You probably won’t hear it in his glossy, Top 40 flows, but Big Cisco’s life is about as grisly as it gets. Recounting his past as a Long Beach gangbanger and survivor of 13 gunshot wounds, Cisco (née George Iata) has enough material to fill a catalog of Dr. Dre albums. Usually, we hear about local MCs fronting the thug lifestyle, but his Auto-Tune club bangers—such as “This Loot” and “Verve”—bear little resemblance to the troubled life he... More >>>