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Macntaj
Manctaj (born Kwabena Boateng), is a Ghanaian rapper based in Seattle, Washington. Biography Manctaj grew up in the Seattle area, splitting time between his divorced parents' households. He became involved in gang culture in his teens, traveling frequently between Seattle and his friend’s home in the Garden Bloc neighborhood in Sacramento. He gained recognition in 2016 after being featured in Bassnectar's track "Level Up" off of '' Unlimited,'' as well as "Infrared" on Bassnectar's subsequent 2017 studio album, ''Reflective.'' He and producer Levitate collaborated on a 2017 EP titled ''Omni'', with tracks featuring Raz Simone and Gunplay. Following ''Omni's'' release, Macntaj undertook an tour through India. Later, he and producer Michelangelo released single "Live Enough" in October 2018. His mixtape ''Trappy Gilmore'' was released in February 2019. He dropped his first full-length LP, ''Trappy Gilmore 2'', in July 2019, after debuting album single "Ochit Wally" with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Tiger Sex Machine
Black Tiger Sex Machine, often abbreviated BTSM, are a Canadian electronic music trio based in Montreal, Quebec. The trio are the label heads for Kannibalen Records, which has signed such artists as Kai Wachi, Apashe, Dabin and Lektrique. BTSM specialize in aggressive, dark electronic music, as well as a live show that extends beyond a DJ performance. The trio are Marc Chagnon, Julien Maranda and Patrick Barry. The group wear illuminated tiger helmets during their live shows. Live show Black Tiger Sex Machine perform a live show as a three piece band. They utilize a central mixer, drum machines, launchpads and keyboards, with a lighting setup that is synced with their music, including the LED lighting on their tiger helmets. They have performed at Ultra Music Festival, Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo, TomorrowWorld, Electric Daisy Carnival, Electric Forest, Electric Zoo, SXSW, Escape, Evolve, Lost Lands, Paradiso, crush, Osheaga, Ile Soniq, Igloofest, Shambhala, Big Dub, and Decade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bassnectar Discography
This is the discography of American DJ Bassnectar. Studio albums Extended plays Singles As lead artist As featured artist Mixtapes Remixes Videos * "Bomb tha Blocks" (2007) * "Vava Voom" feat. Lupe Fiasco (2012) * "Ugly" feat. Amp Live (2012) * "Midnight"Joker (Bassnectar Remix) (2015) * "Reaching Out" (2016) * "TKO" feat. Rye Rye & Zion I (2016) * "Underground" with G Jones (2017) * "Horizons" with Dorfex Bos (2017) * "I'm Up" with Gnar Gnar feat. Born I Music (2017) * "Infrared" feat. Macntaj (2017) * "Arps Of Revolución" (2017) * "Journey To The Center" (2017) * "Slather" with Digital Ethos (2017) * "Other Worlds" with Dorfex Bos (2017) * "Psyopia" Naux Faux (Bassnectar Remix) (2017) * "Disrupt The System" with Peekaboo feat. Azeem (2017) * "Illusion" with Peekaboo feat. Born I Music (2019) * "It's About To Get Hectic" with Jantsen feat. Born I Music (2019) * "Dive" feat. RD (2019) * "Irresistable Force" with Hailo (2019) * "Open Your Mind" with Yook ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unlimited (Bassnectar Album)
''Unlimited'' is the tenth studio album by Bassnectar Lorin Gabriel Ashton, better known under his stage name Bassnectar (born February 16, 1978), is an American DJ and record producer. Biography Ashton grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and attended Bellarmine College Preparatory. He initiall ..., released on June 17, 2016. Bassnectar stated that the goal of the album was to build a "sonic collage". Reception Writing for '' Exclaim!'', Dylan Barnabe praised the album's "amorphous style" and hailed it as "a welcome addition to the veteran's discography." The album debuted at No. 49 on ''Billboard'' 200, No. 1 on the Top Dance/Electronic Albums chart, selling 9,000 copies in its first week. Track listing Charts Weekly charts Year-end charts References {{Authority control 2016 albums Bassnectar albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghana
Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, sharing borders with Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, and Togo in the east.Jackson, John G. (2001) ''Introduction to African Civilizations'', Citadel Press, p. 201, . Ghana covers an area of , spanning diverse biomes that range from coastal savannas to tropical rainforests. With nearly 31 million inhabitants (according to 2021 census), Ghana is the List of African countries by population, second-most populous country in West Africa, after Nigeria. The capital and List of cities in Ghana, largest city is Accra; other major cities are Kumasi, Tamale, Ghana, Tamale, and Sekondi-Takoradi. The first permanent state in present-day Ghana was the Bono state of the 11th century. Numerous kingdoms and empires emerged over the centuries, of which the most powerful were the Kingdom of Dagbon in the north and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reflective (Bassnectar Album)
Lorin Gabriel Ashton, better known under his stage name Bassnectar (born February 16, 1978), is an American DJ and record producer. Biography Ashton grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and attended Bellarmine College Preparatory. He initially identified with visual arts rather than music, creating movies with his dad's camera at the age of ten. When he was 16 years old, he played in a death metal band named Pale Existence, which contributed to his heavy style of music. In the following years, he became increasingly more involved in the scene, promoting shows, distributing food and assistance to concertgoers, buying records and eventually learning to DJ after studying electronic music production. He began creating music in the 1990s, using Opcode Systems Studio Vision Pro. In the mid-1990s, he briefly toured with death metal band Exhumed as a bass player. Bassnectar played house parties in the San Francisco Bay Area and began gaining momentum at Burning Man, often playing u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raz Simone
Solomon Samuel Simone (born January 15, 1990), known by his stage name Raz Simone (), is an African-American recording artist, songwriter, and political activist and organizer from Seattle, Seattle, Washington. A Hip hop music, hip hop artist who started under the name Razpy, he built his brand by releasing EPs, touring, and filming music videos through his company Black Umbrella. Simone gained recognition after releasing his debut solo EP, ''Solomon Samuel Simone.'' He became the subject of media coverage for his association with the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, part of the George Floyd protests in Seattle, in which he distributed a gun to a protester amid rumors the Proud Boys were gathering nearby. Biography Early life Simone attended a private elementary school. In 2007, he worked for the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, Boys & Girls Club and was in the Running Start dual enrollment program. Music Upon release of his debut solo EP, ''Solomon Samuel Simone,'' Simone gar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gunplay (rapper)
Richard Morales Jr. (born July 18, 1979), better known by his stage name Gunplay, is an American rapper. Morales embarked on his career in hip hop, as a member of fellow Florida-based rapper Rick Ross's southern hip hop group, Triple C's. Triple C's released their debut album, ''Custom Cars & Cycles'', in 2009. After signing to Ross's Maybach Music Group label, upon its inception in 2009, Gunplay would announce he secured a solo recording contract with Def Jam Recordings, in July 2012. He released several mixtapes, such as ''601 & Snort''. His debut studio album, titled ''Living Legend (Gunplay album), Living Legend'', was released on July 31, 2015. Early life Born Richard Morales Jr. to a Puerto Ricans, Puerto Rican father and Jamaican mother in 1979, Morales spent some of his early childhood in Opa-Locka, Florida. By age 10, Morales' parents divorced and the family split. His father returned to Puerto Rico. Morales, his mother and younger brother later settled in Carol City lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
XXL (magazine)
''XXL'' is an American hip hop magazine, published by Townsquare Media, founded in 1997. History In August 1997, Harris Publications released the first issue of ''XXL''. It featured rappers Jay-Z and Master P on a double cover. In December 2006, ''XXL'' took over the struggling hip-hop producer and DJ magazine '' Scratch'' (another publication owned by Harris Publications), re-branding it as ''XXL Presents Scratch Magazine''. However ''Scratch'' shut down less than a year later in September 2007. Other titles with limited runs have been launched under the ''XXL'' brand, including ''Hip-Hop Soul'', ''Eye Candy'' and '' Shade45''. ''XXL'' has released many other special projects including tour programs, mixtapes and exclusive DVDs. ''XXL'' also maintains a popular website, which provides daily hip hop news, original content and content from the magazine. In 2014, Townsquare Media acquired ''XXL'', ''King'' and ''Antenna'' from Harris Publications. On October 14, 2014, Townsquar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Source
''The Source'' is an American hip hop and entertainment website, and a magazine that publishes annually or . It is the world's longest-running rap periodical, being founded as a newsletter in 1988 by Jonathan Shecter. David Mays was the magazine's co-founder. ''The Source''s Five-Mic albums The Record Report is a section in the publication in which the magazine's staff rates hip-hop albums. Ratings range from one to five mics, paralleling a typical five-star rating scale. An album that is rated at four-and-a-half or five mics is considered by ''The Source'' to be a superior hip hop album. Over the first ten years or so, the heralded five-mic rating only applied to albums that were universally lauded hip hop albums. A total of 45 albums have been awarded five mics; a complete, chronological list is below. Albums that originally received five mics: *''People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm'' – A Tribe Called Quest *''AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted'' – Ice Cube ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jay Park
Jay Park ( Korean name: Park Jae-beom (Hangul: 박재범; Hanja: 朴載範); born April 25, 1987) is an American rapper, singer-songwriter, record producer, dancer and entrepreneur of based in South Korea. He is a member of the Seattle-based b-boy crew Art of Movement (AOM), and founder and former CEO of the independent hip hop record labels AOMG and H1ghr Music, as well as the founder of the record label More Vision. Park initially rose to fame as the leader of South Korean boy band 2PM, formed by record label JYP Entertainment in 2008, after having previously been a trainee for four years. In September 2009, Park returned home to Seattle after comments he wrote about Korea in 2005 as a teenager were publicized by the Korean media, officially leaving the group. Park returned to South Korea in June 2010 for the filming of ''Hype Nation'', and in July, Park signed a contract with SidusHQ, one of the largest entertainment agencies in South Korea. Rebranding and re-debuting as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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