Big Lurch Doonie Baby and Rick Rock. Born in Dallas, Texas, Singleton grew up nearby in East Dallas, Texas. At 7 years old, he began writing poetry. He decided to pursue a career in rapping, and began performing in 1990. In his early rap years, Singleton rapped under the name G-Spade, but later changed his name to Big Lurch after earning that nickname from Nubbins Sawyer. This was due to his intimidating figure, very slim and being 6 foot and 7 inches tall (reminiscent of the character Lurch from "The Addams Family"). On September 16, 2000, one day after his 24th birthday,
Native Americans on Network TV images of the "Good Indian"—minority figures who enforce the dominant group’s norms. All of these, FitzGerald argues, are variations of Defoe's Carib character Friday from his 1719 novel "Robinson Crusoe". A framework for this and other closely related stereotypes was formulated by University of Pennsylvania communication scholar Cedric C. Clark (later known as Syed M. Khatib) in a 1969 article for "Television Quarterly". Native Americans on Network TV Native Americans on Network TV: Stereotypes, Myths, and the "Good Indian," is a 2013 book-length study of American Indian characters on U.S. television, from "The Lone Ranger" to "Longmire". Author Michael Ray