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EBK4
''EBK4'' is the third studio album by American rapper Brotha Lynch Hung, released through Blackmarket Records on June 27, 2000, as a follow-up to 1997's '' Loaded''. Some of the songs on the album were not completed (did not have all the verses recorded, etc.) in time for the release date. Due to disputes with the record label over this and other issues, Black Market released the album without the consent of Brotha Lynch Hung, featuring other artists off the label to complete unfinished songs where extra verses were needed. Lynch has mentioned that prior to the album’s release, a home invasion took place during which the thieves had taken songs still in progress, most of which appear on this album. Overview Despite the controversy surrounding its release, ''EBK4'' is notable for featuring a guest appearance from Snoop Dogg on the track "Dogg Market." It is also notable for Lynch's cover of label-mate X-Raided's track "Every Single Bitch" from his debut album, ''Psycho Active''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brotha Lynch Hung
Kevin Danell Mann (born January 10, 1970), better known by his stage name Brotha Lynch Hung, is an American rapper, songwriter and record producer from Sacramento, California who has been described as "the creator of horrorcore rap." He is also a former 24th Street Garden Blocc Crip gang member which is a Crip affiliated street gang based in Meadowview, Sacramento. Early life Mann grew up in Sacramento. He became a fan of east coast rappers such as Rakim and Slick Rick. He started rapping at the age of 13. He became a member of the 24 Street Garden Blocc Crips by age 16 during the 1980s. He was once shot in the side after trying to break up a confrontation between a Crip and a Blood at a house party; the bullet was never removed. The Garden Blocc Crips are said to consist of three subsets: 21st street, 24th street and 29th street. They are said to historically have a rivalry with the Meadowview Bloods which apparently escalated in the early 1990s resulting in several homici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Virus (album)
''The Virus'' is the fourth studio album by American rapper Brotha Lynch Hung, released through Black Market Records on November 13, 2001. ''The Virus'' is the follow-up to ''EBK4 ''EBK4'' is the third studio album by American rapper Brotha Lynch Hung, released through Blackmarket Records on June 27, 2000, as a follow-up to 1997's '' Loaded''. Some of the songs on the album were not completed (did not have all the verses rec ...''. Like ''EBK4'', this album was also rumored to have been released without the consent of Lynch due to ongoing disputes with Black Market. It was Lynch's final studio album released through Black Market Records, although there would be several subsequent compilations released on the label. Track listing Charts Brotha Lynch Hung albums 2001 albums {{2000s-westcoast-hiphop-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loaded (Brotha Lynch Hung Album)
''Loaded'' is the second studio album by American rapper Brotha Lynch Hung, released on September 16, 1997 by Blackmarket Records. The album features guest appearances from Kokane, E-40 and Ice-T, and is the first album on which Lynch would collaborate with producer Phonk Beta, a partnership that would continue on his future albums. The album peaked at number 28 on the ''Billboard'' 200. Track listing Personnel *Brotha Lynch Hung Kevin Danell Mann (born January 10, 1970), better known by his stage name Brotha Lynch Hung, is an American rapper, songwriter and record producer from Sacramento, California who has been described as "the creator of horrorcore rap." He is al ... – vocals, production *Cedric Singleton – executive producer, layout, graphic art & photography *Phonk Beta – production *First Degree the D.E. – production *Art B – management Charts References 1997 albums Brotha Lynch Hung albums {{1990s-hiphop-album-stub ... [...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] |
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] |
Hardcore Hip Hop
Hardcore hip hop (also hardcore rap) is a genre of hip hop music that developed through the East Coast hip hop scene in the 1980s. Pioneered by such artists as Run-DMC, Schoolly D, Boogie Down Productions and Public Enemy, it is generally characterized by anger, aggression and confrontation. History Music experts have credited Run-DMC as the first hardcore hip hop group. Other early artists to adopt an aggressive style were Schoolly D in Philadelphia and Too $hort in Oakland, California. Before a formula for gangsta rap had developed, artists such as Boogie Down Productions and Ice-T wrote lyrics based on detailed observations of "street life", while the confrontational and aggressive lyrics and chaotic, rough production style of Public Enemy's records set new standards for hardcore hip hop and hip hop production.Hardcore Rap Allmusic. Accessed May 22, 2008. Though initially a largely East Coast phenomenon, by the late 1980s, hardcore rap increasingly became largely synony ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horrorcore
Horrorcore, also called horror hip hop, horror rap, death hip hop, or death rap, is a subgenre of hip hop music based on horror-themed and often darkly transgressive lyrical content and imagery. Its origins derived from certain hardcore hip hop and gangsta rap artists, such as the Geto Boys, which began to incorporate supernatural, occult, and psychological horror themes into their lyrics. Unlike most hardcore hip hop and gangsta rap artists, horrorcore artists often push the violent content and imagery in their lyrics beyond the realm of realistic urban violence, to the point where the violent lyrics become gruesome, ghoulish, unsettling, inspired by slasher films or splatter films. While exaggerated violence and the supernatural are common in horrorcore, the genre also frequently presents more realistic yet still disturbing portrayals of mental illness and drug abuse. Some horrorcore artists eschew supernatural themes or exaggerated violence in favor of more subtle and d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blackmarket Records
Black Market Records is an American record label based in Sacramento, California founded in 1989. Its acts included Brotha Lynch Hung and X-Raided.{{{cite web , last1=Boucher , first1=Geoff , title=Tied by music and murder , url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-nov-17-ca-boucher17-story.html , website=Los Angeles Times , access-date=24 October 2021 , date=17 November 2002 History Black Market Records was founded in 1980 by Cedric Singleton.{{cite news, url=https://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/stories/1999/10/04/story4.html, title=Record exec spins off into hotel biz, first=Mark, last=Anderson, date=October 3, 1999, work=Sacramento Business Journal In 1992 the label released Sacramento rapper X-Raided's album "Psycho Active" featuring Brotha Lynch Hung. In 1993 the label released Brotha Lynch Hung's EP '' 24 Deep'', which rose to no. 91 on Billboard's Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart,{{cite web, url=http://www.billboard.com/artist/297734/brotha-lynch-hung/chart, title=Brot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snoop Dogg
Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr. (born October 20, 1971), known professionally as Snoop Dogg (previously Snoop Doggy Dogg and briefly Snoop Lion), is an American rapper. His fame dates back to 1992 when he featured on Dr. Dre's debut solo single, "Deep Cover", and then on Dre's debut solo album, ''The Chronic''. Broadus has since sold over 23 million albums in the United States and 35 million albums worldwide. His accolades include an American Music Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and 17 nominations at the Grammy Awards. Broadus' debut solo album, ''Doggystyle,'' produced by Dr. Dre, was released by Death Row Records in November 1993, and debuted at number one on the popular albums chart, the ''Billboard'' 200, and on '' Billboard''s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. Selling 800,000 copies in its first week, ''Doggystyle'' was certified quadruple-platinum in 1994 and featured the singles " What's My Name?" and "Gin and Juice". In 1994, Death Row Records released a soundtrack, by Broad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
X-Raided
Anerae Veshaughn Brown (born July 30, 1974), better known by his stage name X-Raided, is an American rapper from Sacramento, California, United States. In 1992, Brown was sentenced to 31 years in prison on murder charges, which Brown denied, maintaining his innocence. The lyrics of his debut album, '' Psycho Active'', was submitted as evidence by the prosecutors. Subsequently, Brown continued to record rap songs in prison, until being released on parole 26 years into his sentence. He was later signed with Strange Music. Biography Brown was raised by his mother, Shirley James 'Jaz' Brown, a clerk at the Sacramento County courthouse. Brown subsequently joined the 24th Street Garden Blocc Crips. In 1992, Brown released his debut album, '' Psycho Active'', before being arrested in March with four other Crips for the killing of Patricia Harris during a home invasion, with the prosecution citing Brown's lyrics in his trial, accusing Brown of premeditated murder. The weapon that was u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Psycho Active
''Psycho Active'' is the debut solo album by American rapper X-Raided, released April 16, 1992 through Blackmarket Records. Before the album's release, X-Raided and four other individuals, all Crips, were arrested by the Sacramento Police Department for the killing of Patricia Harris, the mother of two Meadowview, Sacramento, California, Meadowview Bloods' members during a home invasion. Police maintained that the boys intended reprisal against Harris' sons for the killing of two Crips. The weapon that was used to kill Harris was never found, and X-Raided maintains that he is innocent. During the trial, the prosecution cited lyrics from ''Psycho Active'' as evidence, and X-Raided was sentenced to 31 years in prison. He was released on parole on September 14, 2018 after serving 26 years in prison. Reception Steve "Flash" Juon gave the album an overall score of 7.5 in a retrospective review for RapReviews, giving the album's music a score of 8 and X-Raided's lyrics 7. Juon wrote, "Wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allmusic
AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne. History AllMusic was launched as ''All Music Guide'' by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as CDs replaced LPs as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he researched using metadata to create a music guide. In 1990, in Big Rapids, Michigan, he founded ''All Music Guide' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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