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Chubb Rock
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Chubb Rock in 2019
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Richard Anthony Simpson[1] |
| Born | 28 May 1968 Kingston, Jamaica |
| Origin | Brooklyn, New York City, U.S. |
| Genres | East Coast hip hop |
| Years active | 1987–present |
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| Formerly of | Crooklyn Dodgers |
1990s and earlier
Chubb Rock was a member of the 1995 incarnation of the Crooklyn Dodgers, a hip hop act that also featured OC and Jeru the Damaja. His backup dancers started another group, A.T.E.E.M, which released its debut, A Hero Ain’t Nothin’ But A Sandwich, in 1992 on Select Records.
In 1996, he appeared on the Red Hot Organization‘s compilation album America is Dying Slowly, alongside Wu-Tang Clan, Coolio, and Fat Joe, among others. The album, meant to raise awareness of the AIDS epidemic among African American men, was heralded as a masterpiece by The Source magazine.
