YOUNG DOE

Always outspoken and ambitious, Charles "Young Doe aka Charles Truth" McClure has grown up Hip Hop. As a youngster you could find him beat boxing and break dancing, a true product of the eighties.Then at age 10 he started rapping. Even at this tender adolescent age he was very business minded and realized he could put his beat boxing and rhyming to use as an artist. Young Dozja, as he was called back then, produced his first beat when he was 12. Three years later he joined forces with Boozilla and they created the Elite empire. A street savvy teenager who could write, rap, produce and record music in his own studio even caught the attention of Underground legend CBO at age 15 who promised to sign him.



However, Young Doe was arrested and sentenced to serve time in a juvenile facility where he and Travis "Analiza Slim" Veasley created MNLD or the mob. MNLD means M.O.B Niggas Livin Decent. M.O.B means money over bitches a philosophy that became a core value to the group. When the two were released in 1997 they dropped what some consider to be the best compilation ever: Street Stars Affiliated. This was the first retail ready CD that anyone in the Montbello community they lived in had ever produced. Prior to the CD Held Back in the Game cassette tapes and t-shirts were being sold at Montbello High School and the buzz around MNLD just swelled. Riding off the success of the first two projects in 1998 Somethin Terrible hit. Young Doe's very first solo album Somethin Terrible put him on center stage. He continued to produce most of MNLD's tracks and completed a duet with Analiza Slim entitled, Controversy before getting incarcerated in a federal penitentiary.



While in the federal institution, he was able to have his Starvation and Times is Real album released with the help of good friend and fellow bandmate Cac and other members of the mob. In 2004, after serving 4 years he re-entered society ready to get back on the grind and prove that he was a hard hitter. He wrote a novel in jail and several stories that he was able to get published including his award winning book Welcome to the Maze. Tragically MNLD members Cac and Ike were shot in September of 2005. Cac's injuries proved to be fatal and Ike was left temporarily paralyzed. With two of his best friends unable to chase the dream they all had envisioned, Young Doe stood up and took the lead by dropping some much needed mob music.



Broken Home was his first album to hit streets in a few years and once again he was actively promoting the CD and DVD combination with everything from fliers to t-shirts and cigars. This Montbello merchandising maintained the staus quo as well as promoted the entire Elite Entertainment Group.The I'm So Fresh mixtape with DJ Ktone gave him a larger audience and he followed that up with an unprecedented move. He released an album and novel called Welcome to the Maze both which were sold separately but were an essential part of the package and movement that Elite Entertainment had become.

In 2006 Elite went on a promotional tour across the country stopping in Georgia, the Carolina's, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Missouri with acts such as Crime Mob, Fabalous and more. He has collaborated with top notch artists such as Young Noble, Bizzy Bone, Killa Tay, CBO, Rich the Factor, Marvaless, Jacka, Sky Balla and 4ize. He also has a strong stage background, performing live with Young Buck and CBO and opening up for T.I. Rick Ross, Twista,Trillville, Bonecrusher and Devin the dude. A Montbelllo Mogul like Russell Simmons, Young Doe has proved he is a hard working driven young man who refuses to stop making music and money.



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ME AT 15 YRS OLD IN MY LAB.MOMA'S BASEMENT. I BEEN IN THIS SHIT



YOUNG DOE, NUCHIE & RYDAH J KLYDE



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