Not to be confused with the East Bay based Hieroglyphics producer of the same name, Domino the SoCal rapper with the Southern drawl that betrayed his real roots, who arrived on the rap world in late 1993, was the pop-rap artist who scored hits with "Ghetto Jam" and "Sweet Potato Pie" signed to Outburst but picked up by RAL (Rush Associated Labels) And who, despite his LBC claimed roots and his Snoop Dogg affiliations, sported a delivery that was less gangsta and leaned more towards the pop/RnB spectrum of hip-hop music: a catchy sing-song style I guess you could call it. Not too long after he arrived in December 1993 he scored his fiirst hit "Ghetto Jam" which garnered Gold status after six straight weeks atop the Billboard maxi-single charts. It was followed up soonafter with an even bigger hit - "Sweet Potato Pie" (see video above). The album's groove-laden production came care of AMG and Battlecat and would prove to be Domino's only real hit. His delayed sophomore follow-up album, 1996's "Physical Funk," and subsequent releases including 1997's "Dominology" and 2001's "D-Freaked It' all fell short of the mark.
BLAST FROM THE PAST: SWEET POTATO PIE
THE GANGSTA LITE OF DOMINO
Not to be confused with the East Bay based Hieroglyphics producer of the same name, Domino the SoCal rapper with the Southern drawl that betrayed his real roots, who arrived on the rap world in late 1993, was the pop-rap artist who scored hits with "Ghetto Jam" and "Sweet Potato Pie" signed to Outburst but picked up by RAL (Rush Associated Labels) And who, despite his LBC claimed roots and his Snoop Dogg affiliations, sported a delivery that was less gangsta and leaned more towards the pop/RnB spectrum of hip-hop music: a catchy sing-song style I guess you could call it. Not too long after he arrived in December 1993 he scored his fiirst hit "Ghetto Jam" which garnered Gold status after six straight weeks atop the Billboard maxi-single charts. It was followed up soonafter with an even bigger hit - "Sweet Potato Pie" (see video above). The album's groove-laden production came care of AMG and Battlecat and would prove to be Domino's only real hit. His delayed sophomore follow-up album, 1996's "Physical Funk," and subsequent releases including 1997's "Dominology" and 2001's "D-Freaked It' all fell short of the mark.
Domino was from Missouri which is where he moved back to a few years ago. He was the first out of now, many, rappers to come out of STL with that now common sing-songy pop delivery.