Biography
I4NI arose as a country-rap collective that grew out of the dissolved C.W.B., whose full name was Crazy White Boys. Throughout the 2010s the group steadily issued material and thereby assembled a committed audience without restricting themselves to standard album schedules. Their first album, Team Strong, appeared in 2013. They joined forces with fellow artists including the Lacs, Moonshine Bandits, and Bubba Sparxx while also releasing numerous videos on YouTube, each new single and clip further expanding their following.
Stump, born Robbie Phillips, and D-Ray, born David Stevens, formed the central duo and had first become acquainted during their childhoods in east Nashville. In 2006 they started C.W.B. together with Lexx Luger and Stone; the outfit released one self-titled album on Paid in Full/Koch before disbanding. Stump and D-Ray continued onward as I4NI and enlisted their former C.W.B. colleague Bubba Sparxx to help shape their earliest demo recordings.
They designed I4NI to operate like Wu-Tang Clan, a loose collective whose contributors could enter and exit at will. The principal members comprised the original pair plus Jon Conner, the producer of Big Smo’s Kuntry Livin’. With Conner’s involvement, I4NI functioned simultaneously as a performing group and a production team, which prompted them to launch the video-production venture Dammit Boy Entertainment.
Once Team Strong reached the public in 2013, the collective added a live band to their stage shows in order to accentuate rock leanings. The mini-album Muscle Car followed in 2016. In 2017 they signed to Thirteen Skulls Entertainment and began issuing singles from the album No Sleep early the next year.
Stump, born Robbie Phillips, and D-Ray, born David Stevens, formed the central duo and had first become acquainted during their childhoods in east Nashville. In 2006 they started C.W.B. together with Lexx Luger and Stone; the outfit released one self-titled album on Paid in Full/Koch before disbanding. Stump and D-Ray continued onward as I4NI and enlisted their former C.W.B. colleague Bubba Sparxx to help shape their earliest demo recordings.
They designed I4NI to operate like Wu-Tang Clan, a loose collective whose contributors could enter and exit at will. The principal members comprised the original pair plus Jon Conner, the producer of Big Smo’s Kuntry Livin’. With Conner’s involvement, I4NI functioned simultaneously as a performing group and a production team, which prompted them to launch the video-production venture Dammit Boy Entertainment.
Once Team Strong reached the public in 2013, the collective added a live band to their stage shows in order to accentuate rock leanings. The mini-album Muscle Car followed in 2016. In 2017 they signed to Thirteen Skulls Entertainment and began issuing singles from the album No Sleep early the next year.
Albums
Singles
