A Lighter Shade of Brown (LSOB) was a Latino hip hop group from Riverside, California. History LSOB was formed in 1990 by Robert Gutierrez, AKA ODM (One Dope Mexican) and Bobby Ramirez, alias DTTX (Don't Try to Xerox). Biography, Allmusic.com They recorded demos and landed a record deal soon after, debuting with the 1991 disc Brown and Proud. After their second LP, 1992's Hip Hop Locos, they provided songs for Latino-market movies such as Mi Vida Loca and I Like It Like That. Their chart performance (which included "On a Sunday Afternoon", a #1 hit in New Zealand for two weeks in 1992) netted them a deal with major label Mercury Records, who released their third disc, Layin' in the Cut, in 1994. Their earlier hit "On a Sunday Afternoon", a success in the U.S., was written by David Dunson & Micah Carson. The album did not sell as well as was hoped, and the group went on a temporary hiatus, returning in 1997 on indie Thump Records. The self-titled fourth album featured guest appearance

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