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Funkdoobiest - Bio |
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Funkdoobiest as we know it from the early 90`s consisted of the crazy Puertorican Jason “Son Doobie” Vasquez, Tyrone “Tomahawk Funk” Pachenco and Ralph “DJ Ralph M (the Mexican)” Medrano (a.k.a. Tribal Funkster). Little is reported about the origins of the crew. Ralph M started on the radio on the legendary 1580 KDAY along with DJ Trayski, Aladdin and Battlecat. His first major production was on Mellow Man Aces second album “The Brother with two Tongues”; Ralph did the track “Ricky Ricardo Del Rap”. Tomahawk (a.k.a. T-Funk) was born on the Manderson Reservation in South Dakota and raised in Los Angeles. Funkdoobiest was founded in 1989, but first just as Ralph M and Son. The name “Funkdoobiest” came later because of a song B-Real had written. The song was called “The FunkDoobiest”. So one day Ralph was rolling around with Muggs in L.A. and said: “Yo we the Funkdoobiest: Raplh M, Son Doobie, Tomahawk Funk!” The name was too dope to be just a song! The connection led to a major deal with Immortal/Epic and the release of the album “Which Doobie U B?” in 1993, produced by Ralph M, Muggs and Lethal for the Soul Assassins. The album, containing huge bangers such as “The Funkiest”, went gold and Son Doobie created a completey new, manic rapstyle - “doobie speech”, crazy spanglish lyrics, often imitated, never reached. The album to me is one best hip-hop-albums ever. Funkdoobiest (together with Lords Of The Underground) joined the Cypress Hill Tour in 1994 and rocked all over Europe, some buckwild shit and half-naked Tomahawk went mad on stage in Bonn, the best show I´ve ever been to!!! Ralph M and Muggs also produced most of the the second album “Brothas Doobie” which dropped out in 1995 (the track “It Ain`t Going Down” was produced by Lethal); it contained huge underground hits such as “Rock On” and “Dedicated”. Also a great piece of the 90`s rapshit! About that time Son Doobie started his movie career acting in some porns, ermm, let`s say erotic movies (“The Love Doctor”), produced (directed?) by Ron Hightower (compare Xzibit - At The Speed Of Life, Track 11 “Hit And Run [Part 2]”). I have never seen some of that Son Doobie porn stuff, but if you have, let me know if the shit is worthwhile... Things began to change for Funkdoobiest when Tomahawk Funk had to leave the crew to help his wife to raise their infant son. It took Ralph M and Son Doobie several months before the news had sunk in. They moved to a new label (Buzztone/RCA) and began working on the new, third album, “The Troubleshooters” (1997), no longer produced by Muggs. Everything was composed and arranged by Funkdoobiest; it contains some more latin elements and raw party bangers such as “Oyé Papi”. The song “Five Deadly Indians” is dedicated to Tomahawk Funk, who did not appear on the album. Nevertheless Son and Ralph say that Tomahawk will alwalys be a part of Funkdoobiest, forever. So whussup now? Little was heard of Ralph M since “The Troubleshooters” dropped out. He is still cuttin` on the radio - Power 106 FM, Sundays 6 - 9 PM -, he did some production on Buc 50`s “Serve the Devil, Praise the Lord” on Battleaxe Records and he produced several mixtapes. Son Doobie came out with several solo projects, e.g. on the “Real Urban Latin Vol. 1”-album (“4-1-nite”, superb track!) and hooked up with a new label “Battleaxe Records” (You know it - it`s that Swollen Members stuff). After some solo appearances on Battleaxe-compilations (Battleaxe Warriors) his solo-album “Funk Superhero” came out in 2003. His rhymestyle is manic as ever but - in my opinion - not all the tracks are well-produced (check “Reinstated” e.g.). To me much of that Battleaxe stuff sounds similar, sorry. Anyway the album is far more than the average shit, thanks to the many latin music influences. Check out the tracks “Por Amor”, “U Wit That” and “Full Moon” - Son knows how to rock a mic. In 2004, Son`s second solo joint “Doobie Deluxe” came out - to me a great album, mostly because of the track “Dub sacks and blunt wraps”, some dirt funk shiat!. 2005 started with a surprise: Funkdoobiest on tour in Europe - Son and Ralph M rocked the house and Ralph announced, that there will be a brandnew Funkdoobiest album coming out soon. Now that`s the news that all the hedz have been waiting for... life goes on !!! Also check out the info about another of Son`s side-projects, the Serial Rhyme Killers... And of course get your ass up into Ralph`s Mix-session-store...
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