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Tech N9ne (born '''Aaron Dontez Yates''' on November 8 1971 in Kansas City, Missouri ) is an American Rapper . In the 17 years since his first amateur performance, he has performed sold out shows from Los Angeles to New York City , and is arguably the most prominent MC in his hometown of Kansas City. CAREER Tech N9ne has recorded 5 albums that have later sold more than 500,000 copies collectively. He has collaborated with artists such as 2Pac , Sway and King Tech, Brotha Lynch Hung , E-40 , C-Bo , D12 , Kottonmouth Kings , Insane Clown Posse , Twiztid , Yukmouth , (həd) P.e. , Jurassic 5 , Roger Troutman and various others. In 1999, Tech N9ne was included on the track (and accompanying video) "The Anthem" from Sway and King Tech, two radio personalities based in California . The track and video featured Eminem , RZA , KRS-One , Chino XL , Pharoahe Monch , Xzibit , Kool G Rap , and Jayo Felony . Early in his career, Tech N9ne was a member of a group called "NNUTT HOWZE", which he pays tribute to in many of his lyrics by saying "Six, six, triple eight, forty six, ninety nine, three" (6688846993), which spells out NNUTT HOWZE on the touch pad numbers of a Telephone . However, the group disbanded when they were dropped from their label, Perspective Records . Additionally, he saw glimpses of success as a member of the 57th Street Rogue Dog Villians, who are also a Kansas City-based group, with their single "Let's Get Fucked Up".http://www.lawrence.com/news/2003/dec/22/the_belly/ STRANGE MUSIC LABEL Tech N9ne and Travis O'Guin co-own the record label , Big Krizz Kaliko , and Kabosh which is a joint effort by Tech N9ne and Kaliko where they will venture into the rock world, IN POPULAR CULTURE Four of Tech N9ne's songs have been featured in the ''. Also included are "Slither" from his 2002 album '' Absolute Power '' and "LA LA Land" featuring Gina Cassavetes (daughter of film director Nick Cassavetes ) which is featured on the ''Alpha Dog'' Film Soundtrack . Originally, Tech N9ne was behind scoring the entire movie but the movie studio decided to remove some of his music to add more commercially known songs.http://music.ign.com/articles/755/755004p1.html The tracks "Jellysickle" and "My Wife, My Bitch, My Girl" are featured on the soundtrack to '' 25 To Life ,'' a 2005 Video Game , in which Tech N9ne is also an unlockable character. A censored version of "The Beast" is featured in the game Madden NFL 2006 . In early 2007, Tech N9ne was featured on the MTV program ''I'm From Rolling Stone''. |
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