Rojai Trawick, better known as Mista Grimm, is a rapper formerly signed to
Epic Records
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' sub-label,
550 Music
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. Grimm's first release was the 1993 single "
Indo Smoke" featuring
Warren G
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and
Nate Dogg
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from the ''
Poetic Justice soundtrack''. The following year Grimm released a single entitled "
Situation: Grimm" that appeared on the ''
Higher Learning soundtrack''.
Mista Grimm completed his debut album ''Things are Looking Grimm'' that was originally set to be released during the summer of 1995; however, after the album's lead single "Steady Dippen" failed to make an impact, the album was shelved. Little has been heard of Mista Grimm subsequently aside from a song called "Grow Room" on
DJ Pooh's 1997 album ''
Bad Newz Travels Fast'', appearances on
T-Bone's albums ''Tha Hoodlum's Testimony'' (1995) and
GospelAlphaMegaFunkyBoogieDiscoMusic (2002), and an appearance on Warren G's 2001 album ''
The Return of the Regulator
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Track listing
Samples
Ghetto Vi ...
''.
Discography
Unreleased albums
*''Things Are Looking Grimm'' (1995)
Singles
References
External links
*[] Album and singles info, chart info and music video links.
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American rappers
550 Music artists
G-funk artists
Gangsta rappers
People from West Covina, California
Rappers from Los Angeles
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