Leathal Weapon

About Leathal Weapon

Started in 2001 as a simple collaboration between local artists in Tulsa area Oklahoma shortly turned into a banded brotherhood of acclaimed performers. Leathal Weapon and fellow rapper C-Dub began collaborating on a mixtape entitled Street Villainz which would include hits from each performer as well as collaboration hits. Little did they know it would catch on...quickly. Although short lived due to the sudden passing of C-Dub the Street Villainz name lived on through Leathal Weapon when he reemerged in 2005 this time with new talent but never forgetting his first partner. in 2003 the Street Villainz added new members Sirkle, from Northern California, Chaos, from Tulsa, and (expired link), fellow Oklahoma native. Leathal also picked up (expired link). from Oklahoma as well. Together they rose from the ashes of mourning and began working on new projects, including 3 From Tha T as well as Leathal Recordz Presents: World War 3. The later which included another renown performer Gravez. Both projects were very successful locally but it wasnt until Leathal's first solo album in 2008 that Street Villainz was put on the map. When Leathal released Reign Supreme which included features from every Street Villainz member, with the exception of (expired link), the music industry took notice. Along with Reign Supreme was the parallel album release of Gravez album The Outsider which also featured Leathal Weapon on 5 of the 16 tracks. By 2010 Street Villainz was considered mainplay in Oklahoma and very successful in Georgia as well as Florida and California. It was in 2010 when fellow Oklahoma native Easy stepped into the Street Villainz clique with his vocal presence on R&B style songs in 2010 when Leathal and Easy began working on various mixtape and album projects. In 2013 Leathal and Street Villainz announced a new Street Villainz album was in the process and scheduled to be released in the summer of 2014.