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Artist
Da Phlayva
12+ albums
underground hip-hopeast coast rapunderground raphardcore rapNorth Carolina
about
Madd Phlayva, who had to change their name to Da Phlayva for legal reasons, were a three piece out of Charleston, South Carolina. Soon after meeting at a local club in the summer of 1992, the MC's [Shrimp Boogie Down, Chawle Dawk da Supastar and Maximillion] put down a small number of demos with local radio DJ and producer Jahmes Wizard at the Carolina DJ's home studio. Shortly after recording the demo, they dropped a single "Niteliphe/Hookas" on local Charleston based indie label, Rollin Records. f you were looking for a major deal back then in the South, you got your asses up to the Jack The Ripper music conference in Atlanta, GA.The group were booked to play the small stage at the conference, but after some dope feedback were asked to perform on the main stage. It was at the conference that the group ran into S.O.L.A.R Records label execs, who would sponsor the group and let them use their studios to record their debut album. S.O.L.A.R was Dick Griffey's label which was born out of the Soul Train show, co-owned by Soul Train host Don Cornelius. After the success of the earlier Disco Soul years, they were in decline, but recently they had just put out the huge 1992 Deep Cover Soundtrack with a post-NWA Dr Dre. Their main focus had been on R&B acts but with this recent Hip Hop/Rap success they were interested in widening their view. The three Mc's were all in their 20's in 1993 and were just regular cats, making beats, chasin dime pieces and puffin izm. They had no experie
