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Lounge Artist | Halfway House Mcees | The show  |
 HALFWAY HOUSE MCEES CONSIST OF THREE LYRICISTS FROM LONG BEACH--THE WHITE SHADOW, SWISS PRECISE AND COMPOUND. THEY WERE ALL BORN AND RAISED IN LBC AND HAVE BEEN LIVING HIP-HOP FOR NEARLY TWENTY YEARS.
THE MCEES HAVE ALL BEEN GRAF WRITERS--WITH CREWS SUCH AS DE, CA, AND KBH (DEVESTATEN EVERYONE, CHRONIC AVENGERS, AND KILLEN BABYLON HOURLY). THEY ALSO WERE AFFILIATED WITH OLDER BUT INFAMOUS LONG BEACH CREWS LIKE D2D, KOS, AND RSK .
IN THE EARLY EIGHTIES THE HALFWAY HOUSE MCEES STARTED BREAKDANCING WITH CREWS LIKE TIMEKNIGHTS, WIZKIDS, AND TIME BANDITS, AND LIKE MOST IN THE EARLY DAYS THEY WENT AROUND TAGGING THEIR NAMES, CREWS ETC. BY THE MID-80'S, THEIR LOVE OF AND DEDICATION TO GRAFFITI WAS EVIDENT--AS THEY WERE BOMBING FLOODCONTROLS, ALLEYS, SEWER PIPES, AND EVEN VACANT HOMES . THEN CAME THE FREEWAY SIGNS, BUSES, AND BILLBOARDS IN '89-90. THAT'S WHEN THEY NOTICED THE STANDARDS HAD JUMPED TO ALL-OUT DESTRUCTION....
AFTER BEING ROLLED UP ON A COUPLE TIMES AND A FEW FELONIES LATER, RHYMING BECAME THE NEXT VICE FOR THE TRIO. IN '91, THEY STARTED OUT AT LOCAL BACKYARD FUNCTIONS, FREESTYLING AT PARTIES WITH SUBLIME, SNOOP, JAH CHILDREN, AND EVEN GETTING ON DOWN WITH NICODEMUS, JUNIOR CAT, MADLION, AND THE DOCTOR.
THE MCEES SPENT THE NEXT TEN YEARS BASICALLY SHARPENING THEIR SKILLS--PUTTING UP PIECES IN LEGAL YARDS, DOING FREELANCE ART WORK FOR CLOTHING COMPANIES, AND BATTLING AND FREESTYLING WITH CATS ALL AROUND.
THEY'VE DECIDED TO PUT THEIR TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS ON DECK FOR THE WORLD TO WITNESS... THEY'VE WORKED WITH PRODUCERS, MCEES, AND DJAYS IN THE UNDERGROUND LIKE DIZZY DUSTIN & EINSTIEN FROM UGLYDUCKLING,OPIE FROM LONG BEACH DUB ALLSTARS, JROCC OF THE WORLD FAMOUS BEATJUNKIES, DISCREET MERCHANTS, JINSIN, JUNGLE JOSH, CHICHO DAN, JFX OF THE HEAVYWEIGHTS, MUMMS THE WORD, ZAIRE BLACK AND JUNE22, PHANTOM REGIMENT, LARENZ TATE, LMNO, AND TATE THE GREAT, MOZIZ, E WHITE AND DMINUS OF BLITZKRIEG, AND THE LIST GOES ON.
PEEP THE FLAVOR OF THE HALFWAY HOUSE MCEES, AND GET OPEN ON THEIR RAW, UNCUT HIP-HOP--CULTIVATED FOR DECADES.
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