The Dukes Click

THE DUKES CLICK IS RAP GROUP MADE UP OF EX GANG MEMEBRS FROM THE STREETS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, IN AN EFFORT TO STAY OUT OF PRISON, & ALIVE, PAYASO A YOUNG LATINO FROM SAN BERNARDINO, CALIFORNIA ALONG WITH HIS BROTHER SMILEY FOUNDED THE DUKES CLICK, THEY "CLICKED UP" WITH OTHER HOMEBOYS FROM THE INLAND EMPIRE AREA ( 30 MINS EAST OF LA AN AREA INFESTED WITH STREET GANGS, DRUGS, MURDER & POVERTY )TRAVIESO,& LIL POPEYE...ALONG WITH BROTHERS WICKED & MONSTER OF THE NEIGHBORING SAN GABRIEL VALLEY COMMUNITY OF BASSET, THEY LATER HOOKED UP WITH PELON & LIL WISPER, OF LA PUENTE ,CA,GANG RIVALS OF BASSETT.EVEN LATER TO COME WHERE RISKY OF DUARTE, CA & MISTER ONE OF CASA BLANCA ( RIVERSIDE ) LIL GIBBY OF EAST RIVERSIDE, & LUCKY OF SANTA ANA (ORANGE COUNTY) DESPITE THE GANG BORDER LINES, THE GROUP MANAGED TO CREATE MANY SUCCESSFUL UNDERGROUND ALBUMS FROM 1999-2004 & THEN IN 2005 PENNED A MAJOR DISTRIBUTION DEAL WITH LOW PROFILE RECORDS / EMI LATIN, A PIONEER IN THE LATIN RAP GAME & A MAJOR FORCE ON THE WEST COAST MUSIC SCENE HAVING WORKED WITH & HELPING LAUNCH THE CAREERS OF SUCH ARTISTS AS LIL ROB, LIGHTER SHADE OF BROWN, MR. SHADOW LIL ONE PROPER DOS & FROST. THEIR FIRST MAJOR RELEASE IN SEPTEMBER 2004 WAS PAYASO'S TRUE BLUE, WHICH SOLD VERY WELL & TO THIS DAY IS CONSIDERED ONE OF THE BEST ALBUMS YET IN THE EVER GROWING LATIN RAP MARKET. THE FOLLOW UP WAS DUKES CLICK GANG RELATED, A COLLECTION OF UNDERGROUND CLASSICS ALONG WITH NEW, NEXT LEVEL TRACKS WITH TOP NOTCH PRODUCTION, PREVIEWING THINGS TO COME, & HOW THESE YOUNG GANGSTERS HAD STEPPED UP THEIR GAME, LYRICALLY & MUSICALLY. THE LATEST RELEASE, TRUE BLUE GANGSTERS, IS PURE WEST COAST HEAT, HAILED BY THE CRITICS & FANS ALIKE AS ONE OF THE HARDEST LATIN RAP RELEASES OF 2005...THEY ARE JUST GETTING STARTED, & ONE THING IS FOR SURE, THEY ARE ONLY GETTING BIGGER BETTER & IN 2006, WILL PROVE THEMSELVES AS A FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH.