Black Diamond: also known (as "The Mateen’s Band", and the "West Afro East Band" ), is a group of American musicians from Downtown Bakersfield, California that formed in the late-1970s. The band is primarily known for their addiction to gigs, and is recognized for the funk, soul, hip hop, and reggae music they composed. The band is also remembered for the remixes they did of popular top 40 songs which mainly consist of funk, and dub, hits they performed (as a cover band), before they began composing, producing, recording, and performing their own original material at music venues, such as Universities, pubs, club (organization's), night clubs, hotel partys, and parks, during the late 1970s, the 1980s, and 1990s. The picture to the computer left in figure 1.1, dates back to the same time pe