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Earthtone III
Mr. DJ (born David Sheats) is an American hip-hop producer and DJ from Atlanta. He and Outkast members Big Boi and André 3000 make up the record production company Earthtone III. Biography Raised on the southside of College Park, Georgia, Mr. DJ attended Banneker High School. He entered the music industry as a DJ for Atlanta-based hip-hop group Outkast. According to Sheats, After touring with the group for a year, he began to focus more on production rather than deejaying. By sharpening his beat making skills, Mr. DJ got the opportunity to help produce Outkast's 1996 second album ''ATLiens''. Following his work on OutKast's “Elevators (Me & You)” and several songs from their album ''Aquemini'', Mr. DJ formed Earthtone III production group with Andre 3000 & Big Boi. Collectively, the trio produced roughly 80% of tracks from ''Stankonia'' to their latest album, '' Idlewild''. In addition, Mr. DJ continued to DJ on every OutKast album, except ''Speakerboxxx/The Love B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Georgia. It is the seat of Fulton County, the most populous county in Georgia, but its territory falls in both Fulton and DeKalb counties. With a population of 498,715 living within the city limits, it is the eighth most populous city in the Southeast and 38th most populous city in the United States according to the 2020 U.S. census. It is the core of the much larger Atlanta metropolitan area, which is home to more than 6.1 million people, making it the eighth-largest metropolitan area in the United States. Situated among the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains at an elevation of just over above sea level, it features unique topography that includes rolling hills, lush greenery, and the most dense urban tree coverage of any major city in the United States. Atlanta was originally founded as the terminus of a major state-sponsored railroad, but it soon became the convergence point among several rai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Record Producer
A record producer is a recording project's creative and technical leader, commanding studio time and coaching artists, and in popular genres typically creates the song's very sound and structure.Virgil Moorefield"Introduction" ''The Producer as Composer: Shaping the Sounds of Popular Music'' (Cambridge, MA & London, UK: MIT Press, 2005).Richard James Burgess, ''The History of Music Production'' (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014)pp 12–13Allan Watson, ''Cultural Production in and Beyond the Recording Studio'' (New York: Routledge, 2015)pp 25–27 The record producer, or simply the producer, is likened to film director and art director. The executive producer, on the other hand, enables the recording project through entrepreneurship, and an audio engineer operates the technology. Varying by project, the producer may or may not choose all of the artists. If employing only synthesized or sampled instrumentation, the producer may be the sole artist. Conversely, some artists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
''Speakerboxxx/The Love Below'' is the fifth studio album by American hip hop duo Outkast. It was released on September 23, 2003, by Arista Records. Issued as a double album, its length of over two hours is spread across solo albums from both of the group's members. Big Boi's ''Speakerboxxx'' is a Southern hip hop album with a P-Funk influence, while André 3000's ''The Love Below'' features psychedelic, pop, funk, electro, and jazz styles. ''Speakerboxxx/The Love Below'' was supported with the hit singles "Hey Ya!" and "The Way You Move", which both reached 1 on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100, and the top-10 hit " Roses". The album debuted at No. 1 on the ''Billboard'' 200 with sales of 510,000 copies in its first week. It eventually amassed a total of seven non-consecutive weeks at the top of the chart and 24 weeks in the Top 10. It has been certified diamond and 11 times platinum by the RIAA (each disc in the double album counted as a separate unit for certification). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stankonia
''Stankonia'' is the fourth studio album by American Hip hop music, hip hop duo Outkast. It was released on October 31, 2000, by LaFace Records. The album was recorded in the duo's recently purchased Atlanta recording facility Stankonia Studios, which allowed for fewer time and recording constraints, and featured production work from Earthtone III (a production team consisting of Outkast and Mr. DJ) and Organized Noize. For the follow-up to their 1998 album ''Aquemini'', the duo worked to create an expansive and experimental musical aesthetic, incorporating a diverse array of styles including funk, rave music, Psychedelic music, psychedelia, Gospel music, gospel, and Rock music, rock within a Southern hip hop, Dirty South-oriented hip hop context. During the recording sessions, André 3000 began moving beyond traditional rapping in favor of a more melodic vocal style, an approach to which Big Boi and several other producers were initially unaccustomed. Lyrically, the duo touched u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aquemini
''Aquemini'' is the third studio album by American hip hop duo Outkast. It was released on September 29, 1998, by LaFace Records. The title is a portmanteau of the two performers' Zodiac signs: Aquarius (Big Boi) and Gemini (André 3000), which is indicative of the album's recurring theme of the differing personalities of the two members. The group recorded the majority of the album in Bobby Brown's Bosstown Recording Studios and Doppler Studios, both in Atlanta, Georgia. Released as the follow-up to the duo's commercially successful 1996 album ''ATLiens'', ''Aquemini'' expands on the previous record's outer space-inspired compositions by incorporating live instrumentation and drawing on 1970s funk, southern soul, gospel, country, psychedelic rock, and other influences. The album reflected a greater level of creative freedom for the group, which led to the members self-producing the majority of the tracks and employing a large number of session musicians who filtered in and o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elevators (Me & You)
"Elevators (Me & You)" is a song by American hip hop duo Outkast, released as the lead single from their second studio album, ''ATLiens''. It peaked at number 12 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, Outkast's highest-peaking song on the chart until the release of "Ms. Jackson" in 2000. The single also peaked at number one on the US Hot Rap Tracks chart. It was later featured on their compilation '' Big Boi and Dre Present... OutKast''. R&B singer Kandi Burruss sought out the song "Me & U" from her 2010 '' Kandi Koated'' CD. Track listings *CD single # "Elevators (Me & You)" (Clean Version) – 4:25 # "Elevators (Me & You)" (LP Version) – 4:25 # "Elevators (Me & You)" (LP Instrumental) – 4:25 *Maxi single # "Elevators (Me & You)" (Crazy "C" Trunk Rattlin' Mix) – 4:35 # "Elevators (Me & You)" (ONP 86 Mix) – 4:35 # "Elevators (Me & You)" (ONP 86 Instrumental) – 4:36 # "Elevators (Me & You)" (Album Version) – 4:25 # "Elevators (Me & You)" (Crazy "C" Trunk Rattlin' Instrumenta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ATLiens
''ATLiens'' is the second studio album by American hip hop duo Outkast. It was released on August 27, 1996, by Arista Records and LaFace Records. From 1995 to 1996, Outkast recorded ''ATLiens'' in sessions at several Atlanta studios—Bosstown Recording Studios, Doppler Recording Studios, PatchWerk Recording Studio, Purple Dragon Studios, and Studio LaCoCo—as well as Chung King Recording Studio and Sound On Sound Recording in New York City. The record features outer space-inspired production sounds, with Outkast and producers Organized Noize incorporating elements of dub and gospel into the compositions. Several songs feature the duo's first attempts at producing music by themselves. Lyrically, the group discusses a wide range of topics including urban life as hustlers, existential introspection, and extraterrestrial life. The album's title is a portmanteau of "ATL" (an abbreviation of Atlanta, Georgia) and "aliens", which has been interpreted by critics as a commentary a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1996 In Music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1996. Specific locations *1996 in British music * 1996 in Norwegian music Specific genres * 1996 in classical music * 1996 in country music * 1996 in heavy metal music * 1996 in hip hop music *1996 in Latin music * 1996 in jazz Events January * January 8 – Robert Hoskins is found guilty and convicted on five charges of assault, stalking, and threatening to kill Madonna. * January 16 ** At the trial of two American teenagers, Nicholaus McDonald and Brian Bassett, for the murder of Bassett's parents and young brother, defense lawyers attempt to lay the blame for the murders on the fact the pair had been listening to " Israel's Son" by Silverchair prior to the crimes, which are dubbed the "Israel's Son Murders". Murmur Records released an official response, stating that Silverchair do not condone violence of any kind and that the song "seeks to criticize violence and war by portraying them in all their hor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banneker High School (Georgia)
Banneker High School (also known as Benjamin Banneker High School) is a public high school in unincorporated Fulton County, Georgia, United States, with a College Park, Georgia postal address. It is part of the Fulton County School System - It is ''not'' in the College Park city limits. and named for Benjamin Banneker, a free African-American almanac author, surveyor, landowner and farmer. Notable alumni * Greg Blue - former professional football player * Toby Johnson - former professional football player * Mr. Collipark - hip-hop record producer * Ludacris - rapper and actor * Mr. DJ - hip-hop record producer and DJ * Jason Rogers - professional baseball player * Supa Nate - rapper * Darius Watts Darius Orlando Watts (born December 19, 1981) is a former NFL football player who was originally drafted by the Denver Broncos in the second round (54th overall) of the 2004 NFL Draft. In the NFL, Watts played for the Denver Broncos and New Y ... - former professional football ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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