UG Rap Community

The story of Acid Reign began in 1993, when the duo of Gajah and Beond (named Nick Navarette and Rudy Moreno, respectively), both 14-years-old, met at a Christian youth group that just so happened to be led by a rapper. Gajah quickly became a regular at the youth group, and the fortuitous meeting of Beond led to the formation of a rap group with Prisk called 3PM. After a few months, Prisk was dropped from the line-up, and the duo became known as Mellifluence until early 1997, when the release of a tape entitled The Swordfish led to the group changing its name one last time to Acid Reign.In the mid-1990s, Gajah and Beond began making the weekly Thursday night pilgrimage to Project Blowed, the legendary South Central open mic workshop. A year later, Acid Reign released The Missing Link, featuring popular Angeleno rapper Neila, and introduced Olmeca, the newest member of Acid Reign. Their first CD release came in 2000, entitled Paradigm Shift. It was their strangest release to date, a fusion of raw hip-hop with electronic sounds.A new label called Nomadic Sound System released their first decent quality album entitled Ready Yet? in 2003, the last project with Olmeca as a devoted member of Acid Reign, who amicably parted ways to join another group. The year 2005 would bring a series of serendipitous events for Acid Reign. They secured a music studio for the first time ever, and signed with Alpha Pup Records to begin work on their new album, Time & Change. The concept behind Time & Change was to create a sound that could appeal to all levels of the hip-hop world.