Tame One & Parallel Thought

A fervent supporter of graffiti art and a graf artist himself, Tame One broke into rap music with the New Jersey rap group the Artifacts in the early '90s. Born Rahem Brown, he and El Da Sensei were enthusiastically praised for their graffiti-honoring debut, "Wrong Side of da Tracks," and the following album Between a Rock and a Hard Place (1994). After the two broke up in the late '90s, Tame One went several years without making any substantial material. He did work with his Boom Skwad crew and independently released a few 12" singles. In late 2001, he aligned himself with fo...