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CanibusCanibus (aka Can-I-Bus aka Rip The Jacker aka Germaine Williams) is a Jamaican-born rapper who moved to the United States with his mother at a young age. He began rhyming in the mid-'90s and began infiltrating the mix-tape circuit in 1997. His first big break came when he was featured on the song "Uni-4-orm" with Heltah Skeltah and Ras Kass. For the first part of 1998, he was managed by the main man behind the Fugees, Wyclef Jean. When Bis' debut album "Can-I-Bus" came out in 1998, the general public felt genuinely disappointed, saying that the album suffered production wise and rhetorically. Because Wyclef produced most of the tracks, Bis blamed him for his album being a 'commercial failure' and cut ties with him. He went as far as to diss Wyclef on his second album for it in the title track "2000 B.C.". At the end of 2004, Bis and Clef met up and settled their differences; it has now been reported that Bis will be on the upcoming Fugees' comeback album, set for release in 2005. Canibus is known for many things: his various mix-tape apperances and a memorable appearance on the soundtrack to Office Space, as well as his appearance in the satirical film Bamboozled. But perhaps the one thing Bis is known the most for his intense rivalry with pop-hip hop balladeer LL Cool J, which stemmed a collaboration with LL titled "4, 3, 2, 1" from L's 1997 album "Phenomenon". Supposedly, LL took offense to two lines that referenced his tattoo of a microphone on his arm and wrote a indirect diss to Bis in his verse on the same track; Bis' lines were removed before the track was officially released but LL's lines remained. After he inked a deal with Universal Records, Canibus released his debut single, "Second Round K.O." in 1998, in which Bis sent an all out assault on LL for dissing him on "4, 3, 2, 1" (NOTE: this all took place before the release of his first album, mentioned in the above paragraph; "Second Round K.O." ended up being the lead single for "Can-I-Bus"). Later in his career, Canibus would also have a similar but less publicized rivalry with Caucasian hip-hop superstar Eminem. In 2003, Canibus joined the United States Army but was honorably discharged in 2004 for smoking marijuana. In the span of his career, Canibus has released five full-length albums. Bis currently plans to release two new albums in 2005 on two different labels: ""Hip-Hop For Sale" on Babygrande Records on May 10th, and "Mind Control" on Gladiator Records on June 21st. Discography Albums External Links
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