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Artist: Big Pokey

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  • Active: '90s, 2000s
  • Genres: Rap
  • Instrument: Vocals
  • Representative Albums: "Hardest Pit in the Litter," "D-Game 2000," "Tha Collabo"

Biography

One of the more accomplished members of the Screwed Up Click, Big Pokey hooked up with DJ Screw in the early '90s and started dropping rhymes on the DJ's many mix tapes. His first full-length album finally appeared in late 1999, Hardest Pit in the Litter, which ended up being one of the better underground albums to come out of the South that year. A year later, Pokey returned with D-Game 2000, another album of mid-tempo 808-driven beats featuring several of his Houston peers as guests. In 2001 he collaborated with the Wreckshop Wolfpack for Collabo and then returned in 2002 with another solo album, Da Sky's da Limit. Blessed with a Notorious B.I.G.-like rap style, Pokey had spent a few years playing football and studying kinesiology at Abilene Christian College before finally deciding to dedicate himself to rapping. ~ Jason Birchmeier, All Music Guide
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Big Pokey
Background information
Birth name Milton Powell
Also known as Pokey, PoYo
Born December 4, 1977 (1977-12-04) (age 31)
Origin Houston, Texas
Genres Southern rap
Occupations Rapper, Vocalist
Years active 1998 - present
Associated acts Screwed Up Click
Website http://www.myspace.com/sucbigpokey

Big Pokey, (born Milton Powell on December 4, 1977) is a rap artist from Houston, Texas and is one of the original members of the Screwed Up Click.

Big Pokey joined up with DJ Screw in the early 1990s and started releasing songs on DJ Screw's many mixtapes. His first full-length album appeared in late 1999, "Hardest Pit in the Litter". The following year, Pokey returned with "D-Game" 2000, another album of mid-tempo 808-driven beats featuring several of his Houston peers as guests. In 2001, he collaborated with the Wreckshop Wolfpack for Collabo and then returned in 2002 with another solo album, "Da Sky's Da Limit". In 2005 he was featured in a song which was #93 on US Top 100[citation needed] with Paul Wall called Sittin' Sidewayz.

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Discography

Albums

Mixtapes

Collaborative Albums

  • 2001: Tha Collabo (with The Weckshop Wolfpack)
  • 2005: Mob 4 Life (with Chris Ward)
  • 2008: Screwed Up Gorillaz (with E.S.G.)

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