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- "Los Yo Yais"
The
sound of a hip hop beat being played out by a fist pounding
& a hand slapping against the surface of a Taft High School
cafeteria table in the Bronx, brings together two of NYC's
most well respected underground Latin Hip Hop/Reggeton Artists;
Shown Black & NP Killah, who come together to form "Los
Yo Yais". Independently, Los Yo Yais, have sold and promoted
their street credible mix tapes throughout the NY, NJ, CT
areas. NYC's underground has given birth to many of mainstream
Hip Hop's top artists but none as hard core yet melodic as
"Los Yo Yais". The oxymoronic combination of the
hard hitting lyrics of NP Killah and the unique, sultry, melodic
voice of Shown Blk sets them aside from the rest of the underground
up comers.
NP
Killah's rap style is straight forward and to the point with
slick and witty punch lines setting him aside from his competitors.
Born, Christian Hernandez in Cristo Rey, Dominican Republic.
NP Killah spent is younger days between school and his families
bread business. The first part of NP Killah's name (NP) came
from his days of peddling bread on the streets of Sabana Perdida
dubbing him "Niño Pan". At the age of 14
NP's family moved to the United States to pursue a better
life style for him and his two brothers. In 1995 NP enrolls
in, what was at the time, one of New Yorks most notorious
and quite possibly the worst high school in the country, Tafft
High School in the Bronx. After an encounter with one of his
classmates at the time by the name of "Baby Fresh",
NP realizes his talent for music and the art of rhyming lyrics
that speak about the streets and his up bringing in his native
country. He began to make a name for him self by rapping in
the cafeteria at lunch time and battling every day after school
with the other wanna-be rappers. After linking up with DJ
Mafa, NP begins putting together songs over hip hop instrumentals
and puts out the first of many mix tapes which catapult Los
Yo Yais street credibility.
Shown
Black, also known as Juan Carlos Catala, the vocalist of the
duo, brings to the table an original style of R&B/Balada
with a hard twist of Hip Hop/Reggeton. Shown Black was raised
between the streets of New York City and Santiago in the Dominican
Republic. As a teenager Shown Black experimented with the
arts and song writing by taking part in school talent shows,
street festivals and other small private venues to perform
his songs. It was never his intention to make a living out
of entertaining a crowd it was done for the pure love of music.
Many would applaud him for his talent and suggest that he
take it seriously but it wasn’t something in his plans
at the time. During the summer of 2004 touring with a local
NYC group. After a show one night his high school friends
and now partner NP Killah approached Shown Black and invited
him to his studio to hang out and check out some new material
he was working on. Upon listening to a few tracks NP played
they agreed on working on a few of the tracks for a mix tape.
Shown Black finished the summer tour and began to work on
a project with NP Killah as “Los Yo Yais”.
This
dynamic duo is poised to break the stereotype of what Spanish
Hip Hop and Reggeton should be or sound like. One way to best
describe their style is “spectacularly versatile”.
Already with a strong following thanks to the Yo Yais Mix
tape series, Los Yo Yais burn up the stage at every venue
that is privileged to be entertained by their performance.
Under the management of Nelson Frias, Shown Black and NP Killah’s
talent was rewarded when they became official members of Wu-Tang
Latino Family, headed by Rayroq Acosta, in May of 2005. With
their smash hit single “Mamita Ven” on the Wu-Latino
Album titled “Quemando el Genero”, due out in
the first quarter of 2006, Los Yo Yais will prove to the music
world that they are a force to be reckoned with.
http://wu-tanglatino.com/LosYoYais.html
