Top Dog (rapper)

Top Dogg
Birth name	Dashawn Jamal Yates
Also known as	D-O, Big Kahuna
Born	December 22, 1976
Origin	Brownsville, Brooklyn, New York City, New York
Genres	Hip Hop
Years active	1995–present
Labels	Duck Down Records

Top Dog (birth name Dashawn Jamal Yates) is an American rapper, member of the Hip Hop supergroup Boot Camp Clik, and the trio O.G.C.. Top Dog (also known as Big Kahuna and D.O.) debuted on Smif-N-Wessun's Dah Shinin' in 1995, appearing on the single "Sound Bwoy Bureill" and the track "Cession at da Doghillee". Top Dog became a member of The Fab 5 in 1995, releasing the hit single "Blah" b/w "Leflaur Leflah Eshkoshka". He and O.G.C. dropped their debut album Da Storm in October 1996, featuring the rap hit "No Fear". He recorded an album with the Boot Camp Clik in 1997, For the People, and followed up with another O.G.C. album, The M-Pire Shrikez Back, in 1999. He returned with the Camp in 2002, releasing the album The Chosen Few, and released another album with the Boot Camp, The Last Stand, on July 18, 2006. Top Dog is the younger brother of Smif-n-Wessun rapper and fellow Boot Camp member, Steele.

Discography

Solo albums

• Black Dawn Rising (TBA)

O.G.C. albums

• Da Storm (1996)
• The M-Pire Shrikez Back (1999)

Boot Camp Clik albums

• For the People (1997)
• The Chosen Few (2002)
• The Last Stand (2006)
• Casualties of War (2007)

External links

• Duck Down Records