BORN AND RAISED ON THE LOW END SOUTHSIDE OF CHICAGO,THREE UP AND COMING ARTISTS,(TAZO AGE 26, GAGE AGE 23, MOOKIE AGE 22)WERE BEGINNING TO MAKE THEMSELVES KNOWN BY THERE IMPRESSIVE BEATS AND LYRICAL CONTENT. MEMBER AND PRODUCER OF FINAL THUGZ,TAZO BEGAN HIS MUSIC CAREER AT THE AGE OF THIRTEEN. BY THE AGE OF FIFTEEN HE BEGAN TO SPEND TIME AT NAKED SOUL STUDIO, WHERE HE BEGAN TO WRITE AND PRODUCE HIS OWN MUSIC. WHILE HE WAITED FOR HIS HARD WORK TO PAY OFF HIS YOUNGER BROTHER MOOKIE, BEGAN TO DEVELOP AN INTEREST IN WHAT TAZO HAD STARTED. ALTHOUGH PLAYING HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL AT THE TIME, MOOKIE DECIDED TO PURSUE MUSIC INDEFINITELY. MOOKIE BEGAN TO SPEND TIME WITH TAZO AT THE STUDIO WHERE HE DEVELOPED HIS OWN STYLE AND IDEAS OF WRITING CREATING A DYNAMIC DUO. AN IMPRESSIVE BROTHER-TO-BROTHER TAG TEAM BUT TWO WASN'T ENOUGH. MOOKIE TOOK SO MUCH INTEREST INTO THE DUO'S MUSIC THAT IT FOLLOWED HIM TO THE SCHOOL HALLWAYS AND LUNCHROOMS. BANGING ON LUNCHROOM TABLES TO MAKE BEATS AND RAPPING AT SCHOOL, A FELLOW STUDENT, GAGE, JOINED THE TABLE. THE TWO EXCHANGED AGGRESSIVE LYRICS, THE LYRICS TURNED INTO A BATTLE AND THE LAST MEMBER OF FINAL THUGZ WAS INTRODUCED. BECAUSE OF GAGE'S WRITING AND RECITING CAPABILITIES THE IMPESSIVE DUO, BECAME AN IMPRESSIVE TRIO. FINAL THUGZ HAVE BEEN RECORDING AND PERFORMING TOGETHER IN CHICAGO FOR THE PAST FIVE YEARS. SOME OF THE SHOWS WHERE HELD AT THE UNION HALL SHOWCASES, THE EAST OF THE RAYAN TALENT SHOWCASES. AND THE BIGGEST SHOW THAT THEY DID WAS AT THE 705 AUDITORIUM WHICH HELD FIVE HUNDRED PEOPLE. THEY PUT IT DOWN SO GOOD AT THE EAST OF THE RYAN SHOWCASES THE FOLLING STATEMENT WAS QUOTED FROM A FLYER TAKEN FROM ONE OF THE SHOWES, HELD AT THE EAST OF THE RYAN ON AUGUST,25TH 2004,"NOT ONLY CAN THESE YOUNG MEN RAP , BUT THEIR STRONG PERFORMANCES WILL MAKE THE CROWD ASK FOR MORE".THEY STARTED TO SALE THEIR FIRST SINGLE CALLED "FLOSSIN" WITCH THEY TOOK ON THE ROAD WITH THEM ON A FAMILY VACATION TO ARKANSAS. THEY SOLD OUT OF FIVE HUNDRED COPIES IN LESS THAN 2 HOURS AND EVEN SIGNED AUTOGRAPHS, THE PEOPLE THERE LOVED THEM. BACK AT HOME THEY WAS STILL STRUGGLING TO MAKE THEMSELVES KNOWN. THEY MADE SUCH AN IMPACT IN ARKANSAS THAT SOME HOW THEY CD GOT TO NEW YORK. THEN THEY FOUND THEMSELVES SIGNING A SIX MONTH CONTRACT WITH RAP VIBE PRODUCTIONS, BUT THAT WAS JUST THE BEGINNING. FROM THAT DAY FORWARD FINAL THUGZ STARTED MAKING BIGGER MOVES TAKING A TRIP DOWN TO THE BIG APPLE TALKING AND MEETING PEOPLE SUCH AS: MISSY ELLIOTT'S ATTOURNY LOUISE WEST AND ANDRE NEIL FROM VIOLATOR, A&R KELVIN AND DARA FROM ALANTIC RECORDS LAST BUT NOT LEAST THEIR CLOSES FRIEND BRUCE SECKENDORF FIFTY CENT AND EMINEM BUSINESS MANAGER.THEIR CD'S ARE GETTING IN THE HANDS OF PEOPLE WITH BIG NAMES.RECENTLY SHA MONEY XL SAID " THESE BOYS ARE GOOD ENOUGH TO GET A RECORD DEAL" AND THAT MOTIVATED THEM TO KEEP STRIVING FOR SUCCESS!
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