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A complete list of all the projects that Brainwash has been involved with over the years.
Stockton 187
Stockton's Most Wanted
1989
Underground Tape
X-A-Q Shunn Muzick / A-Bomb Records / Vicious Groove
Genre: Gangsta Rap
Group Member, Producer, Rapper, Writer, Co-Executive Producer
Group:
Brainwash (Da Kid), DJ Mista Vicious, DJ Gangsta-D, Boss,
T-Spoon, Killa Gram, Walnutt, Plan B, A-Bomb, Shaun Da Mac
At only 12 years old, Brainwash recorded/released his first tape with his group, Stockton 187.
Track Listing:
1. 187 In Progress
2. Sick Ass Intro
3. Car Jackin'
4. Dream About The Devil
5. Da Muthafuckin' Kid
6. Finga On The Trigga
7. Fuckin' Witta G
8. Gangsta Shit
9. Hamaside Storyz
10. It Don't Stop
11. Right About Now
Welcome 2 Stockton
Brainwash (Da Kid)
1990
Underground Tape
X-A-Q Shunn Muzick
Genre: Gangsta Rap
Rapper, Producer, Writer, Executive Producer
Features:
SMC, Mista Vicious
A year after recording the Stockton 187 record, Brainwash decided to break-off & drop his 1st solo underground tape.
Track Listing:
1. Welcome 2 Stockton
2. Da Mothafuckin' Kid (remix)
3. Cruisin'
4. 209 Souljah (original)
5. Caught Slippin' (acapella)
6. Commercial
7. Mafia Style
8. The Omen
9. 209 Wayz 2 Die
10. Liquor Store
11. The Resurrection
12. Welcome 2 Stockton (extended)
13. Caught Slippin'
14. On The Prowl (outro)
Brainwash (Da Kid)
Poltergeist
1992
Underground Tape
X-A-Q Shunn Muzick
Genre: Gangsta Rap, Horror-Movie Rap
Rapper, Producer, Writer, Executive Producer
Features:
SMC, Mista Vicious
Brainwash's 2nd solo underground tape started to show early signs of what his style would soon become a few years later.
Track Listing:
1. Back From The Dead
2. Brain Dead
3. Night of the Living Dead
4. Redrum
5. Shitz Gettin' Deep
6. Str8 Game
7. That's How We Do It
8. The Omen
9. The Revolution
10. When They Come 4 Me
11. SMC 4 Life (freestyle)
Death Around The Corner
Brainwash (Da Kid)
1994
Underground Tape
X-A-Q Shunn Muzick
Genre: Gangsta Rap, Horror-Movie Rap
Rapper, Producer, Writer, Executive Producer
Features:
8-Ball (aka Crazy-8 aka The Black Rhino), SMC, Mista Vicious, Distinct (aka Icarus Jones)
Brainwash's final solo underground tape as "Da Kid" featured production by a new connection who would become his music mentor until his death in 2012 - Crazy-8 aka 8-Ball aka The Black Rhino.
Track Listing:
1. DATC (intro)
2. Here Comes The Pain
3. Iz It Cool 2 Fuck?
4. The Virus
5. Leave a Message
6. Leave This Place (freestyle)
7. My So-Called Homiez
8. The Omen
9. Sick In The Head (original)
10. The People vs. Brainwash
11. Murderous Mentality (original)
12. Foreva Holdja Piece
13. 209 Souljah
14. They Told Me I Was Nutz
SMC
Stockton Mafia Click
1994
Underground Tape
X-A-Q Shunn Muzick
Genre: Gangsta Rap, Horror-Movie Rap
Group Member, Rapper, Producer, Writer, Executive Producer
Group:
Brainwash, J-Dogg, Young C-Bone, Snipe, Killa Gram,
Gangsta-D, Mista Vicious
Brainwash & his group, SMC, did this underground tape between the years of 1993-1994 and it was compiled in 1994 as an underground release.
Track Listing:
1. Rising From The Grave
2. My Shrink Told Me
3. Got Me Paranoid
4. Reasons
5. Buried Alive
6. You Wanna Kill Me
7. Runnin' From The Po-Pos
8. Bloody Butcha Knife
9. Filthy Ass Rhymez (remix)
10. Underage Drinkin'
11. Poltergeist
12. Underground Sickness
13. Broccoli & Swamp Water (outro)
Skitsofrenic
Brainwash
1996
Studio Album
X-A-Q Shunn Muzick
Genre: Gangsta Rap, Horror-Movie Rap
Rapper, Producer, Writer, Executive Producer
Features:
8-Ball (aka Crazy-8 aka The Black Rhino), D-Cal, Koid, Pam Harris, Mr. Music
Brainwash's debut studio album, "Skitsofrenic", came outta nowhere in 1996 and became an instant classic - it's a part of any true rap fan's music collection. Full of hard gangsta rap and crazy horror-movie styles that so many rappers began to copy and mostly produced by The Black Rhino (Crazy-8 / 8-Ball).
Track Listing:
1. Interview WItta Sycoepath
2. Brainwashed
3. Rampage
4. The Seventh Sign
5. Welcome 2 My Mind
6. Blood Thirsty
7. Sick In The Head
8. Three Strikes
9. Slippin' In The Darkness
10. Phone Check
11. Behind Enemy Lines
12. Murderous Mentality
13. No Vest
14. Russian Roulette
The Movie
LOST
1997
Independent Film
Regrettable Productions
Drama
As Lead Role: "Quasi", also soundtrack contributor
Starring:
Brainwash, Jake O'Cellaigh, Mark Myers, Cynthia Morales
Written, Directed & Produced by Ronny Wyatt
After his debut album "Skitsofrenic" blew up (particularly the hit single "Slippin In The Darkness"), Brainwash was contacted by an indy filmmaker for permission to use the song in his film & was also commissioned to record a new title track for the soundtrack as well. Brainwash agreed & showed up to the set, where he was also invited to read for a small role. His natural acting talent shone and the filmmakers asked him to star as the lead in the film, even though he had never before acted. The film was made by a former writer for both Saturday Night Live & the Conan O'Brien talk show - but it's not a comedy, it's a dark look at some wanna-be confused kids who get into too much shit in the course of a weekend to get out without dire consequences being handed down.
Side story, Brainwash began dating co-star Cynthia after the film wrapped & would bring a bunch of the cast along with him to create his own movie just a year later.
The movie went on to several film festivals and even won Brainwash a Best New Actor in an Independent or Short award.
Tracks Performed On The Soundtrack:
"Lost"
"Slippin In The Darkness"
RAZOR BLADES & BLOODY BATHWATER
Brainwash
1997
Underground Release
X-A-Q Shunn Muzick
Genre: Horror-Movie Rap
Rapper, Producer, Writer, Executive Producer
As Brainwash was working on the "Lost" movie, his fans were clamoring for new music but he had none for them, so he put together a collection of previously unreleased tracks from the vaults, that focused on Brainwash's trademark "horror movie rap" style and were recorded between the years 1992-1996 (most of them never even intended for release) and dropped them on this underground release to tide the fans over until he could record some new music.
Track Listing:
1. 199666 (The Devil's Own)
2. Copycat Killa
3. Brain Food
4. Wet Dreamz
5. Acid Trippin'
6. Serial Maddness
7. Sycoe Driven
8. Straight Crazy
9. Therapy
10. Nightmare on Governor Circle
11. Sewasidal Tendinceez
12. Repossessed
13. Twisted
14. Sick Man
The Movie
SMOKED OUT
1998
Independent Film
Sykadelik Films
Comedy
As Writer, Director, Producer, Camera Operator, Assistant Editor, Executive Producer, Supporting Role: "Kevin", also Soundtrack Contributor, Producer, Executive Producer
Starring:
Jerome Arrington, Jake O'Cellaigh, Brian Thompson, Mark Myers, Brainwash, Mark Davis, Curt Davis, Cynthia Morales
Written, Directed & Produced by Brainwash
Following Brainwash's debut acting role in 1997's "Lost", he decided to try his hand in indy filmmaking and created the "no-budget movie" cult classic called "Smoked Out" - a drug-based comedy about a couple potheads Jerome & Brian and the adventures they go through during a few day stretch and the crazy characters they interact with (like Bobby the hallucinagenic shermhead, Junior the drug dealer, Mark the tweaker & others). Brainwash also makes an appearance in a few memorable scenes as the one who can't handle his weed and winds-up passed out for most of the film.
For this movie, Brainwash enlisted some of the actors from the "Lost" movie including Jake O'Cellaigh, Mark Myers, Cynthia Morales & the filmmaker himself Ronny Wyatt. The film was extremely low budget and despite the fact that Brainwash hated the final edit (which was done by former "Network" and "Alf" editor Fred Harbott), he released a limited edition of these on VHS. The soundtrack, which featured some new music by Brainwash, wasn't released until The Director's Cut came out in 2003, but most of the tracks Brainwash would put out on his upcoming album the next year & on other projects as well.
POLITICS
Brainwash
1998
Underground Release
X-A-Q Shunn Muzick
Genre: Gangsta Rap
Rapper, Producer, Writer, Executive Producer
Features:
Crazy-8 / 8-Ball aka "The Black Rhino", Koid, Lunatik
Just like the year prior, as Brainwash's fans were clamoring for a new album - he was busy making movies and hadn't had much time to hit the studio. He did drop a bunch of tracks on the "Smoked Out" soundtrack, but most of those were older underground songs and instrumentals and just wasn't the brand-new studio album that fans were waiting for. So, as he did the year before, he grabbed a bunch of unreleased underground tracks from the vaults and this time put together a collection of gangsta rap songs on a limited release underground CD called "Politics". Though these songs are old (and some of them not the greatest quality, having been recorded between 1992-1996 in most cases), there are nevertheless some gems on this disc - including Brainwash's 1st ever "real studio" recording and collab with mentor/friend Crazy-8 / 8-Ball "The Black Rhino" called "Smiling Faces".
This was released to tide fans over until his new album could be recorded and promised it would be out soon.
Track Listing:
1. Rearisen (intro)
2. Fatal Attraction
3. First Time Be The Last Time
4. At The Gates
5. Shake The Snakes
6. Turbulence
7. Last Transaction
8. Welcome 2 Stockton (remix)
9. Smiling Faces
10. Sticky Situation
11. Till Death Do Us Part
12. The Money Made Me Do It
13. How It All Began
14. Another Day In The Life
15. Friendz
16. Paper View
Koid
LEFT 4 DEAD
1998
Underground Release
X-A-Q Shunn Muzick
Guest Rapper, Writer, Producer, Executive Producer
Features:
Brainwash, Lunatik, Mr. Peebodie ("Mac Marc"), J. Tru$ of Planet Mongrel, Mike D of COPS
As Koid was still in prison following his 1996 conviction, Brainwash wanted to make sure his name stayed alive out there until his release, so he collected all of Koid's unreleased underground tracks and put them together on this limited run underground CD called "Left 4 Dead" (Da Undaground Shit).
Track Listing:
1. Here Come The Real
2. In This Game That We Play
3. In These Ghetto Streets
4. Sticky Situation (remix)
5. How It Started (live from CYA)
6. It Aint No Thang (remix)
7. Hustla 4 Life
8. It Aint No Thang
9. Sticky Situation (original)
10. Stay Up K-Oss (live from CYA)
11. Tryna Keep Me Trapped
12. How Real It Is
13. Welcome Home
POSTHUMOUS
Brainwash
1999
Studio Album
Sykadelik Muzick
Genre: Sykadelik, Gangsta Rap, Horror-Movie Rap, Alternative Rap, Spoken-Word Poetry
Rapper, Producer, Writer, Executive Producer
Features:
Koid, Mad-Cel, J. Tru$ of Planet Mongrel, Rickochet, Snake Bite & Chad Dorado (The Token White Boy) of Four Feet Projects, Rich Daddy Rich
Finally, after 3 years of waiting - Brainwash dropped a follow-up studio album to his jawdropping debut "Skitsofrenic" - this one called "Posthumous". Playing off of the fact that he "died" at the end of his debut album on a song called "Russian Roulette" (spoiler alert!).
This album was different & fresh - both musically and lyrically, as Brainwash brought in live musicians to play pianos, saxophone, guitars & drums on some of the songs and experimented with lyrical delivery and song content/topics - delving lightly into spoken word poetry and delivering some love raps like the extremely radio-friendly "Chemistry" which was the stand-out single from the album.
Though this album was NOT what most of Brainwash's fans expected from him - it showed his maturity & growth from the simple subject matters he had previously done and showed his depth in song writing ability and was received well, though not as widely and largely as his debut was.
The album featured most of the music from the "Smoked Out" film and the track Brainwash did for the "Lost" soundtrack as well.
Track Listing:
1. Fuck Brainwash
2. Everybody Kill Yourself
3. Tryna Come Up (2 Keep From Goin' Under)
4. Chemistry
5. Play-Pen 2 The State Penn
6. Sykadelik
7. Got Funk?
8. Let's Die 2Gether
9. Lost
10. Internal Affairs
11. How We Handle That
12. Fathoms Deep
13. Chasin' Dragons
14. Off The Ass
15. Come & Play With Us (Round Two)
16. Daily Routine
17. Time Is Winding Down
18. Neva Take Me Alive
19. Till They Kill Me
Brainwash
COCKTAIL NAPKIN POETRY
2000
Underground Release
Sykadelik Entertainment
Poet, Writer, Producer, Executive Producer
In 2000, as Brainwash's life was secretly falling apart, his deep delve into a world of drug and alcohol abuse left him in an altered state. The result was his failed attempt at releasing a Jim Morrison-esque spoken-word album over new music. The album marked the lowest point of Brainwash's professional career to match what was happening in his personal life as well.
Track Listing:
1. The Watchtower
2. Us All
3. All Roads Lead 2 Vegas
4. In The Presence Of My Enemies
5. Painkillers
6. Popsicle Stick Houses
7. Shadowed
8. The Bus Stop
9. The Numbers
10. The Pound
11. I Am John Cusack
12. Eye of the Storm
13. Neighborhood Watch
14. This Means War!
Brainwash presents the...
ECLECTIC FUSION COMPILATIONS
2000
Underground Release
Sykadelik Entertainment
Poet, Writer, Producer, Executive Producer
As 2000 hit, Brainwash found himself in some legal troubles that would result in incarceration that year. Beforehand, he rushed to try and get out a set of compilations (1 being this one, an experimental one featuring various genres of music and 1 being a more rap/r&b one) but in the confusion preceding him going away, some of the tracks were mixed-up and only 1 of these compilations were released - this one ("Eclectic Fusion").
It featured more of the spoken word poetry that he had done that year on his "Cocktail Napkin Poetry" release - much to his fans disappointment, as well as rap tracks from The Black Rhino (Crazy-8 / 8-Ball) & Spice-1 and Koid, R&B/fusion from Planet Mongrel, jazz/fusion from Four Feet Projects, hip-hop from Hemp Nation & Damage/Mudbone and punk rock from a group called Destro.
Fans had no idea how to accept this release & didn't. It was a commercial flop and admittedly left a bad taste in many Brainwash fans' mouths as this was the last project they'd get out of him that wasn't collections of old material, for a very long time.
Track Listing:
1. Bust Back (remix) - The Black Rhino feat Spice-1
2. Would U Die 4 Me - Koid
3. Karmas Buried Treasure - Brainwash
4. Jupiter - Planet Mongrel
5. Zone - Damage & Mudbone
6. Down (live) - Four Feet Projects
7. I Can't Help Myself - Koid
8. The Spinning Sea - Hemp Nation
9. Memories (live) - Destro
10. See About a Girl - Brainwash
11. Danger - Planet Mongrel
12. How Real It Is - Koid
13. 2 Years (live) - Destro
14. Push - Four Feet Projects
15. Jake & The Magic Goatee - Brainwash
16. Monkey On Tha 1 - Hemp Nation
17. Father Forgive Me - Koid
18. Last Words - Brainwash
Braiwnash presents the...
STOCKTON CITY LIMITS Compilation
2000
(Shelved, Never Released)
Sykadelik Entertainment
Rapper, Writer, Producer, Executive Producer
As Brainwash was preparing to serve time, he rushed to complete 2 compilation albums - one which was an experimental collection of all sorts of musical genres and one which was more rap & R&B related. In the confusion, some of the wrong tracks wound up on the wrong CDs and only the experimental one saw an actual release. The "Stockton City Limits" CD never saw release but is expected to finally be available soon as "The Lost 1999/2000 Compilation - Stockton City Limits" - featuring old tracks from Brainwash, The Black Rhino, Koid, Mad-Cel, Mental Illness & others.
