Member Since: 27/04/2006
Band Members: Get Down Or Lay Downs roster consists of Stringer Barksdale and Jay Da Block, but do not confuse the two as a duo. Stringer and Jay Da Block weren't exactly the best of friends in 2001. Stringer not being the easiest person to get along with and Jay not being the one to back down, they immediately butted heads the same day they met each other. For a whole year, Stringer and Block would have altercations whenever they saw each other. Then, at a local freestyle contest, Stringer was on the mic and Jay Da Block stepped up. The two freestyled on stage together and their beef was officially squashed through music. The two later on became very close associates and a year later, Get Down Or Lay Down was created. The name comes from their powerful demeanor and their "either you're with us or against us" attitude. Get Down or Lay Down is not a group, a label or a gang. It is just a piece of the elaborate plan in putting Kansas on the map! With alliances with some of the best producers, artists and labels in the city, Stringer and Jay Da Block plan to be a major factor in the rise of the Midwest.
Influences: JBlock attributes such rappers as Doug e fresh, DMX, Method man, Biggie smalls, Jadakiss, Styles p. and other artists such as Ray Charles, Bill withers, Ozzy Osborne, AC/DC, and James brown to his style he takes the best of both worlds to the kitchen and what comes out is the perfect combination of edge ans showmanship that makes a JBlock show something you wont soon forget
Sounds Like: i sound like nothin you ever heard before in yo lifej/k, my sound is somethin like if you took BIG PaC Busta two tons of bricksbenjamin Sigel an smashed em into one person
Record Label: GDLD©