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| Coy won a deal with Universal following releases in 1999 and 2000 -- 3rd Wish to Rock the World and The Purity Album, respectively -- and had his Time Is Money album on the streets by the end of 2000. The following year, he returned with his second album for Universal, Never Change. Though Universal heavily marketed the album, like it had done with Time Is Money, the results were similar -- no crossover. Big marketing budget or not, Coy's hardcore rapping proved to be too harsh for the masses. His 2002 release, Reveille Park, a collection of freestyles, proved no different, especially since Universal chose not to release it. Finally, Coy met his unfortunate fate on May 18th, when a Houston jury convicted him for aggravated sexual assault of a child; in June the same jury sentenced him to 45 years in prison. Coy testified that he did not assault the nine-year-old girl, who had spent the night at his house with his daughter. | Coy won a deal with Universal following releases in 1999 and 2000 -- 3rd Wish to Rock the World and The Purity Album, respectively -- and had his Time Is Money album on the streets by the end of 2000. The following year, he returned with his second album for Universal, Never Change. Though Universal heavily marketed the album, like it had done with Time Is Money, the results were similar -- no crossover. Big marketing budget or not, Coy's hardcore rapping proved to be too harsh for the masses. His 2002 release, Reveille Park, a collection of freestyles, proved no different, especially since Universal chose not to release it. Finally, Coy met his unfortunate fate on May 18th, when a Houston jury convicted him for aggravated sexual assault of a child; in June the same jury sentenced him to 45 years in prison. Coy testified that he did not assault the nine-year-old girl, who had spent the night at his house with his daughter. | ||
| ==Dope House Records albums== | |||
| In 1995, Carlos, along with his brother Arthur, founded his own record label, Dope House Records<ref name="South Park Monster"> </ref>. He later released his second album, '']'', through his label with distribution in Houston under Southwest Wholesale. In 2000 he signed a joint venture between his label and Universal Music Group which earned him a $500,000 advance and national distribution.<ref name="South Park Monster" /> | |||
| In total he has released 9 albums. | |||
| == Discography == | == Discography == | ||
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South Park Mexican (born Carlos Coy, October 5, 1970 in Houston, Texas) is a rapper, Originating in the Southern rap mecca Houston, South Park Mexican (SPM) slowly built up his own personally run record label, Dope House Records, for years before eventually signing a distribution deal with Universal Records. With the promising deal in place, SPM stood on the verge of extending his reach outside of the South and becoming one of the first Mexican-American rappers to attain national success. He unfortunately never fulfilled his promise. First, his releases for Universal failed to top the charts during the early 2000s, and then he went to prison in June 2002 after a Houston jury convicted him of sexually assaulting a nine-year-old girl.
Before he became South Park Mexican, Carlos Coy spent years in the dope game. Born in Houston's predominantly Hispanic South Park neighborhood, Coy scored his first felony at the tender age of ten and continued on a path of crime, eventually getting involved with drugs by his teens. After several years of hustling on the streets, he finally got out of the dope game after a deal went bad. Around the same time, his daughter was born, causing him to re-examine his priorities. It was at this time in 1994 that Coy turned to a new hustle -- the rap game. Even though he had never really rapped much before in his life, he started his own record label and began honing his rhymes. At first he did what he could, hustling tapes for five dollars a piece in his neighborhood, and by the late '90s, he was putting out his own CDs on his label. His two 1998 albums -- Hustle Town and Power Moves -- established him in the South as a up-and-coming rapper and his rigorous touring throughout Texas won even more fans.
Coy won a deal with Universal following releases in 1999 and 2000 -- 3rd Wish to Rock the World and The Purity Album, respectively -- and had his Time Is Money album on the streets by the end of 2000. The following year, he returned with his second album for Universal, Never Change. Though Universal heavily marketed the album, like it had done with Time Is Money, the results were similar -- no crossover. Big marketing budget or not, Coy's hardcore rapping proved to be too harsh for the masses. His 2002 release, Reveille Park, a collection of freestyles, proved no different, especially since Universal chose not to release it. Finally, Coy met his unfortunate fate on May 18th, when a Houston jury convicted him for aggravated sexual assault of a child; in June the same jury sentenced him to 45 years in prison. Coy testified that he did not assault the nine-year-old girl, who had spent the night at his house with his daughter.
Discography
- Hillwood (1992)
- Hustle Town (1995)
- Power Moves (1997)
- The 3rd Wish (1999)
- The Purity Album (2000)
- Time is Money (2000)
- Never Change (2001)
- Reveille Park (2002)
- Greatest Hits (2004)
- Eddie Deville Presents: Dope Still Sells Itself: The Mixtape (2006)
- When Devils Strike (2006)
Paternity tests
In July 2001, 20-year-old Jill Odom filed a lawsuit to force Coy to take a paternity test and legally declare him the father of her son. Odom was 14 years old at the time of the child's birth, and alleged that the then-21 year old Coy was aware that she was in seventh grade.. This incident would later be used against Coy in his molestation charge of a separate girl. Coy was legally declared the child's father and was forced to pay back child support and other expenses.
Molestation arrest and incarceration
Carlos Coy is currently incarcerated within the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. In 2002 Coy was on trial for allegedly performing oral sex on his daughter's nine-year-old friend while she slept over at his house one night in September 2001. Claims that Coy had engaged in sexual activitity with other underage girls, a total of seven-teen excluding his accuser, quickly arose after his September 25, 2001 arrest. Despite a lack of physical evidence, a Houston jury convicted Coy of aggravated sexual assault of a child on May 18, 2002. Coy was sentenced to 45 years in prison and ordered to pay a $10,000 fine.
Ongoing albums
In October 2006, Dope House Records released the still-incarcerated South Park Mexican's ninth CD entitled When Devils Strike..
References
- ^ Houston Press - "Free SPM (oh, and buy his new CD)"
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
South Park Monsterwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - Daily Times - "Rapper Carlos Coy jailed 45 years for rape"
- "Los FAQ - Featured on DopeHouseRecords.com