Kevin Parx

Kevin Parx is a Santa Ana-born rapper and longtime member of the Get Money Boy$ collective. OC Weekly covered him in 2013 around his 15-track concept mixtape Freethrows, which had a release party at Costa Mesa's Detroit Bar. He also founded The Riot, an OC battle-rap league he hosts and promotes, which grew into a YouTube channel with more than 60,000 subscribers.

Freethrows came out in June 2013 as a concept record about relationships, with improvised skits built around three characters running through it. Get Money Boy$ handled most of the production, and the lead single "Respect" was produced by KY Piffa. OC Weekly called the concept "damn clever" and said the tape elevated his craft. He already had three mixtapes behind it, and by 2016 OC Weekly counted more than half a dozen albums.

The Riot began around 2011, when he wanted to give local rappers a competitive outlet. In 2013 the battles ran at the Tough Times store in downtown Santa Ana, drawing around 150 people, and by 2016 they were quarterly events he hosted, promoted and judged, filmed for YouTube. He cited national leagues like King of the Dot as the model, and battlers including LA's Geechi Gotti and Santa Ana's Chubbs Sinatra found opportunities through it. The league's channel had about 64,900 subscribers by November 2026.

He has kept rapping alongside it, from "Hit The Clinic" with C-Sharp in 2010 to a feature on "Jack Frost" in 2019 and the "Look Back" video in 2023. In 2016 he told OC Weekly, "I'm still trying to become that guy."