Thomas Valencia, a.k.a. Tommy V, is a known name to anyone familiar with Los Angeles' post-Project Blowed scene key players, by the end of the 90's. This rapper, indeed, had been close to the Shape Shifters, and more particularly Awol One. And in 2001, he had released an album, Quarter Life Crisis, with some artists from the Anticon label. Last but not least, along with Xololanxinxo and the Ramos brothers, he had been a member of Toca, a quartet who had managed to mix the punk, indie pop and Latin rap genres, into some messy but exciting kind of music.
