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Custom Made: Mass Appeal
Custom Made, originally comprised of emcees Sinister Six, Bluff, Element, Skandalous Scoobs and Aneek, are a West Coast based Hip-Hop collective first formed back in 2003. Due to unforeseen circumstances, and following the release of their ‘official’ debut, L.A. State of Mind, group member Six found himself facing serious incarceration. Not letting that obstacle be a major deterrence, Custom Made instead persevered and soon went on to put out their popular Street Cinema mix-tape series. After aligning themselves with indie powerhouse, Babygrande Records, the rap entity eventually dropped their critically praised Sidewalk Mindtalk: The Best of the Custom Made Mixtapes offering in late ‘06. With Aneek deflecting to the East Coast, and Six’s current lock down status, the, now down to a, musical trio are finally readying the launch of their highly anticipated sophomore opus, Original Dynasty.
Scoobs: This is the Original Dynasty. We kept this album all crew. Everyone was on the album, from the founding members to the extended fam, so it was only right that we titled the record Original Dynasty. The only person that couldn’t make the record was Six, due to his incarceration.
Element: I think this differs from past releases because we have been growing and developing our style, and redefining our techniques. We’ve been going through a lot of situations that have been giving us more confidence. This is a more updated and complete project.
Scoobs: I would have to say that Original Dynasty is our best release yet. This release shows a more mature side of the group. People are going to be able to see how much we’ve grown from our first release up to Original Dynasty. We’ve always been real personal with our music, but this is our most personal project to date. We put our lives on these tracks and it shows. We basically combined a lot of elements from our previous projects and worked them into this one. The production on this release is more soulful as well. We’re still bringing you that hardcore Hip-Hop we’re known for, but this album has more concepts and more storytelling. Overall, it’s a very well rounded album from the entire group.

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