Team Embassador & Nakiea

Formed in 2002 in Montclair, NJ, by former high-school classmates rapper R-DeLeon (Leon Collins) and singer B-Tizzy (Sheldon Maxwell), Team Embassador's goal was to create upbeat, all-inclusive music, inspired mostly by the duo's Caribbean roots (Collins was born in Trinidad, and Maxwell in Jamaica). After the release of the first installment of their Pirates Mixtape, Team Embassador (who explained that they replaced the "a" of ambassador with an "e" to stand for "everybody") soon started their own label, EMB Music Group, in order to better promote and distribute their music, ...