DORASEL BIOGRAPHY
Reared in Los Angeles, California by way of 5th Ward, Texas, Dorasel knows hard times intimately. Im from the home of the Geto Boys, says Dorasel. Life was hard. It was going back and forth to the corner gas station getting jugs of water because the water stayed off and dealing with the lights not working half the time. I come from a large family. My mother was a homemaker and my father worked hard when he could find work. There was a lot of crime, robbing, and drug dealing. At the age of thirteen, Dorasel ran away from home to live with his oldest brother in Los Angeles where he would spend most of his teenage years.
According to Dorasel, hip-hop music was a major part of his development as an artist. The young Houston native grew up listening to rap music pioneers, The Geto Boys, N.W.A. and Tupac. He and neighborhood friends would battle each other in freestyle sessions. I was beating on the walls, on tables and standing in the corner in circles just rapping to somebody elses instrumental or vocals, recalls Dorasel. It couldve been a love song, rap song, or whatever. As long as the beat was tight, I was rapping to it.
Dorasel was faced with temptation of the street life that offered false promises of good times and fast money by hustling. When I was in school there was a lot of peer pressure. It was real hard to resist, and as I got a little older, I couldnt resist. I got mixed up in everything. I was doing robberies, drug dealing, street brawling, you name it, he says. Eventually he ran afoul with the law and caught prison time. Id do something, catch a case, get out on bond and then do something again while out on bond, so Id have two or three charges on me at once. After numerous charges and convictions, he ended up doing five years in the state of Texas.
Ironically this bid brought him a change of luck. Within a week of his release from prison in 1998, James Prince signed Dorasel to Rap A Lot Records. Before the ink could even dry on his contract, Dorasel found himself collaborating with the Geto Boys Da Good Da Bad Da Ugly LP. Later he blazed a track on Rap A Lots Realist Niggas Down South compilation, in which he replaced Tupac on the remix of Homies & Thugs with Master P and Scarface. Both of these appearances earned him high praises from rap music fans throughout the South, West, and Midwest alike, creating a high demand for his solo debut LP Unleash The Beast. But fans would have to wait a full three years before their demands would be met.
The album was well worth the wait. Unleash The Beast was produced by a super stellar cast of platinum Hip-Hop producers like 7 (Murder Inc.), Mike Dean (Rap A Lot), Mr. Lee (Rap A Lot), and Ervin Pope. Unfortunately, for whatever reasons, Dorasel at his own will requested and was given a release from Rap A Lot Records before any major marketing promotions of Unleash The Beast could begin.
After his release from the label, Dorasel moved back to Los Angeles for one year where he spent day and night in his oldest brothers home perfecting his skills for his new album. My first record was a learning process. I guess you could say I was trying to figure out who the hell I was in music. I needed time to find my own sound. Ive always been told I sound like Ice Cube. Thats a great compliment but Id rather sound like Dorasel.
Now after being released from prison again on May 10, 2006 from serving a lengthy two year sentence, Dorasel is ready to give fans a new album, entitled WARNING. Fans can expect this one to be on of the most well rounded rap albums EVER.It features an array of platinum artists like WC, Yukmouth, Papa Reu.
This album represents not only my life, but anyone else who gone through the ups, the downs, the ins and outs, and the guns and the roses. ___
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