{"id":2,"date":"2024-07-08T21:50:52","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T21:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thugmafiarecordz.com\/home\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2024-12-04T20:21:26","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T20:21:26","slug":"biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thugmafiarecordz.com\/home\/biography\/","title":{"rendered":"T.H.U.G. M.A.F.I.A."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"812\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thugmafiarecordz.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Fate-and-Consequencez-Undertray-1024x812.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thugmafiarecordz.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Fate-and-Consequencez-Undertray-1024x812.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thugmafiarecordz.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Fate-and-Consequencez-Undertray-300x238.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thugmafiarecordz.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Fate-and-Consequencez-Undertray-768x609.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thugmafiarecordz.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Fate-and-Consequencez-Undertray-1536x1217.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.thugmafiarecordz.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Fate-and-Consequencez-Undertray.jpg 1851w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-224fd9bfeea626714840cbd690ef9570 wp-block-paragraph\">Southern Rap Duo T.H.U.G. M.A.F.I.A. (Tha Hardworking Underestimated Gentlemen Making All Finances In Appropriate Wayz) was formed in Eastpoint, Ga in 2001. The group consists of two members, Death Trap (Benjamin Gulley) &amp; K-Steel (Kevia Stills).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-6c5da5ad5c0c7d23114e2fd94063cc6c wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-307850867e9dfe37b22318a2f949417e wp-block-paragraph\">The groups music style consists of G-Funk which originated on the west coast by legendary artists Above the law signed to the late great Eazy E&#8217;s Ruthless Records &amp; Southern Rap Tunes made famous by U.G.K.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-80178ff430362824684177246269f5cd wp-block-paragraph\">The group got there start by performing at venues in &amp; around the A at Club 291 on Campbellton Rd, Throwbaccs, Sub-Zero, Jay&#8217;s Place, &amp; the Crowes Nest just to name a few.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-65ae95b682145585dcd7024ee621f99d wp-block-paragraph\">Their debut album entitled &#8220;Eternal Thuggin&#8221; released in 2010 received many positive reviews. The single &#8220;G-Funk Oval Crunk &#8221; was highly requested due to its B-Side Street Anthem, the highly favored &#8220;Midnite Creep &#8221; which a video was filmed off Crenshaw in South Central L.A.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-e5ace3a0fc5cdb885a4b0b2cd87345ab wp-block-paragraph\">The group would later release the singles &#8220;Raw&#8221; &amp; &#8220;Officer Enemy &#8221; off there Double sophomore album &#8221; Fate &amp; Consequencez mainly produced by Death Trap.&nbsp;T.H.U.G. M.A.F.I.A. gives respect to artists that influenced their style such as Zapp &amp; Roger, N.W.A. Ice Cube, Eazy E, 2PAC, CMW, SPICE 1, Too Short, E-40, DJ Quik, SCREWED UP CLICK, DPG, Organized Noise, Ghetto Mafia, Geto Boys, UGK, Fat Pat, Nas, Twista, Bone, C-Bo, Dru Down, Dayton Family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southern Rap Duo T.H.U.G. M.A.F.I.A. (Tha Hardworking Underestimated Gentlemen Making All Finances In Appropriate Wayz) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thugmafiarecordz.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thugmafiarecordz.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thugmafiarecordz.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thugmafiarecordz.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thugmafiarecordz.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.thugmafiarecordz.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85,"href":"https:\/\/www.thugmafiarecordz.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thugmafiarecordz.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}