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NAAM Brigade
Biography
Formerly known as Task Force, the NAAM Brigade was a hardcore rap outfit that came out of Philadelphia in the '90s. NAAM has several full-time members, including Sonni Blak, Eyse da SupaStar, Rambo, and Meek Millz; but like New Jersey's Wu-Tang Clan, NAAM has had an extended family of MCs and allies. In fact, there are some parallels between NAAM's thugged-out rhymes and comparable East Coast outfits like Wu-Tang and Queens, NY's Mobb Deep. But NAAM tends to be more dark-humored, and unlike Wu-Tang, it doesn't get into martial arts imagery.

The members of NAAM grew up in a rough, impoverished ghetto neighborhood of Southwest Philly, where they formed a clique and often engaged in microphone battles with rival MCs. Not all sections of Southwest Philly are dangerous high-crime areas, but where NAAM's members lived, poverty, drugs, and violent crime were harsh realities. In those days -- when NAAM was still going by Task Force -- the outfit's core members were Sonni, Eyse, Rambo, and the late Q-Don, although there were plenty of neighborhood rappers who were down with their clique and helped them battle on the microphone. After selling mix tapes in their neighborhood for a few years, the crew signed with Elektra in 1998 as Task Force.
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