They all came to Germany as American soldiers.  At first C-Block was only Red Dogg (George Anthony Joseph) and Mr.P or P.O.P. (James White). It was with Mr.P that Red Dogg had the success with the album "General Population" and all the hit songs from that. It all went very well for those to. They were the "main members" of CBK that were most visible, but the singer Theresa "Misty" Baltimore and the rapper/singer Goldie were also members of the group and featured on many songs.

C-Block's first single was "Skake dat azz" together with the rapper A.K.-S.W.I.F.T. It was released in early 1996, and got a lot of airplay in the clubs and hiphop charts.
The real breakthrough came with their single "So Strung Out". This song hit the top 5 on the very popular chart, Viva Top100, and reached top 10 in many European countries.
The followed up the success with another bomb-song "Time Is Tickinī Away", and it got as big, if not any bigger then the previous single. If you ask anybody about C-Block, the person probably would mention "So Strung Out" and "Time Is Tickin' Away" directly.

After that it was time for the debut album release. "General Population" hit the stores, and this album is one of the, if not the greatest album of the history of the European HipHop/Rap scene. The album contains, except for the 3 singles "So Strung Out", "Time Is Tickin´ Away" and their fourth single, "Summertime",  super-songs like "Everything´s Good", "Being Raised" and "Round N Round". This is really something for the fans of European Rap & HipHop.

After the single "Summertime", Mr.P started to think of an own career and he and Red Dogg argued a lot. P wanted too much and he left C-Block...

    Mista P  Misty  Goldie
Red Dogg, Mista P, Misty & Goldie

...so now C-Block became Red Dogg, Misty and Goldie. That was the new C-Block.
It tokk some months before the first single "Eternal Grace" was released. The song hit the Viva top 10immediately, and was released for Christmas 1997. In March 1998, the single "Broken Wings" had a world premeire. A cover song of Mr.Mister's "Broken Wings", and here Red Dogg really proves how great rapper he is. The first verse of this song has it all. The new album "Keepinī It Real" which was released in May 1998. This album has a little more hiphop influence, but still the typical CBK-style. The songs "Bounce", "Keepin It Real", "Motherless Child" and defenitely the great "We Believe" and "You Win Again" are worth to check out.

The second album was a big success, especially in the middle-european countries, hitting for example nr 1 spot in Poland.
The group started to plan for the next single, that was supposed to be "We Believe". But, things doesn't always turn out that good.

After a year of silence, C-Block made a comeback with the new single "Keep Movinī" with some surpriseing members. James White (or P.O.P.) had returned to the group, and did the rappin by himself this time, and you could see a new singer too, Jeanine Love. Well, where did Red Dogg, Goldie and Misty go? I was actually very disapointed that Red Dogg wasnīt in the group anymore, because I thought that he always was the brain behind the group and brought us the fattest raps. Anyway, I like P.O.P. a lot aswell. The single "Keep Movinī" was released in the summer of 1999 and it was a groovy phat usual CBK track.  It got a lot of play on the club charts over europe, but never had the sucess of the earlier CBK tracks.
Almost a year later ,in the summer of 2000, C-Block had released the single "The Future Is So bright" .The succes wasn't there at all. Althoug you could read on the inlay of tha single, that the new album "Changes" was planned to be dropped soon, the group took a break. And after that it's quiet...

In 2001, Red Dogg was working with Jan Van Der Toorn on a new project. The project never got a chance to be finished. Why? Read further..

In the end of 2003, we had a very nice visit on the T-Music Forum. It was Theresa Baltimore aka Misty, the singer of C-Block, that stopped by. Since then, she has been a active member and now is a friend to us. She has told us a lot of interesting stories that CBK had thru the success years. If you want to talk to her, just bounce away to the board right away!

Later in 2004, the fans found out some chocking news about Red Dogg. Since Jazz and Jay Dogg from 2-4 Family and Glaze from Flip Da Scrip are also on the T-Music Forum, they told us that they've heard some rumours that Red Dogg has been shot. After many many searching for clues, Red Dogg's neice wrote on the board and told us the sad story. Tony was shot on 15th of September 2001, and very badly injured. He almost lost his life. He is now in a wheel chair and lost a little of his memory. The guy that shot him was a big criminal and got cought and got sentenced.

We have a special topic in the T-Music Message Board, where fans of C-Block can share some words with Anthony "Tony" Joseph aka Red Dogg, that was right shot on the 15th of September 2001, and very badly injured. He almost lost his life.
Say a few words here

And don't miss the Red Dogg tribute song & video that T-Music has done for him:
T-Music Crew "Don't Give Up (Red Dogg tribute)"


Related links on T-Music to C-Block:
Da Flava
Shot
Soundcage

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