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Polo
& D-Ill:
Agony & Pain
Standout
Records / NSS |
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all started at 387 Penn Street in Pasadena California,
“The City of the Rose”, where gun play is tit-for-tat
and the sibling West Coast Rap duo never had
much to go on for food or the essentials of
everyday life. It was an existence of no bucks
and nothing but bad luck, living off the Los
Angeles County welfare system with two older
sisters. Growing up in this ruff community on
the west side of Pasadena the brothers soon
began hanging around with the killers and drug
dealers that roam the dangerous city streets.
Despite all the negativity surrounding them
POLO & D-ILL turned to music and began entertaining
with beats and free-style rap at the early age
of 6 and 7 while honing their skills by listening
to the major rap artists of the time that where
and still are an inspiration to them; TOO SHORT,
DOCTOR DRE, SNOOP DOGG, DJ QUICK, TONE LOC,
GHETTO BOYS, EAZY E, and N.W.A. At the age of
13 and 14 POLO & D-ILL joined the breaking
crew VISION FUNKADELIC MOVEMENT (V.F.M.) learning
the Five Elements Of Hip-Hop while winning many
competitions in LA. Soon after they co-founded
the underground Rap group NEXT ERA, consisting
of ORFANT, XTRA LARGE, POLO and D-ILL. As members
of NEXT ERA the bothers recorded many tracks
and auditioned for many night clubs and talent
scouts. However, after putting several years
and hard work into both V.F.M. and NEXT ERA
their dreams of a record deal continued to elude
them. XTRA LARGE with majority support of the
members decided to change the group’s name to
the CROWN CITY KINGS with the vision of turning
NEXT ERA into the next WU TANG CLAN. The group
quickly grew to 10 strong but with so many members
POLO & D-ILL found it hard to explore and
express their true creativity and they soon
decided to leave the group and go it alone.
As time passed POLO & D-ILL created a style
of their own and further perfected it by attending
free-style rap competitions where they won and
lost many a battle. In May of 2002 POLO &
D-ILL had the very fortunate opportunity to
meet JIMMY “JTOHVAN” PASCHAL, one of LA’s top
re-mix producers, who immediately heard their
potential and included them on “HATAH PROOF”,
a compilation CD of Los Angeles’s top underground
rappers under HIP-HOP THEORY PRODUCTIONS. Although
the CD was never released commercially the appearing
artists received a lot of air play from the
local college radio stations. In the fall of
2003 JIMMY presented AUSTIN SAITO with a copy
of the “HATAH PROOF” CD and MONIQUE RECORDS
quickly signed POLO & D-ILL. PASCHAL-SAITO
PRODUCTIONS in association with STREET MIX PRODUCTIONS
proudly presents POLO & D-ILL: AGONY &
PAIN. |
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