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Cadillac Muzik (stylized as Cadillac Muzik) are American music producers, songwriters, and Alternative Hip Hop artists from San Antonio, Texas. The duo is composed of San Antonio-based artists Beseja "CaddyMack" Moses and Scott "DaddyDvil" Campbell. The band is one of the few independent hip hop artists to take their music career beyond the inner city area of San Antonio. The band is known for experimenting with a mixture of genres such as funk, psychedelic soul, gospel, and r&b. Cadillac Muzik has played a major role in helping popularize the independent hip hop and southern hip hop community in the Texas regional area.

Early life
Beseja CaddyMack Moses and Scott DaddyDvil Campbell are actually cousins by marriage that were both raised on the eastside area of San Antonio, Texas. Moses was raised in one of the city's most harsh areas in the early 90's New Light Village. The neighborhood was known to be one of the biggest blood gang related neighborhoods in the city. The city's worst neighborhood was a few blocks down from his, and it was known as the East Terrace. This was a crip gang neighborhood. This area had the most killings the city had ever seen before. At the young age of 7, Moses' older brother went to prison at only 15 years old for robbery and being gang affiliated. His mother quickly pushed him into a positive direction in hopes that he would stay away from the streets and do something productive with his life. Moses then realized he would find a love in playing basketball and making music. Coming up in a single parent household from the projects was his driving force to make it out of the streets alive. Scott Campbell was raised on the eastside of town as well, on Dorie block. He also spent a lot of time on the city's westside with his stepfather. For the most part of his life Scott was raised without a father figure in his household as well. However, when he was spending time with his father "Puncho" he learned a lot about life and dealing with the hardships it brings. His mother kept him occupied with basketball and music as well to keep him out of trouble and on the right track.''

Music Career
The cousins built a stronger connection as they got older by becoming basketball teammates. Moses played the center position and Scott played point guard. Who would have thought being basketball teammates would lead to them later applying those same techniques and dedication as a band/duo? As they started to grow up they began to realize basketball and the neighborhood dance talent shows weren't going to really get them anywhere. Around the year of 2003, the cousins went from free styling in circles, banging on tables, and dancing in talent shows to actually becoming music producers and recording artists. Moses started rapping and writing music with his cousins B-Snow, HollyWood, and Mr. H in a native San Antonio rap group called the Texas HardKnocks. At the same time, Scott had formed a group with their other cousin Big E called "Big E and Lil Scott." They both released mixtape projects with their cousins from the year of 2003 until 2007.

In 2010, the cousins decided to hook up and form their own rap duo called Cadillac Muzik, with their friend from high school James Howard II aka "J-Marz." Cadillac Muzik was created by Moses and Scott to tell their story about how hard they had it as kids. They really believed in expressing to their peers that the only way to make it out of the negative environment around them, would be to completely turned their life around. They would express through their music a since of balance and consciousness. The group stands heavily believes in letting those in their community know that life is full of hardships, but their is a way out if you surround yourself around positive energy. The band begin recording themselves and running their own business independently around 2010. Since there were completely no major music labels, music attorneys, nor any music marketing outlets for Hip Hop in their area, the band had to completely educate themselves about the music business. This took years of dedication, staying focused, and failure at times. They literally had to do everything that has to do with the music business in-house on their own. If they didn't understand it they had to research it, and even sometimes experience it first hand in order to learn it.

The band released their first fully finished project called Cadillac Muzik in 2012. It was an originally produced mixtape/album by Beseja Moses and James Howard II. They took to the streets hard and self-marketed the album with no distribution nor help from any record labels. They quickly built a buzz in their local San Antonio and Austin areas with the project, strictly selling music out of the trunk. In the state of Texas, mixtapes and out of the trunk sells was the way to survive and make a music career at the time. In 2014, the duo released FunkyLand ; Another originally produced album by Howard and Moses. This project again was marketed by the band themselves. With a growing fanbase, the band then decided to focus more on getting their business in order, more professional, and taking things to another level. So they made Cadillac Muzik Legal and started their own independent record label called Bona Fide Mindz Entertainment. From then up until now, the band would release their own records and play a role in helping others with production and consulting. They've released many more projects since then. In 2015 was Sky High, in 2016 was Vibration, and in 2017 was Mind Play. Mind Play has charted #8 on the European Indie Top 200 Charts and number 40 on the DRT National Airplay Top 150 chart. The band hit Billboard charts for the first time with the 2018 album Lac Gospel. Moses and Campbell quickly followed up the next year with Groove Nation. The EP fared even better commercially than the preceding titles and hit several Billboard (Magazine) charts, including Heatseekers and Independent Albums. In the year 2020, they released Playa Innovators. In 2021 was Stayin Alive and Fleetwood Blues. Cadillac Muzik has also made appearances on Kens 5 news, News 4 San Antonio, San Antonio Current Magazine, and Texas Public Radio.

Influences
Cadillac Muzik describes their sound as funky, fun, educating, conscious, and spiritual. Their style of music is a blend several genres like funk, soul, jazz, hip hop, and r&b. The band claims they were really influenced by their coaches, uncles, pastors, and other male role models who actually drove eldorados, fleetwoods, and devilles back in the day. Moses even talks about how his uncle was actually a pimp that had over 6 cadillacs and all kinds of other vehicles that he built and worked on from scratch. He says his uncle was a genius, and had tons of wisdom. Scott's father "Puncho' was actually a playa as well, and always kept 1 or 2 old school cadillacs. The band talks about how they were raised off of movies like The Mack, Super Fly (film), and The Five Heartbeats.  They explained how the negative and positive energy of the male role models they did have in their lives actually bestowed upon them the knowledge and wisdom to balance street life survival and corporate America.  It kept them well balanced to take on the pressure of living life coming up in a heavy criminal and poverty saturated environment.

The duo is heavily musically influence by Hip Hop greats such as Outkast, UGK, Geto Boys, Eightball & MJG, Screwed Up Click, Whodini, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Too Short, and DJ Quik. They are also influenced by old school soul and funk legends like James Brown, George Clinton (musician), Prince (musician), Ohio Players, Isaac Hayes, and Willie Hutch. The Band says their music is a blend of all of these artists to create their own unique sound.

Albums

 * ''Cadillac Muzik (2012)
 * ''FunkyLand (2014)
 * ''Lac Gospel (2018)
 * ''Groove Nation (2019)
 * ''Playa Innovators (2020)
 * ''Digital Upload (2020)
 * ''Stayin Alive (2021)
 * ''Fleetwood Blues (2021)

Singles

 * ''Sky High (2015)
 * ''Vibration (2016)
 * ''Mind Play (2017)
 * ''Cerebral Celebration (2020)
 * ''Gamble Love (2020)