 Be on the look out for Finesse, N-Tyce, Champ MC and J-Boo who are collectively known as The Deadly Venoms. There is a fifth Deadly Venom whose identity is always a mystery. About a little more then a year ago, this group bursted onto the scene and dropped a couple of records like 'Counterfeiters', 'Pockets Stay Deeply' and 'Bomb Threat'. They were being tauted as the female extension of the Wu-Tang Clan. but just when everything seemed to be set for them to blow up, they ran into a few snags. First, they were among the unfortunate casualties to the merger between Seagram and Interscope Records. Their original label A&M Records was dissolved and they along with numerous other artists found themselves without a label home. Next the group had to deal with a certain little Sprite commercial featuring Eve, Angie Martinez, A-mil, Mia X and Roxanne Shante. It seems like the ad agency behind Sprite may have done some 'borrowing' from group's concepts, name and styles. A lawsuit was filed and just recently got resolved. Now that all that's behind them, the group is set to take the world by storm. They have a new label-Dreamworks'. They've completed their album 'Pretty Thugs' which will drop in May 2000. They even managed to get ODB to lay some colorful vocals on a track called 'Drug Free'. But what's really gonna bring notoriety to the group is the video to their first single entitled 'Venom Everywhere'. Here the group does a spin off of the movie 'The Blair Witch Project' where four fake Venoms head off into the woods and are never seen again. The real venoms are depicted haunting them. In case you haven't guessed it, the 'fake Venoms' are parodies of the emcees featured in the Sprite commercial. I guess we'll to see how the world reacts to this.. |