Pete Rock
Pete Rock ( born June 21, 1970 in Mount Vernon, New York, USA; born Peter Phillips) is an American DJ, producer and rapper.
Life
For the first time in the focus of the hip-hop community, he came in the late 1980s as a DJ Marley Marl in radio show In Control With Marley Marl on the New York station WBLS. In 1991 he started together with his partner CL Smooth as Pete Rock & CL Smooth record music. He has been one of the most sought after producers of the genre and had a significant influence on the East Coast hip-hop mid-1990.
It took more than four years before in 1998 with his solo debut Soul Survivor returns reported to the hip- hop audience. He has since 2001 an instrumental album PeteStrumentals as well as the 2004 follow-up to his debut, Soul Survivor II brought out.
Pete Rock album NY 's Finest contains, among other songs with Little Brother, Redman, Slum Village, Raekwon, The Lox and Papoose.
Published in 2011 by Pete Rock Smif N Wessun - Monumental album.