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A member of tha Dogg Pound, rapper Kurupt (a.k.a. Tha Kingpin, Kalhoon and Young Gotti) was born Ricardo Brown in Philadelphia in 1972. He moved to South Central L.A. when he was seventeen and engaged in a freestyle battle with a young upstart named Snoop Rock. Snoop Dogg got Kurupt to attend a party for the formation of Death Row Records, where Dr. Dre asked him to do a freestyle about Suge Knight and signed him on the spot.Appearances on Dr. Dre's 1992 classic The Chronic and Snoop's 1993 debut Doggystyle followed before {Kurupt} teamed with Daz Dillinger to form tha Dogg Pound, debuting in 1995 with Dogg Food; upon co-founding the ANTRA label, he made his solo debut in 1998 with Kuruption. Just prior to the release of his 1999 sophomore effort Tha Streetz Iz a Mutha, Kurupt made headlines when his bodyguard was shot to death in front of the Los Angeles studio where the rapper was recording.
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