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The Q Brothers (Creators) are GQ and JQ. Born and raised in Chicago, they started their professional careers in the Off Broadway smash hit The Bomb-itty of Errors. G and three of his friends, who were studying at New York University’s Experimental Theatre Wing, adapted Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors into modern rhyme and J made the beats. In performance, G played multiple characters and J was the live DJ. G's screen credits include the movies Drumline, What's the Worst That Could Happen, and Rescue Dawn starring Christian Bale and directed by Werner Herzog. Along with other Bomb-itty guys, the twosome wrote and starred in their own hip-hop/sketch comedy TV show for MTV, Scratch and Burn, which has become something of a cult classic to young people everywhere. During trailer time on these projects, G worked on a movie script and Showtime gave him the money to shoot Just Another Story, a film he wrote, directed and stared in. J, his trusty sidekick, once again held down the audio end, providing the score and the original soundtrack for the film. It was featured in the Tribeca Film Festival and the Hamptons Film Festival, has aired on Showtime, and is widely available on DVD. G has also had prominent roles on Boston Public and co-starred in Johnny Zero, another Fox one-hour drama. J has produced a solo hip hop album entitled Foul Mouth Poet under his moniker J.A.Q. He produced the Grommits album Smashing and toured the country with them in 2004. He is now the lead singer of Them vs. Them, a new rock band out of Chicago. The Brothers came together once again for The Feel Good Album of the Year. Crossing heavily into jazz, rock, R&B, and electronica, the uncategorizable hip hop album follows only one rule: it has to be fun.
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