THE STORY OF STEM AND UHS RECORDS
The story of Stem and UHS Records started about 9 years ago
when we were still a stoner rap group coming outta
Lake Elsinore Ca. It was Shurm, Blunt, Pim, Mot, and me, Stem.
You see, back then Shurm was djing for Stem and helping with
the first bedroom tape which would be one of 3 bedroom tapes
made by Stem. The tape had 11 songs on it, all mixed with 2
turntables, a mic and a Gemini PMX 100 dj mixer and recorded
useing an old tape deck that I still have!!
It had Shurm scratching on over half the tape, plus, he's on the
first ever skit which was Stem and Shurm taking a bong rip.
That track can be heard today on the collection cd "Scraped
From The Pipe: The Lost Tracks of Stem"
(2005)
Right around this time UHS was still a click on the streets and
was just Runnin shit. After about a year of that it was time to
drop the first cd called "The Stem LP" feat Blunt
on the tables and just repin' that stoner rap. Now about this
time UHS Records really started coming out. We dropped the
cd just burning cd's and passin shit out, doing shows, and livin.
Pim out in Chi-town was also repin'UHS and gettin the word out
with the Stem LP. About this time we were just working with the
cd and just moving on
with this up and coming label UHS. When 2002 rolled around
UHS Records was just a few stoners,
Blunt & Shurm kinda fell out of the mix and that's when Stem
went solo.
Pim was still down like the ground like now. Mot aka Tom
was still kickin it and shit was really comin together. Me and
Chainsaw got a building and set up a recording studio /
headquarters where we lived and ran UHS.
Now it was about this time I started to record the second
album that would become "3 Tokes And I'm Out". I was just
writing and running through shit but now we would relocete to
San Bernardino Ca and that's were we dropped "3 Tokes And
I'm Out". It was the first cd that landed in the record store. Now
when this all went down it was 2003 and we still promoted UHS
Records and were doing lil shows and stuff plus we always be
promoting
and decided to come real quick with the 3rd album called
"The Unknown Hooded Stoner". Although the cd would not hit
the streets for another year it would be Stem's biggest album to
that date. Around this time we just set up
shop in the new studio now called "The Bottom of the bag"
and started to record the 3rd album "The Unknown Hooded
Stoner" and we dropped that Aug-25-2004. We came out in 5
more stores, By this time we hooked up with Pot-Tv to air our
first music video "I Need A Bong"
from The Unknown Hooded Stoner. We did a mini tour in the
Midwest to promote "The Unknown Hooded Stoner" We played
to a totaly different crowd and It was the shit!! Around 2005 we
aired our second video from the album called "All Around" and
began work on the first collection cd called "Scraped From The
Pipe The lost Tracks Of Stem" (2005) witch is just a cd with 4
new song's
useing a Madlib beat and a Re-mixed 2005 version of the song
"Weed Bound" from the first album called "The Stem lp".
"Weedbound" would be Stem's biggest video to be aired on
Pot-Tv yet. The cd's kinda done mixtape style. It has lost
song's, plus song's from the first 2 cd's. It was about this time
that we decided to stop droppin full length albums cuz we
wanted to hold out till we had a deal. That's when we started to
sign other mc's, like Faze-1 and and also form the stoner rap
group called "The Chronic Keepers". "The Chronic Keepers
dropped an 8 track Ep called "28 Grams In A Fuckin Oz". At the
same time I dropped my first Ep called "Lost With No Return"
and just kept promoting and going on the road to let it all off.
We started the new UHS video dept. We now have our own tv
stoner show "The Chronic Resin Show", the voice of UHS
Records. In addition to all this we now have a deal with Sonic
Wave Intl. to drop our first world wide album:
"The Dead Smoke Lp" So we thought we had a record
deal,before we found out that Sonic Wave is a bunch of shady
Underhanded people. So be on the look out for that and as for
UHS Records release for 2007 ,we had "The UHS RECORDS
SAMPLER",Gimics released his first solo album as did Faze
-1,and Stem dropd his 4th full album "The DEAD SMOKE LP" and
STEM has been giging it up in citys like Hollywood ca,Newport
beach and has played at venues like "the Key Club" in
Hollywood and night clubs like "the Rhythm Lounge" plus the
Knitting Factory in Hollywood as well. 2008 Has seen some good
days as well , At the start of the year I was just starting to wrap
up the "Dead Smoke Tour" and get the last music video done
title track "DEADSMOKE" The video can be found today on the
video page!!. May , STEM got to open up a show for the 1 and
only ESHAM THE UNHOLY, On the SACRIFICIAL LAMBZ TORUR At
the "Temple bar" witch was also a new venue for STEM. STEM
has also got live at the "BLUE CAFE" in Long Beach ,STEM has
also been in HIGH TIMES mag over on the POT40!! Witch is like
TOP 40 for the weed world!!.And is #1 in the (October)HIGH
TIMES.Any Stoner can respect that!! Right now my plan is to get
as many shows as I can and bring that Stoner rap like I know.
So till we make more history keep listing and watching and
Tokin the weed , This is The Unknown Hooded Stoner sayin
peace the fuck out!! STEM.
