Mateo native Rasco (whose name is an acronym for “realistic, ambitious, serious, cautious, and organized") worked as a member of the West Coast hip hop groups Various Blends and Cali Agents. His deep voice and straight?ahead rap style came to the public's attention with his 1997 12" “The Unassisted”, which earned him several honors including number one on the Bay Area Hip Hop Coalition chart, number one on the independent hip hop chart in Hits magazine, and number one on Sway and King Tech's nationally syndicated Wake Up Show for four weeks straight. His debut album “Time Waits for No Man” was released in 1998 on Stones Throw with a production team that included Paul Nice, Peanut

Butter Wolf, and Evidence of the group Dilated Peoples. The

follow?up EP “The Birth” arrived in 1999. Moving from Stones

Throw to Copasetik, Rasco released “Hostile Environment” (2001)

and “Presents Hip?Hop Classics, Vol. 1” (2003). But after a fallingout

with the label, he left to start his own, Pocketslinted, in 2004.

That same year he issued the compilations “20,000 Leagues Under

the Street, Vol. 1” (a re?release from 2000) and “Minority Report”.

In 2005 his solo effort “The Dick Swanson Theory” came out on

Pocketslinted. Since his last Solo Lp Rasco soon after re teamed

with Plane Asia to drop their 3rd album entitled

“Fire & Ice” in 2007.

In addition to all his solo projects, Rasco contributed to Linkin

Park's Platinum selling remix album “Reanimiation”. Rasco has

been lauded by the critics, including SPIN, The Source, VIBE, Hip?

Hop Connection, URB,among many others.

Now Rasco is back in 2010 with his latest offering “Global Threat”.

This is Rasco's 6th solo effort and proves to be his best to date.

Like any true artist, Rasco pushes himself on his new record to

places he hasn’t gone before. 2010 Looks to be a promising year in

Independent Hip Hop and Rasco is sure to be at the head of the

pack when it is all said and done.