Pocos Pero Locos, along with that came with an in studio interview but now I’m doing a lot of shows & hoping to get this solo project further than ever, and maybe I will be able to do the Ice Cube thing and do movies also, but I have to keep faith and keep moving … 1love L.R.DFOR BOOKING INFO-760-469-6608
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