Biography
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Members
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The first of several acts assembled by the Shocklee brothers and Eric Sadler after Public Enemy, the Kings of Pressure were the result of a famed 1987 tryout in Hempstead, Long Island, New York.
“Me and Chuck really didn’t have aspirations of doing PE: we thought we were good at managing and directing others,” recalls Hank Shocklee. “So we found the best rhymers in the area and tried to put them together. We’d sit these guys down and hold these sessions that were like classes and seminars on the business. ”Eventual PE member DJ Johnny Juice, who would go on to produce tracks on The Adventures of Slick Rick and PE’s Yo! Bumrush The Show, got his breakthrough at the tryout, but his partner Busta Rhymes failed to show up. “The idea was for people to think there was this whole army of artists-the groups had names and logos before there were members,” recalls Juice. “Now, this is the template for everybody in hip-hop.”
The Kings of Pressure, however, were never particularly successful despite their stellar first single "You Know How To Reach Us" and, by the time of their 1989 LP Slang Teacher, the group was down to two of the five original members.
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