Bishop Lamont

Biography

Born in Inglewood, California on October 31, 1978, Martin started rapping at age 13. Dr. Dre met Martin while filming The Game's music video for "Dreams". After giving him praise on an L.A. radio station, Dr. Dre signed Martin in 2005. Martin was featured in The Source's Unsigned Hype section, but he had already signed to Aftermath by the time the issue hit stands.

Martin appeared in the soundtrack for the video game True Crime: Streets of LA, performing "True Crime" and "Let's Get It Poppin". He can be heard on three EA Sports video games. Tracks "The Best" and "We Got Next" are included in Madden 2007 and NBA Live 06 respectively. "I'm a Soldier" was included in NFL Street 2. His song "City Lights" appeared in racing game Midnight Club: Los Angeles, while his song "Grown Up" was planned to appear in the game but it was cut from the final release. The Instrumental Version of his song "Inconvenient Truth" appeared in the fictional radio station DJ Khalil in the video game Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars. Martin has the title track "Welcome to Havoc", featured in Havoc, a film starring Anne Hathaway. He has also performed "Check One, Two" for MasterSource's "Rap 5" library music album.

Together with his War Doggz crew, Martin owns a record label called Diocese Records.

Martin is featured on Dr. Dre's album, Detox. According to Martin, Dr. Dre stated that along with Eminem, Martin is the only other rapper that made him uncomfortable, due to his protégé's controversial and political lyrics. Martin's mixtape Ngger Noize* was released on March 2, 2007, mixed by DJ Skee. On SkeeTV, Martin and DJ Skee described Ngger Noize* as being a "street album". Martin stated that after The Reformation and Detox, he will be working on The Impossible Possible, entirely produced by Dr. Dre and Scott Storch. The album was to be released in 2011.

In 2005, Martin was credited to seven songs on Warren G's studio album In the Mid-Nite Hour. Production credits include Battlecat, DJ Premier, The RZA, and Pete Rock. According to Martin, the album is about "rebellion, revolution, the positive and negative things in life and organized chaos". In 2008, Martin appeared in Busta Rhymes' music video for "We Made It", and Kardinal Offishall's music video for "Set It Off". In 2009, Martin was featured on Rob Dyrdek's track "Lights Out: Dirty Girl Part 2".

In January 2010, Martin confirmed his amicable split from Aftermath/Interscope after five years on the label. Lamont, who walked away with over 700 songs he recorded there, said he still has a relationship with Dr. Dre. He said: "Dre is still my big bro, but after five years of just sitting there, it is kind of unfair to the fans and my family and myself that the release date has changed."

Discography

Studio albums

• Caltroit (with Black Milk) (2008)
• The Shawshank Redemption/Angola 3 (2010)
• The Reformation G.D.N.I.A.F.T (2016)
• Just Don't Die (2025)
• Mad/Bishop (TBD)

Mixtapes / Street Albums

• Who I Gotta Kill to Get a Record Deal, Vol. 1 (2004)
• Welcome 2 L.A. (2006)
• Nigger Noize (with DJ Skee) (2007)
• Pope Mobile (2007)
• The Confessional (2008)
• Team America Fuck Yeah: Special Forces (With Indef) (2009)
• The Layover (2012)
• The (P)reformation (2013)

References

References

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