Brown F.I.S.H.,
Truth is, there hasn’t been a heavy live-music buzz coming from Baltimore in a long time. Remember, that in the 50’s and 60’s Baltimore’s Pennsylvania Avenue was the Mecca of Black music. Sadly, its popularity slowly died down throughout the years as B-More fell into the hands of the streets with the rise of the heroine epidemic. Now with a few pushes on the chest and a couple of mouth to mouths the once great city has been resuscitated. And who’s initiating Baltimore’s revitalization??? Baltimore’s own “Movement through Music”, Brown F.I.S.H., LLC: OOH and Jahiti.
Deal with it, 2010 is the year of the F.I.S.H. OOH, Jahiti, and the Brown F.I.S.H., LLC crew have spent 02’ thru 09’ running the college radio airwaves and performing everywhere from Jamaica to Canada. Beyond the commercial success of “F.I.S.H. Bowl”, the F.I.S.H. rule the streets with their immensely popular compilations, “The Bootleg Album”, “The Bootleg 2”, and “Bootleg III”. With Jahiti and OOH both gearing up to release “Separation of Church and State”, (the first Brown F.I.S.H. album) the F.I.S.H. are set to unleash a flurry of new street anthems including the first national single “S.T.O.P.”
Brown F.I.S.H.’s name stems from Sunday meetings at Big Rudy’s Crestview home in Baltimore, Maryland, the F.I.S.H.’s hometown, which they refer to as the “F.I.S.H. Bowl”.
Whenever the group formerly known as “Lost Tribe” had weekly meetings they had a mandatory fish fry. After eating, they discussed business while partaking in herbal essence rolled flat on one end, resembling the tail of a fish. After discovering a group under Trick Daddy’s Slip-n-Slide label had the same name, they had to institute a name change. O.O.H. says jokingly, “Let’s call the group Brown Fish” Why? For the fried fish at those unifying meetings and those infamous “strictly leaf” brown cigars. Later they added the acronym (F.I.S.H.): First I’ll Save Hip-Hop being the goal and the struggle of the “F.I.S.H.”
Jahiti’s Jamaican heritage gives him the reggae mystic vibe that blends with O.O.H.’s witty arrogance to astonish audiences worldwide. Since the birth of the “F.I.S.H.” in 1998, there have been several changes with members, production, and plans for the future. Now, with hard hitting production and the use of live instrumentation the “F.I.S.H.” state that they only have one goal: “dominate underground and mainstream hip-hop/reggae music from the “F.I.S.H. Bowl” and beyond!”
