Arturo Molina (OG Kid Frost) was born and raised in East Los Angeles, California and also lived with his family in military bases in Guam and Germany. He began his music career by Using the Name Kid Frost as a tribute to his rival Ice-T, whom he often battled in the music industry. He soon became a break-dancer for Uncle Jams Army. Kid Frost moved to bigger things with Virgin Records and Virgin released his first and biggest hit, "La Raza". His debut album, Hispanic Causing Panic was released featuring A.L.T. He also established a Latin rap super group called Latin Alliance, which released their only album, Latin Alliance.
Frost’s Early Work
His second album, East Side Story, featured MC Eiht, A.L.T. and Ganxta Ridd from the Boo-Yaa TRIBE. Later in the late 90’s, Frost dropped the "Kid" from his nickname and signed with Ruthless Records, with Eazy-E's label (distributed by Relativity).
Smile Now Die Later was released that year and Above The Law were featured as guest rappers, alongside A.L.T., O. Genius and Kokane. Rick James also appeared on Frost's version of "Mary Jane". The Follow up album When Hell.A.Freezes Featured. Ice T, Scoop, O. Genius and Domino.
In 1999 Frost moved to a independent label called Celeb-entertainment records. Where he released The album This Was Then This Is Now Vol. I Feat. Kurupt, King T, Baby Bash, Jay Tee, Jayo Felony, Xzibit, B-Legit, and Cameosis. That Was Then This Is Now Vol. II was released The following year. Frank V., Clika One, Jay Tee, Baby Bash and other guest rappers. 2002's Still Up In This Shit!, was released by Hit-A-Lick / Koch Records,which featured more Latin rap style and G-Funk tracks as well as a bonus rock track titled "Cannabis". Feat, Mellow Man Ace, Daz Dillinger, Baby Bash, A.L.T., Nino Brown, Don Cisco and other guest rappers. And one track featured the group Tierra. Somethin' 4 The Ridaz was released in on 40 Ounce Records and featured various hip hop artists from Texas. In 2005 Welcome To Frost Angeles was released on Thump Records, which was produced almost entirely by Frost and his son, Scoop De'Ville. Only the Intro is produced by Binky Womack, and Philly Blunt co-produced one track. Guest rappers included Cameosis, Genovese and Jay Tee. Frost again signed to Low Profile Records and released his album Till The Wheels Fall Off in 2006. It had various guest appearances which included Baby Bash, Scoop De'Ville and Mr. Sancho.
Frost Current Work
Frost also Scored music for Major films including "Bite the Bullet (Theme from Gunmen)" in the film Gunmen and "Tears Of A Mother" in the film No Mothers Crying, No Babies Dying, which featured Ice T.
Frost is also an accomplished actor appearing in several films, as well as doing voice roles for fictional characters such as T-Bone Mendez from Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and contributing his song "La Raza". He was named Vice President of the Music Division of Goldmark Industries in 2006. Frost also appeared in cameo roles in several Major films with Snoop Dogg's "Vato" music video, as well as B-Real that same year. But He continues to push and pursue the best in Latin Hip Hop and American music.
His new body of work with Old West/SMG/Wok/Sony Red and new single Top Down produced by his platinum producing son Scoop De’Ville and a new album The Good Man in 2013 is some of his best music work to date
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