Sound M.O.B.

Sound M.O.B.
Pyro (L) and DJ Ryu (R)
Background information
Origin	Houston, Texas, United States
Genres	Hip hop, R&B, trap, pop
Instruments	Pro Tools, FL Studio, Drum Machine, Keyboards, Piano, Guitar
Years active	2006−present
Labels	Sound M.O.B. Productions LLC
Associated acts	Kirko Bangz, Meek Mill, Kanye West, Tyga
Website	www.welcome2themob.com
Members	DJ Ryu Pyro

Sound M.O.B. (The Sound Of Magnificently Orchestrated Beats) is an award-winning platinum-selling record production and songwriting duo consisting of Brandon "Pyro" Tillman and Raul "DJ Ryu" Gonzalez from Houston, Texas. They are mostly known for creating the infectious instrumental to Kirko Bangz's single "Drank In My Cup" in 2011. Other than Kirko Bangz, they have procuced for Bun B, Casey Veggies, Slim Thug, Paul Wall, Z-Ro, Killa Kyleon, and more.

Pyro and DJ Ryu both went to Barbara Jordan High School and even though record production wasn't a career at the school, they were both into production before they even met. They both met each other through a mutual friend and rapper by the name of Krucial and DJ Ryu was making beats for his songs. Krucial told Pyro to go to DJ Ryu's house where they made music together. Pyro went one day after school and he was surprised that DJ Ryu had a whole entire studio in his house. Pyro played DJ Ryu has beats and vice versa and they both realized they were making the same type of music, so they decided to form a production duo.

In 2007, Pyro and DJ Ryu entered the Red Bull Big Tune, a national twelve-city beat battle tour sponsored by Red Bull. At the time, DJ Ryu was nineteen and Pyro was twenty years old, and was before they really named themselves Sound M.O.B. The beat all of the competition and made it to the Semi-Finals before being defeated by S1. In 2008, they entered the competition for the second time as Sound M.O.B. and earned the title as the 2008 Red Bull Big Tune Champs of Houston, and went on to compete in the National Finals in New York City, which was broadcast on BET. In 2009, they first met rapper Kirko Bangz and began working together and exposing him as an artist working while working on his Procrastination Kills mixtape series.