THROWBACK THURSDAY: SPICE 1

Too Short discovered rapper Spice 1, who was born in Texas before moving to California. His self-titled debut was vivid of life in California, his rapping style and tone only added to the despair emanating from the disc.
He followed it with an even more hardcore album, with, "187 He Wrote" in 1993. Complete with simulated gunfire. Other releases included 1995's "1990 Sick" and 1997's "Black Bossalini". "Immortalized" followed two years later, and in the spring of 2000 Spice 1 returned with "Last Dance" and "Playa Rich Project". A sequel to the latter brought him into 2002, while the "Spiceberg Slim" album came out that summer.

Spice suffered a gunshot wound to the chest in December of 2007, the injuries were not life threatning