KING
@kingrockwell
MISSOURI CITY, TEXAS USA
Joined Aug 8, 2008
Band History:
RAISED IN MISSOURI CITY "MO CITY" TEXAS,KING ROCKWELL HAS PLAYED A HUGE PART IN PUTTING HIS CITY & HOOD ON THE MAP EVERY SINCE HIS FIRST MIX TAPE RELEASE IN 1999 (TRU SOULJA),BACK THEN HE WENT BY
"BLACK MENACE".KING ROCKWELL WAS BORN ON NOVEMBER 17,1987 IN
SAN DIEGO CALIFORNIA,HE LATER MOVED TO MISSOURI CITY "THE SOUTH WEST SIDE OF HOUSTON,TEXAS.WHILE Z-RO WAS PUTTING RIDGEMONT ON THE MAP,KING ROCKWELL ((back then known as Black Menace)) STARTED OFF WITH HEAVY BASS BEATS RECORDED ON CASSETTE TAPES,HE LATER MET UP WITH ANOTHER YOUNG EMCEE KNOWN AS "LIL BOOGIE",THEY STARTED SHARING FREESTYLES IN THE HALLWAYS OF THEIR OLD MIDDLE SCHOOL,THAT'S WHEN KING ROCKWELL HAD JUST RELEASED (TRU SOULJA).
THE MIX TAPE HAD PUT ON ALLOT OF FOLKS IN HIS SECTION OF MO CITY KNOWN AS BRIAR GATE.IN 2000,KING ROCKWELL MOVED TO BALTIMORE,BY THEN HE JOINED THE FIRST YOUNG HIP-HOP GROUP FROM THE WEST SIDE OF BALTIMORE "ALCATRAZ ZUE",A FIVE MEMBER CREW ALL UNDER 16 EXCEPT FOR THE HEAD LEADER "SUPREME" WHO WAS 21 AT THE TIME,
BUT THEY LATER PARTED WAYS DUE TO CREATIVE DIFFERENCES.
KING ROCKWELL SOON MOVED BACK TO MISSOURI CITY,TX.IN 2002,AND AT AGE 16 HE SIGNED WITH "EGOTISTIK RECORDS" BUT LATER BROKE THEIR CONTRACT DUE TO CREATIVE DIFFERENCES,SO KING ROCKWELL DECIDED TO START HIS OWN RECORDING LABEL "DOPE MANE RECORDZ" RELEASING MIX TAPES BY HAND IN CLUBS,MALLS,GAS STATIONS & MOVIE THEATERS.
HIS 8th MIX TAPE (3rd WORLD CRUNK) SOLD AN AMAZING 6,000 COPIES IN LESS THAN A MONTH.THAT PU
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