Kottonmouth Kings is an American rap rock

Rap rock

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 group from Placentia

Placentia, California

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, Orange County

Orange County, California

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, California. Kottonmouth Kings officially formed in 1994, and describe themselves as "psychedelic

Psychedelic music

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 hip-hop

Hip hop music

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 punk rock

Punk rock

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". Kottonmouth Kings are composed of Daddy X

Daddy X

Brad Xavier,born around 1965,known by his stage name Daddy X, is a hip hop artist and record producer. He was previously in the punk/hardcore band Doggy Style, in which he was going by the stage name of Daddy X. He is currently the frontman for Kottonmouth Kings, Humble Gods, and X-Pistols...

 (singer of Humble Gods, X Pistols, former singer of Doggy Style), Lou Dog, D-Loc

D-Loc

Dustin Miller , best known by his stage name D-Loc, is an MC in the rap rock group Kottonmouth Kings. The group is signed to Suburban Noize. Miller has been a part of the Kottonmouth Kings since they were the P town Ballers in 1994. Miller is also known by the stage names DJ Shakey Bonez, and...

, Johnny Richter, DJ Bobby B, Taxman, and newest member/ vocalists: The Dirtball

The Dirtball

David Alexander , better known by his stage name The Dirtball is an American recording solo artist, a member of hip-hop rap group Kottonmouth Kings whom he joined in early 2010, and the punk rock group collaboration X-Pistols with Daddy X of the Kottonmouth Kings and members of So Cal punk group...

. The group first attracted attention with the song "Suburban Life," which appeared on the soundtrack to the film Scream 2

Scream 2

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.

Kottonmouth Kings released their debut album, Royal Highness

Royal Highness (album)

Royal Highness is the first full-length LP released by Orange County, CA, rappers Kottonmouth Kings. Rappers on this album are Saint Dog, D-Loc, and Daddy X....

, on Capitol Records

Capitol Records

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 in the summer of 1998. They began to gain mainstream success with the release of their third album, High Society

High Society (Kottonmouth Kings album)

High Society is the third official album released by the Kottonmouth Kings, June 27, 2000. The album peaked at number 65 on the Billboard 200 chart on July 15, 2000. The song "Peace Not Greed" peaked at number 37 on the Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart, with its accompanying music video being featured...

in 2000, and toured with D12

D12

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 and Bionic Jive

Bionic Jive

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 in the fall of 2001. In 2006, Kottonmouth Kings headlined at the year's Cannabis Cup

Cannabis Cup

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 and was named "Band of the Year" by High Times.

Influences

Their influences include the Red Hot Chili Peppers

Red Hot Chili Peppers

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, Parliament

Parliament (band)

Parliament was a funk band most prominent during the 1970s. It and its sister act Funkadelic, both led by George Clinton, began the funk music culture of that decade.-History:...

/Funkadelic

Funkadelic

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, James Brown

James Brown

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, Rage Against the Machine

Rage Against the Machine

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, The Notorious B.I.G.

The Notorious B.I.G.

Christopher George Latore Wallace , best known as The Notorious B.I.G., was an American rapper. He was also known as Biggie Smalls , Big Poppa, and The Black Frank White .Wallace was raised in the Brooklyn borough...

, N.W.A, Ice-T

ICE-T

* Ice-T, an American rapper and actor* ICE T , a tilting model of the German InterCityExpress series of high-speed trains...

, Cypress Hill

Cypress Hill

Cypress Hill is an American hip hop group from South Gate, California. Cypress Hill was the first Latino hip-hop group to have platinum and multi-platinum albums, selling over 18 million albums worldwide...

, 24-7 Spyz

24-7 Spyz

24-7 Spyz are a band from the South Bronx, New York, formed in 1986, originally consisting of Jimi Hazel , Rick Skatore , Kindu Phibes , and P. Fluid . The band is best known for mixing soul, funk, reggae, and R&B with heavy metal and hardcore punk...

, Snoop Dogg

Snoop Dogg

Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr. , better known by his stage name Snoop Dogg, is an American rapper, record producer, and actor. Snoop is best known as a rapper in the West Coast hip hop scene, and for being one of Dr. Dre's most notable protégés. Snoop Dogg was a Crip gang member while in high school...

, Dr. Dre

Dr. Dre

Andre Romelle Young , primarily known by his stage name Dr. Dre, is an American record producer, rapper, record executive, entrepreneur, and occasional actor. He is the founder and current CEO of Aftermath Entertainment and a former co-owner and artist of Death Row Records...

, Blaze Ya Dead Homie

Blaze Ya Dead Homie

Chris Rouleau, also known as Blaze Ya Dead Homie, is an American rapper from Romeo, Michigan. His stage persona is that of a reincarnated gang member killed in the late 1980s, and his music is a fusion of gangsta rap and horrorcore.-Biography:...

, Tech N9ne

Tech N9ne

Aaron Dontez Yates , better known by his stage name Tech N9ne , is an American rapper from Kansas City, Missouri. In 1999, Yates and Travis O'Guin founded the record label Strange Music. Throughout his career, Yates has sold over one million albums and has had his music featured in film,...

, Ice Cube

Ice Cube

O'Shea Jackson , better known by his stage name Ice Cube, is an American rapper and actor. He began his career as a member of the hip-hop group C.I.A. and later joined the rap group N.W.A. After leaving N.W.A in December 1989, he built a successful solo career in music, and also as a writer,...

, X-Clan

X-Clan

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, Twiztid

Twiztid

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, Brotha Lynch Hung

Brotha Lynch Hung

Kevin Danell Mann , better known by his stage name Brotha Lynch Hung, is an American rapper and record producer from Sacramento, California...

, Tupac Shakur

Tupac Shakur

Tupac Amaru Shakur , known by his stage names 2Pac and Makaveli, was an American rapper and actor. Shakur has sold over 75 million albums worldwide as of 2007, making him one of the best-selling music artists in the world...

, D.I., Bad Religion

Bad Religion

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, the Beastie Boys

Beastie Boys

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, Public Enemy and Sublime

Sublime (band)

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. The majority of the group's songs are sung under the influence of or are about Cannabis

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.

Discography

• Royal Highness
  Royal Highness (album)
  Royal Highness is the first full-length LP released by Orange County, CA, rappers Kottonmouth Kings. Rappers on this album are Saint Dog, D-Loc, and Daddy X....
  
  (1998)
• Hidden Stash
  Hidden Stash
  Hidden Stash is the second official album of the Kottonmouth Kings released on October 26, 1999. Shortly after the release of previous album, Royal Highness Saint Dog left the group to pursue a career with his brother Big Hoss, who, as evidenced by the song "Big Hoss," was in prison at the time...
  
  (1999)
• High Society
  High Society (Kottonmouth Kings album)
  High Society is the third official album released by the Kottonmouth Kings, June 27, 2000. The album peaked at number 65 on the Billboard 200 chart on July 15, 2000. The song "Peace Not Greed" peaked at number 37 on the Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart, with its accompanying music video being featured...
  
  (2000)
• Hidden Stash II: The Kream of the Krop (2001)
• Rollin' Stoned
  Rollin' Stoned
  Rollin' Stoned is the third official album from Orange County, CA, Rip-Hop group the Kottonmouth Kings on October 8, 2002. Combining rap, punk rock, reggae, and alternative rock , Rollin' Stoned is perhaps the Kings' most musically diverse album to date.The album peaked at #51 on the Billboard 200...
  
  (2002)
• Fire It Up
  Fire It Up (Kottonmouth Kings album)
  Fire It Up is the fifth official album from the Kottonmouth Kings. It was released on April 20, 2004 containing a bonus DVD titled Down 4 tha Krown which contained interviews and videos. The album peaked at #42 on the Billboard 200 chart during the week of May 8, 2004...
  
  (2004)
• The Kottonmouth Xperience
  The Kottonmouth Xperience
  The Kottonmouth Xperience is the Kottonmouth Kings' sixth official album released on November 16, 2004. It contains remixes of previous songs. The album includes a bonus DVD of the same name, The Kottonmouth Xperience.- Track listing :...
  
  (2004)
• Kottonmouth Kings
  Kottonmouth Kings (album)
  This album is Kottonmouth Kings' self titled album, Kottonmouth Kings released on May 31, 2005. The album is also known as "No.7" because of it being the seventh full length album....
  
  (2005)
• Joint Venture
  Joint Venture (album)
  Joint Venture is the eleventh official album released by the Kottonmouth Kings released November 15, 2005. The album peaked at #193 on the Billboard 200 and #13 on the Top Independent Albums charts during the week of December 3, 2005.-Track listing:...
  
  (2005)
• Koast II Koast
  Koast II Koast
  Koast II Koast is the eighth official album from the Kottonmouth Kings released on June 6, 2006 . The album peaked #39 on the Billboard 200, #3 on the Independent Album chart, #39 on the Top Internet Albums and #39 on the Billboard Comprehensive Albums chart on the week of June 24, 2006.-Track...
  
  (2006)
• Hidden Stash III
  Hidden Stash III
  Hidden Stash III is the thirteenth studio album from the Kottonmouth Kings, released on November 21, 2006, which is a 3 disc CD-DVD combo....
  
  (2006)
• Cloud Nine
  Cloud Nine (Kottonmouth Kings album)
  Cloud Nine is the ninth official album from the Kottonmouth Kings, released on August 28, 2007. Band member Daddy X stated that Cloud Nine is the "most adventurous" Kottonmouth Kings album release to date. Cloud Nine features artists such as Tech N9ne, the Insane Clown Posse, and Cypress Hill...
  
  (2007)
• The Kottonmouth Xperience Vol. II: Kosmic Therapy
  The Kottonmouth Xperience Vol. II: Kosmic Therapy
  The Kottonmouth Xperience Vol. II: Kosmic Therapy is a 2-disc CD/DVD combo of remixed classic Kottonmouth Kings tracks.-Track listing:# Intro - 0:57# Echoes and Spirit Guides - 3:10# Super Duper High - 5:05# Growin Ganja - 3:09# Keep Smilin - 3:51...
  
  (2008)
• The Green Album
  The Green Album (Kottonmouth Kings album)
  The Green Album is the tenth studio album by Kottonmouth Kings. Released in 2008, the album peaked at #5 on the Billboard Top Rap Albums chart, and #42 on the Billboard 200...
  
  (2008)
• Hidden Stash 420
  Hidden Stash 420
  Hidden Stash 420 is the 12th studio album from rap rock group, Kottonmouth Kings, released on October 13, 2009. It is their fourth collection of rarities, remixes, and demos, and includes 40 tracks on two discs...
  
  (2009)
• Long Live The Kings (2010)
• Sunrise Sessions
  Sunrise Sessions
  Limited Edition vinyl-Additional personnel :Additional personnel include:*Mike Kumangai & Patrick Shevelin – Mixing*Tom Baker – Mastering*Patrick Shevelin – Additional Production...
  
  (2011)
• Hidden Stash V: Bongloads & B-Sides
  Hidden Stash V: Bongloads & B-Sides
  Hidden Stash V: Bongloads & B-Sides is the fifth Hidden Stash mixtape by the Kottonmouth Kings, released in 2011. Mostly remixes of older releases, many from the also 2011 released album Sunrise Sessions...
  
  (2011)

Filmography

Title	Released
Dopeumentary	May 8, 2001
Stoners Reeking Havoc	October 22, 2002
Endless Highway	August 12, 2003
The Kottonnmouth Kings	November 16, 2004
10 Years Deep	January 25, 2005
Evil Bong Evil Bong Evil Bong is a 2006 horror/comedy film directed by Charles Band about a group of college stoners who smoke a bong unaware that the bong transports the smoker into a surreal world where strippers with teeth-like bras attack them. The ending features an extended cameo by Tommy Chong, of Cheech &...	October 24, 2006
The Joint Is on Fire (With VD)	February 20, 2007
Donsworld	April 1, 2007
Kottonmouth Kings and High Times Present: Kanabis Kup '06	2007
Throw Your Spades Up! Throw Your Spades Up! Throw Your Spades Up! is the debut live DVD the Hip-Hop Duo Kingspade that was released on February 19, 2008. The DVD includes the explosive show recorded at the legendary Key Club in West Hollywood on November 3, 2007. The DVD includes the live performance, interviews with the group, and all three...	February 19, 2008
The Psychumentary	April 8, 2008
Long Live the Kings	April 20, 2010
Big Money Rustlas Big Money Rustlas Big Money Rustlas is an American Western comedy film directed by Paul Andresen. The film is the prequel to the 2000 film Big Money Hustlas. Joseph Bruce wrote the story, and he, Andresen, and Studebaker Duchamp adapted the story into a screenplay. Their writing was influenced by classic Western...	August 17, 2010