B.G. Knocc Out & Dresta - ./K (Dogg Pound Killa)

From the 1995 Album: “Real Brothas“...(Click “show more“ for artist info).. Real Brothas is the debut album of rappers’ B.G. Knocc Out and Dresta, released in 1995. The album includes the minor hits “./K“, “Jealousy“ and the Eazy-E-dedicated song “50/50 Luv“. “./K“ was the B-side to “50/50 Luv“ and was also a diss track towards Death Row artists Snoop Doggy Dogg, Dr. Dre, Dat Nigga Daz, Kurupt and Nate Dogg. Music videos were made for ““, “50/50“, and “Jealousy“. A music video for “Compton Swangin’“ was made but never released. The album sold approximately 250,000 copies without any promotional advertising. The album had been out of print and sought after for many years, but on December 2, 2014 the album was re-released in Japan. Al Hassan Naqiyy (born Arlandis Hinton; January 23, 1975), better known by his stage name B.G. Knocc Out, is an American rapper known for collaborating with Eazy-E on the 1993 single “Real Muthaphuckkin G’s“. He is also the younger brother of rapper Dresta, who also collaborated in the song. Hinton was born and raised in Compton, California, he and his brother Dresta became Crips , affiliated with Nutty Blocc Compton Crips (W/S) set. Eazy-E, a rapper from Compton, eventually discovered the brothers, met up and recorded songs with them. B.G. Knocc Out (Hinton) and Dresta (Wicker) signed to Ruthless with Eazy-E. They both appeared on Eazy-E’s 1993 multi-platinum EP It’s On (Dr. Dre) 187um Killa on the single “Real Muthaphukkin G’s“. The song itself was a response to Dr. Dre’s and Snoop Dogg’s various disses towards Eazy-E on The Chronic. In 1995, B.G. Knocc Out and Dresta released their debut album Real Brothas, which remains their only album to date. At end of the same year, they made 3 guest appearances in Eazy-E’s posthumous album Str8 off tha Streetz of Muthaphukkin Compton. The following year in 1996 he appeared on DJ Yella’s debut solo album One Mo Nigga Ta Go. Hinton was sentenced to ten to twelve years in prison for gang-related attempted murder in 1998. He converted to Islam in prison and was released in August 2006. He later changed his name to Al Hasan Naqiyy. On September 2007, his website confirmed reports that he was incarcerated again for parole violation. He was released again in 2009 and released an album called Eazy-E’s Protege during the summer of 2011. He then had plans to release an album titled Nutty By Nature sometime in 2012, but was cancelled after becoming religious and starting the Hajj, an Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca and the largest gathering of Muslim people in the world. The title, Nutty By Nature, is a reference to the block he was raised on, Nutty Block in Compton, CA. Andre DeSean Wicker (born May 5, 1971), better known by his stage name Dresta, is an American rapper known for collaborating with Eazy-E on the 1993 single “Real Muthaphuckkin G’s“. He is also the older brother of rapper B.G. Knocc Out, who also collaborated in the song. Andre Wicker was born and raised in Compton, California. He and his brother Arlandis Hinton became Crips gang members. They were affiliated with Nutty Blocc Compton Crips set. He was convicted of assaulting another gang member in Compton in 1988, and was incarcerated at the California Youth Authority in Camarillo until 1993. While Wicker was serving his five-year sentence, he started writing lyrics and rapping, gaining some notoriety. Within months of Wicker’s release, he and Hinton collaborated with Eazy-E to record Real Muthaphukkin G’s. Dresta (Wicker) and B.G. Knocc Out (Hinton) signed to Ruthless Records with Eazy-E. They both appeared on the Eazy’s 1993 multi-platinum EP It’s On (Dr. Dre) 187um Killa on the single “Real Muthaphuckkin G’s“ (which was censored to “Real Compton City G’s“ in order to garner MTV and radio airplay). The song itself was a response to Dr. Dre’s and Snoop Dogg’s various ’diss’ records towards Eazy-E on The Chronic. In 1995, Dresta and B.G. Knocc Out released their debut album Real Brothas, which remains their only album to date. At the end of the same year, they made three guest appearances in Eazy-E’s posthumous album Str8 off tha Streetz of Muthaphukkin Compton. After B.G. Knocc Out’s incarceration in 1998, Dresta worked with Death Row Records. Dresta appeared on two tracks from Death Row’s Too Gangsta for Radio compilation, but never actually signed to the label. Dresta stated in an interview that he is currently working on Dirty West mixtape series and on upcoming solo album, hinting possibility of Real Brothas to get re-released. Dresta also wrote a song for Dr. Dre’s album Detox, but Dre didn’t want to collaborate with him. He criticized Dr. Dre for surrounding himself with mediocre artists and the numerous delays of his Detox album.