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Boo Yaa Play Video

Boo Yaa

samoan gangstaz in action...

Boo-Yaa TRIBE - RAID Play Video

Boo-Yaa TRIBE - RAID

Music video by Boo-Yaa TRIBE performing RAID. (C) 1989 Island Records Inc.

Faith No More/Boo-Ya Tribe - Another Body Murdered Play Video

Faith No More/Boo-Ya Tribe - Another Body Murdered

Great song from the movie soundtrack of "Judgement Night"

Boo Yaa Tribe - Real Gangsta Rappers Play Video

Boo Yaa Tribe - Real Gangsta Rappers

This is a video of the life of LA's realest gangsters turned rappers. True street cred and critical acclaim from Rolling Stone. Gangsters, Rappers and Rock Band and Businessmen.... Boo Yaa Tribe

Boo-Yaa TRIBE - Psyko Funk Play Video

Boo-Yaa TRIBE - Psyko Funk

Music video by Boo-Yaa TRIBE performing Psyko Funk. (C) 1990 Island Records Inc.

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Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E. Biography

Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E. are a hip hop group from Carson, California, composed of the Devoux brothers Paul, Ted, Donald, Roscoe, Danny, and David. Their family is from Samoa. They first began playing music in their father's Baptist church. Before anyone else arrived, they would play P-Funk and experiment with other forms of hip-hop. Particularly popular in their South Bay neighborhood, they began to dance to funk music. The brothers then created the dance crew the Blue City Strutters and publicly performed. All members are members or former members of the Bloods and Samoan Warriors Despite their religious upbringing, the brothers eventually fell into the gang scene popular in their home of Compton, Los Angeles. After their youngest brother was killed in 1987, they decided to turn their lives around and dedicate their lives to music because "that's what he would have wanted." To get away from the gang culture, the brothers decided to leave L.A. and go to Japan. While there, they were inspired to begin performing music again, with Paul "Gangxta R.I.D." rapping in front of eager Japanese audiences. They toured Japan in the mid 1980s and became very popular. Upon their return to California in 1988, the group focused again on making music and re-christened themselves as the Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E. Their pioneering debut LP, New Funky Nation, was different from most rap records at the time because the Boo-Yaa TRIBE played live instruments on it. Later on, they ventured into the realms of both gangsta rap and rapcore music. They also appeared on the Judgment Night soundtrack performing "Another Body Murdered" with Faith No More, on Kid Frost's East Side Story LP, on The Transplants' Haunted Cities LP and on the rock group P.O.D.'s Testify, with the emotional rap track "On the Grind." The "Boo-Yaa" in their name signifies the sound of a shotgun being discharged, while the "T.R.I.B.E." stands for "Too Rough International Boo-Yaa Empire." According to hip-hop documentarian, Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E. is "synonymous with hip hop in Los Angeles."

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  • New Funky Nation - (Island Records/BR)

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