Marky Mark & Prince Ital Joe were a major act in the early 1990s combining rap and ragga vocals with strong eurodance music courtesy Frank Peterson and Alex Christensen. The Marky Mark project was pitched first to Alex Christensen by EastWest Records. Alex and Frank Peterson had by then already known one another for close on three weeks and the two decided that this could be their first project together. But it was determined that a foil was needed for Mark's rapping and so, only then was Prince Ital Joe brought in for the two to perform on the album Life In The Streets. Joe was born in Dominica as Joe Paquette and lived mostly in Los Angeles. He wrote all his own reggae-lyrics for the album, with references to politics and Dominica as well as co-producing the song Love Of A Mother.