RASCO

San Mateo native Rasco (whose name is an acronym for "realistic,
ambitious, serious, cautious, and organized") worked as a member of
the West Coast hip-hop groups Various Blends and Cali Agents. His deep
voice and straight-ahead rap style came to the public's attention with
his 1997 12" The Unassisted, which earned him several honors including
number one on the Bay Area Hip-Hop Coalition chart, number one on the
independent hip-hop chart in Hits magazine, and number one on Sway and
King Tech's nationally syndicated Wake Up Show for four weeks
straight. His debut album, Time Waits for No Man, was released in 1998
on Stones Throw with a production team that included Paul Nice, Peanut
Butter Wolf, and Evidence of the group Dilated Peoples. The follow-up
EP The Birth arrived in 1999. Moving from Stones Throw to Copasetik,
Rasco released Hostile Environment (2001) and Presents Hip-Hop
Classics, Vol. 1 (2003), but after a falling-out with the label, he
left to start his own, Pocketslinted, in 2004. That same year he
issued the compilations 20,000 Leagues Under the Street, Vol. 1 (a
re-release from 2000) and Minority Report, and in 2005 his solo effort
The Dick Swanson came out on Pocketslinted. Since his last Solo Lp Rasco
soon after re teamed with Plane Asia to drop their 3rd album entitled
Fire & Ice in 2007.
In addition to all his solo projects, Rasco contributed to the Linkin
Park's Platinum selling remix album, Reanimiation album. Rasco has been lauded by the critics, including SPIN, The Source, VIBE, Hip-Hop Connection, URB, among many others.
Now Rasco is back in 2010 with his latest offering 'Global Threat'
This is Rasco's 6th solo
effort and proves to be his best to date. Like any true artist, Rasco
pushes himself on his new record to places he hasn’t gone before. 2010
Looks to be a promising year in Independent Hip Hop and Rasco is sure
to be at the head of the pack when it is all said and done.