BIG SCOOB - Artist Profile

Real name: Stewart D. Ashby Jr.
Born: May 9, 1973
City: Kansas City, MO
Groups: Rogue Dog Villians
Labels: Strange Music

Image source: Baller Status

Big Scoob grew up in Kansas City, MO, a friend and neighbor of future local star Tech N9ne, spending his formative years and early adulthood involved with gang activity and drug dealing. In the late 90s, he and several childhood friends, rappers Bakarii, Short Nitty, and Txx Will formed a rap group, 57th Street Rogue Dog Villians, and released several albums with local labels such as Midwestside Records and their own label, Hogstyle Records, as a way of leaving the street life behind. The group, along with frequent collaborator Tech N9ne, scored regional hits with songs like "It's On Now," "Let's Get Fucked Up," and Tech N9ne's "Mitch Bade." The RDVs would ultimately release 5 albums from 1998-2007 before largely separating to pursue separate interests, with Tech N9ne often a frequent guest on the records.

In the early 2000s, Tech N9ne was building a rapidly growing solo career, releasing major regional hits with Midwestside label owner and local producer Don Juan, who also produced material for the RDVs. Due to financial disputes, Tech would fall out with Don Juan, leading to a fierce feud that persisted for a number of years and at various times also involved the members of the Rogue Dog Villians. In 2002, Midwestside released a bootleg album of unreleased Tech N9ne tracks called Celsius, a pointed insult to Tech N9ne not only because of his burgeoning independent career and competing official release, his album Absolute Power, and the music being released against Tech N9ne's will, but also because of the use of a blue color motif on the album artwork, designed to make Tech lose credibility with his Blood gang affiliations. The Rogue Dog Villians made appearances on this album, and the escalating Midwestside feud led to several diss tracks being exchanged between Tech N9ne and his former Midwestside friends. Tech N9ne devoted an entire verse to Scoob himself on an underground song called "Kansas City King," making the beef very public as the song was featured on a Murder Dog magazine compilation album. During this time, the actual Rogue Dog Villians released little music, as they were dealing with the fallout of one of their members, Short Nitty, being arrested for statutory rape, as well as with the group being somewhat divided by the beef with Tech N9ne.

By 2007, the beef had been resolved, as the RDVs began recording with Tech again, and released their final album to date, New World Hustle: Street Edition. Scoob himself was picking up steam as a solo artist, having made several well-received guest appearances on Tech N9ne's first Collabos album, 2007's Misery Loves Kompany. In 2009, Scoob officially signed a contract with Tech N9ne's Strange Music label and released his solo debut album, Monsterifik, on September 15, 2009. The album was promoted by the lead single "Salue," which featured Tech N9ne and received a video treatment. The song remains one of Scoob's most recognized and celebrated songs, which introduced Strange Music's fanbase to Scoob's raw and straightforward rhyme style. However, the album's sales, as well as those of his sophomore follow-up, 2011's Damn Fool, disappointed Scoob and led to him taking a lengthy hiatus from recording for the label. He released an EP, No Filter, in late 2011 and the first two of a planned series of three mixtapes in summer 2012 before largely disappearing for several years, making relatively few appearances on his labelmates' music and virtually vanishing even from social media.

During this time period, Scoob says he had returned to the streets to some degree, as his music career was not making ends meet and he wondered if he had a place in the music business. But after a few well-received guest appearances on various labelmates' records and what Scoob felt was divine intervention, Scoob returned to the scene in 2016 with his third album, H.O.G. Scoob felt that H.O.G. was a rebirth of sorts, as he felt his previous releases had been mired by the pressure he felt to make music that would appeal to Strange Music's core fanbase rather than making music that was true to himself. Scoob now has various projects in the pipeline, including a long-rumored album of collaborations tentatively titled Big Scoob Nem and the eventual release of the final installment of his 2012 Dope Talk mixtape series.

Solo Discography
Monsterifik, 2009
Damn Fool, 2011
No Filter (EP), 2011
Dope Talk Volume 1: The Mixed Joint (mixtape), 2012
Dope Talk Volume 2: The Mixed Joint (mixtape), 2012
H.O.G., 2016
Duality, 2018

GUEST APPEARANCES

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  1999
• "Soldiers At War," Tech N9ne feat. Big Scoob, Don Juan, L.V., and Short Nitty (The Calm Before the Storm: Part I)
  2007
• "Miss Me With That," C-Loc feat. Big Scoob (Under That Old Law)
• "Fresh Fits," C-Loc feat. Big Scoob and Max Minelli (Under That Old Law)
• "Action, I'm On," Max Minelli feat. Big Scoob (On the Cut)
• "Real Hustla," Max Minelli feat. Big Scoob and C-Loc (On the Cut)
• "2 Piece," Tech N9ne feat. Big Scoob, Joe Vertigo, and Krizz Kaliko (Collabos: Misery Loves Kompany)
• "Big Scoob," Tech N9ne feat. Big Scoob (Collabos: Misery Loves Kompany)
  2008
• "Salute," Messy Marv feat. Big Scoob, Krizz Kaliko, and Tech N9ne (Draped Up and Chipped Out 3)
• "Beat You Up," Tech N9ne feat. Big Scoob, Lebowski, and Weapon (Killer)
  2009
• "Street Life," D-Locc da Chop & Cash Image feat. Big Scoob (Red Rags & Blue Flags)
• "Be Right Back," Krizz Kaliko feat. Big Scoob and Tech N9ne (Genius)
• "Gain Green," Messy Marv feat. Big Scoob, Krizz Kaliko, and Tech N9ne (Draped Up and Chipped Out 4)
• "L.A., CA 2 K.C., MO," Mykill Miers feat. Big Scoob (Take It In Blood)
• "How I Feel," Irv da Phenom feat. Big Scoob (Tire Shops and Night Clubs)
• "B. Boy," Tech N9ne feat. Big Scoob, Bumpy Knuckles, Kutt Calhoun, and Skatterman (K.O.D.)
• "Dysfunctional," Tech N9ne feat. Big Scoob and Krizz Kaliko (Collabos: Sickology 101)
• "Nothin'," Tech N9ne feat. Big Scoob and Messy Marv (Collabos: Sickology 101)
  2010
• "Stranger," Cognito feat. Big Scoob, Kutt Calhoun, Loki, Stevie Stone, and Tech N9ne (Automatic)
• "Walk With Me," Jay Rock feat. Big Scoob (Black Friday)
• "In My Dreams," Krizz Kaliko feat. Barbara Word, Big Scoob, and Brotha Lynch Hung (Shock Treatment)
• "Round n' Round," Stevie Stone feat. Big Scoob and Cognito (Himmi Hyme Vol 4: Set In Stone)
• "Keep It One Hunit," Tech N9ne feat. Big Scoob, Glasses Malone, and Irv da Phenom (Collabos: The Gates Mixed Plate)
• "Down For the Block," Tech N9ne feat. Big Scoob, Jay Rock, and Kutt Calhoun (Bad Season)
• "Asshole," Tech N9ne feat. Big Scoob and Krizz Kaliko (Seepage)
  2011
• "Mo Bigga," Cash Image feat. Big Scoob, Bishop YoungDon, and Rondoe (Money Bags 2: Round Here)
• "Charlie Sheen," Kutt Calhoun feat. Big Scoob (Red-Headed Stepchild)
• "Bless My," Irv da Phenom feat. Big Scoob (Dream Big Hustle Hard Vol. 1)
• "Luv My Hood," Snug Brim feat. Big Scoob and Taboo (Konnekted)
• "Love Me Tomorrow," Tech N9ne feat. Big Scoob and Krizz Kaliko (All 6's and 7's)
• "I'm a Monstar," Tha Committee feat. Big Scoob, Kilo, and Sundae (3 Headed Monstar)
• "Home Invasion," Tragedy feat. Big Scoob and Voodoo (Darkside of the Womb)
• "Get'em Up," Txx Will feat. Big Scoob (Maximum Volume)
  2012
• "Stay Alive," Krizz Kaliko feat. Big Scoob and Christopher Watson Jr. (Kickin' & Screamin')
• "Dixie Cup," Krizz Kaliko feat. Big Scoob and Twiztid (Kickin' & Screamin')
• "More Gangsta," Nesto the Owner feat. Big Ben, Big Scoob, and G Money da Boss (CK3)
• "Goin' Down," Stevie Stone feat. Big Scoob and Spaide Ripper (Rollin' Stone)
  2013
• "War (Blood Remix)," CW da Young Blood feat. BG Bulletwound, Big Scoob, Cash Image, Donta Slusha, Petey Sensay, P tha Thizz Kid, and Stew (Cooker Muzik 3)
• "With the BS," Tech N9ne feat. Big Scoob, Red Cafe, and Trae tha Truth (Something Else)
  2014
• "War (Damu Version)," A-Wax feat. BG Bulletwound, Big Scoob, Cash Image, CW da Young Blood, Petey Sensay, P tha Thizz Kid, and Stew (The B Section Vol I)
• "Drippin' Wet," Pittsburgh Philthy feat. Big Scoob and Krizz Kaliko (Outta the Snakepit II)
• "Red Rags," Tech N9ne feat. Big Scoob, Jay Rock, and Kutt Calhoun (Collabos: Strangeulation)
• "Strangeulation IV," Tech N9ne feat. Big Scoob, Krizz Kaliko, Prozak, and Rittz (Collabos: Strangeulation)
  2015
• "Push Start," Tech N9ne feat. Big Scoob (Collabos: Strangeulation Vol. II)
• "Strangeulation Vol. II Cypher III," Tech N9ne feat. Big Scoob and JL (Collabos: Strangeulation Vol. II)
• "Bass Ackwards," Tech N9ne feat. Big Scoob, Lil Wayne, and Yo Gotti (Special Effects)
  2016
• "No Gun Control," Tech N9ne feat. Big Scoob, Gary Clark Jr., and Krizz Kaliko (The Storm)
• "Buss Serves," Tech N9ne feat. Big Scoob and Young Devi D (The Storm)
• "Talk About It," Trizz feat. Big Scoob and Chuuwee (Lost Recordings)
  2017
• "Do or Die," Ampichino & Shoboat feat. Big Scoob (Dead Presidents 2)
• "Dead People," Big Omeezy feat. Big Scoob and Boogie Man (The Great Communicator 3)
• "Let's Link," Tech N9ne feat. Big Scoob (Collabos: Strange Reign)
• "Let Go," Tech N9ne feat. Big Scoob and Darrein Safron (Collabos: Strange Reign)
• "Quicksand," Tech N9ne feat. Big Scoob and Ces Cru (Collabos: Strange Reign)
  2018
• "Red Byers (Say Som'n Do Som'n)," Tech N9ne feat. Big Scoob and Krizz Kaliko (Planet)

COMPILATION APPEARANCES

• "Diary of a Dinosaur," Big Scoob (We Got This '09, 2009)
• "On Highland," Big Scoob (Tech N9ne Strange Days Tour: A Decade of Excellence, 2010)
• "Up & Down," Big Scoob and Boogie Man (Kush Groove: Bulk Weight In Flat Rates, 2017)

MONSTERIFIK

Released: September 15, 2009

Label: Strange Music

TRACK LIST
1. Drafted Intro (Skit)

2. Big Fella

3. Bet I Don't (feat. B-Legit and Txx Will)

4. Real Nigga

5. Monsterifik (feat. Krizz Kaliko)

6. Don't Get Stompt (feat. Tech N9ne)
7. Take Aim

8. Bring It 2 tha Table (feat. Skatterman)

9. Only Know Hard (feat. 8Ball and MJG and Krizz Kaliko)
10. Breathe Again (feat. Irv da Phenom)

11. Brand New Day (feat. Krizz Kaliko)

12. Reflektions (feat. Krizz Kaliko)

13. D-Boy (feat. Krizz Kaliko)

14. Street Life (feat. Bakarii, Krizz Kaliko, and Txx Will)

15. Let Me Holla At Cha (feat. Krizz Kaliko and Kutt Calhoun)
16. Doe Doe Doe (feat. 1 Ton, Boogie Man, and Johnny Richter)

17. Salue (feat. Tech N9ne)

18. Stik & Move (feat. Bakarii, Krizz Kaliko, Tech N9ne, and Txx Will)

19. How We Party

20. Drafted Outro (Skit)

21. Freaks of the Industry (feat. Krizz Kaliko, Kutt Calhoun, and Tech N9ne)

DAMN FOOL

Released: May 3, 2011

Label: Strange Music

TRACK LIST

1. Laugh MF's (Intro)
2. Dickey Mouf

3. All I Kno Is Hood (feat. Krizz Kaliko)

4. Wuss Up Buhh? (Skit)

5. Akka Damn Fool
6. The Recipe (Skit)
7. Lemonade Delight (feat. Crystal Watson and Krizz Kaliko)

8. Lil Kuzz (Skit)

9. Drunk & Stupid (feat. Chillest Illest and Tech N9ne)
10. Frank & Berry (Skit)
11. White Bitch (feat. Irv da Phenom and Krizz Kaliko)
12. Twistin' Yay (feat. Krizz Kaliko, Rappin' Twan, and Skatterman)
13. I Move With the Night (feat. Tech N9ne and T-Nutty)
14. Dead-a-Man (feat. Krizz Kaliko)
15. Damu (feat. Bumpy Knuckles, Jay Rock, Messy Marv, and Skatterman)
16. Fuck Strange (Skit)
17. They Dnt Want It (feat. Boogie Man and Glasses Malone)
18. 5-6 (feat. Txx Will)

19. 2 Fat Fucks (feat. Krizz Kaliko)
20. Punk Bitch (Skit)
21. If U Kall (feat. Big Rich, Irv da Phenom, and Krizz Kaliko)
22. Spotlight (feat. Krizz Kaliko and Tech N9ne)
23. Take Me Away (feat. Irv da Phenom)
24. Amazing (feat. Irv da Phenom
25. Always Gone (Skit)
26. Doin' My Thang (feat. Irv da Phenom and Txx Will)

NO FILTER

Released: September 20, 2011

Label: Strange Music

TRACK LIST
1. No Filter

2. Sloppy (feat. BG Bulletwound and Kutt Calhoun)

3. Torn

4. Soil Muzik

5. If You Only Knew Interlude

6. If You Only Knew (feat. Irv da Phenom)

DOPE TALK VOLUME 1: THE MIXED JOINT

Released: May 1, 2012

Label: Hog Style Entertainment

TRACK LIST

1. A Mad Soul Wit No Fear (performed by KC Poet Camile)

2. Neva Snitch (feat. Bandaide and Big Rich)

3. Need a $ (feat. Irv da Phenom)

4. Good Whiskey

5. Real Cocky

6. Lean Back (feat. Big Business and O.Y.G. RedRum)
7. Grinda (feat. Baby Villian and BooBang)
8. I'm a Hussla (feat. Boogie Man and Tiptoe the Boss)
9. Till the Feds Run Up

10. Ghetto Smile (feat. Boogie Man and Nesto the Owner)
11. Alright (feat. Irv da Phenom and Ron Ron)

12. I Feel It (feat. Irv da Phenom)

13. Sick & Tired

DOPE TALK VOLUME 2: THE MIXED JOINT
Released: June 1, 2012

Label: Hog Style Entertainment

TRACK LIST
1. Lost (performed by KC Poet Camile)
2. On My Momma (feat. Boogie Man and Mon.E.G. the Ghostwriter)
3. Beat U Pussies Up (feat. Glasses Malone)
4. Energetik (feat. E-40 and Kendrick Lamar)
5. Gangsta (feat. Rondoe and Skatterman)
6. Nuthin' (feat. Pappy Mason and Popper)
7. Got-My-Botto (feat. Boogie Man, Makmatikz, and Txx Will)

8. MaryJane (feat. Boogie Man, So-N-2U, and Txx Will)
9. Night & Day (feat. Boogie Man and K-Boy)
10. In the Dark (feat. Blind Fury and Krizz Kaliko)
11. That Nigga's Wrong (feat. All Day and Stoop Lo the Great)
12. Still Standing (feat. Big Bear and Young Devi D)
13. Make Me Wanna Holla (feat. Boogie Man and Txx Will)

H.O.G.

Released: November 4, 2016

Label: Strange Music

TRACK LIST
1. Gimmie a Beat (Skit) (feat. Tech N9ne)
2. Bitch Please (feat. B-Legit and E-40)
3. Dump Nigga (feat. Boogie Man, Godemis, and JL)
4. Do Better (feat. Boogie Man, Krizz Kaliko, and Paul Wall)
5. Doe-Rey-Me (feat. Boogie Man and Young Boss)
6. Barely Missin' Prison
7. Quasars (feat. Boogie Man, Krizz Kaliko, and Stevie Stone)
8. Here 2day Gone 2morro (feat. Bakarii, Boogie Man, and Krizz Kaliko)
9. Walk the Line (feat. Wrekonize)
10. A.B.N. (feat. Bumpy Knuckles and Killer Mike)
11. Soul Musik (feat. Boogie Man)
12. K-9 (feat. Boogie Man)
13. Intoxicated (feat. Bakarii, Tech N9ne, and Txx Will)
14. Won't Ease Up
15. Money Low (feat. Boogie Man)
16. Warrior (feat. Mackenzie Nicole)
17. Know Better (feat. Stevie Stone)
18. Geppetto

DUALITY
Released: May 24, 2018
Label: Strange Music

1. On My Grind (Intro)
2. On Me (feat. Tech N9ne)
3. T.R.A.P. (Pack Gone) (feat. B-Legit and Boogie Man)
4. Say What (feat. Eight-O and Mitchy Slick)
5. Only Way I Know
6. Still Here (feat. Irv da Phenom)
7. Solo Mission (feat. Auni Saxton)
8. Live Right Now (feat. Auni Saxton)
9. That Way (feat. Pretty Boi Beats)
10. Unbreakable (feat. Brandoshis, Fat Joe, and Maez301)
11. Tremble (feat. Maez301, Pretty Boi Beats, and Storm)
12. Worldwide (feat. Boogie Man)
13. For My Dogs (feat. Bakarii, Bizz Gotti, Boogie Man, Tech N9ne, and Txx Will)
14. My Partnas
15. No Fakin' (feat. Boogie Man and Pretty Boi Beats)
16. Paint a Picture (feat. Boogie Man)
17. Big Homie
18. Bruce Lee (feat. Bizz Gotti and Pretty Boi Beats)
19. Like Mine (feat. Bizz Gotti, BooBang, and Boogie Man)
20. Harder

For Big Scoob's work with Rogue Dog Villians, see the page for that group.