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Back To Ballin
''Back to Ballin'' is the second album by the southern rapper Lil' Troy, released in 2001. The album peaked at No. 95 on the Billboard 200, ''Billboard'' 200. Critical reception ''The Village Voice'' wrote that Lil' Troy's "squeaky voice [is] multi-multi-tracked to sound like at least a half a dozen small woodland creatures cold representin.'" Track listing # "Pimp Is Back" :39 # "For Years" (featuring D-Man & R-Dis) 3:48 # "Mo Money, Mo Problems" 4:50 # "Pop Ya Collar" 3:58 # "We Gon Lean" (featuring Lil' Flip & R-Dis) 4:23 # "Back to Ballin" (featuring T-2) 3:45 # "There He Go" 3:43 # "Lesbian Nights" 4:10 # "Long Time" 3:30 # "Let's Smoke" 4:19 # "Buckle" 3:40 # "Wired Up" 3:58 # "Touch Ya Toes" 3:29 # "Keep My Name Out Your Mouth" 3:49 # "Dead Wrong" 1:01 # "We Gon Lean" (Remix by Dirk) 4:06 # " Steady Shinin'" 5:22 # " Baby Girl Wanna Ride On Me" 3:21 # "Wanna Be a Baller" (Chopped & Screwed Version) 7:57 References 2001 albums Lil' Troy albums E1 Music albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Album
An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as Digital distribution#Music, digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th century as individual Phonograph record#78 rpm disc developments, 78 rpm records collected in a bound book resembling a photograph album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl LP record, long-playing (LP) records played at revolutions per minute, rpm. The album was the dominant form of recorded music expression and consumption from the mid-1960s to the early 21st century, a period known as the album era. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The 8-track tape was the first tape format widely used alongside vinyl from 1965 until being phased out by 1983 and was gradually supplanted by the cassette tape during the 1970s and early 1980s; the populari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lil' Troy
Troy Lane Birklett (born February 24, 1966), known professionally as Lil' Troy, is an American rapper and songwriter. Early life Birklett was born in Houston, Texas. Before his rapping career, Birklett was a drug dealer, who funded his music business with the money he earned from selling drugs. Career Early career In 1987, Birklett founded Short Stop and joined the group Mass 187 in 1987. Mass 187's song "Gangsta Strut" was featured on local radio. He eventually was convicted of conspiracy and served eighteen months in prison, at a Beaumont, Texas, federal detention center. ''Wanna Be a Baller'' and later career Lil' Troy, who featured in his songs many members of Houston's thriving rap scene of the late 1990s, managed to reach national audiences with his single " Wanna Be a Baller". The song reached No. 70 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, and propelled his Shortstop/Me & Mine Entertainment debut album, ''Sittin' Fat Down South'', to the Top 25 albums on the ''Billboard'' 200. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southern Hip Hop
Southern hip hop, also known as Southern rap, South Coast hip hop, or dirty south, is a blanket term for a regional genre of American hip hop music that emerged in the Southern United States, especially in Atlanta, New Orleans, Houston, Memphis, and Miami—five cities which constitute the "Southern Network" in rap music. The music was a reaction to the 1980s flow of hip hop culture from New York City and the Los Angeles area and can be considered the third major American hip hop scene, alongside East Coast hip hop and West Coast hip hop. Many early Southern rap artists released their music independently or on mixtapes after encountering difficulty securing record-label contracts in the 1990s.allmusic/ref> By the early 2000s, many Southern artists had attained success, and as the decade went on, both mainstream and underground varieties of Southern hip hop became among the most popular and influential of the entire genre. History Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, the American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gangsta Rap
Gangsta rap or gangster rap, initially called reality rap, emerged in the mid- to late 1980s as a controversial hip-hop subgenre whose lyrics assert the culture and values typical of American street gangs and street hustlers. Many gangsta rappers flaunt associations with real street gangs, like the Crips and Bloods. Gangsta rap's pioneers Ice-T in 1986, and especially N.W.A in 1988 and the rise of Tupac Amaru Shakur in 1992. In 1992, via record producer Dr. Dre, rapper Snoop Dogg, and their G-funk sound, gangsta rap took the rap genre's lead and became mainstream, popular music. Gangsta rap has been recurrently accused of promoting disorderly conduct and broad criminality, especially assault, homicide, and drug dealing, as well as misogyny, promiscuity, and materialism. Gangsta rap's defenders have variously characterized it as artistic depictions but not literal endorsements of real life in American ghettos, or suggested that some lyrics voice rage against social oppression ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
