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The legendary Memphis, Tennessee artist DJ Spanish Fly is a musical veteran and pioneer, well known throughout the Memphis area, and the Mid-South as one of the founding fathers of hiphop music and culture in the region. Now, more than 20 years deep in the rap game... It's Fly time. DJ Spanish Fly started out DJ'ing and rapping on the block in his South Memphis neighborhood of Clementine, off Elvis Presley Blvd with a group called the True Blue Cru including Chicago-based rapper Mighty Rappin Fishbone. Their extreme dedication in these early days of hiphop can be supremely illustrated by...

An experimental, indie rock/dream-pop band formed in the year 2008 in Brooklyn, New York. http://spanishprisoners.bandcamp.com/ .

There are two groups performing as Spanish Fly: 1) From the Harbor Hills of the port of Los Angeles comes the Spanish Foolish Loco Youngsters. Spanish Fly has been around since 1988. They are the classic authentic originators who brought you the first underground Chicano rap hit titled “Soy 18 With A Bullet” which has been compared to “The Boys in the Hood” song (Easy E) but with an image along the lines of our Chicano Barrios. Tricks(Frank Contreras), Rich Rock(Richard Anaya), and Ese Daz(David Arellano Zamora) were the original members of Spanish Fly. They had just started recording Soy...