Stagga Lee

   
Artist: Stagga Lee

   Genre(s): 
Other
   

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Discography:


   
 M.V.P. (Most Valuable Playas)

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 12

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In the early 2000s, ARTISTdirect Records sign-language at least two promising stanford White rappers. One of them was Poverty, a identical sociopolitical, somewhat KRS-1-ish MC from Portland, OR. Another was Stagga Lee, a native of Yonkers, NY (precisely north of New York City) wHO has cited Nas and Kool G. Rap as major inspirations. Stagga has a identical East Coast-sounding flow, and dissimilar some white River rappers--the Beastie Boys and the White Boys, for example--he doesn't reasoned white person. The MC gets his name from the vocal "Stagger Lee," which was a #1 hit for R&B/blues singer Lloyd Price in 1957. Stagga started rapping publicly when he was 16; he had been rapping before that, only non in front of live audiences. One person wHO gave him a tidy sum of encouragement during his high school long time was his friend Scratch, wHO produced some demos for Stagga on a four-track registrar. After falling out of high schoolhouse, Stagga didn't follow a calling in the music industriousness right away; alternatively, he enlisted in the United States Army and was stationed in Georgia and South Carolina. When Stagga's stay in the military concluded, he returned to the New York City area and resumed his hip-hop activity. At that point, he got to a great extent into struggle rhymes--that is, confrontational dissing rhymes aimed at rival MCs. But eventually, Stagga came to the same determination that Ice-T had reached back in the ‘80s: he decided that struggle rhymes were confining and that he didn't need to spend all his time written material around the flaws and shortcomings of other rappers.Stagga got a lucky break when he met producer Max Perez, an associate of Robert Clivilles--the famous producer/songwriter wHO had co-led the pop C & C Music Factory in the early ‘90s. Clivilles, in fact, was ane of the two C's in C & C Music Factory; the other was David Cole. Clivilles and Perez worked together at the New York-based M.V.P. Productions, and Perez--believing that Stagga had potential--introduced the knocker to Clivilles, wHO in agreement to check out some demos that Stagga had latterly recorded. Although Clivilles scorned the demos--which he felt didn't start to do Stagga justice--he believed that the Yonkers native had serious potential and wanted to go with him at M.V.P. Stagga went on to house with the Los Angeles-based ARTISTdirect label, and in 2002, ARTISTdirect released Stagga's debut single, "Roll Wit M.V.P." (which was co-produced by Clivilles and incorporated office of the later Minnie Riperton's 1974 score "Lovin' You"). ARTISTdirect planned to going Game of Breath, Stagga's showtime album, onetime in 2003.





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