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The Cataracs

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David “Campa” Benjamin Singer-Vine and Niles “Cyrano” Hollowell-Dhar combined their songwriting, vocal, and production talents in 2003, while they were attending high school in Berkeley, CA. Three years later, after taking their name -- the Cataracs -- from a line in <a href="spotify:artist:7hJcb9fa4alzcOq3EaNPoG">Snoop Dogg</a>'s “What’s My Name, Pt. 2,” they released an independent album, Technohop, Vol. 1, and produced the sparse and booming track “Blueberry Afghani” for fellow Berkeley-based group <a href="spotify:artist:5M6GE2n46o0qBIyGXtzdQz">the Pack</a>. The duo released a handful of low-key albums and mixtapes and broke through with “Like a G6,” a collaboration with <a href="spotify:artist:698hF4vcwHwPy8ltmXermq">Far East Movement</a> and vocalist <a href="spotify:artist:7Ip2u3e5Nv6fFb5xyIHxEE">Dev</a> that topped the Billboard Hot 100 in late October 2010. <a href="spotify:artist:7Ip2u3e5Nv6fFb5xyIHxEE">Dev</a> herself released a Cataracs-produced single, “Bass Down Low,” which reached the chart by the end of the year. The Cataracs maintained their hit-making streak with <a href="spotify:artist:7hJcb9fa4alzcOq3EaNPoG">Snoop</a>'s “Wet” -- yet another stripped-down, bass-heavy track -- which was made for Prince William’s bachelor party and charted in early 2011. ~ Andy Kellman, Rovi

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