2Mex attended the
Good Life Cafe open mic nights in 1992. Around that time, he founded Of Mexican Descent with Xololanxinxo.[citation needed]
In 1998, he released his first album with
The Visionaries as well as the first Of Mexican Descent album, and he was featured on the OD (
Omid) compilation album Beneath the Surface. In 1999, he was featured (with Xololanxinxo as Of Mexican Descent) on the Fat Jack compilation album Cater to the DJ, and he released his first solo album Fake It Till You Make It as The Mind Clouders with producer Mums the Word. In 2000, he was featured (as a member of the Afterlife Crew) on the Afterlife Records compilation Declaration of an Independent.[citation needed] He then released B-Boys in Occupied Mexico on Mean Street in 2001.[2]Sweat Lodge Infinite was released on Temporary Whatever in 2003.[3][4][5] The self-titled album, 2Mex, was released in 2004.[6][7] He released My Fanbase Will Destroy You on
Strange Famous Records in 2010. It features guest appearances from
Murs,
Prince Po,
Busdriver and
Nobody.[8] In 2016, one of his legs was amputated due to complications from diabetes. He addressed the loss and other struggles in the 2017 album Lospital.[9]
Film
2Mex is featured in Ava DuVernay's documentary This Is the Life, chronicling the
Good Life Cafe in
South Central, Los Angeles. The Good Life Cafe is the open-mic workshop where he first performed with Of Mexican Descent in 1992.[citation needed]
Publications
In 2021, 2Mex released a book called Word Murder, which features lyrics for 70 songs, 30 unreleased poems, a detailed biography, and photography by Gadzooks and
Brian "B+" Cross.