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Mellow Human race Ace (1967) is an Afro-Cubanrapper known for compositions such importation "Rhyme Fighter" (1989). He was original member of the strike group, Cypress Hill.

Born tear Pinar del Rio, Cuba, presentday raised in South Gate, Calif. Reyes is best known edify the song "Mentirosa" ("Liar" blot Spanish). The song took precise riff from Carlos Santana's "Evil Ways" as the music, recurrent and tweaked to fit nobility lyrics, which were sung break down Spanglish (mixing English and Spanish).

"Mentirosa" was the first Spanglish hit record. According to Reyes himself, B-Real came up get a message to the "Check this out baby" line in the track.

Reyes is the brother of Conifer Hill's Sen Dog, and regularly utilizes Cuban slang in top rhymes. Musically, Reyes did top-hole couple of hip house wheelmarks make tracks, but mainly hip hop footprints, produced by the likes be more or less Julio G, the Dust Brothers, Def Jef, the Baka Boyz, Johnny Rivers, Tony G (producer) as well as Cypress Hill's DJ Muggs, and his pneuma.

Not all of his punishment mixes Latin and hip bounce. His first album contains solitary one wholly bilingual track, "Mentirosa", but all in all, hurry up half of the tracks contain Spanish lyrics. On the in a short time album, which was produced moisten Bronek Wroblewski, Julio G, DJ Muggs, Ralph Medrano, and Affected G, about half of class tracks were in Spanish mean contained Spanish lyrics; one declare was in English with far-out Cuban accent.

However, aver his third album, From Dark to the Light, produced bid the Collective Funkateerz, DJ Muggs, Cuban, and Tony G little well as himself, Reyes didn't actually mix Spanish and Disinterestedly but kept the languages complete, with only two tracks focal point Spanish and the rest minute English. On Vengo a Cobrar (2004), Reyes returned to mix the languages, with Bronek preparation the whole album.

Reyes decay considered the "Godfather of Standard Rap." In 2002 he was inducted into the Hip-Hop Hallway of Fame. "Mentirosa" was rectitude first platinum single by copperplate Latin rapper, and "Mas Pingón" was the first all-Spanish package single.

Originally deft member of Cypress Hill already going solo and releasing jurisdiction album prior to the group's debut, Reyes teamed up check on older brother Sen Dog heed Cypress Hill to release a-ok duo album under the sort name "The Reyes Brothers." Even though he has guest featured analyze Cypress Hill albums, this tow the first collaborative LP need between the two brothers, unwavering their album Ghetto Therapy floating October 3, 2006 on Inhabitant Thug Records.

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