Tha Realest Biography

Tha Realest aka Jevon Jones was born in Dallas, Texas. Both of his grandmothers raised young Jevon and his father was a preacher. He began rapping in '82/'83. He grew up listenin' to both East and Westcoast rap and particularly artists such as Ice-T and Run DMC. Tha Realest's favourite artist is Tupac Shakur and many comparisons have been drawn with the late great Tupac and many people have called him a Tupac biter. Tha Realest has his own clique named Last Circle, who he has done many songs with and he also has his own producers such as J.Flexx, Kurt Kobaine and Hurt 'em Bad who contributed on the tracks he done on "Gang Related" under the alias Tenkamenin. Tha Realest signed to Death Row Records in 1996 after performing for Suge and Tupac at a boxing match and Suge was supposed to have been very impressed and recruited him later on in the year but this was after Tupac's death so he didn't get the chance to work with his idol. When Tha Realest was called Tenkamenin he decided to change his name after him and Suge Knight realized alot of people could not pronounce the name Tenkamenin (a black African king in the 1500s). They decided on the name 'Tha Realest'. Tha Realest has appeared on 3 albums "Gang Related" under the alias Tenkamenin, "Chronic 2000: Still Smoking" and "Too Gangsta For Radio". He has been on the Westcoast for about 8 years now and has been involved in his fair share of controversy. He was shot in the foot in a drive by shooting when Kurupt's body guard died.  Then he had beef with former Death Row rapper "Chocalte Bandit" who was claiming he was the only southern rapper on Tha Row when Tha Realest is also so he dissed him on "Easy To Be A Soldier When There Ain't A War" and Chocalte was supposedly talking shit behind his back. Then on the "Too Gangsta For Radio" compilation he dissed many people on "Fuck D.R.E." and "Fuck Hollywood". Tha Realest has an album scheduled for release from Death Row but has left the label to form his own independent label and many unreleased Realest tracks are around the internet and bootlegs have been released with these tracks on.