Sta's first year was incredibly busy from the start. We were at the first Music Systems battles, the Import Nationals, the Guitar Center battles, the DMC West Coast (Swift Rock placed runner-up against Beat Junkie veteran Rhettmatic), Zulu Nation battle, and on and on. We were also invited to perform our first team showcase at San Francisco State University.

Things were sure happening faster than we could imagine, and we gained a rep pretty fast.

The first two pictures show Deus and Doc Rice chilling outside of Deus' old San Francisco apartment. The third picture shows the room that Doc lived in for 13 years before he temporarily moved to LA.

You can also see Mixtress (Deus' sister) with Deus and Doc Rice waiting for the 1996/97 DMC West Coast to start (Vision Theater, Los Angeles).

And finally, Swift Rock and his magical, crowd-roaring moment on-stage at the West Coast DMC.