About the artist
CB4 is the fictional gangsta rap group at the center of the 1993 mockumentary film CB4, a satire of the genre's late-80s/early-90s excesses starring and co-written by Chris Rock. The film follows the group as they fabricate a hardcore criminal backstory to sell records, poking fun at the gap between manufactured street credibility and reality in commercial hip hop. The soundtrack and film songs, credited to the group, parody the genre's tropes with exaggerated titles and lyrics.
Tracks attributed to CB4, such as «Straight Outta Locash» (a direct riff on N.W.A's «Straight Outta Compton»), «Sweat of My Balls», «I'm Black Y'all» and a cover of «Rapper's Delight», function as comedic pastiche rather than a real discography — they exist to skewer the conventions of gangsta rap through exaggeration and absurdity rather than to build a genuine artistic catalogue.
While not a real artist in the conventional sense, CB4 holds a notable place in hip hop pop culture as one of the sharpest mainstream satires of the genre's image-making, and the film is often referenced alongside works like This Is Spinal Tap for how it uses mockumentary format to comment on music industry mythmaking.