P-Lo emerged on the music scene when he co-founded The HBK Gang in 2008, who would quickly become one of the hottest groups in the nation. They dropped a countless number of hit records which resided in the top charts for months at a time. HBK is responsible for creating the new wave of Bay Area music, which brought the function back to hip hop and breathed new life into the Bay, and P-Lo played a large part in this process.