Spice 1: Biography

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• Celly Cel
• Master P
• Mystikal
• MC Eiht
• Fatal
• Daz Dillinger
• E-40

• Geto Boys
• N.W.A.
• Too Short
• Ice-T

• Rappin' 4-Tay
• Lupe Fiasco

• Criminalz
• 187 Fac
• Mike Mosley

• T. Shaw
• R.L. Green
• Ant Banks
• Ramone "Pee Wee" Gooden

• MC Breed
• Rappin' 4-Tay
• D-Wiz
• B-Legit

Genres:

Rap & Hip-Hop Music, Gangsta and Hardcore Rap Music, West Coast Rap Music

Decades Active:

1980's|1990's|2000's

Cultural Impact

Low

Popularity

Low

Ratings Guide

Too hort discovered rapper Spice 1, who'd been born in Texas before moving to California. His self-titled debut was as vivid and fatalistic a gangsta album as possible, and his hard-edged, angry, and pessimistic rapping style and tone only added to the despair emanating from the disc. He followed it with an even more bitter and nihilistic release, 187 He Wrote in 1993, complete with simulated gunfire. Other releases included 1995's 1990 Sick and 1997's Black Bossalini (aka Dr. Bomb From Da Bay). Immortalized followed two years later, and in the spring of 2000 Spice 1 returned with Last Dance and Playa Rich Project. A sequel to the latter brought him into 2002, while the Spiceberg Slim album came out that summer. Unlike many rappers in his position, Spice 1 did not suffer a critical backlash from such a high volume of releases in such a short amount of time. He continued to change with the times, and that reflected on his consistant sales and unwavering fanbase.

- Ron Wynn, All Music Guide