Bad Azz

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Bad Azz
Background information
Origin	Long Beach, California
Genre(s)	West Coast Gangsta Rap
Occupation(s)	Radio emcee, Rapper
Instrument(s)	Vocals (rapping)
Years active	1995 - present
Label(s)	Doggystyle/Death Row, Dogghouse Records, Priority Records

Bad Azz (born Jamarr Antonio Stamps, on November 27, 1975 in Long Beach, California) is a rapper and former member of Tha Dogg Pound Gangsta Clique, also known as DPGC (exented group of Tha Dogg Pound, a rap group solely comprised of Kurupt and Dat Nigga Daz, with brief cuts featuring Snoop Dogg). He was also an original member of the LBC Crew, along with fellow rappers Techniec and Lil C-Style. Although not worldly renowned like some of his Dogg Pound counterparts, Bad remains a popular MC in his native Los Angeles, often heard on the radio stations KPWR and KKBT.

Born in Hawaiian Gardens, a Long Beach commune, Bad grew up with his mother and stepfather, later moving to Long Beach where he attended Woodrow Wilson high school, before getting kicked out due to behavioral problems. It was around this time that Bad Azz met rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg (eventually changing his name to Snoop Dogg after leaving Death Row) at Long Beach's V.I.P. Record Store. This meeting gave Bad Azz new found respect for the rap game and a view at a new possible career. He began freestyling on the eastside of Long Beach, and performing at various house jams. This move won him a place on Snoop's Doggystyle/Death Row, a sub-label of the Death Row recording company, whereupon he briefly joined the L.B.C. Crew. He would later come back to make his solo album titled Word on tha Street under Priority Records in 1998. Bad Azz is also known to consume excessive amounts of Cannabis.

Contents 1 Discography 1.1 Featured on 1.2 Collaborative Albums 1.3 Solo Albums 2 Miscellanea

[edit] Discography

[edit] Featured on

• "Krazy" - The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory
• "2001" - Tha Doggfather
• "Nigga 4 Life" - Snoop Dogg Presents Tha Eastsidaz
• "Murderest MC's" - Held Up (2000 film) (Soundtrack)
• "Wrong Idea" - Tha Last Meal
• "Gang Bang 4 Real" - Duces 'N Trays
• "Everyday" - Dat Whoopty Woop
• "Caught Up" - Thugs Revenge

[edit] Collaborative Albums

• Our Life - LBC Crew
• Long Beach 2 Compton Mixtape - LBC Crew

[edit] Solo Albums

• Word on Tha Street, (1998)
• Personal Business, (2001)
• Money Run, (2003)
• Executive Decision(the album), (2003)

[edit] Miscellanea

Bad Azz has reported ties to the Insane Crips of Long Beach, this is also made apparent with the heavy black apparel he generally likes to wear.

After being expelled from Wilson High School, Bad Azz began the selling of narcotics, as a way of making money. He describes his experience as a drug dealer, not out of necessity but out of want: "...I didn't have to, to be honest, even when I lived with my stepfather, he had a little job, he kept a little rice in the cupboard, but that wasn't enough for me at the time you know, I had to have me a burger with some cheese on it."