Rat Pack ' 05 consists of 4 separate entities:
Famous Drugs, Last Time Felons, Psychodic Noize
and Jayroc courtesy of Gauntlet Records.
Heres the story:
Intially Last Time Felons, which is composed of (B.C., Lazy J, & Fresh) were workin' with a local producer named Serggio, founder of Nu Wave Productions. Serggio had a wife and kids to feed and music was not bringin' anything substantial back. So he decides that he would like to sell all of his equipment and then start fresh when he gets the money and time. Serggio informs the Felons of the situation and made them an offer they couldn't refuse. For a bargain price, Serggio sold all of his used studio equipment along with a computer full of hot Serggio instrumentals to the Felons.
The Felons set-up shop makin' their own music, while at the same time encouraging other artists to come by & vibe. Then one night through a matter of chance the Felons hook their 1st show at a local bar, "The Firehouse", now known as "The Sports Corner". The Felons start planning for their 1st real gig and need other local artists for some fill time. About a week later, at a mutual friends birthday party in his parents restaurant, "Judice's", B.C. meets Jonathan Cyruss, who was already cliqued up with Jayroc and they were workin' on a side project known as Brutual Minds. B.C. asked if they were down to do the show and Cyruss was like "No doubt". A couple of days later the Felons meet Jayroc, who was workin' on his EP "Hate Me", a couple of hours later they had written and recorded a track called "War Taktics", and they've been cliquein' since.
Time goes by, both the Felons & Jayroc continued hustlin' toward their dream. Then one day Lazy J & Fresh's boss, Charles Pellegrin, was throwin' a birthday party for his right hand man. Of course, Lazy & Fresh went and got completely tore down. After the cops crash the party twice, the partiers decided to go to "Das One', a local bar in Mandeville. There Lazy J was introduced to slim N.I.N.O. (C.E.O. of the underground label "Famous Drugs") through a mutual friend, David Etcheson. They got to talkin' & rhymin' and a connection was established. For the next two days, these 2 straight chilled freestylin' and writin' almost non-stop.
The Felons end up getting asked to come back to "The Sports Corner" to do another show. B.C.'s girl had recently started workin' at Isabella's Pizzeria. Word got around to B.C. by way of Daniel Pullen to Lazy, that one the prep cooks at Isabella's was the veteran artist Nip-Gee. So one day B.C.'s baby gives Nip & his ole lady a ride, they pick-up B.C., and str8 smoke 'n ride. Gee was all about the show. So him & his boys, "Psychodic Noize" made up of Lil' Robb, lil dubb, lil' show, lil' Suge, Scooby Loc, & Nip-Gee, connected with the Felons.
After the show, it was on up the "Pharmacy" at Last Time Felon Studios. All the artists met together almost every night. It was all about business, that Pen & Paper. Then one night while all the artists were together chillin' & vibin', N.I.N.O. gets the idea that we're Rat Pack and starts pointin' around the room like "Yeeah, I'm Sammy Davis Jr., your Dean Martin, and he's lil' Frankie" with a
laugh. Everybody laughs and jokes along with him until the joke turned to fact.
And they've been Rat Packin' ever since.
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