Lyrical Assault

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Lyrical Assault
Before the Global Battle of the Bands in London.
Background information
Origin	Montréal, Québec, Canada
Genre(s)	Hip-hop
Years active	2002-
Label(s)	Far West Production
Website	Lyricalassault.com
Members
Alexis Arbour (guitar) Alisa Charles (vocals) Arisa Safu (sax, guitar) Charles Alexi Masse (MC) Denis Langlois (trumpet, MC) Jean-Sébastien Baciu (bass) Marc-André Decelles (drums) Nicholas Legault (MC) Pierre-luc Fortin (DJ) Francois Thiffault (sax & flute)

Lyrical Assault is a Montreal hip hop group from Quebec in Canada.

1 Biography
2 Contest
3 Discography
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Biography

Since 2002, the group of friends meets in the basement of Tolerance Zer0 (Nicholas Legault) in Vaudreuil-Dorion for freestyling and produces their own songs. The group became experimented and made it's first performance in front of a live audience at the Dorion Hip Hop show in June 2002. They quickly made their place on the rap scene in Montreal and occurs in areas coveted by emerging groups such as Bourbon Street West, Manchester bar, the Foufounes électriques, the Alizé Montreal, Chez Maurice (featuring Muzion), Saints Showbar, Club Soda.

Meanwhile, members of the group also perform as a duo or solo, in competitions where they were finalists in all of the following contests: Urban Synergy 2005, Hip-hop 4Ever 2005, La Boom 2007.

[edit] Contest

In November 2007, Lyrical Assault participates at the national final of the Global Battle of the Bands (GBOB) presented to the "Foufounes électriques", bringing eighteen bands from Quebec and Ontario. The Montreal formation won the first place^[1]^[2], followed by the grand final of the international Global Battle of the Bands in London, where they represent Canada.^[3]^[4]

During the performance, eleven musicians on stage: Pierre-Luc Fortin (DJ Passan) DJ, Nicholas Legault (Zer0 Tolerance aka Nick Lucas) English MC, Denis Langlois (R-Tikk) French MC, Jean-Sebastien Baciu (J-Fresh) bass guitar, Alexis Arbour guitar, Alisa Charles vocals, Arisa Safu saxophone and guitar, Charles Alexi Masse (Charley Brown) Franch MC, Francois Thiffault (Horny Frank) soprano / tenor / barriton saxophone and western concert flute, Marc-André Decelles (MADD) drums.