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...
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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.
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