Down Low is a rap group formed in Kaiserslautern, Germany, in 1995 fronted by Americans Joe Thompson and Darren Tucker.

Down Low are considered as one of the first groups to bring hip-hop music in a European style in the middle of the 1990s together with artists such as C-Block, Nana and A.K.

The members were American rapper Joe Thompson, who served in the U.S. Army during Operation Desert Storm and had a friendship with Rod.

", a cover version of The Hooters, became the group's largest hit and climbed to number four in the German single charts.

His successor became Erick "Rick" Lamont Smith, who had already co-operated in the past with the group and had published some singles under the name La Mazz and Dressman.

In 2002, the record company published a remix of Murder with samples of the rapper Warren G. In 2003, the group released a DVD, Visions – The Singles 1997–2003.

The publication was, however, a single-handed attempt of the record company; the artists experienced only later of it, and for the lack of promotion the song found no commercial attention, but nevertheless became a club hit.

For a while it looked like as if the artists would possibly close a contract with a new label in the United States, for legal reasons probably under a new project name.