While Emanon was Blacc's primary project during this time period, he additionally toured and recorded with the members of the collective Lootpack and worked with the French jazz group Jazz Liberatorz. A fourth album, Bird's Eye View, was recorded but shelved, it is unknown if the material was reworked into their 2016 reunion album Dystopia. They subsequently released six projects, the demo album Imaginary Friends (1996), a compilation Steps Through Time (2001) the albums The Waiting Room (2005) and Dystopia (2016) and EPs Acid 9 (1998) and Anon & On (2002) respectively. With break-beat loops and jazz samples, Emanon became a mainstay of the indie rap underground, and released their first mixtape in 1996, followed by the EP Acid 9 in 1999. In 1995, Blacc teamed with hip hop producer Exile and formed Emanon - 'no name' backwards-which was inspired by the title of the Dizzy Gillespie song "Emanon". He worked briefly in the corporate sector for Ernst & Young. "It wasn't too far off from the trumpet moment.I had a hip hop moment and a musician moment." Ī Renaissance and Trustee Scholar at the University of Southern California, Blacc majored in linguistics and psychology and graduated in 2001. His exposure to LL Cool J in fourth grade was equally significant. I couldn't just do it to get out of the class room," he said in a 2010 interview. When it made more sense to buy the instrument, Blacc had what he later described as a "very specific moment" in his evolution as a musician. Growing up in Laguna Hills, he began playing a rented trumpet in third grade.
2.4 2012–present: Major label debut Lift Your Spiritīlacc was born Egbert Nathaniel Dawkins III to Panamanian parents in Southern California's Orange County.
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