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Member Since: 07/07/2006
Band Website: http://cdbaby.com/cd/bbaddubose
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Influences: When I was a kid, my Pops had the coolest studio in the green house. We called it the green house cause it was green. Victoria and Meridian in San Bernardino, back in 1979. Lacs with white walls always blocked my big wheel ramp, but as long as I had some Life Savers candy, I was cool. My Dad was in a band on Norton Air Force Base. The NCO club was their spot. Inside his studio, I would watch him sing and feel proud. He loved The Delfonics and The Temptations!!! Smokey and The Miracles and The Whispers.
He loved Christmas songs and still sings them to this day. Stevie Wonder seems like family to me. My Dad is a huge influence on me.
He chose the military rather than a music career to be stable for me and I look up to him for that.
I think hearing Computer Love for the first time sent me somewhere. My father had Stylistics, EWF, everything Motown all day. He also liked country and Englebert Humperdink. I listened to Jerry Lewis as a kid around my father. Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Paul Simon, Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin, Jackie Wilson, Nat King Cole, and a ton of Mr. Stevie Wonderful. I know I'm forgetting some....Also hearing Sanford and Son and Good Times and The Jeffersons pointed me to Quincy Jones. If it weren't for Mr. Quincy Jones, I would be different. No Off The Wall album. So Mr. Michael Jackson is also a maaaajor figure to me. Run DMC, MC Lyte, Kwame, Special Ed, Saltn Pep, D Nice, KRS, Beastie Boys and EPMD were the greatest to me. Thank you Dougie Fresh and BIZ Markie for teaching me to beat box so well. I owe you. Dana Dane was who grabbed me. I dug Kool Moe Dee and immulated LL Cool J. I had every Heavy D and the Boys, New Edition, Queen Latifah, Mint Condition, Troop, anything Teddy Riley whether Guy or Keith Sweat which I still bump today! Theres stuff from Teddy I'm just finding out he produced! Thats a bad man! My first record was the Sugar Hill Gang. My brother gave it to me when he lived off 52nd St. by the big parking lot. I was big on Whodini, Tribe, Das Efx, DeLASoul, and Eric B And Rakim. Huge Al B. Sure fan. Parliment, George Clinton and Benson, Aaron Hall, R. Kelley, Debarge, Brian McKnight, Alice n Chains, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, AeroSmith, Nirvana, Pink Floyd, Beatles, Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix, Ice T and NWA grabbed me. Aw damn!! Dre BeATS!! Eazy and CUBE!! I don't know if the Hughes Bros did a good or bad thing... But After BOYS n the hood & MENace everyone felt too competitive. Blame Cube I guess. But it was the best voice I ever heard. After that, it was everything Cube. Kill At Will, Lench Mob, Bootlegs B Sides, Merikka Most, Dub with Low Profile. I remember when DUB C got at my step sister at the club in Rubidox, and gave me a record. A real record! In the hood he is still the ish! Skip Skip! The Madd Circle album was nuttss!! PAC was like' They Got Me Trapped", and I memorized.. " They'll neva take me alive, I'm gettin high with my fo 5.. Even as a younsta- cauzin rukus on the back of the bus..." If you know that verse, you can hang with me!! He was Rising through me! Still does!! Then SPRINKLE ME man came out and he was "hipper than hippopotamusses". It was a wrap!! Thank you. Outkast Crumblin Herb and return of the Gangsta- thanx ta..Aw man!! Digital Hump, I still be Bumpin! Sex Packets... Then I started looking for old reggae, classical and rock like Zepplin, Ozzy, and Metallica Sandman was and is the ish.
I began becoming the 415, Too Short, Brotha Lynch, I got Five ON IT, Tupac type fan. I was full of adrenaline. Bone had me listening to Twista...Man...it made everybody hit licks for no reason!! What we called fun was volitale!. That time set it off!! Music is POWERFUL!! Thats why I balance what I make now. Thank you to all, especially The McCrary Family for grooming and teaching me so much. All young men need role models. They come in all forms. Women appreciate your men! Men appreciate your women.
God Blesses everyone, Especially Musicians!! Because we envoke thought and emotion. Be aware of your power and the Universe people.
If you love me, I love you back!
Peace...B Bad
Record Label: Remarkable Records
Type of Label: Unsigned