Basick Mentality has been played on NTS shows including Ted Draws, with The Bad Days first played on 29 January 2026.

Their debut album was born in Southeast Washington, D.C., in the winter of 1992. That’s where a young rapper named Vice Versa came up with his childhood friend Stan, a local DJ with crates full of vinyl and a hunger that matched his own, spending nights in basements looping beats and freestyling until sunrise. Everything changed when a street-connected visionary named Baron “B” Flemings stepped in with money, ambition, and a belief in Vice’s raw talent. Alongside him came E-Boogie (Eric Kennedy), a young industry insider with D.C. roots and New York access. Together they formed Rage One Recordings. The sonic backbone of Rage One was Scotty Beats, a gifted engineer/producer who lived inside Horizon Studio and transformed raw ideas into polished records. With Scotty behind the boards and Vice Versa behind the mic, the crew began shaping the project that would become Basick Mentality and the self-titled CD-only release in 1997. Then tragedy struck. In the same year, both pillars of this project - Scotty Beats and Vice Versa - were murdered. This re-release is more than a project. It is a resurrection. A tribute. A testament to a crew that gave everything. To Vice Versa. To Scotty Beats. To Rage One. To the dream that lived, died, and now lives again.