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T Gunz is an inspiring underground Hip Hop Artist from Fresno who not only has some of the hottest songs in the central valley but has an impeckable work ethic that stands out from all of the competition. In 1996 Thomas Juarez better known today as T Gunz stared his Hip hop career freestyling at Fresno High school's south patio with a couple other local MC's and as time went on and the years went by T Gunz started to grow and mature as an MC and now today has some of the hottest songs coming out of Fresno. He as an independent artist was able to push over 40,000 copies out of his own 2 hands in less than 3 years in his home city, and all over California. "I'm staying independent till the right deal comes my way and I wont lose" Gunz states. His Fist project he put out was the TNT mixtape. Teaming up with Tyquan Salaam to make the group TNT T Gunz and Tyquan quickly made the mixtape a success selling 10,000 copies on the street in the first year. Their next project which was the TNT EP was put out the following year and also sold in high numbers but the best project the two put together was the TNT Explosive mixtape which had a good mix of hard raw lyrics and song concepts as well as the club knocker "Fall Back" and Micheal terry Winfeild on song 6 titled GRAPES! All together all 3 albums of TNT were able to sell 20,000 plus copies and also had the number 2 spot on B95 Homegrown (94.9) with the hit single "Stand UP" off of the TNT Explosive project. The following year in 2006 T Gunz and his other group the Knoblez put out their daybue mixtape KOLLISION KOURSE. Once again Gunz had to see that the album was a success and flooded the streets with it selling in the thousands. The mixtape also had features from "BEYONCE", and "PLANET ASIA". T Gunz also teamed up with Kilo and YB to make the song "COPYCAT" which went to the number 1 spot on B95 homegrown for 4 weeks in a row which had over 1,000 on line votes in one week, and just recently came with the hit single "GET WIT YA" Featuring DENGEE, and HELLAQUENT which landed a number 2 spot on B95 homegrown within one week of being on the air and it also aired on Freshno radio as well. Clearley T Gunz has proven year after year he can come with consistant hits! Opening up for Aritst like Yuckmouth , Baby Bash, Mac Dre, and doing various shows in Fresno, Hanford, Visalia, Sacramento, Oakland, San Luis Sabisbo, Modesto, Kerman, Madera and recording in just about every studio he came in contact with recognition went up and more exposure and opportunities came. Today T Gunz is currently pushing his new project called "WHERE YOU FROM" with artists from Madera, Fresno, Santa Maria, all the way to Albny, NY. His debu solo album "NO OFFSEASON" is scheduled to drop within the next 6 months which is his best album yet. All Original beats and songs with a variety or story telling and club knockers like "WHATCA GOT" as well as Guest appearances from TURF TALK, DIEGO RED, PLANET ASIA, YOUNG NOA, DENGEE, TRE 80, AND HELLAQUENT the album is highly anticipated an will be coming soon. Check the song list to hear a couple up coming songs from the new album No Offseason.
"MUCH LOVE":"To all the fans who showed love and bought all my past albums on the streets".
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T GUNZ came out with two different groups over the yeas. The first being TNT, TYQUAN SALAAM, and T GUNZ, then the second group being the KNOBLEZ which consist of YOUNG NOA, NACHO, H-BOMB, T GRANT, T GUNZ. Both groups were a sucess in fresno selling in the thousands.
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T GUNZ has been influenced by several MC's like NAS, PAC, YUCKMOUTH, JAY-Z, B.I.G, XZIBIT, E-40, DJ QUICK, FABALOUS, WU-TANG, ICE CUBE, SNOOP DOGG, PLANET ASIA, OUTKAST, LUDACRIS, EMINEM, RUN DMC, DMX, FAT JOE, KEAK DA SNEAK, JADAKISS, COMMON, TILEB QUALEY, THE ROOTS, MAC DRE, MAC MALL, MESSY MARV, TOO SHORT , MR. FAB, T.I., DR. DRE, CAMRON, OBIE TRICE, TWISTA, KAYNE WEST and the list goes on. "Over the years I grew up listening to as much hip hop as I could and absorbed every type of hip hop. R&B is defenetly a big influence to me too as well as JAZZ, POETRY, and, BLUES.
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