![]() ![]() They first approached Tommy Boy Records with their demo, but they were told that they were too much like alternative hip-hoppers De La Soul, and not hardcore enough. By then, he and his brother were putting in studio time as P.M. Within a few years, he had determined to make a demo tape of some of those pieces with the $600 he had set aside from his after school job as a security guard at a homeless shelter. Prince Be began DJing parties and composing songs in ninth grade. ![]() The two elder brothers were raised by their mother and their stepfather George Brown, a founding member of Kool & the Gang. Further family tragedy saw their baby brother Duncan drown at the age of two. The Cordes brothers' father died of pneumonia when they were children. Prince Be, sometimes credited as Prince Be the Nocturnal) and Jarrett Cordes (a.k.a DJ Minutemix or J.C. Dawn formed in 1988 by brothers Attrell Cordes (a.k.a. Dawn straddled the gap between hip-hop and smooth '70s-style soul, creating an innovative urban R&B that owed as much to pop as it did to rhythm and blues. Hello, today's artists (brothers) have had their hurdles in life yet they released wonderful positive music, initially this didn't make them very popular in the hip hop scene, luckily in the UK their music was appreciated, thus they were enabled to reach out to the world and bless us with their grooves. ![]()
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