Press Release: Youth Gone Wild CD In Stores Now

BIOGRAPHY: In 1979, Young Gatt and his family arrived in New Orleans, Louisiana, escaping the war torn country of Laos. Laos is a small country in the same neighborhood as the infamous War of Viet Nam and the Killing Fields of Cambodia. Gatt was barely one years old. They lived with his aunt for about two years and then moved west to California. Gatt spent the rest of his childhood around Northern Cali bouncing from Stockton, Modesto, Sacramento, Santa Rosa, Weed, and the Bay Area.

Gatt got introduced to Hip Hop when he was in 8th grade. He had a lot of Black friends that were rapping and listening to Rap music. He soon developed a love for Hip Hop music. He began writing songs and rapping to various Artist's instrumentals. Rap came easy to him, it's like he had a gift with words and rhymes.

By 95, Gatt had 30 songs written and was hungry to hit the Studio. Gatt hooked up with C Brown, a hustler from Richmond CA. Gatt met him through a good friend from high school. China Brown offered to finance Gatt's album. Gatt agreed and moved to Richmond to start recording. Young Gatt's debut album "Three Headed Elephant" was released on Nov. 97. Young Gatt and C Brown were busy promoting, shipping the CD to various Record Companies. Things were starting to come together, until one day China Brown got into some conflict with the Richmond police and they arrested him. With no money to promote the album and C Brown behind bars, the album failed.

Gatt moved back to his family in Weed CA. Two years later, Thom was driving to work with his brother-in-law Suntos, an ambitious young Asian cat who also grew up in Stockton. Suntos was kind of paid from working as a foreman of a construction crew and hustling here and there. Anyways Thom was bragging to Suntos about how tight his cousin, Gatt was in rapping. Suntos was always talking about how he would like to run his own Record label someday, but he never knew where to start. Thom let him listen to a few songs that Gatt made as a demo; needless to say Suntos was impressed with his lyrical skills.

He never heard an Asian dude this nice on the mic before. And Suntos grew up listening to Rap. On September 2000 in a small house on the Southside of Stockton. Thom, Young Gatt, Suntos and a few other homies set up a little portable home recording studio. They had a home stereo, A Roland VS-880 recording system, and a microphone. Suntos popped in a CD of instrumentals that he had bought from the Internet, then Gatt laced the tracks with his superior lyrical skills, adding background voices, double voices etc…They had beer, weed and thumping music, it was like a mini-concert in that little house. The party went on until the early morning.

That night Triple 9 Records was born. They chose the name because 999, stands for 24 karat Gold in Asia. 999 Gold, as pure as you can get, as real as you can get, just like the Triple 9 Artists and Staff, Everything they do comes from the heart. They swore that from now on, the Asian Scene would never be the same.