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Subtitle
Person · male · United States · Los Angeles · born 1978
American rapper
Timeline
1970s
Biography
Biography
Giovanni Marks (born October 2, 1978), better known by his stage name Subtitle, is a rapper and producer based in Los Angeles, California. He is one half of the duo Lab Waste alongside Thavius Beck. He has also collaborated with other artists such as K-the-I???, Busdriver and Islands.
Career
Subtitle released an EP entitled I'm Always Recovering from Tomorrow in 2003 and an album entitled Young Dangerous Heart in 2005, both on the label Gold Standard Laboratories. His group Lab Waste (with Thavius Beck) released an album, Zwarte Achtegrond, at the beginning of that year.
October 2006 saw the release of Terrain to Roam, an album which featured production from Daddy Kev, Daedelus, Thavius Beck, Omid, Nobody, Paris Zax, Madlib, Dntel, Crunc Tesla, and Small Is Beautiful among others.
Albums
Analog Gut (1998)
How 2 Beat the Beat 1 & 2 (1998)
Weekend Science 1 & 2 (1999) (with Mum's the Word)
Delete the Elite (2001)
Lost Love Stays Lost (2004)
Young Dangerous Heart (2005)
Zwarte Achtegrond (2005) (with Thavius Beck, as Lab Waste)
Terrain to Roam (2006)
Marks in Angles (2007)
Double Tech Jeep Music (2015)
FALL ALL OVER/DEAD OCTOBER (2020)
EPs
I'm Always Recovering from Tomorrow (2003)
Singles
"Young Dangerous Heart / Palm Fronds / The Haze on the Hill" (2005)
Guest appearances
The Mind Clouders - "Upside Down 6" from Fake It Until You Make It (1999)
Antimc - "Shake, Rattle, Rattle" from Run (2003)
Thavius Beck - "June Gloom" from Decomposition (2004)
Scream Club - "What You Gonna Do?" from Don't Bite Your Sister (2004)
Existereo - "Work Related" from Crush Groove (2004)
North American Hallowe'en Prevention Initiative - "Do They Know It's Hallowe'en?" (2005)
Bleubird - "Everything Up" from Pilgrim of St. Zotique (2006)
Islands - "Where There's a Will There's a Whalebone" from Return to the Sea (2006)
Daedelus - "Unadventurer" from Throw a Fit (2006)
Vyle - "Tech" from Oh I Think Dey Like Hoodtronics (2006)
Kay the Aquanaut - "To the Last Drop" from Spinning Blue Planet (2007)
Joe Dub - "LA2theBay" from Pooretry (2007)
Depth Affect - "Street Level" from Hero Crisis (2008)
K-the-I??? - "Stylin'" from Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow (2008)
Self Jupiter & Kenny Segal - "Altered States" from The Kleenrz (2012)
Senz Beats - "Raw Forces" and "After the Storm" from Tilting at Windmills (2013)
Drummachinemike - "Sound Investments" from Drum Machine Music (2014)
Productions
Daedelus - "Dumbfound (Subtitle Remix)" from "Something Bells" (2004)
SonGodSuns - "Interruption from the Lie Love You" from Over the Counter Culture (2005)
Noah23 - "Give It to the People" from Rock Paper Scissors (2008)
Sole and the Skyrider Band - "Nothing Is Free" from Sole and the Skyrider Band Remix LP (2009)
Thavius Beck - "Sheepish" from Dialogue (2009)
Isaiah Toothtaker - "Pressure", "On the Outies", and "Still Ill" from Yiggy (2010)
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 3 | 16th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (0 release groups)
No discography rows stored yet
MusicBrainz enrichment for this artist is still pending. Release groups appear here once it runs.
Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Subtitle head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 3 | 16th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Awards & honours
Where this record comes from
portrait—Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.5 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Subtitle-La_Tulipe-cropped_with_Nick.jpgcore—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3502689genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3502689seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtitle_%28rapper%29biography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtitle_%28rapper%29
Why this artist is in the database
- List of hip-hop musicians
Tier rule: curated genre/region list
Image: Photo-by: Alex Batko · CC BY-SA 2.5 · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q3502689 · MusicBrainz: c713799d-6a03-4b75-8fc4-dcc5e1ad88c4
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