Founding member of the group GP WU. Rubbabandz aka BANDZ is a rapper, writer, lyricist, and all out hip hop artist, who eats, drinks, and sleeps the genre of rap music. He was born and raised in the Stapleton section of Staten Island, a borough of New York City. He broke into the industry as a young buck at the age of 13. Shortly thereafter he signed his first deal with Erick Sermon and Electra records. Bandz would then raise some major interests, with label Giant MCA records joining in on the bidding party and was single handedly responsible for the signing of GP WU in which he was a member under the legendry Hank Shocklee. He has worked with a ton of heavy hitters along the way, such as: Daddy-O of Stetsasonic, RZA, Raekwon, Method Man, Big Daddy Kane, DJ Clue, Kid Capri, Marley Marl, D.R. Period, Ron G, Smooth Da Hustler, RNS and a host of others. He has also been featured on albums such as Shyheim’s aka the Rugged Child, the Lost Generation, and the Wu Chronicles which sold over 500,000 units and was certified gold. Bandz is constantly working on numerous projects especially solo as well as a reunion GP WU project and a distant cousin and eventually a member of the School Of the Gifted project along side Solomon Childs, Napoleon from Wu-Syndicate, Shaka Amazulu The 7th and Dexter Wiggle.