Boom Bam (born Gene Heisser, 1974) is a member of Compton's Most WantedYahoo! music. Compton's Most Wanted.
. and underground rap group

N.O.T.R. Niggaz on tha Run (N.O.T.R.) was a 1990s Gangsta rap group from Compton, California, Compton, California. They were formed by MC Eiht and mainly featured his long-time friends and members of Compton's Most Wanted, DJ Slip, Tha Chill and Boom Bam ...

Heisser was born in

Compton, California Compton is a city located in the Gateway Cities region of southern Los Angeles County, California, United States, situated south of downtown Los Angeles. Compton is one of the oldest cities in the county, and on May 11, 1888, was the eighth ci ...

. He met

MC Eiht Aaron Bernard Tyler (born May 22, 1971), better known by his stage name MC Eiht (pronounced "MC Eight"), is an American rapper. Many of his songs are based on his life in Compton. His stage name was partly inspired by the numeral in KRS-One's nam ...

and

Tha Chill Vernon Johnson (born December 24, 1970), professionally known by his stage name Tha Chill, is an American rapper and record producer. He embarked on his music career in the early 1990s, as a co-founder of the Compton-based West Coast hip hop/gan ...

while attending Junior High school, and a lifelong friendship developed. In 1987, Eiht and Chill along with DJ’s Mike T and Slip created the rap group Compton's Most Wanted and their first album '' It's A Compton Thang!'' was released in 1990. The group quickly became famous on the West Coast, and international fame soon followed. After the group dissolved in 1993, Bam, Eiht, and Chill formed N.O.T.R. Atlantic Records bought the album and subsequently shelved the entire project. Underground copies of the album are all that survived. Bam also appeared with MC Eiht on several of his solo projects starting with

Death Threatz ''Death Threatz'' is the second studio album by American rapper MC Eiht. It was released on April 9, 1996, through Epic Records, Epic Street. The recording sessions took place at Echo Sound and X-Factor Studios in Los Angeles. The album was prod ...

. When C.M.W. reunited in 2000 for the album Represent, Bam joined the group. Boom Bam also had a brief movie career with a minor role in the blockbuster hit ''

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'' and in the movie '' ''Rhyme & Reason''''. He also briefly appeared in the backyard scene of ''

Boyz n the Hood ''Boyz n the Hood'' is a 1991 American coming-of-age hood crime drama film written and directed by John Singleton in his feature directorial debut. It stars Cuba Gooding Jr., Ice Cube (in his film debut), Morris Chestnut, and Laurence Fis ...

''.

Later years

Boom Bam is currently in the studio working with Hard Head Productions on his first solo album titled Still Wanted. It was originally scheduled for release in early 2012, however as of 2021, work still continues on the album. The album will feature a track titled ‘No Vasoline #2’, a

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against

inspired by ‘ No Vaseline’ by

Ice Cube O'Shea Jackson Sr. (born June 15, 1969), known professionally as Ice Cube, is an American rapper, songwriter, actor, and film producer. His lyrics on N.W.A's 1989 album '' Straight Outta Compton'' contributed to gangsta rap's widespread popu ...

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