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Rare Song from 2000 with a dope South Park Mexican Verse\r
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Carlos Coy (born 1971), better known by his stage name South Park Mexican, is an American rapper, and company founder of Dope House Records. His stage name is derived from the South Park neighborhood in Houston, Texas where he was raised.\r
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Coy, his brother Arthur founded Dope House Records in 1995; Coy debuted as South Park Mexican in 1995 with the album Hillwood under the label, then came Hustle Town which made him more known. His next album, the 3rd Wish, generated a charting single, High So High this album also sold 100,000 copies in Houston alone\r
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SPM was born to Arturo Coy, a former Marine from the Falfurrias community in Brooks County, and a woman who dropped out of high school to marry. The marriage ended three years after Coys birth. Coys sister, Sylvia, described herself as his mother-sister. Coy attended various elementary schools, before entering the music magnet program at Welch Middle School. His family moved from southeast Houston to South Park, and Coy attended Woodson Middle School. Rapper Scarface (real name Brad Jordan) also attended Woodson. Coy attended Milby High School until he dropped out in 1987 while still in ninth grade. Coy obtained a GED and enrolled in San Jacinto Junior College for a business associates degree but failed all his classes there. He then worked at a chemical plant for minimum wage, but after being again unemployed he worked as a door-to-door perfume seller and eventually a crack cocaine dealer.\r
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Coy began as a Christian rapper but felt that doing so made him an outcast. In 1995, Coy, along with his brother Arthur Jr. and good friend Jose Antonio Garza from McAllen, Texas founded his own record label, Dope House Records. As South Park Mexican (SPM), Coy released one album in 1998, Power Moves, through his label with distribution in Houston under Southwest Wholesale. Live album Hillwood and studio album The 3rd Wish followed in 1999. 3rd Wish was a regional hit, with single High So High gaining much local buzz and even charting at #50 on the Billboard Hot Rap Tracks chart. In 2000, SPM signed a joint venture between his label and Universal Music Group which earned him a $500,000 advance and national distribution. Universal released three of SPMs albums: Time is Money and The Purity Album (2000) and Never Change (2001). The Purity Album included single You Know My Name, which peaked at #99 on the Billboard R&B chart and #31 on the rap chart. SPMs 2002 album Reveille Park, a compilation of freestyles, was released by Dope House. Dope House released two new albums by SPM that he recorded while incarcerated. When Devils Strike, released in 2006, debuted at #46 on the Billboard 200. The Last Chair Violinist followed in 2008. the Son Of Norma was released in 2014 which got #6 in top rap albums.the Next Album is Telephone Road and then Visionary\r
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