Dr.
Stank hails from the IE / Inland Empire in California, and is part of a MC Click
in the San Bernardino/Riverside area that also includes Sly Boogy, Lunch who is
from South Central, Chuck Tha Innocent, and Sly Boogy's cousing Dirty Birdy.
He
is releasing his debut album this year and he has a few features including WC,
Redman, Dirty Birdy, Butch Cassidy, Damizza & many more. He will be suppose
to get beats from Hi-Tek & Premier. The first single is called "Smell
Me" and its slamin! Its suppose to drop in March/April with a video.
Stank recorded a track entitled "Dangerous" with producer Damizza. The
song features Butch Cassidy and the track slightly resembles Michael Jackson's
"You Rock My World". They will most likely use the sick song called
"Deeznuzit" featuring Dirty Birdy on Stank's album. Stank
produced this track and Birdy sings the hook on the song. Dirty Birdy is on about
10 tracks so far and he hopes it will lead into a deal for himself.
Dr.
Stanks album was supposed to come out on MCA Records but Stank & the management
Sugar Ill have been dropped from MCA Records. This is due to cutbacks and the
horrible financial state of the industry. Intercope Pres Jimmy Iovine had been
running MCA since the 1st day of the year and is merging some of MCA departments
with Interscope, so he got rid of like 80% of the MCA roster. But the Dr. Stank
album is finished and its entitled "The Oder". There is no release date
but they are still pushing the lead single "Smell
Me".
Stank
was part of the group "Func Junc" but they are not together anymore,
but Stank is cool with everyone. They were signed to Puffys Bad Boy Records but
Puffy drug his feet with them and they said Fuck it, but he never even met Puffy
so it wasnt anything serious.
As
far as his crew goes, its called the Ignorant Crew and the Management Group is
Sugar Ill. Lunch is down wit the Ignorant Crew too. They recorded a bunch of underground
tracks, one of them was "Lunch Time" along with a Remix which had WC,
Lunch, Dr. Stank, Gambit, and J-Walq in it.
Dr.
Stank was discovered by WC. Just months after linking with WC, he inked a recording
deal with MCA Records. Stank said that WC contacted him after hearing his songs
on Power 106.
"Actually Dub heard the songs on the radio. He heard
'Put The Stank In It.' He reached out to Felli Fel because at the time, Felli
Fel was playing it on the radio, as well as 'Crackalackin'.' He reached out. Felli
gave him my number. He hit me up two days later, we were in the studio. Doing
the remix of 'Put The Stank In It.' He did the second verse on it. Laced it up
for free. Just for the love of the music."
WC played a big role
by discovering Stank, Dub also let him make an appearance on the song "Bang Loose"
on W.C.'s album Ghetto Heisman. Hopefully in the long run Stank can help WC too.
Last but not
least some audio. Make sure you check those tracks cause they highlight both his
Rapping & Producing skills. He's a very talented producer just listen for
yourself, he produced a lot of his own songs and has that remarkable West Coast
sound. First off his first track that got real big and radio airplay in 2001 called
"Whatzcrackalackin".
This version is in CDQ, Stank himself produced it.
Nexxt
up your first listen to Dr. Stank's first single from his debut album. The song
is called "Smell Me" and this track is crazy. Stank himself produced
the song and has the classic west coast feel you will love. Anyway, here is a
snippet of "Smell
Me".
Another track
from the upcoming Stank album "The
Oder" is
the song "Dangerous"
featuring Butch Cassidy, produced by Damizza.
And here is the collabo with WC,
the Remix of "Put
The Stank In It" which is Stank produced. The original version is
a solo version with only Stank himself. Both versions received radio airplay last
year.
Here is a track that Dr.
Stank produced by Dirty Birdy called "Everythang
I Luv" with female rapper called "Mistress" who is down
with Lunch.
Other tracks that
he produced are "Khakis
N Chronic (Remix)" by Don Cisco & Queenie; "New
Shit" by Baby S feat. Jayo Felony from Baby S' album "Street
Fractions".
It
seems like everything in the IE is going to start blowin up this year, with both
Dr Stank & Sly Boogy puttin out their solo albums so expect big thangs coming
from them.
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