Anerae Veshaughn Brown, better known as X-Raided, is an American rapper from Sacramento, California. He is the cousin of rapper, Luni Coleone. Born in Waco, Texas, Anerae Brown and his family moved to Sacramento, California when he was young.
Brown’s mother, Shirley “Jaz” Brown, says her son was a bright youngster always jotting in his notebooks. He was schooled at home, where R&B was always around and his dad was not. Rap became his passion, and as his reputation grew, his mother sensed something was going wrong. She wanted him to join her for a much-needed vacation in March 1992, but then let him stay in Sacramento because he had a party celebrating a new single. Before the murder, Jaz Brown was a clerk at the Sacramento County Courthouse, but she quit when X-Raided became a famous defendant in the corridors.
X-Raided has been an active member of the 24th Street Garden Blocc Crips since before he recorded his first album, Psycho Active, in June 1990. He was only 16 when he finished his first recording, an underground project with Sacramento rapper Brotha Lynch Hung, and he was signed within a year to an local major label in Sacramento, California. His first solo work, “Psycho Active” in 1992, he had created a huge local buzz in the city of Sacramento that a gifted new rapper was claiming the Crips as his gang affiliation. He has also stated that Psycho Active was recorded during a deadly conflict between the 24th Street Garden Blocc Crips and the Meadowview Bloods so the lyrics are very hard and violent because it was his state of mind at the time. Due to the murder of a grandmother who lived near Sacramento. He and 4 other (Crips) gang members stormed the home of Patricia Harris which resulted in her in her being fatally shot.
