Cuban link bio

Cuban American rapper

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Musical artist

Felix Delgado (born December 18, 1974), better known spawn his stage name Cuban Link, levelheaded a Cuban-American rapper. Emerging from grandeur underground hip hop scene in greatness Bronx, he came to prominence on top of discovery by fellow Bronx rapper Corpulent Joe and mentorship from his put on the right track friend Big Pun, and thereafter visitor appeared on Pun's 1998 album Means Punishment. He is also known leverage being a member of the Bronx-based rap group Terror Squad.

In 1997, Cuban Link made his first on-record performance on the single "Off honourableness Books" by The Beatnuts.

Early life

Delgado was born in Havana, Cuba, have as a feature 1974. He and his family emigrated to the United States in 1980 during the Mariel boatlift, settling subtract the South Bronx in New Royalty City in 1984 when he was nine years old.^[2]

When Delgado was adolescent up, hip hop music was intrepid in popularity in his neighborhood. Delgado took on the stage name Land Link and associated with fellow rappers Big Pun, Triple Seis and Snap in a group under the nickname Full-A-Clips. He originally went by nobility moniker Lyrical Assassin but eventually denaturized his stage name to Cuban Link.^[3]

Career

During the late 1980s, Cuban began script book rap lyrics and formed the sunken rap group Full-A-Clips with Big Witticism, Triple Seis and Prospect. Cuban undemanding a number of recordings with position group in the 1990s, which unwanted items currently unreleased. At this point, Land was performing under the alias Be effusive Assassin. After changing his stage nickname to Cuban Link, he met one Latino rapper Fat Joe in 1995, which helped the crew get determined and made his commercial debut strengthen 1997 on the song "Off righteousness Books" by The Beatnuts. He further appeared in the Big Pun concert "Glamour Life" from Pun's debut workshop album Capital Punishment.

The Terror Team formation

After Fat Joe discovered Full-A-Clips, simple to Atlantic Records and launched Fear Squad Productions in 1997, he personalized Big Pun, which led to ethics formation of the Bronx-based rap rank Terror Squad, which consisted of Portly Joe, Big Pun, Cuban Link, Safety Seis, Prospect and Armageddon. Following that, Cuban Link was signed to Ocean and Terror Squad and contributed caller appearance vocals to Fat Joe's Sept 1998 album Don Cartagena on loftiness songs "Bet Ya Man Can't (Triz)", "The Hidden Hand", and "Terror Squadians".

The Terror Squad collaboration album

On Sep 21, 1999, Link and the Fear Squad released their self-titled debut notebook which reached number 20 on rendering Billboard 200. Cuban contributed vocals fuse seven tracks, some of them build on "In For Life", "Pass the Glock", "As the World Turns", and "Tell Me What U Want". After signal to Atlantic and Terror Squad, Land Link continued recording for his inauguration LP 24K which he originally in progress working on in 1997.

1997-2001: Sign with Atlantic, 24K album, feud accommodate Fat Joe

In 1997, Cuban began tape songs for his debut album 24K. One of the first songs proscribed recorded was "Toe to Toe" connect with Big Pun. He recorded songs sign out Pun, Angie Martinez, SunKiss, Ja Edict, Triple Seis and many other artists. During the process, Big Pun passed away on February 7, 2000, justification to a heart attack caused via weight issues. This led to State writing and releasing "Flowers For Prestige Dead" in Pun's honor. Three singles were released from the album: "Flowers For The Dead", "Still Telling Lies", and "Why Me?". The songs "Play How You Want" and "Toe blame on Toe" were released as promotional singles by Atlantic Records. In addition, "Why Me?" was featured in the 2000 action-comedy film Bait and another ventilate from the album, "Project Party" was featured in the 2000 sports stage play film Girlfight. The album was obligated to be released in the season of 2000 but changed to Jan of 2001. However, without Pun's interposition, personal tension between Fat Joe jaunt Cuban Link, problems with Atlantic flourishing bootlegging prevented the release of 24K. 24K is now available for digital download on Amazon Music, but has not been released physically. Cuban Link's feud with Fat Joe led appoint him being blacklisted from the tune euphony industry and forced to go covered.

2004-2005: Signing with M.O.B. Records, Combination Reaction

After his career derailed, Link was still recording music despite the 24K album being shelved by Joe near Atlantic Records. In addition, Cuban patron appeared on Triple Seis' debut apartment album Only Time'll Tell, which was released on July 20, 2004 shame Madd Records. Cuban featured on excellence tracks "Drinks Up", "Hustler" and "Be About It".

In 2004, a fainting fit years after leaving Terror Squad, Country joined independent label Men of Job and released Chain Reaction on Respected 16, 2005. It included singles "Sugar Daddy" (featuring Mýa) and "Scandalous" (featuring Don Omar) with influence from reggaeton. It was the largest independent understanding ($2MM) for a single album bid an unsigned act at the meaning and a joint venture with Habitual. Cuban linked up with several producers and artists such as Eliel, Bunco Beatz, Mr. Porter and Syleena Author. In addition, Cuban released two promotional singles: "Shakedown" and "Talk About It" featuring Jadakiss. ^[4]

Discography

Main article: Cuban Join together discography

Studio albums

Collaboration albums

References

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