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Quadeca
Benjamin Lasky (born October 2, 2000), better known by his stage name Quadeca (formerly QuadecaX8), is an American rapper, singer-songwriter, record producer, YouTuber, and former video game commentator. He uploads rap songs, music videos, comedy sketches, and video gameplay to his YouTube channel. Early life Benjamin Lasky was born on October 2, 2000, in Los Angeles, California. He is of Ashkenazi Jewish and Canary Islander descent. His father, Mitch Lasky, is a Benchmark general partner and former entrepreneur and video game executive. Lasky became an avid soccer player as a child and was enthusiastic about hip hop and other forms of music. He also has a younger sister named Anna who was featured in some of his earliest videos, along with an older sister, Natasha. Lasky opened his YouTube channel on June 11, 2012, under the name QuadecaX8; his early videos being based around video game commentating and the FIFA franchise. He was admitted to Menlo School in 2015, where ...
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Voice Memos (album)
Benjamin Lasky (born October 2, 2000), better known by his stage name Quadeca (formerly QuadecaX8), is an American rapper, singer-songwriter, record producer, YouTuber, and former video game commentator. He uploads rap songs, music videos, comedy sketches, and video gameplay to his YouTube channel. Early life Benjamin Lasky was born on October 2, 2000, in Los Angeles, California. He is of Ashkenazi Jewish and Canary Islander descent. His father, Mitch Lasky, is a Benchmark general partner and former entrepreneur and video game executive. Lasky became an avid soccer player as a child and was enthusiastic about hip hop and other forms of music. He also has a younger sister named Anna who was featured in some of his earliest videos, along with an older sister, Natasha. Lasky opened his YouTube channel on June 11, 2012, under the name QuadecaX8; his early videos being based around video game commentating and the FIFA franchise. He was admitted to Menlo School in 2015, where ...
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Dax (Rapper)
Daniel Nwosu Jr. (born March 22, 1994), better known by his stage name Dax (often stylized as DAX), is a Nigerian Canadian rapper, singer, and songwriter. Early life Daniel Nwosu Jr. was born on March 22, 1994, in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. He grew up in Ottawa and moved to Wichita to attend university, and he later moved to Los Angeles, California. He attended the Newman University, where he played guard for the Newman Jets basketball team. He initially wrote poetry and was a motivational speaker prior to pursuing a rap career. During his tenure at Newman University he worked as a janitor, which he claimed was a job he liked because he was able to work on building his rap career in his spare time from work. Career Dax decided to write up a poem as he rode on a bus with his basketball team in 2016. After impressing one of his teammates with the poem, Dax realized he had a knack for putting words together. He began seriously releasing and promoting music through hi ...
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Mitch Lasky
Mitchell Harold "Mitch" Lasky (born January 18, 1962) is a general partner at the Silicon Valley venture capital firm Benchmark and a former entrepreneur and video game executive. He is the father of rapper and YouTube personality Quadeca. Education and early career Lasky received a B.A. degree in History and Literature from Harvard College and a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law. Early in his career, Lasky practiced law at the Los Angeles firm Irell & Manella, where he worked on various technology-related intellectual property cases. In 1993, he joined the Walt Disney Company. He left Disney in 1994 to launch a massively multiplayer online game company, Serum Entertainment Software. Lasky subsequently spent five years at video game publisher Activision, including a stint as executive vice president of Worldwide Studios, helping to launch Quake 3, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, and Spider-man. In 2000, he joined mobile games company JAMDAT as CEO and took the company p ...
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AWAL
AWAL (an initialism of Artists Without a Label) is a British music distribution company owned by Sony Music Entertainment. The company serves as an alternative to the traditional music label deal, offering deal structures to artists and independent labels without them giving up ownership or control. In 2021, Sony Music Entertainment purchased AWAL from Kobalt Music Group for $430m. Services AWAL's main service is digital music distribution, but also includes marketing, physical distribution, data analytics, radio, and synchronization licensing. AWAL's artists keep their music and creative rights, unlike the traditional record label. In November 2018, Billboard wrote an article titled, "Can Kobalt Disrupt the Label Game With AWAL?," outlining the company's approach and how it pays out as much as 80 percent of streaming revenue to its artists. In March 2017, AWAL introduced its music analytics app designed to collect and display data from an artist's presence on Spotify and Apple ...
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IDK (rapper)
Jason Aaron Mills (born May 24, 1992), professionally known as IDK (also known as Jay IDK; a backronym for Ignorantly Delivering Knowledge), is a British-American rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer. Early life Jason Aaron Mills was born on May 24, 1992, in London, England to British American parents. He was raised in Prince George's County, Maryland, where he later started to make music initially under the moniker IDK. Career In August 2015, Mills released his second mixtape, titled ''SubTrap''. The name stands for Suburban Trap or "Trap music with substance." The album features the singles "The Plug," "God Said Trap (King Trappy III)" and "Cookie Addiction" featuring BJ the Chicago Kid. It features production from Skhye Hutch, was mixed by Lo Mein, Tim Webberson, Matt Weiss, and Delbert Bowers. Project management for Subtrap was overseen by Blade Thornton, David Kuti, Clayton Barmore, Quinelle Holder, and Ryan Booth. Mills' style of rapping has been compared to the ...
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Menlo School
Menlo School, also referred to as Menlo, is a private college preparatory school in Atherton, California, United States, across the street from Menlo Park. Menlo comprises a middle school, grades 6–8, with approximately 230 students, and a high school, grades 9–12, with about 570 students. The two schools share a campus but operate as semi-autonomous units with select overlapping administration, such as the Head of School. Menlo was established in 1915, and in 1927 added a junior college that became Menlo College. The college was formally separated from Menlo School in 1994, but they continued to share a single dining hall until 2017, when Menlo built a cafeteria. Menlo School is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges and is a member of the National and California Associations of Independent Schools. History Menlo School was founded in 1915 as the William Warren School, an all-male military school with an inaugural enrollment of 13 b ...
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Logan Paul
Logan Alexander Paul (born April 1, 1995) is an American media personality, podcaster, actor, and professional wrestler. He is currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the Raw brand, but is inactive due to a knee injury. He has over 23 million subscribers on his YouTube channel, and has ranked on the Forbes list for the highest paid YouTube creators in 2017, 2018, and 2021. Paul has also run the ''Impaulsive'' podcast since November 2018, which has over 4 million YouTube subscribers. Paul gained a following in 2013, posting sketches on the video-sharing application Vine. He registered his YouTube channel, TheOfficialLoganPaul, on October 18, 2013, where he started posting regularly following the closure of the Vine app. He later created the Logan Paul Vlogs channel on August 29, 2015, which has since become his most-subscribed YouTube channel. As of January 2022, the channel has received 23.2 million subscribers and over 5.8 billion views, ranking as the 74th most-subsc ...
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KSI (entertainer)
Olajide Olayinka Williams "JJ" Olatunji (born 19 June 1993), known professionally as KSI, is an English YouTuber and rapper. He is a co-founder and member of the British YouTube group known as the Sidemen. He is the CEO of Misfits Boxing and the co-owner of Prime Hydration energy drink, XIX Vodka and a restaurant chain known as Sides. KSI registered his main YouTube account in 2009 and built a following posting gaming commentary videos of the ''FIFA'' video game series. His YouTube content has diversified to include vlog and comedy style videos. As of October 2022, he has over 41 million subscribers and over 10 billion video views across his three YouTube channels. KSI's 2020 debut studio album, '' Dissimulation'', debuted at number 2 on the UK Albums Chart. His second studio album, '' All Over the Place'', debuted at number 1. He has achieved fourteen top 40 singles on the UK Singles Chart, seven of them ending up in the Top 10 and five of them ending up in the Top 5. KSI fe ...
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Spotify
Spotify (; ) is a proprietary Swedish audio streaming and media services provider founded on 23 April 2006 by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon. It is one of the largest music streaming service providers, with over 456 million monthly active users, including 195 million paying subscribers, as of September 2022. Spotify is listed (through a Luxembourg City-domiciled holding company, Spotify Technology S.A.) on the New York Stock Exchange in the form of American depositary receipts. Spotify offers digital copyright restricted recorded music and podcasts, including more than 82 million songs, from record labels and media companies. As a freemium service, basic features are free with advertisements and limited control, while additional features, such as offline listening and commercial-free listening, are offered via paid subscriptions. Users can search for music based on artist, album, or genre, and can create, edit, and share playlists. Spotify is available in most of Euro ...
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Soccer
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is to score more goals than the opposition by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular framed goal defended by the opposing side. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45 minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries, it is considered the world's most popular sport. The game of association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 with the International Football Association Board (IFAB) maintaining them since 1886. The game is played with a football that is in circumference. The two teams compete to get the ball into the other team's goal (between the posts and under t ...
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Palo Alto Weekly
The ''Palo Alto Weekly'' is a weekly community newspaper in Palo Alto in the U.S. state of California. Owned by Embarcadero Media, it serves Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Atherton, Portola Valley, Stanford, East Palo Alto and Los Altos Hills. It was established in 1979 as an alternative to the town's daily newspaper, the ''Peninsula Times Tribune'', which ceased publishing in 1993. At that time, the ''Weekly'' expanded to twice-a-week. In 1995, a new daily, the ''Palo Alto Daily News'', began publishing. In 2008, a second daily, '' The Daily Post'', began in Palo Alto. In September 2009, the ''Weekly'' reverted to publishing just one day a week, on Fridays. The ''Weekly'' is published by Embarcadero Media. Jocelyn Dong became editor in 2011 (after the retirement of Jay Thorwaldson) and Frank Bravo the webmaster. In January 1994 the newspapebegan to publish all its contenton its website, the first newspaper in the United States to do so. The website includes a classified advertising ...
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