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Tunnel Rats is a West Coast underground hip hop collective founded in 1993 in Whittier, California.Named after the tunnel rats in the Vietnam War, the mixed-gender, multi-racial collective consists of some seventeen individual members and incorporates four affiliated groups, LPG, Future Shock, Foundation, and New Breed, which have recorded both within Tunnel Rats and independently.
The collective has released three albums under the Tunnel Rats name: Experience (1996), Tunnel Vision (2001), and Tunnel Rats (2004). They also collaborated on a compilation album released through Uprock Records, Underground Rise, Volume 1: Sunrise/Sunset (2003).
The next year, Tunnel Rats released its first album, Experience. [1] LPG released a second album, 360 Degrees, in 1998, [5] and Tunnel Rats released the groundbreaking Tunnel Vision through Uprok Records in 2001. [1] LPG dropped The Gadfly in 2003, [6] and Tunnel Rats led the Uprok compilation Underground Rise, Volume 1: Sunrise/Sunset. [7]
Tunnel Rats is the third studio album by West Coast underground Christian hip hop collective Tunnel Rats, released on March 3, 2004, through Uprok Records.Featuring several new members among the group's ranks, the album was well received by critics, with Christianity Today and Rapzilla considering it the best album so far by the group.
Tunnel Vision is the second studio album by West Coast underground hip hop collective Tunnel Rats, released on October 25, 2001, through Uprok Records.Featuring a brash, aggressive sound, the album drew admiration from critics and proved highly influential for the Christian hip hop movement.
Jan. 16—Sitting beneath the Salish Mountains, the Flathead Railroad Tunnel just southwest of Trego stands as an engineering marvel. Each day, more than 40 freight trains and at least one ...
In 2003, Petty joined the Tunnel Rats, and on April 8, 2003, released his solo debut album with UpRok Records, entitled Out of Knowhere. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] In 2006 he released the I Am Not Them EP with Tunnel Rat Music and recorded Live This as part of Tunnel Rats-affiliated group Footsoldiers. [ 7 ]
Production was handled by Tunnel Rats members Dert, Donovan Luke Henry, Jermz and Raphi (a.k.a. Shames Worthy). Most of the album was recorded over a single weekend. CCM Magazine noted that on the song "One Voice", the entire Tunnel Rats and LA Symphony crews come together, with seventeen rappers appearing on the same track. [1]