current_members associated_acts years_active label article_title background genre origin name
-lrb- at disbandment -rrb- booka-t hypno ming-xia joe davis ming-xia http://www.mingmusik.com 1994-2003 artemis , antra , koch , epic the spooks
 group_or_band hip-hop philadelphia , pennsylvania , united states the spooks
the spooks

spooks was an american hip-hop/r & b group , active in the late 1990s .
the members of the group got together in 1994 , taking their name from the novel by sam greenlee , `` the spook who sat by the door '' .
after attaining success throughout europe with their album `` s.i.o.s.o.s. , vol .
1 '' , spooks garnered a hit with the single , `` things i 've seen '' -lrb- featured in the laurence fishburne film `` once in the life '' -rrb- .
water-water left the group before their second album `` faster than you know '' , and died in a car accident in september 2003 , days before the album 's release .
the group disbanded soon afterwards , with little heard from the members since .
in 2009 ming xia appeared on chali 2na 's `` fish outta water '' .
the spooks were discovered by philadelphia hip-hop legend `` parry p '' he was also the one who signed them to the antra records .
where he was the vice president of a&r .
