Sheek
One of
Yonker’s most successful artists is rapper Sheek from the
Lox. Sheek, Jadakiss and Styles were the first rap group to
make it big coming out of this upstate suburb. The Lox's
first album “Money, Power & Respect” went platinum,
which was followed up, by one more group album and three
solo projects. The year 2003 has been busy for Sheek. Not
only did he create his own label D-Block, he also dropped
his first solo album “Walk Wit Me.” “The whole time
Jadakiss and Styles were doing their solo project me and
Super Mario was trying to start our own label. I was also
trying to get our studio in Yonkers so we wouldn’t have to
go around booking all these sessions.” The rapper now CEO
spent his time off politicing for his new label until they
found a home at Universal. Sheek says he learned a lot in
his time about the business from being on Bad Boy and Ruff
Ryder. Early in his career the group was forced to politic
themselves off of Bad Boy because of money and creative
differences. “As far as business we know a lot. We had to
learn quickly. We may be young but we’re vets at this
game.” Being a vet of the game at a certain point you have
to graduate to the next level. Now as a CEO, Sheek will now
be in Puffy’s position to be able to sign and develop new
talent. “We have a pop chick that’s going to shock the s#!t
out of people. We are not going to Hip Hop her out either,
she’s really going to be on some pop s#!t. I don’t want to
say who she is because the deal isn’t done but we plan to
make her a part of D Block.” The most anticipated artist to
come off the D Block label is the ferocious J Hood. “J Hood
is up next and he’s hot. Hood is anxious and ready, and
he’s young.” Sheek is pleased to see everyone doing their
thing in Hip Hop. As far as his relationship with Puffy and
DMX, Sheek says he rarely sees X, but they’re cool and
Puffy is his man. Now with D Block he plans to go strong so
that when you think about Yonker’s artists more names will
come to your head other than Lox and DMX.
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