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QUOTA
MIXTAPE
"Key to the City"
Track List
1. Intro
2. Nine Six
3. 3 The Hard Way
ft:Grimm, Juan Gott
4. Key To The City
5. Problem Child ft: Slip
6. KickDoor
7. DopeMan
8. Pot Of Gold ft:Coast
9. Playa If You Dont Know
ft:Lucky Luciano, ROB
10.Three Words
ft:Caroline Rodriguez
11. 2 The Top
ft:Caroline Rodriguez
12. Carnival ft:Powda
13. Trick ft:Lucky Luciano
14. Cant Stop
15. No Lights On ft:Coast
16. Look Out
17. Radio ft:Bunzzy, Rasheed
18. State Of Emergency
Twin
Beredaz
Twin
Beredaz 2 - Coast & Quota
www.twinberedaz.com
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The son of a carpenter and a housewife, Quota and his younger sister, were raised in the historical 1st ward of Houston, tx. I remember my fifth grade teacher asking me, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" My answer, "President of the United States!" She must of known i was crazy, but even at a young age i had aspirations of being a great leader. My parents wanted the best for me, of course i had other plans for my future. I was a good kid, right up until i hit the block, thats wher i credit getting my own form of higher learning. It was around that time, my father had a work related accident that almost ended his life. It was a tough time, i needed something to help me get through, rap was what helped me cope. I fell in love with rap music, and knew i would grow up being a part of its future.
The summer i graduated high school; i dont know how i did that because since the sixth grade my mind was already in another zone; when i was old enough to make decisions for myself, at least i thought they were what was best for me. I started selling cocaine, growing up in the hood, i had seen others make come ups off dealing dope. One day a dude i thought was a friend, set me up for 252 grams of coke; a quarterkey, hence my rap name; & i ended up in jail facing 10/99, 10 yrs being the minimum, 99 being the maximum time i was lookng at spending the property of the State of Texas. It was there i found myself reflecting on my life, looked deep into my self, and asked God for a way out. I prayed, " God get me out of here, i promise to never do what got me in here again, give me something i love doing so i can make a living off of." I walked away from the situation with only probation.
A couple years later, after what felt like a hundred dead end jobs, i felt i was at a fork in the road. I was in my cadillac rollin through my neighborhood one day, a benz swerves missing me by inches. I made a u-turn, parked, & steppd off, walked toward whoever was driving the mercedes. It was Carlos Coy, you may know him as (SPM). I guess he saw the look in my face, "Do you rap?" he asked, I said "no." Its funny now, but at the moment i coudn't care less who this guy was.
In the beginning of 2001, i started to hang around the dopehouse studios, I grew close to everyone there, especially Jaime "Pain" Ortiz, and Coast. Coast was in the process of being signed on to the label as a solo artist. One day, he was working on what was to be the 1st song for that project, i had an idea for a hook (chorus). He liked my idea, and asked me if i wanted to record with him on the track. I had no prior experience working in a studio, let alone i hadnt really written music before; this was God opening doors for me; Coast and i had many common goals, we clicked because we saw qualities we desired in each other, he asked if i wanted to do the album with him, i agreed; how could i turn down an oppurtunity like that?; he also asked for me to be added to the contract. We dropped the Twin Beredaz self titled debut album, the rest is history.
In the summer of 2002, after promoting the Twin Beredaz album at a local club, driving home i was sideswiped by a vehicle on the highway. My cadillac ended up under the bed of an 18 wheeler, needless to say, my homie Ziggy; he's more like a younger brother to me; and i walked away without a scratch. I'm obviously here with a greater purpose, God has something great planned for all of us.
Its been a long road, but i'm on the right path, God has been my chauffeur. I owe this to him, the lyrics i have been blessed with are his, he is my ghostwriter. I will never step outside myself and look at any of my accomplishments like this is what i've done. I do not want to be known as a rapper,this is just what i do, i want to be known as a person. Rap is but a minor detail in my life, i love it, but not more than my life and the people who i can call my family and friends. This is what means the world to me.
You haters can't touch me. quit asking me if i feel you, stop fronting maybe we can get to know the real you. I'm gonna be on top so long you gone hurt your neck looking up, oh yeah don't forget to wipe the bird shit off your face mane. To everyone that has let me be a part of their lives, thank you, you are an inspiration, wthout you i woudn't be here. Its love.
The year is 1990. Ruben Reyes is 8 years
old and in the 3rd grade at Mendel Elementary, a small school in a northeast
Houston neighborhood named Epsom Downs. The class was assigned to read a
book titled 'Super Fudge'. Once finished with the book, the students were
instructed to gather in groups of three to write a song about the story.
"I can still remember to this day the niggas in my group. It was me, my
boy Jason, and my boy Jesus. I had never written a song before so I didn't
really know about bars, hooks, bridges or any kind of sequence. Needless
2 say, the shit was trash.but at least it all rhymed" (laughs). Ruben
continued writing raps on his own time. "Man I remeber being in recess hangin'
out with my classmates. We was talkin' about what we wanted to be when we
grew up. I heard a police officer, a fireman, a vetenarian, a teacher.
I said I wanted to be a rapper. One of my homeboys told me 'Man by the time
you're old enough to do that, nobodys gonna even be listening to rap anymore.'"
Ruben stayed practicing throughout junior high and high school. "I bought
myself a karaoke machine when I was in the 9th grade. I hooked it up ghetto
style to my cd player and recorded myself in my room. I would put like 10
songs together on some instrumentals and dubbed them on a shit load of tapes.
I started slangin' them in the MacArthur High parking lot. I was the only
one doing that type of hustlin'. After a while, I got niggas helpin' me
hustle at school. My boy David had a cousin who was try'na start his own
label, Richie Rich Records. They offered me a chance to record in a real
studio just so long as I provided the label with beats that I made on a
drum machine that I had recently bought." By this time, Ruben had already
aquired the name "Coast" because of a necklace that he wore that said '3rd
COAST'. "My first time in the studio, I felt like I had already blew up.
I felt at home. I was 17 years old feelin' like I was already a veteran."
A three song demo was recorded under the Richie Rich imprint. "Richie Rich
Records was very short-lived but I'm happy that I got that pportunity to
be there. Richie Rich Records is where I first met my boy Nelson. He and
I were the only two rappers at the label that weren't related to the ceo.
We had no choice but to stick together. Nelson had known a few guys from
Dope House Records and invited me to meet them at their studio." By this
time, Coast had just graduated high school and was ready to begin a career
in music. Jaime "Pain" Ortiz was engineering at the D.H.R. studio that night.
"Me and Nelson walked in and Pains got a beat playin'. I asked who was gonna
be rappin' on it and he told us that whoever wanted to get on it could.
I pulled out my notebook and started writing. I guess I impressed Pain cause
he invited me back after it was all over. I started jumpin' on more and
more songs and eventually, SPM heard my shit. After a couple of years of
proving my loyalty to the company, I was offered a deal." Coast had done
some recording with Quotakey, another artist who was trying to get recognition
from the company. Coast and Quota became inseperable inside and outside
of the studio. "Quota and I shared a common goal. We saw each other eye
to eye. So when I was offered my deal, I requested that Quota be signed
along with me. Dope House accepted my request and Twin Beredaz became the
newest group under SPM's wing.and we still here. I've spent my entire
life training myself to rap. Rappin' is all I know how to do. I'm lost without
this shit. When I was a kid, they told me that no one would still listen
to rap by the time I grew up. I thank God that they were wrong and I thank
my 3rd grade teacher for creating a monster." (laughs)
