Biz Markie

As of 2005, Biz is currently featured on the VH1 television reality show, "Celebrity Fit Club", where overweight celebrities are shown attempting to lose weight. To add to the credibility of the band, their first single "So Cold" has spent 37 weeks in the top 20 of the Billboard charts (as of February 3, 2005). For the next few years, Biz worked with the Beastie Boys occasionally, began DJing and kept a low profile. Since Jeremy Hummell left the band in 2004, Breaking Benjamin has hired Chad Szeliga as the band's new drummer. Biz continued his career in 1993 (see 1993 in music), releasing All Samples Cleared!, but the record was another commercial disappointment. They also created an original cut for the immensely popular video game Halo 2. Warner Brothers Records, Inc., changed hip hop forever, as afterwards, all samples were cleared with the original artist before they could be used. On June 24, 2004, the band released We Are Not Alone, which featured the first single "So Cold".

v. Sticking to the genre's symbolistic downtuned guitars, which creates a haunting and overwhelming heaviness in their songs, they manage to keep their melodies prominent. The lawsuit, Grand Upright Music, Ltd. Breaking Benjamin's roots are clearly alternative rock/metal band, but they are definitely heavier than their peers. The album was a commercial disaster, exacerbated by a lawsuit from Gilbert O'Sullivan for sampling "Alone Again (Naturally)" in the song "Alone Again". Ben Burnley says that he self-taught himself the guitar by listening to Nirvana's Nevermind. As one of hip hop's biggest stars of the time, Biz had a lot of pressure for his third album, I Need a Haircut. The first single "Polyamorous" received much radio airplay, and propelled the band to stardom.