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Bankroll Freddie
Freddie Demarus Gladney III, known professionally as Bankroll Freddie, is an American rapper from Helena, Arkansas. He is signed to Quality Control Music and Motown Records. Early life Gladney was born in Helena, Arkansas. His mom moved with him to Conway, Arkansas after his cousin was shot and killed in 2009. Gladney graduated from Conway High School (Arkansas), Conway High School in 2013. Career Gladney started his music career in 2017, releasing the freestyle ''Lil Baby''. As part of the #ActUpChallenge, he created a freestyle over "Act Up," a song by City Girls under the label Quality Control. A short time later, Quality Control's CEO Pierre "P" Thomas reposted the freestyle on Instagram, and then invited Gladney to Los Angeles to meet. Gladney released a 2019 single, "Drip Like This." He released the mixtape ''Saved by the Bales'' in July 2019, and Quality Control later released a remix of a track on the album, titled ''Drip Like Dis'' and featuring Young Dolph and Lil B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Motown
Motown is an American record label owned by the Universal Music Group. Founded by Berry Gordy, Berry Gordy Jr. as Tamla Records on January 12, 1959, it was incorporated as Motown Record Corporation on April 14, 1960. Its name, a portmanteau of ''motor'' and ''town'', has become a nickname for Detroit, where the label was originally headquartered. Motown played a vital role in the racial integration of popular music as an African American-owned label that achieved crossover (music), crossover success with white audiences. In the 1960s, Motown and its main subsidiary labels (including Gordy, Soul) were the most prominent exponents of what became known as the #Motown sound, Motown sound, a style of soul music with a mainstream pop music, pop-influenced sound and appeal. Motown was the most successful soul music label, with a net worth of $61 million in 1988. Between 1960 and 1969, Motown had 79 songs reach the top-ten of the Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100. In March 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PnB Rock
Rakim Hasheem Allen (December 9, 1991 – September 12, 2022), known professionally as PnB Rock, was an American rapper, singer, and songwriter. Born and raised in Philadelphia, Allen signed with Atlantic Records in 2015 and gained initial recognition for his 2016 single, "Selfish". His first ''Billboard'' Hot 100 entry, it received triple platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and served as lead single for his commercial mixtape '' GTTM: Goin Thru the Motions'' (2017), which entered the ''Billboard'' 200. His debut studio album, '' Catch These Vibes'' (2017) peaked at number 17 on the chart, while his second album, '' TrapStar Turnt PopStar'' (2019) peaked at number four. Allen also guest performed on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100-top 40 singles " Cross Me" by Ed Sheeran, "Changes" by XXXTentacion, " Dangerous" by Meek Mill, and " Everyday We Lit" by YFN Lucci during his lifetime. He was chosen as part of the 2017 ''XXL'' Freshman Class. P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rappers From Arkansas
Rapping (also rhyming, flowing, spitting, emceeing, or MCing) is an artistic form of vocal delivery and emotive expression that incorporates "rhyme, rhythmic speech, and ommonlystreet vernacular". It is usually performed over a backing beat or musical accompaniment. The components of rap include "content" (what is being said, e.g., lyrics), "flow" (rhythm, rhyme), and "delivery" (cadence, tone). Rap differs from spoken-word poetry in that it is usually performed off-time to musical accompaniment. It also differs from singing, which varies in pitch and does not always include words. Because they do not rely on pitch inflection, some rap artists may play with timbre or other vocal qualities. Rap is a primary ingredient of hip-hop music, and so commonly associated with the genre that it is sometimes called "rap music". Precursors to modern rap music include the West African griot tradition, certain vocal styles of blues and jazz, an African-American insult game called pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doe B
Grand Hustle Records (formerly Grand Hustle Entertainment), also known as Hustle Gang Music, is an American hip hop record label, founded in 2003, by American rapper and record executive T.I. and his manager Jason Geter. The label was distributed by Atlantic Records until December 2012, and has since operated as an independent record label. Its roster has included acts such as 8Ball & MJG, B.o.B, Killer Mike, Young Dro, DJ Drama, Iggy Azalea, Meek Mill, Chip, Travis Scott, The OMG Girlz and Trae tha Truth, the latter of whom also served as the label's vice president. The label also houses a roster of record producers, which has included Lil' C, Mars and Nard & B. The label has released 33 studio albums, with 14 of them certified gold or higher by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The label has released seven albums that peaked atop the US ''Billboard'' 200 chart—''King'' (2006), '' T.I. vs. T.I.P.'' (2007), ''Paper Trail'' (2008), '' The Adventures o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zaytoven
Xavier Lamar Dotson (born January 12, 1980), known professionally as Zaytoven, is an American record producer from Atlanta, Georgia. He has released collaborative projects with artists including Gucci Mane, Usher, Future, Young Dolph, Migos, Lecrae, Lil Yachty, Chief Keef, Young Scooter, B.o.B, Boosie Badazz, Waka Flocka Flame, 21 Savage, Deitrick Haddon and La Fève. Zaytoven signed with Gucci Mane's 1017 Records as an in-house producer after producing the latter's 2005 single " Icy". He was credited on Usher's 2009 single " Papers", which peaked within the ''Billboard'' Hot 100's top 40. Early life Dotson spent a lot of time at church growing up, as his father was a preacher when not working for the army. He learned to play instruments through the church bands along with his three younger siblings. He gravitated toward playing the piano and organ. Dotson was introduced to rap in middle school by a friend. He learned to produce music while attending high scho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skooly
Kazarion Fowler (born July 30, 1994), known professionally as Skooly, is an American rapper and a founding member of Atlanta-based rap group Rich Kidz. Branching off from Rich Kidz to pursue a solo career in 2015, Skooly has since released several solo projects. Skooly's recent releases have been under 2 Chainz' label T.R.U., starting with Skooly's label-debut album ''Baccwardfeelings'' in 2017. Early career Skooly began his rap career when he was 14, co-founding collective Rich Kidz alongside Kaelub Denson aka Huncho Kae in 2008. Rich Kidz first mixtape, ''Money Swag'', was released in 2009 via digital download. After releasing several mixtapes, Rich Kidz was signed to Columbia Records in 2012. After releasing music with Rich Kidz and Columbia in the early 2010s, Skooly released his first solo mixtape ''The Blacc Jon Gotti'' in 2015. T.R.U. & 2 Chainz Also in 2015, Skooly signed to 2 Chainz' label T.R.U. Immediately after announcing T.R.U., or The Real University, 2 Chainz r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Streaming Media
Streaming media refers to multimedia delivered through a Computer network, network for playback using a Media player (other), media player. Media is transferred in a ''stream'' of Network packet, packets from a Server (computing), server to a client-server model, client and is rendered in real-time; this contrasts with file downloading, a process in which the end-user obtains an entire media file before consuming the content. Streaming is more commonly used for video on demand, streaming television, and music streaming services over the Internet. While streaming is most commonly associated with multimedia from a remote server over the Internet, it also includes offline multimedia between devices on a local area network. For example, using DLNA and a home server, or in a personal area network between two devices using Bluetooth (which uses radio waves rather than Internet Protocol, IP). Online streaming was initially popularized by RealNetworks and Microsoft in the 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music Download
A music download is the digital transfer of music via the Internet into a device capable of decoding and playing it, such as a personal computer, portable media player, MP3 player or smartphone. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyrighted material without permission or legal payment. Music downloads are typically encoded with modified discrete cosine transform (MDCT) audio data compression, particularly the Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) format used by iTunes as well as the MP3 audio coding format. According to a Nielsen report, downloadable music accounted for 55.9 percent of all music sales in the US in 2012."All music sales" refers to albums plus track equivalent albums. A track equivalent album equates to 10 tracks. By the beginning of 2011, Apple's iTunes Store alone made 1.1 billion of revenue in the first quarter of its fiscal year. According to the RIAA, music downloads peaked at 43% of industry revenue in the US in 2012, and has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heatseekers Album
The Heatseekers charts were "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 and developing musical recording artists. Albums and songs appearing on Top Heatseekers would also concurrently appear on the ''Billboard'' 200 or ''Billboard'' Hot 100. Although the ''Billboard'' Heatseekers charts were discontinued in December 2014, some regional editions (such as ''Billboard Japan'') still host their own Heatseekers Songs charts. Albums chart The Heatseekers Albums chart contains 25 positions that are ranked by Nielsen SoundScan sales data, and charts album titles from "new or developing acts" as determined by the acts' historical chart performance (the chart occasionally expanded to 50 positions throughout the years as well). Once an artist/act has had an album place in the top 100 of the ''Billboard'' Top 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
YouTube
YouTube is an American social media and online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim who were three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google Search. In January 2024, YouTube had more than 2.7billion monthly active users, who collectively watched more than one billion hours of videos every day. , videos were being uploaded to the platform at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute, and , there were approximately 14.8billion videos in total. On November 13, 2006, YouTube was purchased by Google for $1.65 billion (equivalent to $ billion in ). Google expanded YouTube's business model of generating revenue from advertisements alone, to offering paid content such as movies and exclusive content produced by and for YouTube. It also offers YouTube Premium, a paid subs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WorldStarHipHop
WorldStarHipHop is a content-aggregating video blog. Zurawik, David.Worldstarhiphop.com makes a name for itself with shocking viral videos". ''The Baltimore Sun''. March 23, 2012. Retrieved on April 22, 2012Alternate link to the same article from the ''Orlando Sentinel''. "World Star is just basically shock video," said Nsenga Burton, an associate professor at Goucher College and editor-at-large for the African-American-focused website The Root. "They comb the pop cultural landscape for videos that are shocking on multiple levels and feed into peoples' voyeuristic tendencies." Founded in 2005, the site averaged 1.2 million unique visitors a day in 2011. The site, operated by Worldstar, LLC,Granick, Jennifer.New Year, New Job". The Center for Internet and Society. Stanford Law School. January 9, 2012. Retrieved on November 30, 2012. was founded by Lee "Q" O'Denat. Described by '' Vibe'' as a "remnant of the GeoCities generation", the site regularly features shocking events caugh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
