Tunnel Rats discography explained

Artist:Tunnel Rats
Studio:3
Compilation:1
Music Videos:1
Option:1
Option Name:Guest appearances
2Option:1
2Option Name:Miscellaneous
1Option Name:Compilation appearances
1Option:4

The combined discography of Tunnel Rats, a West Coast underground Christian hip hop collective founded in 1993 in Whittier, California, is three studio albums, a collaborative compilation album, several compilation appearances, one guest appearance, one music video, and a collection of unfinished material. Named after the tunnel rats in the Vietnam War, the mixed-gender, multi-racial collective has included twenty individual members and incorporated six affiliated groups: LPG, Future Shock, Footsoldiers, the Foundation, New Breed, and the Resistance, which have recorded both within Tunnel Rats and independently. The collective has released three albums under the Tunnel Rats name: Experience (1996), Tunnel Vision (2001), and Tunnel Rats (2004). They also collaborated on a compilation album released through Uprock Records, (2003). Though currently on hiatus, Tunnel Rats has not disbanded, according to a statement by member Peace 586.[1]

Studio albums

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Experience[2]
  • 1st studio album
  • Released: 1996
  • Label: Brainstorm
Tunnel Vision[3]
  • 2nd studio album
  • Released: 2001
Tunnel Rats[4]
  • 3rd studio album
  • Released:
  • Label: UpRok

Compilation albums

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Uprock Records Sampler[5]
  • Released:
Uprock Mixtape, Vol. 1[6]
  • Released:
  • Label: UpRok
  • Host: DJ Allstar
  • Released:
  • Label: UpRok
Uprock Mixtape, Vol. 2[7]
  • Released:
  • Label: UpRok
  • Host: DJ Allstar

Guest appearances

+ List of guest appearances
Title Year Other performer(s) Album
"What's Real"[8] 2002 BK & Associates BK & Associates

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Vasquez. Rene. Re: Who Are the (Current) Tunnel Rats?. Sphere of Hip Hop. May 14, 2014. February 13, 2010.
  2. Cummings. Tony. Stephen Adams . America's Hip Hop Underground: Some of the best US acts. Cross Rhythms Magazine. February 24, 2003. 73. May 8, 2014. Cross Rhythms.
  3. Web site: The Tunnel Rats - Discography. AllMusic. All Media Network. May 14, 2014.
  4. Web site: Propaganda. Jesus Freak Hideout. John DiBiase. May 13, 2014.
  5. Web site: Uprock Records Sampler. AllMusic. All Media Network. May 14, 2014.
  6. Web site: Uprok Mixtape, Vol. 1. AllMusic. All Media Network. May 14, 2014.
  7. Web site: Uprok Records Mixtapes, Vol. 2. AllMusic. All Media Network. May 14, 2014.
  8. Web site: What's Real. AllMusic. All Media Network. May 14, 2014.
  9. Web site: Henly. Ralph. Tunnel Rats "TRz" video - linked comment. YouTube. Google. May 15, 2014. 2013. "'Both Sides' was misrepresented as a TR album. It's not. It was a like a production reel of stuff we were working on at the time...somehow it got released as a Tunnel Rats album which is incorrect.".