They rocked more than 30 cities in 2012 as a supporting act on Strange Music artist Rittz’s Revival Tour and released The Plug EP produced by L.A.’s Shane Eli through DJBooth in December.
October 2011 included an invigorating showcase and conference at the annual Atlanta festival, being selected as an AllHipHop Breeding Ground artist and then … Tay’s death from a pulmonary embolism on Friday the 14th.Īs 2011 ended, the LOEGz were named one of Sonicbids’ Top 5 Hip Hop acts. Weeks later, the LOEGz released “Pressure,” featuring verses by Berry, Lil J’ (Da COD) and Lowkey (Southbound) for the A3C Festival compilation. That last beat to make The Bully knock everything off Coby’s desk and shake his studio chair around would become #LeagueShit’s “I’m Alive”.
In 2011 they rocked over 60 shows in 10 states, including a West Coast tour with Jackie Chain for their Concealed Weapons 3 mixtape in May, and a national tour with Dead Prez in August.Ī new tune at a typical pre-production session in September 2011 transformed Coby and Berry into two grown men dancing around in a room. The League be on the road memories of infighting and getting lost on the subway mark the most fulfilling part of their journey to date. Coby slipped Devin the Dude a demo, which led to producing Devin’s Suite 420 lead single “What I Be On”. They began sharing the stage with headliners including Curren$y, Wiz Khalifa, Wale, Slaughterhouse, Tech N9ne, Z-Ro, Trae, Chiddy Bang, J Cole, KRS-One and The Clipse. In 2010 they debuted locally, played the South by Southwest Music Festival and Fun Fun Fun Fest and were featured on MTV Jams’ Texas All-Star Edition. The LOEGz are still standing, and they haven’t been standing still. That took a lot out of us and now it feels like we’re a year behind.” “After he passed, nobody could write much for six months. We can’t get more verses from him,” said Coby, Berry’s best friend and partner in the League’s street conscious duo Dred Skott. Each group had its own budding local buzz, and Berry had started sharing everyone’s music with the others. The Bully’s vision formed in 2009 when his choice of eight members and three groups – Dred Skott, Da COD and Southbound – sat in a driveway at producer/singer/emcee Reggie Coby’s birthday party plotting a collaborative mixtape. As they strategized on their summer 2013 debut album #LeagueShit, The Bully was in the room. The League celebrated Berry’s second birthday since his abrupt passing on February 9, 2013. Three short (and long) years later, it has become an emphatic anthem, mantra, slogan, brand and title. When Austin, Texas, reality rap collective League of Extraordinary Gz recorded “We Gone Make It” in spring 2010, Octavis “Esbe Da 6th Street Bully” Berry stepped in the recording booth and yelled his first two words: “League Sh-t!”
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