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Just-Ice
Joseph Williams Jr. (born June 22, 1965), better known by the stage name Just-Ice, is an American rapper from New York City. A former bouncer at punk clubs, Williams was the first of the New York rappers to embrace gangsta rap, and when he burst out of the Castle Hill neighborhood in the New York City borough of the Bronx as Just-Ice, he gained instant notoriety. Muscle-bound, tattooed, aggressive—he resembled Mike Tyson in more than just looks—and with a mouthful of gold teeth, he certainly stood out. His debut album ''Back to the Old School'' came out on the independent New York label Sleeping Bag, and certainly sounded like no other hip-hop album, thanks to his fast and forceful rhymes, Ben "Human DMX" Paynes'sBradley, John Ed (1986)Survival of the Hippest, ''Washington Post'', September 7, 1986. Retrieved April 29, 2017 beatboxing, as well as the distinctive production of Mantronix's Kurtis Mantronik. Williams' stage name was probably derived from the Supreme Alphabet, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masterpiece (Just-Ice Album)
''Masterpiece'' is the fourth album by golden age hardcore MC Just-Ice, it was released in 1990. ''Masterpiece'' was Just-Ice's final album on the Fresh/ Sleeping Bag Records label, and it was produced by Grandmaster Flash. Track listing # "Get Into Something" ( Grandmaster Flash, Just-Ice) – 3:40 # "The Ice Man Commeth" (Grandmaster Flash, Just-Ice) – 3:33 # "Flavor" (Grandmaster Flash, Just-Ice) – 5:02 # "The Music" (Grandmaster Flash, Just-Ice) – 4:27 # "Slow, Low And Dope" (Grandmaster Flash, Just-Ice) – 3:41 # "Keep To Myself" (Grandmaster Flash, Just-Ice) – 4:13 # "Rollin' With The Just" (Grandmaster Flash, Just-Ice) – 3:30 # "Round-N-Round" (Grandmaster Flash, Just-Ice) – 5:09 # "Tell It Like It Is" (Grandmaster Flash, Just-Ice) – 5:08 # "I Write This In The Dark" (Grandmaster Flash, Just-Ice) – 4:47 Charts References External links * ''Masterpiece''at Allmusic AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online mus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Back To The Old School
''Back to the Old School'' is the debut album by American rapper Just-Ice. It was released in 1986, and was produced by Kurtis Mantronik. The album has been described as a classic early hip-hop album and revolutionary for its time by Allmusic. Track listing # "Cold Gettin' Dumb" (Just-Ice, Kurtis Mantronik) – 4:32 # "Love Story" (Just-Ice, Mantronik) – 4:54 # "Back to the Old School" (Just-Ice, Mantronik) – 4:50 # "Latoya" (Just-Ice, Mantronik) – 4:12 # "Gangster of Hip Hop" (Just-Ice, Mantronik) – 5:09 # "Little Bad Johnny" (Just-Ice, Mantronik) – 3:32 # "Put the Record Back On" (Just-Ice, Mantronik) – 3:51 # "Turbo-Charged" (Just-Ice, Mantronik) – 5:11 # "Cold Gettin' Dumb II" (Just Ice, Mantronik) – 6:33 (Originally a 12-inch single, it was added when the album was released on CD) # "That Girl is a Slut" (Just-Ice) – 5:16 (Originally a b-side, it was added when the album was released on CD) The album cover artwork was done by Gnome and Gemini/Gem7 (Prez ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Desolate One
''The Desolate One'' is the third album by golden age/hardcore hip hop emcee Just-Ice, released in 1989 and produced by KRS-One (see 1989 in music). In 1996, it was played in part on KROQ by Bradley Nowell of Sublime. Nowell claimed it to be one of his favorite albums. Track listing * All lyrics composed by Just-Ice. All music composed by KRS-One. #"The Desolate One" #"...And Justice For All" #"Hardhead" #"Welfare Recipients" #"Na Touch Da Just" #"It's Time I Release" #"In The Jungle" #"Hijack" #"Ram Dance Hall Session" Personnel * Heavy D. - additional vocals on "Ram Dance Hall Session" * Ivan "DJ Doc" Rodriguez - recording engineer, co-producer * D-Nice - co-producer * KRS-One - mixing * Howie Weinberg: mastering * Janette Beckman Janette Beckman is a British documentary photographer who currently lives in New York City. Beckman describes herself as a documentary photographer. While she produces a lot of work on location (such as the cover of The Police album '' Zenya ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kool & Deadly
''Kool & Deadly (Justicizms)'' is the second album by old school/hardcore rapper Just-Ice, it was released in 1987, and was produced by KRS-One and Just-Ice. In 1998, the album was selected as one of ''The Source'' magazine's 100 Best Rap Albums. The song "Moshitup" was the origin of the hip hop meme "Suicide, it's a suicide". Music The ''Washington Post'' noted that tracks "Moshitup" and "Lyric Licking" showcase reggae rhythms but the record is predominantly "sparse hip-hop, tough and raw". Reception In a contemporary review, ''The Washington Post ''The Washington Post'' (also known as the ''Post'' and, informally, ''WaPo'') is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. It is the most widely circulated newspaper within the Washington metropolitan area and has a large nati ...'' stated that the album "has an agenda that embraces more complicated topics, but it's hardly as benevolent as ool Moe Dee and described the album as "tough and raw but not especiall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kill The Rhythm (Like A Homicide)
'' Kill the Rhythm (Like a Homicide)'' is the sixth album by old school hip hop/hardcore rapper Just-Ice Joseph Williams Jr. (born June 22, 1965), better known by the stage name Just-Ice, is an American rapper from New York City. A former bouncer at punk clubs, Williams was the first of the New York rappers to embrace gangsta rap, and when he bur ..., it was released in 1995. Track listing #"Bad Boy Back (In Town)" #"Bring ’Em Back Alive" #"Ladies ’Nuff Respect" #"Keep it Real" #"Stay the Hell away from Me!" #"Cenci" #"Livin' in Lockdown" #"Freestyle No. 1" #"Freestyle No. 2" #"It's On" #"Kill the Rhythm (Like a Homicide)" References 1995 albums Just-Ice albums {{1990s-hiphop-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
VII (Just-Ice Album)
''VII'' is the seventh album by old school hip hop/hardcore rapper Just-Ice, it was released in 1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently s .... Track listing #Free Flow #Cool and Wicked #Pressure Dem #Way Back (We're Going) #Jedi #If Ya Kill Sound #Cold Getting Dumb (’98 Remix) #C'mon and Try and Get It #Lip Service #Have You Ever? References 1998 albums Just-Ice albums {{1990s-hiphop-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurtis Mantronik
Kurtis el Khaleel (born Graham Curtis el Khaleel, September 4, 1965), known by the stage name Kurtis Mantronik, is a Jamaican-born hip hop and electronic-music artist, DJ, remixer, and producer. He was the leader, DJ, and keyboardist of the influential 1980s hip hop and electro-funk group Mantronix. He currently lives in South Africa where he has produced and remixed house and techno music tracks by artists such as India, Junior Senior, Kylie Minogue, Fatboy Slim, The Chemical Brothers, Michael Gray, Victoria Beckham, Liberty X, and Mim. Mantronik was influential in the development of hip hop music: notably, he laid the foundations for Southern hip hop genres such as Miami bass and trap music, and helped popularize the Amen break. Early years and Mantronix era (1984–1991) Mantronik was born in Jamaica to a Syrian father and a Jamaican mother. He emigrated to Sherwood Park, Alberta Canada with his family at the age of 7, before eventually settling in New York City. It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fresh Records (US)
Fresh Records was a New York City-based independent record label that operated from 1985 to 1992. The label was a subsidiary of Sleeping Bag Records that sold hip hop music. The label's roster included EPMD, Nice & Smooth, Just-Ice and T La Rock; house-music pioneer Todd Terry; and electro artists Hanson & Davis and Chocolette. Kurtis Mantronik, in addition to being the musician of the hip-hop duo Mantronix (signed to the parent label Sleeping Bag Records), did A&R for both labels. EPMD rhymed about its record-signing experience with the label in the song "Please Listen to My Demo", from the 1989 album '' Unfinished Business'' ("Signed on the dotted line, now we Fresh Records members."). Founder Fresh Records was founded by William Socolov in 1985, one of the three original founders of Sleeping Bag Records. Re-releases After closing its doors (along with its parent label) in 1992, the catalog sat in limbo for several years. In 1996, the label and its catalog were purchas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sleeping Bag Records
Sleeping Bag Records is a defunct New York City-based independent record label founded by musician Arthur Russell and entrepreneur Will Socolov. It was active between 1981 and 1992, and specialized in dance music and hip hop. Background and history The label was founded in 1981 initially to release singles produced by Arthur Russell under his various dance aliases. Their first release was the Dinosaur L album '' 24→24 Music'' (1981). The label's roster would eventually include Mantronix, Just-Ice, Nice & Smooth, T La Rock, EPMD and Stezo; freestyle vocalists Nocera and Kariya (" Let Me Love You for Tonight"); and R&B singer-songwriter Joyce Sims. In 1983, Juggy Gayles began promoting singles for the company. Later, he became a partner. The label's corporate logo was a drawing of a koala. Sub-label Fresh Records was founded in 1985. Kurtis Mantronik, in addition to being the musician of the hip-hop duo Mantronix, worked for the label in an A&R capacity. After fol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nation Of Gods And Earths
The Five-Percent Nation, sometimes referred to as the Nation of Gods and Earths (NGE/NOGE) or the Five Percenters, is a Black nationalist movement influenced by Islam that was founded in 1964 in the Harlem section of the borough of Manhattan, New York City, by Allah the Father, who was previously known as Clarence 13X and, before that, Clarence Edward Smith. Members of the group call themselves Allah's Five Percenters, which reflects the concept that ten percent of the people in the world are elites and their agents, who know the truth of existence and opt to keep eighty-five percent of the world in ignorance and under their controlling thumb; the remaining five percent are those who know the truth and are determined to enlighten the eighty-five percent. The Nation of Gods and Earths teaches the belief that Black people are the original people of the planet Earth and are therefore the fathers ("Gods") and mothers ("Earths") of civilization. The Nation teaches that Supreme Mat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sublime (band)
Sublime was an American reggae rock and ska punk band from Long Beach, California, formed in 1988. The band's line-up, consistent throughout its duration, consisted of Bradley Nowell (vocals and guitar), Eric Wilson (bass), and Bud Gaugh (drums). Lou Dog, Nowell's dalmatian, was the mascot of the band. Nowell died of a heroin overdose in 1996, resulting in the band's breakup. In 1997, songs such as "What I Got", "Santeria (song), Santeria", "Wrong Way", "Doin' Time", and "April 29, 1992 (Miami)" were released to U.S. radio.Bush, John. [ Sublime]. Allmusic. Retrieved November 23, 2007. Sublime released three studio albums, one live album, five compilation albums (Second-hand Smoke, one of which also contains never-before released material), three extended play, EPs, and one box set. Although their first two albums—''40oz. to Freedom'' (1992) and ''Robbin' the Hood'' (1994)—were slightly popular in the United States, Sublime did not experience major commercial success until ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |