![]() ![]() ![]() I ran across it at Half Price Books store a few years ago and since I was familiar with some of the singles, and it was on clearance for a $1, I quickly added it to my collection. Chubb would turn to himself and bring in the fledgling production duo, the Trackmasters (who at this point spelled their name as Trackmasterz) to help him produce his 4th release I Gotta Get Mine Yo!īefore today, I’ve never listened to IGGMY in its entirety. ![]() But after The One, Chubb and Howie decided to go their separate ways. He would go on to release And The Winner Is… in ’89 (more on that a bit later) and easily his most commercially successful album, The One, in 1991 – which included three songs that would reach number one on the billboards Hot Rap Singles charts: “Treat ‘Em Right”, “Just The Two Of Us”, and “The Chubbster” and a 4th single that didn’t reach number one but is probably my favorite song his catalog (“The Big Man”).Ĭhubb’s cousin, Howie Tee, handled all the production duties for Chubb’s first three albums. Chubb Rock was a pre-med student at Brown University when he received the hip-hop bug and decided to drop out and pursue his music dreams, years before Kanye would coin the action as the title for his classic debut album.Ĭhubb Rock would sign a deal with Select Records (which was distributed by Arista), where he would release his self titled debut album (which I don’t currently own and have never heard, but will eventually track down a copy) in 1988. Richard Simpson, better know to the world as Chubb Rock, is a Kingston, Jamaica born emcee who moved to Brooklyn, NY as a kid. ![]()
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