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While growing up in Houston's South Park -- also the home of <a href="spotify:artist:3f5fB1YUbkUnW7cf7I0R48">the Geto Boys</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:19KwjzvIL92r29IINtlPNP">Scarface</a>, and <a href="spotify:artist:3aQ7I4C84b5EPAFkLMhpin">5th Ward Boyz</a> -- Ganksta N-I-P was influenced by the rhyming skills of <a href="spotify:artist:0eGh2jSWPBX5GuqIHoZJZG">Ice-T</a> and the Nation of Islam knowledge of <a href="spotify:artist:3PyWEKLWI0vHPmoNrIX0QE">Rakim</a>. The former Rowdy Jones named himself Ganksta N-I-P -- NIP stands for "Nation of Islam is powerful" -- and began rapping himself, releasing his first album, South Park Psycho, early in the '90s. It sold almost 100,000 copies around the area, and sparked a contract with Priority. Second album Psychic Thoughts did even better, and N-I-P worked with an assortment of producers (<a href="spotify:artist:0YtA5DdO2df8zIxpVdktqg">411</a>, N.O. Joe, <a href="spotify:artist:1CCH6LvEWRpFf67ArcBgBJ">Mic B</a>, Information Booth, <a href="spotify:artist:0vAs5HIBkUPbuoN5b5GWTE">Swift</a>, and Johnny Cage) to record his third, 1996's Psychic Thoughts. Interview With a Killa was released in June 1998. ~ John Bush, Rovi
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