Field Mob

Field Mob is a group of Hip Hop originating in Albany, in Georgia. It is composed of two rappeurs: Smoke and Shawn Jay. The group was signed in August 2005 on Disturbing Tha Peace, the label of Ludacris.

Biography

The two rappeurs met with the college after Smoke saw Shawn Jay making a freestyle in the schoolyard. Mob succeeded in signing a contract with small a Independent label and could thus record their individual first . This one drew the attention of MCA Records. MCA hurried to sign them and it is thus in 2000 that Field Mob left their first album, 613: Ashy to Classy . In spite of their young age and their lack of experience at the time, 613: Ashy to Classy is a completely correct album, equipped with good productions and rather interesting texts. One can say the same thing of their second album, From Tha Roota to Tha Toota , left in 2002. This one sees the group collaborating with Trick Daddy and approaching a style of production close to that to the OutKast. With this second album, the two young people Rap fear show that they are able to support the comparison with the best rappeurs of the moment and they do it while representing their origins accurately.

Smoke, one of the two rappeurs of Field Mob, is not other than the cousin of Ciara, the famous singer of Crunk' N B. They collaborate besides with the latter on the first individual one, named So What , of their third and last album in date entitled Light Poles And Pine Trees . Concerning the title of this album, the group explains: “We named this album Light Poles and Pines Trees because there is no horizon there from where we come. There is no arch as with Saint-Louis or of Palmier S as in California”. On this album, the group mixes typical sonorities of the rap South of the the United States, like the Crunk, with others more experimental, in which one strongly feels the influence of OutKast especially on the level of the sung refrains inherited the best tradition Gospel.

Little before the exit of their third album, the two rappeurs creates the polemic. Indeed, a video which shows the group imitating rappeurs New York board deploring the domination the rap the South the United States in industry the music circulates on Internet. Some weeks after the exit of this extract, Field Mob make them mea culpa . The video available on Internet was in fact only one assembly made starting from documentary a DVD to create the polemic around the group. The moments of film in question were not in fact that one is delirious between the two rappeurs and their Manager S, moreover originating in Brooklyn for their part.

Shortly after this incident, Smoke was on the other hand caught some with the music Snap, a style of music minimalist of the South of the United States, while declaring: “I will say to you who killed Hip Hop: D4L and Dem Franchize Boyz. It is in my opinion the assassins of the Hip Hop, which was already dying. They came and they killed it. Me and Shawn we always make of Hip Hop, but people do not accept it because one has a key Southerner. Hip Hop, they is word games, something to say, metaphors. I like Hip Hop, I fell in love from there thanks to Nas, Mobb Deep, etc… They are people as them which influenced me. People like Bun B or 8 Ball & MJG, they are artists Hip Hop Southerner. Old music of the South east Hip Hop. The news? Not! ”

Discography

Albums

2000 : 613: Ashy to Classy
2002 : From Tha Roota to Tha Toota . Certified Disc of gold in the United States, more: 700000 copies sold to date.
2006 : Light Poles and Prick Trees

Individual

2000 : Project Dreamz
2002 : Sick off Being Lonely (featuring Trina)
2003: All I Know (featuring the EEC-Lo Green)
2005: Georgia (featuring Ludacris and Jamie Foxx)
2006: So What (featuring Ciara)
2006: Damn (Shawnna featuring Field Mob)
2006: Baby Bend Over
2006: Friday Night

Other projects

2006 : Ultimate Satisfaction on the album Release Therapy of Ludacris.

External bonds

Myspace de Field Mob
Official site of Field Mob

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