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 San Mateo native Rasco (whose name is an acronym for "realistic, ambitious, serious, cautious, and organized") worked as a member of the West Coast hip-hop groups Various Blends and Cali Agents. His deep voice and straight-ahead rap style came to the public's attention with his 1997 12" The Unassisted, which earned him several honors including number one on the Bay Area Hip-Hop Coalition chart, number one on the independent hip-hop chart in Hits magazine, and number one on Sway and King Tech's nationally syndicated Wake Up Show for four weeks straight. His debut album, Time Waits for No Man, was released in 1998 on Stones Throw with a production team that included Paul Nice, Peanut Butter Wolf, and Evidence of the group Dilated Peoples. The follow-up EP The Birth arrived in 1999. Moving from Stones Throw to Copasetik, Rasco released Hostile Environment (2001) and Presents Hip-Hop Classics, Vol. 1 (2003), but after a falling-out with the label, he left to start his own, Pocketslinted, in 2004. That same year he issued the compilations 20,000 Leagues Under the Street, Vol. 1 (a re-release from 2000) and Minority Report, and in 2005 his solo effort The Dick Swanson Theory came out on Pocketslinted. After that, he soon re teamed with Planet Asia to drop their 3rd album entitled Fire & Ice in 2007. In 2010, Rasco increased the pace, releasing two albums. His latest solo album, called Global Threat and, teaming up with Czech Republic’s no.1 DJ and producer DJ Wich as The Untouchables, Al Capone’s Vault. The releases in 2010 featured artists like Royce da 5”9’, Supastition, Planet Asia and Guilty Simpson.
In addition to all his solo projects, Rasco contributed to Linkin Park's Platinum selling remix album, Reanimiation. Rasco has been lauded by the critics, including SPIN, The Source, VIBE, Hip-Hop Connection, URB, among many others.
Rasco now keeps the momentum going and is about to drop his newest offering “Yesterday is not tomorrow” of which he already leaked the first video called Home.This is Rasco’s 7th solo effort. Like any true artist, Rasco pushes himself on his new record to places he hasn’t gone before. 2011 Looks to be a promising year in Independent Hip Hop and Rasco is sure to be at the head of the pack when it is all said and done.
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