The Dude was a smoothed-out, funk-laden album and an ode to wine, women, and weed. At this time, Devin decided to work on his debut solo album, The Dude, with the help of Smith and Scarface.nn The Dude was released in 1998 with virtually no video and little radio play. Facemob released one album in 1996, The Other Side of the Law, and then broke up due to internal problems. While the group went back to the drawing board, Rap-A-Lot franchise artist Scarface approached Devin to be a part of his new group, Facemob. Their debut album, Fadanuf fa Erybody!!, was released in 1994 with "I Can't See It" as the lead single and video.nn Although hip-hop fans praised the effort put out by the Odd Squad, their album was not as commercially successful as they hoped. Screw (who was later replaced by DJ Styles) took the group's demo tape to Rap-A-Lot Records CEO James Smith, who quickly signed the group in 1992. Later on, the duo formed a group named the Odd Squad and recruited Devin's longtime friend Jugg Mugg and a local DJ named DJ Screw. In the late '80s, Devin met Rob Quest, a blind rapper and producer who was part of a Houston crew called the Coughee Brothas. As a child, he went back and forth from New Boston and Houston and finally settled in the latter after he graduated high school. Feel-good rapper Devin Copeland - better known as Devin the Dude - was born in Pontiac, Michigan, but raised in Florida and Texas.
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