Lakey The Kid

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Lakey The Kid

Background information
Origin Queensbridge, New York
Genre(s) Hip-Hop
Years active 1999-Present
Label(s) Death Row East

Lakey The Kid or Lake is a rapper from Queensbridge, New York. In 1999, Lake was released from prison after serving a seven year sentence for parole violation, murder, attempted murder, illegal posetion of a fully loaded gun, robbery, grand theft auto and drug distributing. Lakey is cousin to Prodigy and also a member of the infamous street gang. Lakey was a rapper who grew up in the streets of Queensbridge in New york were he lead a dangerous life with those around him. Lakey was always getting into trouble with police for many reasons. When Lakey was in jail he had been writing rhymes while in prison and attempted to get into the hip-hop industry once he was released. Lake is famously known as a friend and business partner of fellow Queensbridge rapper Prodigy from Mobb Deep. He appeared on the song "Revolutionary Warfare" on Nas' album, God's Son. Since he appeared on Nas' album, Lake's relationship has folded with Nas.

One of Lake's controversial line's in the song "Revolutionary Warfare":

I did it strong for 7 long years in prison, fuck the system. I'm like a modern day Hitler, black gorilla, crip and blood in one nigga

The first album Lake released was Lake Entertainment Presents: The 41st Side, a compilation album featuring fellow Queensbridge rappers. The album was released under Lake's label, Lake Entertainment and sold over 100,000 copies with little promotion. Many compare the album to Nas' compilation album, QB Finest, which also featured Queensbridge rappers. Albeit minor, Lakey the kid was mentioned subtly in Nas's song Represent from his critically acclaimed debut album Illmatic, in which he says "My man Cormega, Lakey the Kid, Can't forget Drawers...".

Lake is now signed on to Death Row East, a subsidiary of Death Row Records. His album entitled "The Big Ride" is expected to be released in early 2007. On August 22, 2006, Lake released a collaborative album with Cormega entitled "My Brother's Keeper".

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[edit] Controversies

[edit] Tru life

Rapper Prodigy of Mobb deep had made a single with Tru Life and Kool G Rap. Tru Life had made a large payments to Prodigy for a verse to be put on the single. Prodigy made the verse and then went and released the same verse on the Any Given Sunday album. Tru Life retaliated to Mobb Deep by breaking in to a Mobb Deep studio were at the time Havoc and Prodigy were not there. Havoc's younger cousin Sulaman was beaten brutally by Tru Life and almost shot in the head. When the Mobb heard of this they made a call to Lake and Bleek who at the time was in jail. Lake sent out men to harm Tru Life which lead to a member of the group being beaten to death. Charges were held against lake but were denied.

[edit] Albums

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