Captain-B
Captain-B the little Ape
rapper/beatmaker/beatbox
from D'APE family
Tell me about your history? How did you get where you are now?
1.intro
my name is muhammad bilal AKA Captain B. born at march 9th 1994 at east jakarta. but when my dad loose his jobs, my family moved to b-town/bekasi. in thet place i start new live. at first, when i was grade 4 at elementary school, my brother not alowwed me o hear hip hop music because he don't like if i followed him. but i hear that when my brother is go some where. and when i grade 6 i joined zaid project, the hip hop music which leaded by my brother. but i joined as singer. when ZP is destroyed. i didn't listen hip hop music until the 2nd grade junior high school. but my brother still producting hip hop music with his group blindside.
2.pizza boy
but when blind side and micro g(beatmaker of blindside and recycle b) meet the great rap group "couzy" or condition zero. they combinate their talented as "G SPACE FAMILY". when my brother ask me to join g space family. i accepted and made some group named "PIZZA BOY" with my cousins triple three or Now is known as "golen key"(chyper clown). my rap name is "BEAN MAN" at that time because i and my cousin has made the super hero comic. and the main caracter in that comic is bean man and triple three. and then, my brother imaking ome beat for us. and we made new song called"PB ANTHEM". but until now that song never recorded. but when ramadhan 2007, g space family released the album titled "RAMADHAN IS BACK" and pizza boy take a part of this album with the song "ya rasulullah" and at this time lil a is joined pizza boy.
after that i was boring again with rap. and never makig some song again. at the time when we want to make album. triple three leaved pizza boy without confirmation. but that is not a problem because lil a still in the pizza boy
3.rise of d'ape
at august 2008 my brother dzee had a great idea to made some comunity like gspace but more than it. and at that time dzee called zuckhero (the group which lil a has been there before he joined pizza boy) dzee combinated pizza boy and zuckhero and made some new comunity called "D'APE FAMILY". at this time i change my rap name become "B.E.A.N" the short mode of bean man and it can be means (Bilal East Asian Nigers) and i changed my group name's to into the "BLACK PEPPER" that's mean the secret ingredient of pizza boy. so blackpepper is the secret power of pizza boy. and blac pepper made the single titled"gak penting" but same as pb anthem, this song is not recorded until now
4.the captain of the ape "Captain B"
dzee choose me as the leader of the ape.When the ape is going on lil a never coming at the rap performence because he joined some buisness club. and he have no time for d'ape anymore. it means that black pepper is off. and i choose my way become single rap. and i'm become the first solo rapper from the ape family and i change my rap name again into "Captain B" because i'm captain of the ape family. and i choose the fierce hiphop monkey to become my logo. and at that time i continue m journey with d'ape family into the great future of hip hop "go hiphopindo!!!"
Have you performed live in front of an audience? Any special memories?
school, and hip hop events, and d'ape family
Your musical influences
Jay Z, Kanye west, chamillionaire, and of course pandji pragiwaksono
What equipment do you use?
Microphone, mixer, reason/fruity loobs, turn table
Anything else?
yeah just coming soon my album
