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MADD SKILLS RECORDS WAS FOUNDED IN SUMMER 1997 ON THE SOUTHSIDE OF CHICAGO OFF THE BLOCK OF 79TH & MARSHFIELD WITH THE TWO C.E.O "NIMO & SUN-ONE". BY THE FALL OF 1997 NIMO HAD 2 TO 3 ALBUMS FLOODED THE STREETS OF THE CHICAGO. MID FALL 0F 1997 MADD SKILLS RECORDS HAD 5 LABEL ARTISTS WHICH INCULDE: METAPHOR, PRESIDENTIAL, NIMO, D-MONEY, AND SUN-ONE, AND ALSO HAD 15 STREET CREW MEMBERS. ONE YEAR PASS NIMO HAD WROTE A ALBUM WHICH WAS CALL "THE BOOK OF THUGS" THAT CONSIST OF 160 SONGS, AND "SUN-ONE & D-MONEY" FORM A GROUP CALL "BLACK MOB", THEIR FIRST ALBUM WAS CALL "MOBSTER WAY". AROUND JUNE 1998 NIMO HAD A MEETING WITH "RAWKUS RECORDS", BUT THINGS DIDN'T FALL INPLACE AS WE THOUGHT. SUN-ONE & D-MONEY WAS MEETING WITH "MAJOR WAY RECORDS", BUT THE CEO OF "MAJOR WAY RECORDS" NEVER ANSWER BACK ONCE HE LEFT TO GO TO CALIFORNIA. SO IN 2001 "MADD SKILLS RECORDS" RELOCATED TO SAINT LOUIS, MO AND THAT'S WHEN WE STARTED WORK ON MORE MIXTAPES AND ALBUMS, WE MET AND CHI-TOWN REPRESENTER FROM THE WESTSIDE BY THE TRAGIC, SO START DOING MIXTAPES HEAVY WE HAD ABOUT 55 MIXTAPES DONE UNDERGROUND. WE GOT FEED BACK FROM SUB-ZERO RECORDS STATING THAT THEY WHAT TO SIGN US TO THEY LABEL, SO WE HAD MEETINGS WITH SUB-ZERO RECORDS WHICH THEY TOOK OUR MUSIC AND NEVER HEARD NOTHING BACK, SO WE MOVE ON MIDWAY OF 2002 TRAGIC BECAME THE PRESIDENT OF MADD SKILLS RECORDS, AND AT THE SAME TIME WE MET TYLAN A REAL PRODUCER THAT HAD A EAR FOR MUSIC. SO HE HIT US WITH BEATS AND WE DONE OUR VERY FIRST SINGLE IN ST. LOUIS WHICH WAS CALLED "YOU DON'T KNOW". IN 2002 GOING INTO 2003 WE SIGN ON ANOTHER ARTIST BY THE NAME OF FLAMES HE WAS FROM EAST SAINT LOUIS, IL OFF OF 23RD BLOCK, AND HE ALSO BRUNG IN ANOTHER PRODUCER BY THE NAME OF "KING LOU" TOP PRODUCER "FLO PRO RECORDS". IN 2003 WE MADE ANOTHER SINGLE WITH OUR NEW ARTIST FLAMES WHICH WAS CALL "MADD SKILLS TRUTH" WHICH WAS PRODUCE BY TYLAN. SO IN THE SPRING OF 2003 WE MADE OUR 9TH ALBUM CALL "NIMO PRESENTS: MADD SKILLS" 23 TRACKS LONGS. SUMMER OF 2003 WE WORK ON OUR 10TH ALBUM CALL "MORE THAN WHAT IT SEEMS" 18 TRACKS LONG, FALL OF 2003 THE DROP OUR 11TH ALBUM WITH EACH ARTIST HAD 3 SOLOS SONGS THAT WAS BROKEN INTO 3 CHAPTERS WHICH THIS ALBUM WAS CALL "THE REAL STORY". IN THE WINTER OF 2003 WE GOT GOOD NEWS FROM THE MUSIC INDUSTRY, WE GOT SIGN TO A COMPANY CALL "RAPVIBE" WHICH IS KNOWN AS "CAPITOL MUSIC GROUP". CORBIN GRIMES WAS THE LEAD A&R OF "CAPITAL MUSIC GROUP" HE HAD US TRAVEL TO CALIFORNIA FOR MAJOR RECORD LABELS AUDITION SIGING, THAT'S WAS A WASTE OF TIME BECAUSE IT WAS ONLY FOR LOW BUDGET RECORD LABELS THAT WE NEVER HEARD ABOUT AND TRYING TO SIGN ARTISTS FOR A LITTLE OF NOTHING. I GUESS YOU CAN SAY WE DID GET A LITLE RESPOND FROM A COMPANY CALL "INFINITEY RECORDS BASE OUT OF CHICAGO", BUT THAT WAS A BULLSHIT COMPANY. SO IN SUMMER OF 2004 WE TOOK A BREAK FROM THE STUDIO, AND START DOING SHOWS WITH A GUY NAME "STORM" HE WAS WORKING FOR "STREET HEAT". AND IN THE FALL 2003 WE HAD A COUPLE OF DISAGREES BETWEEN A COUPLE OF ARTISTS SO WE DROP A ARTIST "FLAMES" TO JUST BRING PEACE IN THE SQUAD AND WE SIGN OUR NEW A&R PRESIDENT RON-H. 2005 CAME ALONG WE WAS BACK IN THE STUDIO MAKING STREETS BANGERS WE RETURN WITH OUR 12TH ALBUM "MORE THAN WHAT IT SEEMS 2". IN SUMMER OF 2005 RON-H HAD US MEET D-BO, WE WAS FEELING HIS SWAGGER AND PUNCHLINES SO WE SIGN HIM TO LABEL. SO D-BO DID HIS FIRST SINGLE WITH "MADD SKILLS" WHICH WAS "TOUCH OF THE GIFT". SO IN 2006 GOING INTO 2007 WE ARE WORKING ON 13TH ALBUM COMING OUT IN SPRING 2007 CALL "MORE THAN WHAT IT SEEM'S 3: BACK TO BUSINESS". SO ALL YOUR FAKE ASS RAPPERS DON'T TAKE IT PERSONAL IT'S JUST BUSINESS...HOLLA BACK 2007