Brougham (band)

{{Short description|American musical group}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}}

{{Infobox musical artist

| name = Brougham

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| origin = Palo Alto, California, U.S.

| genre = {{Flatlist|

• Hip hop
• rap rock
• rap metal}}

| years_active = {{hlist|1997–2000|2005–2006}}

| label = {{hlist|Warner Bros.|Megakut}}

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| current_members =

| past_members = Jason Slater
Luke Oakson

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Brougham was a short-lived hip hop/rap rock side project founded by Jason Slater and his childhood friend Luke Oakson aka Luke Sick (Sacred Hoop) in Palo Alto, California, USA.{{Cite web|url=https://nypost.com/2020/12/09/jason-slater-original-third-eye-blind-bassist-dead-at-49/|title=Jason Slater, original Third Eye Blind bassist, dead at 49|date=December 9, 2020|website=newyorkpost.com|accessdate=December 14, 2020}} Brougham recorded an album, Le Cock Sportif, for Warner Bros. Records in 2000{{cite web|title=Brougham – Le Cock Sportif overview|url=https://www.discogs.com/Brougham-Le-Cock-Sportif/release/1856231|website=Discogs|accessdate=14 December 2020}} but the album was a commercial flop. Spin Magazine named the album title the "worst rap-rock album title" ever.{{cite web|title=Spin May 2005 (page 77)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U1mdDlPSC9YC&dq=brougham+Le+Cock+Sportif&pg=PA77|website=Google Books|date = May 2005|accessdate=14 December 2020}}

One of their tracks, titled "I Walked In," appeared on the soundtrack for the 1998 movie Can't Hardly Wait.{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/cant-hardly-wait-original-soundtrack-mw0000598699|title=Original Soundtrack "Can't Hardly Wait|date=May 19, 1998|website=allmusic.com|accessdate=Dec 14, 2020}} It also appeared in the 2000 film Playing Mona Lisa.

Brougham attempted to work on a second album during 2005 and 2006, though this was never completed. Following Jason Slater's death in 2020, the demos for the second album were released under the name Bateh. Bros. on July 12, 2022, through Oakson's record label, Megakut Records.{{Cite web |date=2022-07-12 |title=MEGAKUT RECORDS on Twitter |url=https://mobile.twitter.com/megakutrecords/status/1546908511535149056 |access-date=2022-12-23 |website=Twitter |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=BATEH BROS., by BROUGHAM |url=https://megakutrecords.bandcamp.com/album/bateh-bros |access-date=2022-12-23 |website=Megakut Records |language=en}}