Skee-Lo (born Antoine Roundtree March 5, 1973) is a rapper who was moderately popular in the mid-1990s. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up in Riverside, California.[1] He mostly rapped about Los Angeles,
... Skee-Lo (born Antoine Roundtree March 5, 1973) is a rapper who was moderately popular in the mid-1990s. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up in Riverside, California.[1] He mostly rapped about Los Angeles, specifically the Crenshaw area. Skee-Lo's single, "Top of the Stairs", was featured in the ending credits as well as the soundtrack to the 1995 film Money Train. He had a hit single in the same year with "I Wish", which reached #13 in the U.S. [[Billboard Hot 100], and was hugely successful in much of Europe. "I Wish" was produced by Walter "Kandor" Kahn, who released the single on his L.A.-based Sunshine Records. Kahn also produced Skee-Lo's first album. The single was reissued, along with the album on the combined Sunshine and Scotti Bros. label.
Skee-Lo also recorded a cover of the Schoolhouse Rock! song "The Tale of Mr. Morton", which taught sentence structure (subject, verb, predicate). The song appears on the compilation album, Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks.[2]
He also co-wrote "I'll Be Your Everything" by boy band Youngstown. The song is featured on the Inspector Gadget soundtrack. Read more
