Fila Fresh Crew, by way way its primary rapper Doc-T aka the D.O.C., helped to position Texas rap within the context of the West Coast gangsta rap revolution of the late-80's. Since Fila Fresh Crew's DJ Dr. Rock also spent time working with Dr. Dre's World Class Wrecking Crew, an affiliation between Dallas and Los Angeles artists was cemented with a trio of Fila Fresh Crew songs appearing on 1987's N.W.A. and the Posse album. From there, the D.O.C. started working exclusively with Dr. Dre and the next thing we knew, the duo took the world by storm by way of the D.O.C.'s 1989 No One Can Do It Better album. While the D.O.C. never really brought his Los Angeles-derived stardom back to Texas in order to help bolster the scene here, Fila Fresh Crew remains as a pioneering group who did much to initially put Texas rap on the map...
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