Styles of Beyond
Encyclopedia
Styles of Beyond is an underground
rap
group from the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, California
. The group consists of MCs Ryan Patrick Maginn (Ryu) and Takbir Bashir (Tak), Colton Raisin Fisher (DJ Cheapshot), and producer Jason Rabinowitz (Vin Skully). They have released two LPs, one mixtape and were heavily featured on Mike Shinoda
's Fort Minor
project in 2005. At one point they were also signed to Shinoda's Machine Shop Recordings
label, although they left the label in late 2008. They are also heavily associated with the underground rap group "Demigodz" which features similar underground artists such as Apathy
, Celph Titled, and 7L & Esoteric
.
, Jay-Z
and The Notorious B.I.G.
What followed were the two independent albums, 2000 Fold, and seething follow-up Megadef. S.O.B. made a mixtape on July 31, 2007, entitled "Razor Tag", presented and mixed by DJ Green Lantern
. They recently finished their third studio album, Reseda Beach which has yet to be released. The album guest features rappers RZA
, Mike Shinoda
, Apathy
, Celph Titled & Sixx John. It is produced by Mike Shinoda
.
On September 25, 2008, S.O.B. released their contract with Machine Shop Recordings
with full ownership of their Reseda Beach record, which they plan to release under a different label or independently.
Since 2008 Ryu (along with Apathy
, and Scoop DeVille
) formed a new rap group by the name of the "Get Busy Committee
". they released their first album "Uzi Does It
" on October 27, 2009. Tak has also formed a solo group along with singer Josy B called "Ribkat" (which is takbir's named spelled backwards) they plan on releasing an album entitled "Theory of Addicts" in December 2009.
Ryu stated recently in an interview with LPLive that the current status of S.O.B. is unknown. in the interview he stated "The Warner thing I think mentally exhausted everybody, I think it was just time to do something fresh and new. Business wise and creatively. The status of the group is unknown at this point. It just felt like we were beating a dead horse after a while."
Recently, during a fan chat, Ryu revealed that Reseda Beach is completed, and should be released some times after the second Get Busy Committee album.
, WWE SmackDown vs. RAW, Need for Speed: Most Wanted
, on the film Real Steel
, and on the TV show Prison Break
.The song "Subculture" (from the unreleased album Terraform) was featured in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2
S.O.B. collaborated with Celldweller
for a track entitled "Shapeshifter" which appeared on the soundtrack for the movie Redline and also Need for Speed: Most Wanted
Styles of Beyond has collaborated with SpyTech artists: Lexicon
, Sandman, 4-Zone, and Divine Styler. They have also collaborated with: Awol One, The Crystal Method
, and performed live with Linkin Park
in 2001. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuhdVbti7XE
Their song "Second to None", (which features Mike Shinoda), appears on the soundtrack to the 2007 Transformers film
, and was also featured in a 30 second promo for FOX
's season premieres for Prison Break
and K-Ville
as well as the trailer for the 2008 film You Don't Mess with the Zohan
.
On December 17, 2007, it was revealed that DJ Cheapshot and Vin Skully had been chosen and hired to complete the entire score for the upcoming A&E
original series L.A. Gang Unit, which was slated for an April 2008 release, but has yet to be released.
S.O.B. was featured on the Revolution Stage for the Linkin Park
's Projekt Revolution
tour in 2007.
S.O.B. made an appearance in the music video for the track We Made It by Busta Rhymes
and Linkin Park
.
DJ Cheapshot opened his own bar called Cheapshot's, which is located in Long Beach, California
.
Ryu was featured along with Bishop Lamont on the track "Dirty Girl Part 2" by Rob Dyrdek (Bobby Light). This song is available on iTunes and was performed with Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker in Las Vegas. It also was featured on Rob Dyrdeks Fantasy Factory.
Underground music
Underground music comprises a range of different musical genres that operate outside of mainstream culture. Such music can typically share common values, such as the valuing of sincerity and intimacy; an emphasis on freedom of creative expression; an appreciation of artistic creativity...
rap
Hip hop music
Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music or hip-hop music, is a musical genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted...
group from the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...
. The group consists of MCs Ryan Patrick Maginn (Ryu) and Takbir Bashir (Tak), Colton Raisin Fisher (DJ Cheapshot), and producer Jason Rabinowitz (Vin Skully). They have released two LPs, one mixtape and were heavily featured on Mike Shinoda
Mike Shinoda
Michael "Mike" Kenji Shinoda is an American musician, record producer, and artist. He is best known as the rapper, principal songwriter, keyboardist, vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the rock band Linkin Park, along with his co-frontman and lead singer Chester Bennington, and as a solo rapper in...
's Fort Minor
Fort Minor
Fort Minor is a hip hop side-project of Mike Shinoda, who is better known as being a member of the American rock band Linkin Park. Shinoda's debut solo album as Fort Minor, The Rising Tied was released November 22, 2005.-History:...
project in 2005. At one point they were also signed to Shinoda's Machine Shop Recordings
Machine Shop Recordings
Machine Shop Recordings is a record label founded by Linkin Park bandmembers Brad Delson and Mike Shinoda. The label was originally known as "The Shinoda Imprint", named after Mike Shinoda, but was changed in 2002 when other Linkin Park members became more involved. Mike Shinoda and Brad Delson run...
label, although they left the label in late 2008. They are also heavily associated with the underground rap group "Demigodz" which features similar underground artists such as Apathy
Apathy (rapper)
Chad Bromley , better known as Apathy is an underground rapper and producer from Willimantic, Connecticut. He attended high school at various schools in Connecticut. He is a re-founding member and unofficial leader of the Demigodz crew...
, Celph Titled, and 7L & Esoteric
7L & Esoteric
7L & Esoteric are a Boston-based hip-hop duo, notorious for battle rhymes and boom-bap production. 7L is the duo's DJ/Producer and Esoteric the emcee.-History:...
.
History
Styles of Beyond first started making appearances on the Wake Up Show which was a breeding ground for respected rhymers and supreme lyricists, including EminemEminem
Marshall Bruce Mathers III , better known by his stage name Eminem or his alter ego Slim Shady, is an American rapper, record producer, songwriter and actor. Eminem's popularity brought his group project, D12, to mainstream recognition...
, Jay-Z
Jay-Z
Shawn Corey Carter , better known by his stage name Jay-Z, is an American rapper, record producer, entrepreneur, and occasional actor. He is one of the most financially successful hip hop artists and entrepreneurs in America, having a net worth of over $450 million as of 2010...
and The Notorious B.I.G.
The Notorious B.I.G.
Christopher George Latore Wallace , best known as The Notorious B.I.G., was an American rapper. He was also known as Biggie Smalls , Big Poppa, and The Black Frank White .Wallace was raised in the Brooklyn borough...
What followed were the two independent albums, 2000 Fold, and seething follow-up Megadef. S.O.B. made a mixtape on July 31, 2007, entitled "Razor Tag", presented and mixed by DJ Green Lantern
DJ Green Lantern
James D'Agostino , better known by his stage name DJ Green Lantern, is an American-Italian-Puerto Rican DJ and hip hop music producer from Rochester, New York. In 2002, D'Agostino was signed by Eminem to become the official DJ for Shady Records after DJ Head stepped down for undisclosed reasons...
. They recently finished their third studio album, Reseda Beach which has yet to be released. The album guest features rappers RZA
RZA
Robert Fitzgerald Diggs, better known by his stage name RZA , is an American Grammy-winning music producer, multi-instrumentalist, author, emcee, and occasional actor, director, and screenwriter. A prominent figure in Hip Hop, RZA is the de facto leader of the Wu-Tang Clan. He has produced almost...
, Mike Shinoda
Mike Shinoda
Michael "Mike" Kenji Shinoda is an American musician, record producer, and artist. He is best known as the rapper, principal songwriter, keyboardist, vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the rock band Linkin Park, along with his co-frontman and lead singer Chester Bennington, and as a solo rapper in...
, Apathy
Apathy (rapper)
Chad Bromley , better known as Apathy is an underground rapper and producer from Willimantic, Connecticut. He attended high school at various schools in Connecticut. He is a re-founding member and unofficial leader of the Demigodz crew...
, Celph Titled & Sixx John. It is produced by Mike Shinoda
Mike Shinoda
Michael "Mike" Kenji Shinoda is an American musician, record producer, and artist. He is best known as the rapper, principal songwriter, keyboardist, vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the rock band Linkin Park, along with his co-frontman and lead singer Chester Bennington, and as a solo rapper in...
.
On September 25, 2008, S.O.B. released their contract with Machine Shop Recordings
Machine Shop Recordings
Machine Shop Recordings is a record label founded by Linkin Park bandmembers Brad Delson and Mike Shinoda. The label was originally known as "The Shinoda Imprint", named after Mike Shinoda, but was changed in 2002 when other Linkin Park members became more involved. Mike Shinoda and Brad Delson run...
with full ownership of their Reseda Beach record, which they plan to release under a different label or independently.
Since 2008 Ryu (along with Apathy
Apathy (rapper)
Chad Bromley , better known as Apathy is an underground rapper and producer from Willimantic, Connecticut. He attended high school at various schools in Connecticut. He is a re-founding member and unofficial leader of the Demigodz crew...
, and Scoop DeVille
Scoop DeVille
Elijah Blue Molina, better known by his stage name Scoop DeVille, is a Hip hop producer and rapper from Los Angeles, California, who has produced songs for artists including Snoop Dogg, Baby Bash, Fat Joe, Game, and many others...
) formed a new rap group by the name of the "Get Busy Committee
Get Busy Committee
Get Busy Committee is a hip hop group consisting of underground rapper Apathy, Styles of Beyond's Ryu, and producer Scoop DeVille.-Group Info:...
". they released their first album "Uzi Does It
Uzi Does It
Uzi Does It is the debut album from Get Busy Committee, released on October 27, 2009. It consists of vocals and production by RYU , Apathy , and Scoop DeVille.-Release model:...
" on October 27, 2009. Tak has also formed a solo group along with singer Josy B called "Ribkat" (which is takbir's named spelled backwards) they plan on releasing an album entitled "Theory of Addicts" in December 2009.
Ryu stated recently in an interview with LPLive that the current status of S.O.B. is unknown. in the interview he stated "The Warner thing I think mentally exhausted everybody, I think it was just time to do something fresh and new. Business wise and creatively. The status of the group is unknown at this point. It just felt like we were beating a dead horse after a while."
Recently, during a fan chat, Ryu revealed that Reseda Beach is completed, and should be released some times after the second Get Busy Committee album.
Appearances/Remixes
Grant Mohrman did a remix of the Megadef song "Superstars" called "Nine Thou" which was featured in the games WWE Day of ReckoningWWE Day of Reckoning
WWE Day of Reckoning is a professional wrestling video game released for the Nintendo GameCube console in 2004. The game is based on World Wrestling Entertainment and many of the wrestlers who were on the WWE roster at the time of release were included as player characters...
, WWE SmackDown vs. RAW, Need for Speed: Most Wanted
Need for Speed: Most Wanted
Need for Speed: Most Wanted is a racing video game developed by EA Black Box and published by Electronic Arts. It is the tenth installment in the Need for Speed series. The game features street racing-oriented game play, with certain customization options from the Need for Speed: Underground series...
, on the film Real Steel
Real Steel
Real Steel is a 2011 American science fiction film starring Hugh Jackman and directed by Shawn Levy. The film is based in part on the 1956 short story "Steel" by Richard Matheson, though Levy placed the film in U.S. state fairs and other "old-fashioned" Americana settings. Real Steel was in...
, and on the TV show Prison Break
Prison Break
Prison Break is an American television serial drama created by Paul Scheuring, that was broadcast on the Fox Broadcasting Company for four seasons, from 2005 until 2009. The series revolves around two brothers; one has been sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit, and the other devises an...
.The song "Subculture" (from the unreleased album Terraform) was featured in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, often abbreviated as THPS2, is the second game in the Tony Hawk's series. It was developed by Neversoft and published by Activision in 2000...
S.O.B. collaborated with Celldweller
Celldweller
Celldweller is a Detroit, Michigan-based Electronic Rock project that was created by multi-instrumentalist Klayton, former frontman and songwriter of the bands Circle of Dust, Argyle Park, Angeldust . Celldweller's music is multi-faceted, often labeled electronic rock and more commonly being...
for a track entitled "Shapeshifter" which appeared on the soundtrack for the movie Redline and also Need for Speed: Most Wanted
Need for Speed: Most Wanted
Need for Speed: Most Wanted is a racing video game developed by EA Black Box and published by Electronic Arts. It is the tenth installment in the Need for Speed series. The game features street racing-oriented game play, with certain customization options from the Need for Speed: Underground series...
Styles of Beyond has collaborated with SpyTech artists: Lexicon
Lexicon
In linguistics, the lexicon of a language is its vocabulary, including its words and expressions. A lexicon is also a synonym of the word thesaurus. More formally, it is a language's inventory of lexemes. Coined in English 1603, the word "lexicon" derives from the Greek "λεξικόν" , neut...
, Sandman, 4-Zone, and Divine Styler. They have also collaborated with: Awol One, The Crystal Method
The Crystal Method
The Crystal Method is an American electronic music duo that was created in Los Angeles, California by Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland in the early 1990s. The Crystal Method's music has appeared in numerous TV shows, films, video games, and advertisements. The most prominent is the US television...
, and performed live with Linkin Park
Linkin Park
Linkin Park is an American rock band from Agoura Hills, California. Formed in 1996, the band rose to international fame with their debut album, Hybrid Theory, which was certified Diamond by the RIAA in 2005 and multi-platinum in several other countries...
in 2001. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuhdVbti7XE
Their song "Second to None", (which features Mike Shinoda), appears on the soundtrack to the 2007 Transformers film
Transformers: The Album
Transformers: The Album is a compilation album of various artists music from the 2007 live-action Transformers movie. The official single from the album is "Before It's Too Late " by the Goo Goo Dolls. The soundtrack debuted at number 21 on the U.S Billboard 200, selling about 32,000 copies in its...
, and was also featured in a 30 second promo for FOX
Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...
's season premieres for Prison Break
Prison Break
Prison Break is an American television serial drama created by Paul Scheuring, that was broadcast on the Fox Broadcasting Company for four seasons, from 2005 until 2009. The series revolves around two brothers; one has been sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit, and the other devises an...
and K-Ville
K-Ville (TV series)
K-Ville is an American television drama created and executive produced by Jonathan Lisco, centering on policing New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina...
as well as the trailer for the 2008 film You Don't Mess with the Zohan
You Don't Mess with the Zohan
You Don't Mess with the Zohan is a 2008 American comedy film directed by Dennis Dugan, written by Carlito Cabardo, and produced by and starring Adam Sandler. This is the fourth film which has starred Sandler and has been directed by Dugan...
.
On December 17, 2007, it was revealed that DJ Cheapshot and Vin Skully had been chosen and hired to complete the entire score for the upcoming A&E
A&E Network
The A&E Network is a United States-based cable and satellite television network with headquarters in New York City and offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, London, Los Angeles and Stamford. A&E also airs in Canada and Latin America. Initially named the Arts & Entertainment Network, A&E launched...
original series L.A. Gang Unit, which was slated for an April 2008 release, but has yet to be released.
S.O.B. was featured on the Revolution Stage for the Linkin Park
Linkin Park
Linkin Park is an American rock band from Agoura Hills, California. Formed in 1996, the band rose to international fame with their debut album, Hybrid Theory, which was certified Diamond by the RIAA in 2005 and multi-platinum in several other countries...
's Projekt Revolution
Projekt Revolution
Projekt Revolution is a music festival hosted by Linkin Park, bringing artists of various genres of music together. Linkin Park started Projekt Revolution in the year 2002 with just one stage...
tour in 2007.
S.O.B. made an appearance in the music video for the track We Made It by Busta Rhymes
Busta Rhymes
Trevor Tahiem Smith, Jr., better known by his stage name Busta Rhymes ,Smith is an American rapper, producer and actor. Chuck D of Public Enemy gave him the alias Busta Rhymes after NFL wide receiver George "Buster" Rhymes...
and Linkin Park
Linkin Park
Linkin Park is an American rock band from Agoura Hills, California. Formed in 1996, the band rose to international fame with their debut album, Hybrid Theory, which was certified Diamond by the RIAA in 2005 and multi-platinum in several other countries...
.
DJ Cheapshot opened his own bar called Cheapshot's, which is located in Long Beach, California
Long Beach, California
Long Beach is a city situated in Los Angeles County in Southern California, on the Pacific coast of the United States. The city is the 36th-largest city in the nation and the seventh-largest in California. As of 2010, its population was 462,257...
.
Ryu was featured along with Bishop Lamont on the track "Dirty Girl Part 2" by Rob Dyrdek (Bobby Light). This song is available on iTunes and was performed with Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker in Las Vegas. It also was featured on Rob Dyrdeks Fantasy Factory.
Discography
- 2000 Fold (1998, Ideal)
- Terraform (never released)
- Megadef (2003, SpyTech)
- Razor TagRazor TagRazor tag is a Mixtape by Styles of Beyond . It was released online on July 31, 2007 and CD released on August 10, 2007 ."Savin' L.A." and "Second 2 None" are bonus tracks...
(2007, Warner Bros.) - Reseda Beach