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“Explorations” is an attempt to shed light on offbeat music from India and around the world. Digging In India aka Nishant Mittal is a music archivist, DJ and record store owner based in New Delhi.
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The Criminal Mafia, a Memphis rap group, put together in 1992/1993 by Marco Dane a.k.a. Lamarcuzz. Other members of the group were Mr. Mac/Lil Russell a.k.a. Horrorside, Lil Marlon a.k.a. M/G, Mac Keith & Lil Fred. All music was recorded and produced by Marco Dane. Each rapper meet each other while living and growing up in the same neighborhood. As time passed, group member Mac Keith left the group because of hardships getting to the studio for recordings and other reasons. Group member Lil Fred was the youngest of them all but still held his own while trying to learn and develop himself as a rapper. Everyone played a part doing something, bringing Black & Milds, blank tapes for the 4-track recorder and etc. to the studio. Criminal Mafia was a strong group with lots of talent, with brilliant concepts for music during it's time and era but was short lived due to a incident that could have turned tragic. The group separated back in 1999/2000.
Why this name?
"Well at first we were just making songs no hooks, just putting down music and rapping to beats Marco Dane was cooking up. Marco was the only one in the hood making beats at the time, so we all got together and was like let's form a group. To be straight, we all bought and listen to Triple Six Mafia underground mixtapes at the time and we loved it! So we were like since they were the leaders and the originators of the style of music that we were doing at the time, we decided Criminal Mafia would be a good name. Lil Russell was the one who really came up with the name Criminal Mafia and he was the oldest of us all, so we all went with it stamped approved!"
Do you play live?
"No live instruments. It's always special moments in Memphis, no matter where you go. It's always something going on, somewhere to hang out, Night Life, Beale Street, Martin Luther King Park, etc. etc."
How do you think, does the internet (or mp3) change the music industry?
"It's very powerful and gives everybody the opportunity to get there music heard all over the world. It's been proven, look at Criminal Mafia on YouTube, SoundClick etc. etc."
The Criminal Mafia, a Memphis rap group, put together in 1992/1993 by Marco Dane a.k.a. Lamarcuzz. Other members of the group were Mr. Mac/Lil Russell a.k.a. Horrorside, Lil Marlon a.k.a. M/G, Mac Keith & Lil Fred. All music was recorded and produced by Marco Dane. Each rapper meet each other while living and growing up in the same neighborhood. As time passed, group member Mac Keith left the group because of hardships getting to the studio for recordings and other reasons. Group member Lil Fred was the youngest of them all but still held his own while trying to learn and develop himself as a rapper. Everyone played a part doing something, bringing Black & Milds, blank tapes for the 4-track recorder and etc. to the studio. Criminal Mafia was a strong group with lots of talent, with brilliant concepts for music during it's time and era but was short lived due to a incident that could have turned tragic. The group separated back in 1999/2000.
Why this name?
"Well at first we were just making songs no hooks, just putting down music and rapping to beats Marco Dane was cooking up. Marco was the only one in the hood making beats at the time, so we all got together and was like let's form a group. To be straight, we all bought and listen to Triple Six Mafia underground mixtapes at the time and we loved it! So we were like since they were the leaders and the originators of the style of music that we were doing at the time, we decided Criminal Mafia would be a good name. Lil Russell was the one who really came up with the name Criminal Mafia and he was the oldest of us all, so we all went with it stamped approved!"
Do you play live?
"No live instruments. It's always special moments in Memphis, no matter where you go. It's always something going on, somewhere to hang out, Night Life, Beale Street, Martin Luther King Park, etc. etc."
How do you think, does the internet (or mp3) change the music industry?
"It's very powerful and gives everybody the opportunity to get there music heard all over the world. It's been proven, look at Criminal Mafia on YouTube, SoundClick etc. etc."
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