Mars Ill
US musical group; emcee/DJ hip-hop duo
Mars Ill is an emcee/DJ hip-hop duo from Atlanta, Georgia. The duo consists of Gregory Owens (Manchild) and Nathan Corrona (DJ Dust). They are also part of the hip-hop collective and supergroup Deepspace5.
Coming together in 1998, Mars Ill has released several albums and EPs through independent record labels and two albums on Gotee Records. Their success in the underground hip-hop movement in the early 2000s led to their performing at Scribble Jam in 2003 and 2004 and, ultimately, their signing to Gotee.
History
Beginnings
Before Nate and Greg met, Nate was the DJ for deadpoetsociety, a hip-hop group based in Indianapolis. The group consisted of three members, Nate Corrona (DJ Dust), Michael Porter (Rahlo), and Joel Wilson (Thin King), and performed at various venues in and around Indianapolis and the Mid-West from 1995 to 1999. In 1998, Nate attended a hip-hop conference in Florida and met Greg Owens, who was at the time an MC for The Pride, living in Atlanta. Greg was asked to be a part of deadpoetsociety and subsequently toured with the group until around the end of 1999. At that point, Joel had left the group to return to his home in England, and the three current members decided to change the group name because, as Greg mentioned in an interview, "there [are] a lot of Dead Poets Society's around.".
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