Flipsyde is an American rap rock group from Oakland, California.
Their 2005 debut album, We the People, was released by Interscope Records and featured the singles "Happy Birthday" and "Someday", with the latter chosen as a theme song by NBC for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games,[2] and appeared on the soundtrack for the 2008 film Never Back Down.
[3] Flipsyde's 2008 follow-up album, State of Survival, featured production by Akon[4] and a minor hit in "When It Was Good", but the record did not chart.
Ferreira is a graduate of San Francisco State University and has written two unproduced screenplays,[5] one of which won a screenwriting prize at the Tribeca Film Festival in April 2009.
[6] Ferreira discussed his experiences growing up, becoming a rapper, and choosing to become a cop to try to address racial injustice in From Oakland to Johannesburg: Can We Reform the Police?,[7] an episode of World Affairs.