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Chubb Rock
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A former National Merit Scholar, Chubb Rock was a pre-medical student who dropped out of Brown University to pursue his musical career. Music Television Raps during that time. His 1991 release entitled The One, reached Number.
13 on Billboard"s "Top Hip-Hop/Rhythm & Blues" chart for that year.
Three singles from that release, "Treat"em Right", "Just The Two of Us" and "The Chubbster", made it to Number. 1 on Billboard"s "Top Rap Single" chart list for the same year.
The following year saw the release of I Gotta Get Mine Yo, a release which features guest performances from Grand Puba Maxwell and Poke. This release also helped fledgling music producers Trackmasters, on their rise to prominence, as they handled production duties on the recording.
Chubb Rock also makes an appearance on Military Cross Serch"s 1992 song, "Back to The Grill."
His backup dancers started their own group, A.T.E.E.M, and released their debut A Hero Ain"t Nothin" But A Sandwich in 1992 on Select Records.
In 1996, he appeared on the Red Hot Organization"s compilation Civil Defense, America is Dying Slowly, alongside Wu-Tang Clan, Coolio, and Fat Joe, among others The album, meant to raise awareness of the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome epidemic among African-American men, was heralded as a masterpiece by The Source magazine. Chubb Rock"s work in the 2000s has been limited to only a few songs.
He appears on a song for Raptivism Records" "Number More Prisons" project with Lil" Dap of Group Home and Editor O.G., and also worked with Mr.
Len on the song "Dummy Smacks", where he says, "Some people thought I was gone.. never that!" He made an appearance alongside Vast Aire on the 2007 Zimbabwe Legit album House of Stone with the song "Wake Up". In 2001 he appeared in the soundtrack for Wet Hot American Summer on the song on the song Summer in America.
In 2008, his single "Treat em right" was ranked number 82 on Video Hits One"s 100 Greatest Songs of Hip Hop. Chubb Rock also released Obama We Believe in support of President Barack Obama.
His most recent appearance was on the K"naan single "American Broadcasting Company"s".
He also collaborated with Polish rapper eMCeeM on a track for his album To dopiero poczatek. In February 2009, Chubb Rock can be heard on his new single "Back In" featuring Wordsmith and Kimia Collins. His latest album "Bridging The Gap", a collaboration with Wordsmith, was released on 14 July 2009.
Chubb Rock also released a new European Parliament in September 2011.
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Chubb Rock was a member of the 1995 incarnation of the Crooklyn Dodgers, a rap act that also featured OC and Jeru The Damaja.
