May 14, 2016 - Horseshoe Gang - Mixtape Monthly Vol. 4 (Hosted By DJ Far)-2014. Language English. DOWNLOAD OPTIONS.

Back in the 70's kxng crooked's mother and aunt moved out to California to pursue their dream of becoming a famous singing duo,They were signed to Motown records and polydor records at a time but that all came crashing down when the record label owner passed away.The duo began to have friction as a result of their mom having too many kids,her sister said 'having all these kids,you're messing up the group' and that it did.The group split apart and so did their dreams,but their mother loved kids and she continued to have them,

Enter:

Biological brothers

Kenny,Demetrius,Julius,and dice, the west coast, Long Beach,California rap group Horseshoe Gang. All members being biological younger brothers to west coast legend,kxng crooked,these four mc's have been rapping since they were three years old,which is pretty much expected when crooked I wrote his first rhyme when he was 10. Crooked had them remembering bars while he went to school and if they didn't remember them,then there was always some type of punishment for it.

When these spitters were young,because they were living in a poor and broken home,their aunt called social services and had them all (including crook) sent to a homeless shelter,from there they had to fend for themselves all while still writing rhymes.

Being homeless at the age of 11 was extremely tough for all of them, going without food for days,crooked and older brother 'madman',were doing what they had to do in the streets to help put food in their mouths. Dice recalls a story when crooked had cut a hole in the top of a convenience store and had dice 'shimmy' in there to grab some food 'like some stuff you see on mission impossible'

They frequently speak on how they have no love for a lot of their family and they touch on that subject heavily in a song titled

'FOE(family over everything)ft.Royce da 5'9'.

Crooked and his other biological brother,west coast rapper, and former crip 'Madman', were in a rap duo together but in Demetrius's (aka.debo's) words they 'Never could agree on shit'. This friction between brothers 'madman' and 'crooked I', caused them to split apart and start their own seperate independent labels,

C.O.B-circle of bosses(kxng crooked's)

And

U.N.G(madman's)

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Horseshoe gang chose to be with crooked and COB.

They still have much love for madman even after that.Madman's story is explained in a song titled 'madman' which is a solo Julius song.

August of 2015, (former) funk volume artists dizzy wright,jarren Benton,and hopsin issued a challenge to battle ANYBODY/any label for 500,000$ on the famous hip-hop radio show 'Sway in the morning'. Someone called into the show and said 'we're going to bring horseshoe gang and crook up there and see what's up'

Jarren then said:

'horseshoe gang is dope,them niggas hella dope'

Hopsin almost immediately cut him off and responded with:

4 Brothers Movie

'ANYBODY,any human in existence can stand in front of us and we will demolish them'

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And needless to say,horseshoe gang did not like that at all.

August 22,2015 horseshoe gang dropped 'half a meal' a title playing of of hopsins 'half a MIL' challenge,saying 'forget the money,we'll battle you for half a meal'.

They went straight for the throat on this diss and it was brutal.

Funk volume took multiple days to respond and they dropped 'free meal',a horseshoe gang diss that felt like a whole bunch of thrown together verses,good verses but poorly put together.

In this diss,hopsin insults horseshoe gang because they have less money than them which is EXTREMELY hypocritical if you have ever listened to hopsin before.

That same day,horseshoe gang responded with 'same day' (obviously),

This diss was to show that they are more than just super speed spitters,and that they can change their flow at any time.

They have released many projects including 12 mixtapes (one for each month) and 7 albums so far in their young yet seasoned careers as hip-hop/rap artists.

Horseshoe Gang Members

'If you talking new rappers we're the best out of that bunch, and if you're talking veteran's we're never left out of discussion'

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The mixtape monthly series actually has a very interesting story on how it came about,Horseshoe gang had a meeting with shady records and there they were told that their catalog wasn't big enough ,so in response to that,the group put out 'Mixtape Monthly',where they dropped a mixtape a month for an entire year.All of those mixtapes are free on just about every mixtape downloading site.

Horseshoe Gang Albums

As for the albums (in order):

They're all dope,especially 'Firing Squad' and 'Top Ramen Nigga'. Actually the first song I ever heard of horseshoe gang's was 'lyrical miracle' off of 'Top Ramen Nigga'. So if you're going to check them out I definitely recommend you start with The 'Firing Squad' album and then 'Top Ramen Nigga' because 'Firing squad' showcases more of what they can do all round as artists.

Their second album of this year 2016, will drop September 16th,the same month Kxng crooked drops his new album 'Good Vs Evil'.The first album they released this year is called 'Anti Trap Music',this new upcoming album is titled '4 Brothers'.They recently announced this news on July 4th and along with it they dropped the first single off of the album titled 'Coffin'. The song details the death of their family members and the mourning process they went through.