X-Raided

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X-Raided
Birth name	Anarae Brown
Also known as	X Raided
Born	July 30, 1974 (1974-07-30) (age 33) Waco, Texas
Origin	Sacramento, California United States
Genre(s)	Hip hop
Years active	1992–present
Label(s)	Black Market, Priority
Associated acts	Brotha Lynch Hung, Sicx, Luni Coleone

Anarea Brown (July 30, 1974), better known as X-Raided, is an American rapper from Sacramento, California. He is the half-brother to rappers, Brotha Lynch Hung and Sicx^[1] and is the cousin of rapper, Luni Coleone.

Shortly after releasing his 1992 debut album Psycho Active, Anarae was convicted for the murder of a woman during a home invasion robbery. He has stated that he believed the home he was invading was that of rival gang member's. The album's violent lyrics were cited as evidence at his trial. He is currently serving a 31 year sentence.

From 1995 to 1999 X-Raided recorded a large amount of material entirely over the telephone while either in prison or in jail awaiting trial. These recordings were released on the 1995 album Xorcist. The exact means used to get the recordings is unknown, but the quality of X-Raided's material on the album is substantially less than studio quality, especially when intermixed with collaborations with other artists where the sound quality is normal. In an interview he stated that he made Xorcist while on trial. A track on the album begins with a recording of a collect call from X-Raided which identifies him as "an inmate in Sacramento County Jail." He has also stated that Psycho Active was recorded during a deadly conflict between the 24th Street Garden Blocc Crips and the Meadowview Bloods so the lyrics are very hard and violent because it was his state of mind at the time.

X-Raided's next album Unforgiven came in 1999, and was recorded while in prison. It was a real struggle to finish because he had to do the recordings without the prison guards knowing about it. He says the lyrics mirror his state of mind at the time which was very sneaky and excited. In actuality it was a guard who helped X-Raided access the equipment necessary to record the album, and even his cell mate, Dott Dogg, made an appearance on the album. While Xorcist was recorded over the phone, the clarity of the recordings that went into the Unforgiven album suggest that it was made using more sophisticated equipment.

The Initiation was released in early 2004, and was the culmination of X-Raided's attempts at forming his own record label, Mad Man. Since the release of that album, X-Raided has created another label called Bloc Star.

X-Raided released details in an interview he did while "In The Hole", that he now has 9 years left on his sentence and this could be reduced if he wins an appeal. This interview was published in February 2005. He is currently incarcerated at a level 4 maximum security prison facility in Coalinga, California. X-Raided has been an active member of the 24th Street Garden Blocc Crips since before he recorded his first album Psycho Active.