![]() ![]() We finished it in ’93 but Rap-A-Lot sat on the album for almost a year because there was a lotta people coming out of Rap-A-Lot. We finished with the album at the end of ’92 but we had to remix a lotta the stuff and redo some samples. Why did it take so long for the album to come out? We were sitting around like, ‘Hey man, since we’re making all these songs let’s put a demo package together and send it out.’ But we didn’t have a name for the group, and the Odd Squad was something I remember my older brother Donnie was saying after he was looking outside and saw a group of awkward looking people that were walking – this short, fat guy and a tall, long, skinny kid – ‘Those motherfuckers look like the odd squad!’ We started doing a lotta demo songs, recording with the microphone in the closet on a four track. I got in touch with Little Dexter again and me, Little Dexter and Blind Rob – Rob Quest – we formed the Odd Squad. He rhymed like Chuck D from Public Enemy! I got a chance to talk to him and he said, ‘I live right around the corner from here.’ From then on I started coming to his crib and working on music and just became buddies, friends and brothers. He was a beast, man! He was working a drum machine called the Yamaha RX7 and he was killing it. We had a rap contest out here and Kurtis Blow had supposed to be doing the judging and you were supposed to win studio time and maybe a contract. I met Rob at a talent show at TSU, a college out here in the Third Ward – Texas Southern University. Oh man! We had a song, self-titled, named ‘3-D.’ We had a song called ‘Catherine and Michelle,’ we had a song called ‘Ugly Motherfucker.’ You had to do a lotta stuff back in the day, you couldn’t just rap back then.ĭo you remember any of the songs you performed? They used to have a lotta breakdancers while they rap at the same time, singing melodies and hooks. That’s his old name, he’s not using it no more, so I can I have it I guess!’ Ĭan you tell me about the talent shows you entered?Īre you familiar with the group UTFO? Our group was like that. Run-DMC was one of my favorite groups, and DMC in one of his rhymes, say, ‘They used to call me EZ-D!’ I was like, ‘Well, they used to call him that. It was fun back in those days, a lotta talent shows and everything. At the end of the breakdancing thing we eventually got into the rapping part around the ninth or tenth grade. bottle! Me and my other homeboy Little Dexter, we were like a rap group slash breakdancers. Who were you rapping with at the beginning? The Rhythmic Rockers was my last breakdancing crew, but I had a crew with my brother and another guy – we called ourselves 3-D. I lived in Houston and I moved to East Texas in tenth through twelfth grade and then I moved back to Houston. I was in a number of breakdancing crews as we moved around. I used to collect a lotta music too, especially with the breakdancing and having a lotta routines and stuff, and I eventually bridged over to rapping at the park. Towards the late 80’s, breakdancing was getting commercialised a little bit so we didn’t do that quite as much, but we would still be at the park where we used to breakdance. We caught up over the phone to discuss his days as a breakdancer, the dangers of touring and his dream posse cut line-up.ĭevin The Dude: I was a breakdancer since the fifth grade. Dre, DJ Premier, Scarface and Nas, Devin has seen it all. ![]() With a discography that stretches back to 1994 and a discography that features an impressive roster of big names including Dr. Ellison, D.I kicked it with Devin The Dude about how he came up in the rap game while somehow neglecting any direct questions about getting high. Rob Quest, Devin the Dude, Domo, Luster Bakerĭ. The album has no charting singles, but it peaked at number 61 on the Billboard 200 in the United States.ĭ. It features guest appearances from Odd Squad, Nas, Pooh Bear, Raphael Saadiq and Xzibit. Production was handled by mostly by Rob Quest, Michael "Domo" Poye and Mike Dean, alongside several other record producers including David Banner, DJ Premier, Dr. It was released on Augvia Rap-A-Lot Records. ![]() Just Tryin' ta Live is the second solo studio album by American rapper Devin the Dude.
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