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(Part 2)" featuring Lil' Fizz video and Morgan Smith's 2004 video "Blow Ya Whistle". Īiko also appeared in numerous music videos including O'Ryan's debut video, "Take It Slow", B2K's debut video "Uh Huh" and "Why I Love You", P.Y.T.'s "Same Ol' Same Ol' (Remix)" featuring Sarai, Play's "M.A.S.T.E.R. Her song "Dog" appeared as a bonus track. " Santa Baby", a cover she recorded, was also featured on their album Santa Hooked Me Up and she appeared as a guest vocalist on the song "Tease" from Pandemonium!. She featured on tracks five through eight of the R&B group's remix album B2K: The Remixes – Volume 1.
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It was used as a marketing tool, suggested by her labels Sony, The Ultimate Group and Epic Records, to promote Aiko through B2K and attract an audience nonetheless Aiko affirms that she and Lil' Fizz grew up together and were close like family.
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During this time she was known as the cousin of B2K's rapper, Lil' Fizz, though she is not actually related to him. Musical career 2002–2011: Career beginnings Īiko embarked on her musical career contributing vocals to several B2K releases, as well as a song on The Master of Disguise soundtrack in 2002, while signed to The Ultimate Group and managed by Chris Stokes. At age 20, she gave birth to a baby girl she named Namiko Love Browner. She took vocal lessons in Culver City, California, but quit when she unexpectedly became pregnant. Her maternal-grandfather is Japanese and maternal-grandmother is Creole Dominican. Her mother is of Spanish, Dominican, and Japanese descent, and her father is of Native American, African-American, and German-Jewish descent. Aiko is the daughter of Christina Yamamoto and Karamo Chilombo, a pediatrician. She calls her home neighborhood "Slauson Hills". Her family lived in South Los Angeles, but their home burned down when she was seven so they moved near Slauson Avenue around View Park–Windsor Hills, Baldwin Hills, and Ladera Heights where she was homeschooled until high school.