Rashaad “Shaadie” Nunnally is a 23 year-old from the 12 hundred Griffin Drive block on the Crestside streets of North Vallejo. He is a father, athlete, musician, comedian & all around fun character to know & be around. He was raised as the only child by his single mother and grandparents. After the divorce of his parents at the age of two, and an incident of almost being shot along with his father while in his arms during an altercation between his father and the brother of his girlfriend in a hotel, his mother was forced to leave the city of Lemoore where they were leaving. Because of this Shaadie and his mother were homeless with only the clothes on their back and had to move in with his grandparents on the 12 hundred block of Griffin drive in the North Vallejo neighborhood of the Country Club Crest before finally getting a rented place of their own in the ex-drug house next door. While growing up on the streets of The Crest, he also spent a great deal of time back south growing up in Georgia & North Carolina which is the hub of both sides of his family. With this he has seen and been apart of many different types of people & struggles. Along from having the good clean image as an athletic school-boy, he’s still the black sheep of the family because of his unknown street life and separate views of importance from his military raised mother & grandparents. Because of his size, Shaadie learned to carry his own by fighting off his enemies and being known for not being messed with because of the things that he can do, and because of the following he had that would also inflict their own forms of justice. So along with the Bay Area swag which was his everyday life, he also grew up with a southern fried swag as well. During his youth Shaadie excelled in many sports such as: football, baseball & track & field. Along with his athletic talent Shaadie always had a musical & entertainment talent as well. He was known as the class clown, as well as a rapper & comedian all over the city of Vallejo at every school he attended. He found that he had a talent to not only put words together in a rhyming fashion, but also have the ability to quick wittedly include the things he saw in the moment while wowing his audience and also making them laugh. Not only was he able to create lyrics & songs, he also was able to create the music and found that with a musical lesson ever taken he can play songs by ear on the piano. After living in Vallejo since the age of two, and traveling back and forth between California, Georgia & North Carolina he then moved to Sacramento because of his mothers job change. After moving from Vallejo to Sacramento in 2003, and graduating in 2004, he signed a full track & field scholarship to UC Berkeley where attended until 2007 before leaving to regroup as well as give more time to his music. While at UC Berkeley, he ran in to old child hood friends from the pop warner days; Marshawn Lynch, Robert Jordan & Virdell Larkins. Once the distant cousins clicked up, the rest is history; they all collectively made the patented “twist-n-hook” hand signal to represent the Fam1ly F1rst movement that they al believed in and lived. And with the popularity of Money Lynch & Mr. Jordan on the Cal football field & now members of the Buffalo Bills & San Francisco 49ers, the entire Fam1ly F1rst movement is becoming better known by the minute. And Shaadie is not only a Fam1ly F1rst representative, but he also 1/4th founder of the twist-n-hook.

Caponiac is a rap artist Hailing from the central coast of California,who’s past success includes a hit single titled the D.A. B.O.M.B. that peaked at #5 on the billboard’s hot 100 in 2002.Due to numerous run ins with the law ,he was never able to get his career back on track.Now that he’s back on the right track,and in high demand on the central coast,He’s at it again with songs touchin all bases!!!

http://www.myspace.com/caponiac

Artist Ale-Jhay is far from what you would call a “typical rapper”. Born in Inglewood,Ca and raised in the city and surrounding areas, Joseph LaCount Bowman a.k.a. Ale-Jhay has been through many phases of his music career and is still in the works to establish himself as a aspiring artist. Starting off with just a mp3 player and his mother’s dell desktop, Ale-Jhay made mixes and edits of his favorite artists and sold mix cd’s of his mixes at his high school. His hobby, as he called it, was nothing more than passing time; and it wasn;t until his senior year of high school when he was accepted into the Cal State University system that he began to take his musical interests seriously. After acquiring the music software Fruity Loops, Ale-Jhay began learning the in’s and out’s of the software by trial and error, working with fellow classmates and friends he would eventually meet in college to start off his music portfolio. During his freshman year of college, Ale-Jhay linked up with the two man group E-V-A, which was composed of Dedrick “DC” Allen and Cameron Wilson coming from the Bay Area, and it has been history since then. The group E-V-A has a small but supportive fan base locally and internationally, and has performed shows in the Bay Area and So Cal. Aside from his work with his group, Ale-Jhay also works with many other artists, from established artists such as Ft. Lauderdale’s Jay Burna and Cleveland-born artist Mean to european production companies such as Rhythm Girls who are based in Russia. Ale-Jhay has released many mixtapes and EP projects and is currently in the works of his first album.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ale-Jhay/128696496503

Korland KJ Sims was born in Vallejo, CA on May 19th, 1994. After playing saxophone and piano for a couple of years, and also participating in a hip hop dance group, he became very serious about hip hop music. In 2006, at the age of 12, he formed the hip hop music group Chrome Cats, which also included his sister, cousin, and two of his sisters friends. He wrote over 20 songs that summer but only had the chance to record a few. After the summer ended, it was harder for him and his sister to team up the other members in the group due to school and schedules. So Korland continued writing and recording songs with his sister.

Jamila Sims was born February 20th 1997 in Vallejo, CA. She loved dancing, which brought her to Dance Unlimited studios in Vallejo. Over the course of 3 years, she learned tap, ballet, and hip hop. She performed at various dance events and won many trophies and ribbons. In 2006 the Chrome Cats music group was formed, which enabled Jamila to add to her love of entertaining, as a founding member of the group. Jamila continues to contribute both lead and background vocals.

http://www.facebook.com/chromecats