B-Legit

Born Brandt Jones in Vallejo, California, in 1968, B-Legit attended Grambling State University before forming the Click alongside cousins E-40, Suga-T, and D-Shot. The quartet issued three studio albums scattered across the 1990s and early 2000s; their second effort, Game Related, reached just outside the Billboard 200’s Top 20 in 1995, the same year B-Legit joined E-40 and D-Shot on 2Pac’s “Ain’t Hard 2 Find.” While the group remained active, the Vallejo rapper launched a solo career that yielded three albums by decade’s end, most notably The Hemp Museum in 1996, which included appearances by E-40, Suga-T, Celly Cel, Kurupt, and soft-rock legend Daryl Hall.

Throughout the following decade, occasional solo projects continued even as fellow Bay Area artists regularly tapped his thick, deliberate flow for guest spots. After releasing Throwblock Muzic and Coast 2 Coast in 2007, he stepped away from full-length solo work for several years before resurfacing with Game Is to Be Sold and the guest-heavy What We Been Doin’ in 2015. Three years later he paired again with E-40 for the collaborative album Connected & Respected, which featured Stresmatic, Ocky, P-Lo, and others and reached position 103 on the Billboard albums chart. In subsequent years he issued standalone tracks such as the 2020 single “Where I Been” and the 2021 collaboration “Baymona” with Sho Biz and Butch Cassidy.