Tunnel Rats discography

Tunnel Rats discography
Studio albums 3
Compilation albums 1
Music videos 1
Guest appearances 1
Miscellaneous 1

The combined discography of Tunnel Rats, a West Coast underground Christian hip hop collective founded in 1993 in Whittier, California, three studio albums, a collaborative compilation album, several compilation appearances, one guest appearance, one music video, and a collection of unfinished material. Named after the tunnel rats in the Vietnam war, the mixed-gender, multi-racial collective comprises eighteen individual members and has incorporated six affiliated groups, LPG, Future Shock, Footsoldiers, Foundation, New Breed, and The Resistance, which have recorded both within Tunnel Rats and independently. The collective has released three albums under the Tunnel Rats name, Experience, in 1996, Tunnel Vision, in 2001, and Tunnel Rats, in 2004. In 2006, several Tunnel Rats, working as Footsoldiers and production team Resistance, collaborated with KRS-One on his album Life, and released a mixtape and a studio album, Live This. Though currently on hiatus, Tunnel Rats has not disbanded, according to a statement by member Peace 586.[1]

Studio albums

List of studio albums
Title Album details
Experience[2]
  • 1st studio album
  • Released: 1996
  • Label: Brainstorm
Tunnel Vision[3]
  • 2nd studio album
  • Released: 2001
  • Label: UpRok
Tunnel Rats[4]
  • 3rd studio album
  • Released: November 1, 2004
  • Label: UpRok

Compilation albums

List of compilation albums
Title Album details
Coalition: the Hip-Hop Alliance
Uprock Records Sampler[5]
  • Released: January 29, 2002
  • Label: UpRok
Uprock Mixtape, Vol. 1[6]
  • Released: November 19, 2002
  • Label: UpRok
  • Host: DJ Allstar
Underground Rise, Volume 1: Sunrise/Sunset[4]
  • Released: April 25, 2003
  • Label: UpRok
Uprock Mixtape, Vol. 2[7]
  • Released: October 7, 2003
  • Label: UpRok
  • Host: DJ Allstar

Guest appearances

 List of guest appearances
Title Year Other performer(s) Album
"What's Real"[8] 2002 BK & Associates BK & Associates

Music videos

Title Year Director
"T.R.'z" 2001 N/A

Miscellaneous

Title Album details
Both Sides[3]
  • Compilation of unfinished material[9]
  • Released: October 5, 2005
  • Label: Thump

References

  1. ↑ Vasquez, Rene (February 13, 2010). "Re: Who Are the (Current) Tunnel Rats?". Sphere of Hip Hop. Retrieved May 14, 2014.
  2. ↑ Cummings, Tony; Stephen Adams (February 24, 2003). "America's Hip Hop Underground: Some of the best US acts". Cross Rhythms Magazine (Cross Rhythms) (73). Retrieved May 8, 2014.
  3. 1 2 "The Tunnel Rats - Discography". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved May 14, 2014.
  4. 1 2 "Propaganda". Jesus Freak Hideout. John DiBiase. Retrieved May 13, 2014.
  5. ↑ "Uprock Records Sampler". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved May 14, 2014.
  6. ↑ "Uprok Mixtape, Vol. 1". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved May 14, 2014.
  7. ↑ "Uprok Records Mixtapes, Vol. 2". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved May 14, 2014.
  8. ↑ "What's Real". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved May 14, 2014.
  9. ↑ Henly, Ralph (2013). "Tunnel Rats "TRz" video - linked comment". YouTube. Google. Retrieved May 15, 2014. 'Both Sides' was misrepresented as a TR album. It's not. It was a like a production reel of stuff we were working on at the time...somehow it got released as a Tunnel Rats album which is incorrect.
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