Blackalicious – Deception
Gift of Gab and Chief Xcel first met through a mutual friend in 1987 while attending J.F. K. High School in Sacramento,California. In 1992, Chief Xcel, now a student at UC Davis, had started working with a crew named SoleSides, whose members included DJ Shadow, Lateef the Truthspeaker, and Lyrics Born. Parker and Mosley formally settled on the name Blackalicious (”good black music”, according to Mosley) in 1992 and released their first vinyl single, “Swan Lake”, on SoleSides Records (the SoleSides crew’s own record label) in 1994. The song was an underground hit and Blackalicious subsequently released their debut EP, Melodica, in 1995, also on SoleSides Records. In 2007, The Gift of Gab, Lateef the Truthspeaker, and Headnodic formed a group called The Mighty Underdogs, releasing an EP through the Gift of Gab’s distribution companyGiftstribution. They are scheduled to release an LP titled Dropping Science Fiction in early 2008.
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