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Local West Side rappers' single "Po Pimp" (which features a guest performance by Twista.html>Tung Twista) reached #1 on Billboard's Hot Rap Singles charts and sold over 500,000 copies -- its album debuted at #27 on the magazine's album chart, and reached the R&B top 10. The debut Picture This (on Rap-A-Lot/Noo Trybe Records -- a Virgin subsiday) was an impressive one, featuring subtle socio-political commentary amidst street-gang rhyming and 1968-style R&B vocal harmonies. The second album, Headz or Tailz is very much the same, and debuted in Billboard's Top 40...

Band members include Anthony Round (known as N.A.R.D. -- Niggas Ain't Ready to Die), Darnell Smith (who goes by the name of Belo Zero), and Dennis Rounk (AK).

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