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Swollen Members are a Hip hop music|hip hop group from Vancouver, British Columbia, consisting principally of the duo Mad Child and Prevail. They have been called "two of the most innovative people in hip-hop".<ref>Shapiro, P: ''The Rough Guide To Hip-Hop'', page 53. Rough Guides, 2005</ref> Frequent collaborators include vocalist Moka Only and producer Rob The Viking, an official group member since 2002. Since the group's formation in 1999, Swollen Members has released four studio albums and one compilation, which consists mainly of B-sides as well as three new songs.

History
Swollen Members was founded in the mid-1990s by Vancouverites Mad Child (Shane Bunting), Prevail (Kiley Hendriks), and Moka Only (Daniel Denton). Having begun a solo career while living in San Francisco, California, Mad Child returned to Vancouver to work. There he met Prevail and Moka Only, who had been working together. They joined together under the name Swollen Members. Soon after, however, Moka Only decided he wanted to pursue a solo career and left the group.

In 1996, Mad Child and Prevail went to the B-Boy Summit in San Diego, California, where Mad Child won several freestyle battle|rap battles and was initiated into the Rock Steady Crew. The crew is held in great respect as hip hop's highest collective - to join one must win a contest of skill against one of the highest ran... read all