Uptown 3000 was a Korean American

Korean American

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 hip hop

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 duo on the record label The Machine Group

The Machine Group

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 CEO Alvin & Calvin Waters which consisted of Carlos Galvan

Carlos Galván

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 aka "Cali-Mexci" and Steve Kim aka "Kwon". The duo was a spinoff of Uptown, a Korean hip hop group which was active in the late 1990s whose sales reached 6 million. The duo is considered defunct as the original Uptown made its comeback in Korea in 2006, which Kim and Galvan were a part of.

Return to Korea

In 2006, Kim and Galvan returned to Korea to re-form Uptown with Chris Jung. They released a new album, Testimony.

Discography

• Same Book, Different Chapter (2003) (The Machine Group CEO Alvin & Calvin Waters)