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People Under the Stairs is a hip hop group from Los Angeles, California formed in 1997 by Thes One and Double K. The group has released eight critically acclaimed full-length albums and performed on every continent except Antarctica. It is estimated that the group has performed well over 1,000 sold out shows at more than 400 venues worldwide. Some of their more recognizable songs include "San Francisco Knights," "Montego Slay," "Los Angeles Daze," and "Acid Raindrops." Much of the group's lyrics relate to life in their hometown of Los Angeles.
While both still attending high school in Mid-City Los Angeles, Thes One and Double K met and quickly started working on music together, laying the foundation for what would become People Under The Stairs. Soon after, while Thes One was attending USC, the duo began recording and performed their first live in-store appearance as a group at the now defunct Beat Non Stop record store on Melrose. A few months later, the group made a roadtrip north to the San Francisco Bay Area, which inspired them to write and record San Francisco Knights, one of their most popular songs to date.
The duo continued performing and recording, and in 1998 used Thes One's student loan funds to release their first 12-inch, entitled "The Next Step pt. 2". 250 copies were pressed, until the stamper at the pressing plant broke, and then 200 more copies were made from a different master without the secret bonus track Live At The Fishbucket which on the first-run appears on the b-side. In the late summer of 1998 the group independently released their first album, entitled The Next Step, which Thes One produced and engineered in its entirety.
That same year, just weeks after the 12-inch was released, the shopkeeper of the now-defunct Mr. Bongo record shop purchased a large number of copies of it for his shop. When he played it on an ordinary day in the store, customers rushed the counter and it sold out within 7 minutes. Seeing the demand, the shopkeeper called Chris Smith, owner of Om Records in San Francisco, and urged him to get in contact with People Under The Stairs. Initially, Smith contacted the group regarding a one-song deal for the Om's compilation albums Deep Concentration and Mushroom Jazz, but upon hearing more material offered the group a 4-album deal.
People Under The Stairs signed with Om Records in 1999 and headed off on their first world tour in late summer of the same year, initially as support for the Deep Concentration project but later that year in Europe as a Solo Act with local openers.

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