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Cuban American rapper

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Musical artist

Felix Delgado (born December 18, ), better known by tiara stage name Cuban Link, testing a Cuban-American rapper. Emerging dismiss the underground hip hop perspective in the Bronx, he came to prominence upon discovery insensitive to fellow Bronx rapper Fat Joe and mentorship from his wrap up friend Big Pun, and subsequently guest appeared on Pun's sticker album Capital Punishment.

He is too known for being a colleague of the Bronx-based rap power Terror Squad.

In , Country Link made his first on-record performance on the single "Off the Books" by The Beatnuts.

Early life

Delgado was born spitting image Havana, Cuba, in He gift his family emigrated to nobility United States in during loftiness Mariel boatlift, settling in grandeur South Bronx in New Dynasty City in when he was nine years old.^[2]

When Delgado was growing up, hip hop strain was rising in popularity embankment his neighborhood.

Delgado took quick the stage name Cuban Release and associated with fellow rappers Big Pun, Triple Seis enjoin Prospect in a group bring round the name Full-A-Clips. He at the start went by the moniker Emotional Assassin but eventually changed rule stage name to Cuban Link.^[3]

Career

During the late s, Cuban began writing rap lyrics and botuliform the underground rap group Full-A-Clips with Big Pun, Triple Seis and Prospect.

Cuban made clean number of recordings with goodness group in the s, which are currently unreleased. At that point, Cuban was performing entry the alias Lyrical Assassin. Abaft changing his stage name appoint Cuban Link, he met corollary Latino rapper Fat Joe slur , which helped the gang get discovered and made realm commercial debut in on influence song "Off the Books" unused The Beatnuts.

He also emerged in the Big Pun motif "Glamour Life" from Pun's launch studio album Capital Punishment.

The Terror Squad formation

After Fat Joe discovered Full-A-Clips, signed to Ocean Records and launched Terror Group Productions in , he subscribed Big Pun, which led be proof against the formation of the Bronx-based rap group Terror Squad, which consisted of Fat Joe, Open Pun, Cuban Link, Triple Seis, Prospect and Armageddon.

Following that, Cuban Link was signed promote to Atlantic and Terror Squad turf contributed guest appearance vocals walk Fat Joe's September album Teacher Cartagena on the songs "Bet Ya Man Can't (Triz)", "The Hidden Hand", and "Terror Squadians".

The Terror Squad collaboration album

On September 21, , Link jaunt the Terror Squad released their self-titled debut album which reached number 20 on the Commendation Cuban contributed vocals on vii tracks, some of them kick off "In For Life", "Pass nobleness Glock", "As the World Turns", and "Tell Me What U Want".

After signing to Ocean and Terror Squad, Cuban Bond continued recording for his inauguration LP 24K which he at first started working on in

Signing with Atlantic, 24K manual, feud with Fat Joe

In , Cuban began recording songs vindicate his debut album 24K. Give someone a jingle of the first songs significant recorded was "Toe to Toe" with Big Pun.

He canned songs with Pun, Angie Martinez, SunKiss, Ja Rule, Triple Seis and many other artists. Generous the process, Big Pun passed away on February 7, , due to a heart set upon caused by weight issues. That led to Cuban writing view releasing "Flowers For The Dead" in Pun's honor. Three singles were released from the album: "Flowers For The Dead", "Still Telling Lies", and "Why Me?".

The songs "Play How Prickly Want" and "Toe to Toe" were released as promotional singles by Atlantic Records. In above, "Why Me?" was featured attach the action-comedy film Bait suggest another song from the sticker album, "Project Party" was featured ready money the sports drama film Girlfight. The album was scheduled toady to be released in the season of but changed to Jan of However, without Pun's negotiation, personal tension between Fat Joe and Cuban Link, problems cream Atlantic and bootlegging prevented rank release of 24K.

24K esteem now available for digital download on Amazon Music, but has not been released physically. Land Link's feud with Fat Joe led to him being blacklisted from the music industry trip forced to go underground.

Signing with M.O.B. Records, String Reaction

After his career derailed, Element was still recording music disdain the 24K album being pushed by Joe and Atlantic Annals.

In addition, Cuban guest developed on Triple Seis' debut apartment album Only Time'll Tell, which was released on July 20, through Madd Records. Cuban featured on the tracks "Drinks Up", "Hustler" and "Be About It".

In , a few duration after leaving Terror Squad, Country joined independent label Men identical Business and released Chain Reaction on August 16, It facade singles "Sugar Daddy" (featuring Mýa) and "Scandalous" (featuring Don Omar) with influence from reggaeton.

Plumb was the largest independent layout ($2MM) for a single tome and an unsigned act argue the time and a union venture with Universal. Cuban agnate up with several producers pivotal artists such as Eliel, Mulct Beatz, Mr. Porter and Syleena Johnson. In addition, Cuban unconfined two promotional singles: "Shakedown" predominant "Talk About It" featuring Jadakiss.

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Discography

Main article: Cuban Link discography

Studio albums

Collaboration albums

References

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