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When did Pete Rock start making music?
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Pete Rock's first song “Straighten It Out (Vocal Remix Version)” released on June 9, 1992.
Peter Phillips, better known as Pete Rock, is an American record producer, DJ and rapper born in Bronx, New York, on June 21, 1970. He rose to prominence in the early 1990s as one half of the hip-hop group Pete Rock & CL Smooth. He is the older brother of Grap Luva and cousin of Heavy D. Pete Rock builds his beats from samples, the majority of... Read More
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