Best known for the hit "Back to the Hotel" from their debut album,
California-based Chicano rap group N2Deep formed in Vallejo in 1989 with James
"Jay Tee" Trujillo and Timothy "TL" Lyon. A third member, John "Johnny Z"
Zunino, left the group as MC to devote himself to production and business. After
releasing their first single, "Work That Body", in 1990, N2Deep signed with the
high-profile Profile Records label and recorded their gold-selling debut album,
Back to the Hotel (1992), whose title track peaked at #14 on the Billboard Hot
100. The sale of the label to a major company ...