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Backstreet Life
''Backstreet Life'' is the third album by rap duo Totally Insane. It was released on July 25, 1995, for In-a-Minute Records and was produced by Totally Insane (Mac-10 and Ad Kapone) and the Premiere Music Group (TC, Race and Reggie Smith). The album peaked at #48 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, which would prove to be the highest the group would make it on the charts. ''Backstreet Life'' was also Totally Insane's last album to make it to the charts and their last release for In a Minute Records. Track listing #"Follow Me" – 4:56 #"Fast Lane" – 4:09 #"Mr. Ad Kapone (Featuring Mr. Ke-Weed)" – 4:23 #"4-Ever" – 3:21 #"Done Deal" – 4:49 #"Backstreet Life" (remix) – 4:28 #"Neighborhood Rockstarz (Featuring Money Marc, Scoot Dogg, Backstreet Mentality)" – 4:38 #"Murder, Death, Kill" – 3:34 #"Playaz and Hustlaz" – 4:17 (Featuring 11/5) #"The 4-1-1" – 4:05 #"Total Insanity" – 4:16 (Featuring Dre Dog, Hennesy of 11/5 11/5 was an American hip hop g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Totally Insane
Totally Insane was a hip hop group from East Palo Alto, California, whose members were Mac-10, Ad Kapone and Scoot Dogg. They were signed to In a Minute Records from 1991 to 1995. Biography Phillip Allen, alias Mac-10 or Ten Dolla, and Adam Hicks, alias Ad Kapone, came together in 1991 and were signed to In-a-Minute Records. What first sparked their success was the release of the single, "No More Mr. Nice Guy." The duo's first album was 1992's ''Direct from the Backstreet'', which peaked at #87 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. Rapper Scoot Dogg of EPA is also a member, but joined later, and appeared on more than one album; however, he was not on every album. They would later return with two albums, 1993's ''Goin' Insane'' and 1995's ''Backstreet Life'' which peaked at #61 and #48 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Album chart respectively. Totally Insane would then release ''Totally Insane'' in 1998, ''Da Game of Life'' in 2001. Ad Kapone of Totally Insane was sentenced to six years in pris ... [...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] |
West Coast Hip Hop
West Coast hip hop is a regional genre of hip hop music that encompasses any artists or music that originated in the West Coast region of the United States. West Coast hip hop began to dominate from a radio play and sales standpoint during the early to-mid 1990s with the birth of G-funk and the emergence of record labels such as Suge Knight and Dr. Dre's Death Row Records, Ice Cube's Lench Mob Records and the continued success of Eazy-E's Ruthless Records, and others. History Early years Several events laid the foundations for West Coast hip hop, long before the emergence of West Coast rappers such as Mellow Man Ace, Too Short, Kid Frost, Ice-T and Eazy-E—or even before the emergence of rap itself. According to Syd Caesar, "a cataclysmic event helped give rise to it out West: the Watts riots of 1965." In 1967, Budd Schulberg founded a creative space in Los Angeles entitled Watts Writers Workshop, intended to help the people of the Watts neighborhood and provide a place ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
In A Minute Records
In-a-Minute Records was a record company founded in 1991 by Jason Blaine. It featured many artists from the underground bay area rap scene including RBL Posse, Andre Nickatina, I.M.P, Pooh-Man, Totally Insane. The label was shut down in 2000. Origins and early formation The label was founded in 1991 in Oakland, California, by Jason Blaine, who was disappointed by the fact that many rappers in the Bay Area were unsigned at the time. He offered RBL Posse $10,000 ahead of time to sign with his label, which they quickly accepted due to the fact that they were still selling tapes on the street. Although the label never had any major commercially successful albums, Andre Nickatina's 1995 album '' I Hate You with a Passion'' appeared at #79 on the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart and #3 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart. Former artists * Andre Nickatina (1992–1995) *Rappin' 4-Tay (1991) *Totally Insane (1991–1995) *RBL Posse (1992–1994) * Pooh-Man (1992–1995) *Dogg P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goin' Insane
''Goin' Insane'' is the second album by rap group, Totally Insane. It was released on October 11, 1993 for In-a-Minute Records and featured production from The Enhancer, Stingy, TC, Tony Jackson and Ken Lee. ''Goin' Insane'' gained only mild success and peaked at #87 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums is a music chart published weekly by '' Billboard'' magazine that ranks R&B and hip hop albums based on sales in the United States and is compiled by Nielsen SoundScan. The chart debuted as Hot R&B LPs in the issue dated J .... Track listing #"Intro"- 1:12 #"Goin' Insane"- 4:38 #"It's On"- 3:04 #"The Bad Hand"- 4:15 #"Pimps Up, Hoes Down"- 5:22 #"The Times"- 4:47 #"A to D"- 4:43 #"That Insane Shit"- 3:44 #"Epa Interview"- :39 #"Backstreet Boys"- 3:42 #"Can't Be Faded"- 2:54 #"Here We Go Again"- 3:11 #"Slangin Bean Pies"- 4:08 #"Maggot Ass Bitches"- 5:17 #"Krazy Shit"- 2:54 #"No Mo Muzik"- 3:54 #"Outro"- 3:04 {{Authority control ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Totally Insane (album)
''Totally Insane'' is the self-titled fourth album released by rap duo, Totally Insane. It was released on September 22, 1998 for Felonious Records and was produced by Totally Insane (Mac-10, Ad Kapone), Premiere Music Group (TC, Race & Reggie Smith), Scoot Dogg, The Enhancer, Nick Peace and Drawz. This was the group's first album to not make it on any Billboard charts The ''Billboard'' charts tabulate the relative weekly popularity of songs and albums in the United States and elsewhere. The results are published in '' Billboard'' magazine. ''Billboard'' biz, the online extension of the ''Billboard'' charts, p .... Track listing #"Cituations"- 3:40 #"So Real"- 4:06 #"Falsified"- 3:54 #"Hog Status"- 3:46 #"Another Way"- 3:30 #"Lengendary"- 4:15 #"Bay Love"- 3:45 #"Git Them G's"- 3:29 #"The Newz"- 4:28 #"M & M Hoodz"- 4:37 #"Feel Me"- 3:18 #"Rapid Fire"- 3:28 #"Ebonix"- 3:33 #"It Ain't Like That"- 4:31 #"Addicted to Me"- 3:19 #"Fully Auto"- 4:35 {{Authority control 1998 albu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums
Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums is a music chart published weekly by '' Billboard'' magazine that ranks R&B and hip hop albums based on sales in the United States and is compiled by Nielsen SoundScan. The chart debuted as Hot R&B LPs in the issue dated January 30, 1965 in an effort by the magazine to further expand into the field of rhythm and blues music. It then went through several name changes, being known as Soul LPs in the 1970s and Top Black Albums in the 1980s, before returning to the R&B identification in 1990 and affixing a hip hop designation in 1999 to reflect the latter's growing sales and relationship to R&B during the decade. From 1965 through 2009, the chart was compiled based on reported sales at a core panel of stores with a "higher-than-average volume" of R&B and/or hip-hop album sales to monitor buying trends of the African-American community. This panel included more independent and smaller chain stores compared to the high percentage of mass merchants that account fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
11/5
11/5 was an American hip hop group from the Hunters Point section of San Francisco, California whose members were Maine-O, Hennessy and Taydatay, they were signed to Dogday Records, and were active from 1994 to 2001. Biography The Bay Area-based trio first appeared in 1994 on Primo's album ''Stickin' to the Script'' on the song "Killa". Shortly after, they would release their debut album, '' Fiendin' 4 tha Funk''. The album sold little outside the Bay Area and only made it to #76 on the Billboard's Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. The following year, they released a follow-up entitled '' A-1 Yola'', which would fare much better on the charts, making it to #33 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart and #22 on the Top Heatseekers Top Heatseekers are "Breaking and Entering" music charts issued weekly by ''Billboard'' magazine. The Heatseekers Albums and the Heatseekers Songs charts were introduced by ''Billboard'' in 1991 with the purpose of highlighting the sales by new an .... After ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dre Dog
Andre L. Adams (born March 11, 1970), better known by his stage name Andre Nickatina, is an American rapper from San Francisco, California. He previously performed under the stage name Dre Dog. Personal life Andre Adams was born on March 11, 1970, in San Francisco, and grew up in the city's Fillmore District. He attended the Galileo Academy of Science and Technology but dropped out and claims to have had a D average. Despite his troubled academic career, Andre maintained an honorable position within the school securing a rank of “Cobra Status” signifying his quick wit. Musical career Andre Nickatina first appeared on the Bay Area rap scene in 1993 underneath the stage name Dre Dog. He released two albums under the stage name Dre Dog: ''The New Jim Jones'' in 1993 and '' I Hate You With a Passion'' in 1995. ''I Hate You With a Passion'' peaked at #79 on the ''Billboard'' Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart and #3 on the ''Billboard'' Heatseekers chart. In 1997, Adams changed his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1995 Albums
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