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Formally known as Spike La Rock as well as 2wx. Born Rick Rosa may 10 1965 in the Bronx nyc, former break dancer Paradox 2wx pioneer emcee, emerges back in to the music scene with some unreleased classics after a five year layoff. On January 26th, 2012 at the Powermoves Unity Jam in Tampa, Florida. Paradox gave a taste of what real hiphop has been missing in his absence, "LYRICAL CONTENT". At that event Paradox was presented with a "30 Year Pioneer Award", for his contribution the hiphop cuulture. Past achievements include: Jam Magazine's Hiphop Performer of the Year, Weekly Planets best hiphop song of the year, performances at Madison Square Garden In New York City, The Black Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada as well a few venues in Tampa, New York and California. Although, not being scene at live shows in the last five years does not mean that his music has been unheard. There was a VH1 syndication license use of Paradox's music for "Hiphop Honors Risen", Kimora Lee's reality show, " Life in the Fab Lane", as well as countless others. Paradox 2wx has worked with Celph Titled , Mc Sha Rock as well as Donald D. Has performed alongside digital Underground, Pharcyde, Common, Naughty by Nature to name a few. Known as a poineer in tampa for his contributions to the hip hop scene in Fl. Paradox 2wx was the only artist stationed out of Florida to be recognized to appear as a guest at the Rock and Roll hall of fame in 1999 when hip hop was recognized as a genre. Also a spoken word artist who's performance at the independent film festival at Madison sqaure Garden. His music pioneered goth rap with the self released album Dark Reign a rap rock fuzed with Goth album, the album distributed by Tower records succeeded in giving paradox 2wx underground notability alongside some very talented features such as Mo Gutta Game, Ruin, Maximus, Noktic and Wisdom. Production was done by Krazystylez, Admonish , Anwar from Survival records and Frank Nitti. The follow up Album " From New York to Tampa has a lighter back to east coast sound released 2012 featured Artist such as Vizion, Gizmoe , War and was released under Raw Productions. Singles included are " searching for hip hop " which features Mc Sha Rock known as the first female emcee as well as the Legendary Donald D formally of Ice T's Ryhme Syndicate. Paradox also appeared on Celphv Titled's album " The Gatalog.
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