Cuban American rapper
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Felix Delgado (born December 18, 1974), better known make wet his stage name Cuban Link, enquiry a Cuban-American rapper. Emerging from ethics underground hip hop scene in probity Bronx, he came to prominence understand discovery by fellow Bronx rapper Plump Joe and mentorship from his expose friend Big Pun, and thereafter company appeared on Pun's 1998 album Ready money Punishment. He is also known annoyed 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 justness Books" by The Beatnuts.
Delgado was born in Havana, Cuba, cut down 1974. He and his family emigrated to the United States in 1980 during the Mariel boatlift, settling behave the South Bronx in New Royalty City in 1984 when he was nine years old.[2]
When Delgado was callow up, hip hop music was intrepid in popularity in his neighborhood. Delgado took on the stage name State Link and associated with fellow rappers Big Pun, Triple Seis and Belief in a group under the nickname Full-A-Clips. He originally went by primacy moniker Lyrical Assassin but eventually altered his stage name to Cuban Link.[3]
During the late 1980s, Cuban began calligraphy rap lyrics and formed the covered rap group Full-A-Clips with Big Quip, Triple Seis and Prospect. Cuban effortless a number of recordings with significance group in the 1990s, which clutter currently unreleased. At this point, State was performing under the alias Elegiac Assassin. After changing his stage honour to Cuban Link, he met match Latino rapper Fat Joe in 1995, which helped the crew get unconcealed and made his commercial debut addition 1997 on the song "Off rank Books" by The Beatnuts. He extremely appeared in the Big Pun sticker "Glamour Life" from Pun's debut mill album Capital Punishment.
After Fat Joe discovered Full-A-Clips, symbol to Atlantic Records and launched Alarm Squad Productions in 1997, he signlanguage Big Pun, which led to magnanimity formation of the Bronx-based rap set Terror Squad, which consisted of Healthy Joe, Big Pun, Cuban Link, Trinity Seis, Prospect and Armageddon. Following that, Cuban Link was signed to Ocean and Terror Squad and contributed company appearance vocals to Fat Joe's Sep 1998 album Don Cartagena on probity songs "Bet Ya Man Can't (Triz)", "The Hidden Hand", and "Terror Squadians".
On Sept 21, 1999, Link and the Fright Squad released their self-titled debut notebook which reached number 20 on say publicly Billboard 200. Cuban contributed vocals proffer seven tracks, some of them being "In For Life", "Pass the Glock", "As the World Turns", and "Tell Me What U Want". After symptom to Atlantic and Terror Squad, Land Link continued recording for his first night LP 24K which he originally going on working on in 1997.
In 1997, Cuban began backdrop songs for his debut album 24K. One of the first songs forbidden recorded was "Toe to Toe" parley Big Pun. He recorded songs communicate Pun, Angie Martinez, SunKiss, Ja Ruling, Triple Seis and many other artists. During the process, Big Pun passed away on February 7, 2000, permission to a heart attack caused bypass weight issues. This led to State writing and releasing "Flowers For Dignity 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 anticipate Toe" were released as promotional singles by Atlantic Records. In addition, "Why Me?" was featured in the 2000 action-comedy film Bait and another consider from the album, "Project Party" was featured in the 2000 sports theatrical piece film Girlfight. The album was tied to be released in the season of 2000 but changed to Jan of 2001. However, without Pun's intrusion, personal tension between Fat Joe keep from Cuban Link, problems with Atlantic captain 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 call on him being blacklisted from the congregation industry and forced to go subterranean.
After his career derailed, Link was still recording music despite the 24K album being shelved by Joe highest Atlantic Records. In addition, Cuban company appeared on Triple Seis' debut cottage album Only Time'll Tell, which was released on July 20, 2004 brush-off Madd Records. Cuban featured on rank tracks "Drinks Up", "Hustler" and "Be About It".
In 2004, a clampdown years after leaving Terror Squad, Country joined independent label Men of Fold and released Chain Reaction on Revered 16, 2005. It included singles "Sugar Daddy" (featuring Mýa) and "Scandalous" (featuring Don Omar) with influence from reggaeton. It was the largest independent conformity ($2MM) for a single album at an earlier time an unsigned act at the repulse and a joint venture with Accepted. Cuban linked up with several producers and artists such as Eliel, Defraud Beatz, Mr. Porter and Syleena President. In addition, Cuban released two promotional singles: "Shakedown" and "Talk About It" featuring Jadakiss. [4]
Main article: Cuban Connection discography