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R.O.C.
Birth name	Bryan Jones
Origin	Detroit, Michigan, United States
Genres	Hip hop
Occupations	Rapper Record producer
Years active	1988-2008
Associated acts	House of Krazees, Halfbreed, Level Jumpers, Blaze Ya Dead Homie, Samhein Witch Killaz, Zodiac Mprint

Bryan Jones, better known by his stage name R.O.C., is an American rapper and producer from Detroit, Michigan. He is best known as a former member of the 2 influential horrorcore rap groups House of Krazees, and Halfbreed. Jones was also an associate of Blaze Ya Dead Homie. He was signed to Hatchet House, a sub-label of Psychopathic Records.

Contents 1 History 1.1 House Of Krazees 1.2 Halfbreed 1.3 Level Jumpers 1.4 HOK Reunion/Samhein Witch Killaz 1.5 Welcome To The Darkside and Retirement 2 Discography 2.1 Solo Discography 2.2 With House Of Krazees 2.3 With Halfbreed 2.4 With Level Jumpers 3 References

[edit] History

Jones became interested in pursuing a career in hip hop music as a producer because of the production of Mike E. Clark and Esham.^[1]

[edit] House Of Krazees

In 1993 Jones started House Of Krazees with Hetic and Mr. Bones. They would release 3 albums as a group plus an speical collectors edition CD with remixes before breaking up. Hetic and Mr. Bones would than become the group Twiztid and sign to Psychopathic Records. Jones would continue the HOK name with one more album with new member Skrapz before ending the House Of Krazees.

[edit] Halfbreed

Jones would change his name to SoL and he and Skrapz would start the group Halfbreed. Their debut Serial Killaz gained them national attention and give the group Jones's first national record deal with Siccmade Muzsic. Jones, Skrapz, and Prozak would start up a new record label for independent hip hop in michigan called Virus Independent. Their National Debut/2nd LP "KontaimiNATION" gained Jones some national popularity that spreaded past Detroit. They would release one more album called "Rage Of The Plague" and a compilation album called "The End" before calling it quits.

[edit] Level Jumpers

In 2001 Jones and Skrapz along with Dialtone started a hardcore hip hop group called The Level Jumpers. They would only release 2 albums before Jones would leave Virus independent, a label he co-founded with Skrapz and Prozak in 2002 to reunite the Original HOK Lineup.

[edit] HOK Reunion/Samhein Witch Killaz

Jones and Twiztid reunited during the 2003 Mirror Mirror tour which would conclude at the first ever Fright Fest as the House Of Krazees performed on stage for the first time together as the HOK in 6 years. They would only perform one more time at the 2nd Fright Fest as the HOK lineup before starting up Samhein Witch Killaz which is House of Krazees reborn along with one new member. That member being Blaze Ya Dead Homie. During this time Joe Bruce kept bugging Jones to sign to Psychopathic. Jones aggreed to doing freelance work and did production in 2004 for psychopathic artists such as Anybody Killa and Blaze Ya Dead Homie.

[edit] Welcome To The Darkside and Retirement

In 2006, Jones signed to Hatchet House, a sub-label of Psychopathic Records,^[2] and released the extended play Welcome to the Darkside.^[3]

Following a period of inactivity, Jones officially announced that he had quit the music industry to focus on his home life.^[1] However in 2009 Jones made his return to the stage helping out his brother Y.U.G in a show. Since than there have been rumors of a Halfbreed reunion a relaunch of Virus Independent.

[edit] Discography

[edit] Solo Discography

• X-Posed (1995, Latnem Records)
• The Howse Esohpromatem (1998)
• Sol 46 Wormholes (2001, Virus Independent)
• Bits & Pieces Vol. 1 (2004, The R.O.C.)
• I'm Here EP (2005, Heavy Core Musik)
• Oh Hell nO! (2006, Heavy Core Musik)
• Welcome To The Dark Side (2008, Hatchet House)
• Digital Voodoo (Virus Independent)

[edit] With House Of Krazees

• Home Sweet Home (1993, Retro Horror Muzik)
• Home Bound (1994, Retro Horror Muzik)
• Season of the Pumpkin (1994, Retro Horror Muzik),(1994, Latnem Intertainment)
• Outbreed (1995, Latnem Intertainment)
• Head Trauma (1996, Latnem Intertainment)
• Collectors Edition '97 (1997 Latnem Intertainment)
• The Night They Kame Home (1999 Latnem Intertainment)
• Evolution (Compilation album) (2002 Latnem Intertainment)

[edit] With Halfbreed

• Serial Killaz (1999 Virus Independent)
• KontaimiNATION (2000 Virus Independent/Siccmade Muzicc)
• Rage Of The Plague (2000 Virus Independent)
• The End (2002 Virus Independent)

[edit] With Level Jumpers

• The Red Pyramid (2001 Virus Independent)
• Simply Complx (2003 Virus Independent)

[edit] References