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Birth name
  
Jamal Bush

Years active
  
1994–present

Role
  
Rapper

Name
  
Jamal Bush

Occupation(s)
  
Rapper

Labels
  
Duck Down Records

Genres
  
Hip hop music


Also known as
  
Rock, Big Rock, Tha Rockness Monstah, Bummee Jab, Alvin Katraz, Dutch, Tha Flipsta, BigRock Obama, Monstaman Rocko

Born
  
November 4, 1975 (age 48) (
1975-11-04
)

Origin
  
Brownsville, Brooklyn, New York City, New York

Music groups
  
Heltah Skeltah (1994 – 2015), Boot Camp Clik, The Fab 5

Albums
  
Nocturnal, Smif 'n' Wessun: Reloaded, The Chosen Few, Basic Training: Boot Cam, DIRT

Jamal Bush (born November 4, 1975), better known by his stage name Rock (or Big Rock, or alternatively The Rockness Monstah), is an American rapper, famous as a member of hip hop collective Boot Camp Clik and the duo Heltah Skeltah along with Sean Price. He is known for his deep, grimy voice and having a sophisticated and rugged flow.

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After releasing two albums with Heltah Skeltah, Nocturnal and Magnum Force, Rock left Duck Down Records and pursued a solo career. He signed to DJ Lethal's Lethal Records and recorded a solo album titled Planet Rock, which was never released after the label folded. He didn't make an appearance on the Clik's 2002 group album The Chosen Few, being the only member of the "Great 8" not to appear.

He made his official return to Duck Down in 2005, making appearances on Sean Price's Monkey Barz album and Smif-N-Wessun's Smif 'N' Wessun: Reloaded album. He's performed songs for a variety of video games including "I Am Rock" for Need for Speed: Most Wanted, "This Is Me" for Blitz The League II and "I Am Rock" for NFL Street 2. He and the Boot Camp released their third group album, The Last Stand, on July 18, 2006.

Rock has admitted being an 80's Brooklyn Decepticons gang member, along with fellow Heltah Skeltah group-member Sean Price and Onyx rapper Sticky Fingaz. On January 15, 2008, Rock was arrested for an assault and attempted murder charge after he allegedly gunned down a rival while working as a pimp. He was released on a $125,000 bail about a week later on January 24, 2008. Court reports show Rock's manager Ben Aubin of BAM posted bond for the rapper's release. Mr. Aubin has categorically denied any confirmation of his client moonlighting as a pimp.

The legal trouble seems not to have affected his career as a rapper, as Heltah Skeltah returned to the studio to record their third album, D.I.R.T., which was released on September 30, 2008.

Mixtapes

2003 - The Best of Rock (The AWOL Soldier)
2004 - The Best of Rock Volume 2 (Veteranz Day)
2008 - Shell Shock
2010 - Rockin Out West
2013 - Half Man Half A-Monsta

Boot Camp Clik albums

1997 - For the People
2006 - The Last Stand
2007 - Casualties of War

Singles

  • 1996: Leflaur Leflah Eshkoshka (featuring O.G.C.) / Letha Brainz Blo
  • 1996: Operation Lock Down / Da Wiggy
  • 1996: Therapy (featuring Vinia Mojica) / Place to Be
  • 1998: I Ain't Havin That (featuring Starang Wondah) / Worldwide (Rock the World)
  • 1998: Brownsville II Long Beach (featuring Tha Dogg Pound) / Gunz 'N Onez (Iz U Wit Me) (featuring Method Man)
  • 2008: Everything Is Helthah Skeltah (featuring The Loudmouf Choir)
  • 2008: Ruck n Roll
  • Features on other projects

  • 1999: - "Underground Tactics" (feat. Heltah Skeltah, Crooked i and Planet Asia from the album This or That by Sway & King Tech)
  • 2000: - "No Chance" (with Redman feat. Peanut Butter Wolf) from the album WWF Aggression)
  • 2002: - "We Don't Give a Fuck" (from Law-N-Orda album Ground Zero)
  • 2005: - "My Timbz do Work" (feat. Heltah Skeltah) (from the Smif-n-Wessun album Reloaded)
  • 2005: - "Get Back" (feat. Heltah Skeltah, Buckshot, Louieville, Top Dog) (from the Smif-n-Wessun album Reloaded)
  • 2007: - "Stomp" (feat. Joell Ortiz) (from the Smif-n-Wessun album Smif-n-Wessun: The Album)
  • 2008: - "Can't Trust 'Em" (from the Grand Theft Auto IV: Liberty City Invasion soundtrack by DJ Green Lantern)
  • 2010: - "Just Gimme The Money" (from the [dead] P.o.e.t.s. album Front Toward Enemy)
  • 2010: - "Take Money" (feat. Freddie Foxxx) (from the Marco Polo & Ruste Juxx album The eXXecution)
  • 2011: - "Another One" (feat. Trick Trick) (from the Random Axe album by Black Milk, Guilty Simpson and Sean Price)
  • Songs

    Operation Lock Down
    Leflaur Leflah Eshkosha
    BK All Day
    Therapy
    Gang's All Here
    Smack Muzik
    Think Back
    Secrets of War
    DIRT
    So Damn Tuff
    Military Minds
    Ape Food
    Letha Brainz Blo
    That's Tough
    Illa Noyz
    Just Watching
    Headz Ain't Ready
    Thug Pound
    Leflah
    Magnum Force
    Ruck n Roll
    I Ain't Havin That
    Thug Nigga
    Gunz `N Onez
    Worldwide
    Undastand
    Everything Is Heltah Skeltah
    Sean Price
    Clan’s - Posse’s - Crew’s & Clik’s
    Grate Unknown
    Prowl
    The Art of Disrespekinazation

    References

    Rock (rapper) Wikipedia