Boo-Yaa TRIBE
The Boo-Yaa TRIBE is an American hip hop group from Carson , California, founded in 1988 . The members are the six brothers from Samoa , Paul alias Ganxta Ridd , Ted alias The Godfather , Donald alias Don L , Roscoe alias Murder One , Danny alias OMB and David alias EKA Devoux.
Career
The brothers began experimenting with music in their father's Baptist Church and performed locally as a dance group. In their youth, they joined a Bloods gang in Compton . After her youngest brother Robert aka Youngman was shot in 1987, they decided to turn their backs on gang life and left Los Angeles to live in Japan. There they started again with the music and toured the country in the late 1980s.
They returned to California in 1988 to work on their 1990 Island Records debut album New Funky Nation . Unusually for hip-hop, they played the instruments themselves. In 1992 her contract with Island Records ended. In 2000 David left the band. Vincent Devoux alias Gawtti came as a replacement .
Discography
- 1990: New Funky Nation (Charts US # 117)
- 1994: Doomsday
- 1995: Occupation Hazardous
- 1996: Metally Disturbed
- 1997: Angry Samoans
- 2000: Mafia Lifestyle
- 2003: West Koastra Nostra
- 2006: Business As Usual
Web links
- Boo-Yaa TRIBE at laut.de
- Boo-Yaa TRIBE at Allmusic (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ the situation: Boo Yaa Tribe Interview ( Memento of the original from October 22, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)
- ^ April K. Henderson: Dancing Between Islands: Hip Hop and the Samoan Diaspora . In: Dipannita Basu, Sidney J. Lemelle (eds.): The Vinyl Ain't Final: Hip Hop and the Globalization of Black Popular Culture . Pluto Press, London 2006, ISBN 0-7453-1940-8 .
