TRACKLISTING

01. Ground Breaking
02. Strength
03. Lady Venom
04. Front Street
05. Bless + Destroy
06. Counter Parts ft. Iriscience & Evidence
07. Circuit Breaker
08. Out Of Range
09. Bottle Rocket ft. Evidence
10. Assault + Battery
11. Valentine’s Day Massacre ft. Thirdrail Vic, Saafir & Big Nose
12. S+M On The Rocks
13. Committed ft. Son Doobie
14. Left Field ft. Del Tha Funkee Homosapien & Unicorn
15. Brace Yourself
16. Horrified Nights
17. Battle Axe Experiment ft. Evidence
18. Consumption ft. Aceyalone

Swollen Members was founded in the mid-1990s by Vancouverites Mad Child (Shane Bunting), Prevail (Kiley Hendriks), and Moka Only (Daniel Denton). Having begun a solo career while living in San Francisco, California, Mad Child returned to Vancouver to work. There he met Prevail and Moka Only, who had been working together. They joined together under the name Swollen Members. In 1997, Mad Child and Prevail went to the B-Boy Summit in San Diego, California, where Mad Child won several rap battles and was initiated into the Rock Steady Crew. The crew is held in great respect as hip hop’s highest collective – to join one must win a contest of skill against one of the highest ranked members. Swollen Members is one of only three rap groups affiliated with Rock Steady, Others include Dilated Peoples and The Arsonists. Their first releases were three 12″ singles on Mad Child’s record label Battleaxe Records, between the years of 1996 and 1998, then came the debut album Balance in 1999. Balance received wide critical acclaim and has been claimed by the band to have sold in excess of 50000 copies. Featuring collaborations with artists such as Everlast, Divine Styler, and Dilated Peoples, the album received the 2001 Juno Award for Best Rap Recording.

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