Lootpack

USA

Formed: 1990

Years Active: 90, 2000

Genres: Rap, R&B

Styles: Underground Rap, Hip-Hop/Urban, Hip-Hop/Urban, West Coast Rap

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The Lootpack were one of several old-school revivalist crews to come out of southern California during the '90s, and recorded some of the most underappreciated music on the revitalized West Coast underground scene. The group was formed in 1990 in Oxnard, CA (a smaller beach town about a hour outside of Los Angeles), by longtime friends Madlib (producer, MC, b. Otis Jackson Jr.), Wildchild (MC, b. Jack Brown), and DJ Romes (scratching, b. Romeo Jimenez). The trio members had been trying their hand at hip-hop since junior high, and formed an offi...

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