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Swollen Members was founded in the mid-1990s by Vancouverites Mad Child, Prevail and Moka Only. Having begun a solo career while living in San Francisco, California, Mad Child returned to Vancouver for some work. There he met Prevail and Moka Only, working as partners and making a name together on Canada’s West coast hip hop community. The trio saw each other’s abilities, thought they heard opportunity knocking, and joined together under the name Swollen Members. Soon after, however, Moka Only decided he wanted to pursue a solo career and left the group.

In 1996, Mad Child and Prevail went to the B-Boy Summit in San Diego, California, where Mad Child won several rap battles and was initiated into the Rock Steady Crew, legendary to the hip hop/b-boy scene. The Crew is held in great respect as hip hop’s highest collective - to join one must win a contest of skill against one of the highest ranked members. Swollen Members is one of only three rap groups affiliated with Rock Steady.

That same year, the duo began recording their first tracks, with help from many of their friends from the scene - MCs, DJs, and producers, including Rob the Viking. Rob would continue to work with the group through the years, eventually joining them later. From the praise they were receiving, they decided it was time to release their material as a group. With the subsequent release of three 12” singles on Mad Child’s record label Battleaxe Records, the group quickly established themselves in the scene and built a respectable following. The next logical step was to release an album, which was titled Balance and released in 1999.
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  • Funkowy

    http://www.lastfm.pl/music/Swollen+Members/+images/76816338 mkay

    last month
  • GRAFFULTRAS

    ..BATTLE AXE WARRIORZ KID WHUT DA FUCK YA THINK

    March 2012
  • DeucesAreWild

    Dagger Mouth is an awesome return to form, glad to see SM back, but there's too much Mad Child and not enough Prevail. Don't get me wrong the albums great and they both spit fire but the balance is all wrong....

    February 2012
  • Krystal_Method

    DaggerMouth is unbelievable, one legendary track after the other. My faves are The Predator or White Python/Black [...]

    January 2012
  • pex

    dagger mouth <3

    January 2012
  • Krystal_Method

    this group is so under rated, madchild is one of today's finest by a landslide. Support Swollen, they are the future.

    December 2011
  • CHRIBJ

    I had to.

    December 2011
  • CHRIBJ

    THIS IS NOT THE LIFE THAT I HAVE DREAMT ABOUT, MENTALLY IM EMPTIED OUT RAPPING WHILE I VENT WITH A DEMENTED MOUTH, SENTIMENTALLY MY SENTIMENTS ARE PRINTED OUT, I STICK A KNIFE INSIDE ME GIVING YOU SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT!!!!!!!!!1

    December 2011
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24 May 2012 | from www.swollenmembers.com

Shittt I missed you guy's when you came threw Calgary with LCN in the beginning of the year that was a down right piss off, Now you guy's are coming back and i'll be damned if I miss you …

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