BiographyJoe D and Cool Cee Brown met in 1999 on the campus of North Carolina Central University in Durham. By then they had both made names for themselves, independently, as undiscovered talents. Cee Brown frequented local poetry readings and gained popularity as a spoken word artist alongside songstress, Yahzarah, and the funk/jazz fusion band, Hidden Image. Joe had turned his apartment into a home recording studio and was compiling a catalogue of underground hits with rap trio, Train of Thought.As fate would have it, after Train of Thought and Hidden Image disbanded, they both, now hungry for a creative outlet, joined the new go-go group, The Marquee Band & Show, as frontline vocalists. There, for the first time, they witnessed each other's talents and Dirty Water emerged from the mire of failed attempts and unrecognized potential.While the music is an amalgamation of dozens of influences, it has a distinct sound of its own. It begs the listener to feel, not just listen. It has what today's hip-hop