1) The City Slick duo consisting of producer Fluent and emcee Decay aim to grab your attention by force, if necessary. Hailing from Chicago, Illinois, Decay hijacks listener's eardrums with gritty rhymes about real life experience drawn from Chicago streets. Fluent, an Akron, Ohio native, creates vivid soundscapes that are both fresh and inspiring. Truly on another level. City Slick met in 2004 through soundclick. Even though their collaborations have been mostly been done on the internet, the chemistry found in their music has become a rarity lately.

2) LA Guitarist Mark Knight's first band was this band called Krude Witch and at sixteen or seventeen played The Troubadour and all the major clubs in Hollywood. Opened up for W.A.S.P. and Ratt. Then that band disbanded, and he put this band together Mickey Knight. It was right around ’84-’85 and the scene was pulsing, all the hair bands. So, Poison, Ratt, all those bands were selling out and the whole scene was starting — and really the Sunset Strip scene was starting to happen. Mickey Knight never got a record deal, but he went on to do City Slick with Kyle Kyle, and then eventually Bang Tango. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.