Urban Legendary ( The Legacy Of Force One )

2018 is the 40th Anniversary Of Gee Rock & Tha CND Coalition (The
Legacy)"! In plain terms that means this year he is 40 years active in the Hip
Hop Culture! It's long overdue to take a closer look at the legendary Gee
Rock! I contacted him and interviewed him in 2013, or more precisely we
had a conversation through the past months of that time and the following
text is the essence which focus on his Biography and Discography.
Gee Rock (Derek Simmons) was born March 28, 1963 in Summit, New Jersey
Gee is mainly known as a MC, Producer and DJ, but he is representing all
Elements of Hip Hop and also got his roots in Breakdancing and Graffiti. His
love for music started at an young age, especially funk music from the 70s
got his attention, Bands like Parliament, Funkadelic, James Brown, Kool &
The Gang, His passion for the Hip Hop Culture started In 1978 while he was
visiting a private school together with his cousin in Los Angeles, CA. He
started dancing and practiced the dance styles Popping and Locking and
the robotic style. A year later he went to Plainfield, NJ and finally moved to
Newark. It was at the end of 1979 after he was listening to "Kurtis Blow –
Christmas Rappin", he decided to write his first rhyme to the instrumental,
it was called the "Universal Rap". Afterwards he wanted to produce his own
beats and bought a Boss Dr. Rhythm Drumcomputer, soon after he
extended his first setup with a Casio SK-1 sampling keyboard to add more
content to his beats. He focused on making music and he got more
professional