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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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  • Stefanszz

    love deez guys

    18 May 9:03pm Reply

  • Tides_of_Time

    Just ban them and everything should be fine.

    4 May 8:57am Reply

  • davincichode

    Why does Last.fm play the instrumental versions of their songs in my radio? It's fucking annoying

    29 Apr 5:15pm Reply

  • deworde

    BDM = dope album

    6 Apr 9:56am Reply

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    4 Apr 4:27pm Reply

  • Saypres

    Новый альбом хорош но не более того. Думаю что через месяцев 6 все про него забудут. New album good..but that if enough. I think during 6 months this release will be forgotten [2]

    1 Apr 11:40pm Reply

  • PuFF2006

    Новый альбом хорош но не более того. Думаю что через месяцев 6 все про него забудут. New album good..but that if enough. I think during 6 months this release will be forgotten

    31 Mar 10:05am Reply

  • fepaporra

    bruto

    22 Mar 10:51pm Reply

  • itsrivland

    Beautiful Death Machine best of 2013 until then

    22 Mar 2:06pm Reply

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    Beautiful Death Machine is sick :D

    19 Mar 4:57pm Reply

  • Tic-Tak

    альбом просто охерительный. на репит строго

    16 Mar 12:06pm Reply

  • tigermoth1232

    the new album features some of my favorite rappers from 2008. Nice.

    16 Mar 4:46am Reply

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    Breath (feat. Nelly Furtado) <3

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    21 Aug 2012 Reply

  • itsrivland

    So fuckin' good.

    28 Jun 2012 Reply

  • nellykfurtado

    Breath (feat. Nelly Furtado) ♥

    3 Jun 2012 Reply

  • Funkowy

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    19 Apr 2012 Reply

  • GRAFFULTRAS

    ..BATTLE AXE WARRIORZ KID WHUT DA FUCK YA THINK

    8 Mar 2012 Reply

  • 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....

    11 Feb 2012 Reply
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