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Rites Of Passage (Brother Ali Album)
''Rites of Passage'' is the first album by American hip hop artist Brother Ali. It was released on Rhymesayers Entertainment on April 28, 2000. It is a cassette-only album produced by Brother Ali with very small original circulation. It has been re-issued following Ali's very successful later albums. From the Rhymesayersbr>website "Rites of Passage is a personal journey through one emcees experience of life and hip hop alike. Features Mad Son of the Unknown Prophets, Queen Aminah and Desdamona." Due to popular demand, there was an attempt to re-master the tape and put it on CD. Rhymesayers tried to, but were unsuccessful. Instead, they gave their best effort on CDs to the first 300 people that pre-ordered Ali's Champion EP. Track listing #"Intro" – 1:18 #"Whatever" – 4:25 #"Think It Through" – 5:09 #"Nine Double 'Em" – 5:03 #"Eye of the Storm" – 4:29 #"We Will Always B" – 2:15 #*Featuring Desdamona Desdamona is a hip-hop and spoken word artist from Minneapolis, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Album
An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as Digital distribution#Music, digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th century as individual Phonograph record#78 rpm disc developments, 78 rpm records collected in a bound book resembling a photograph album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl LP record, long-playing (LP) records played at revolutions per minute, rpm. The album was the dominant form of recorded music expression and consumption from the mid-1960s to the early 21st century, a period known as the album era. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The 8-track tape was the first tape format widely used alongside vinyl from 1965 until being phased out by 1983 and was gradually supplanted by the cassette tape during the 1970s and early 1980s; the populari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brother Ali
Ali Douglas Newman (born Jason Douglas Newman, July 30, 1977), better known by his stage name Brother Ali, is an American rapper, community activist, and member of the Rhymesayers Entertainment hip hop collective. He has released seven albums, four EPs, and a number of singles and collaborations. Early life Ali was born in Madison, Wisconsin. He has albinism, a disorder characterized by the complete or partial absence of pigment in the skin, hair, and eyes. He moved with his family to Michigan for a few years and then settled in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1992. He attended Robbinsdale Cooper High School in New Hope, Minnesota. Ali is Caucasian (white American), but he has spoken of feeling more accepted by Black classmates than white ones: "It's not like black kids didn't make fun of me, but it was different. It wasn't done in a way to exclude me. It wasn't done in a way to make me feel like not even a human being, not even a person." He could relate to them because they were al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhymesayers Entertainment
Rhymesayers Entertainment (sometimes abbreviated RSE) is an American independent hip-hop record label based in Minneapolis. History Rhymesayers Entertainment was co-founded in 1995 by Sean Daley (Slug), Anthony Davis (Ant), Musab Saad (Sab the Artist) and Brent Sayers (Siddiq). Former members of the Headshots crew. Beginning in 2008, Rhymesayers Entertainment sponsors the annual Soundset Music Festival, a popular attraction that takes place over Memorial Day weekend in Minneapolis. The music festival was postponed in 2020. Rhymesayers released Prof and Dem Atlas from their label in 2020. In 2020, Rhymesayers was among the many labels distributed by Alternative Distribution Alliance that left the company after ADA moved all of its business to the Indiana-based Direct Shot Distributing. Controversy erupted when Direct Shot received numerous complaints from retailers over delayed or missing shipments. As a result, Secretly Distribution became the current distributor for Rhymesa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shadows On The Sun
''Shadows on the Sun'' is the second studio album by American rapper Brother Ali. It was released on May 27, 2003 on Rhymesayers Entertainment. It was produced entirely by Ant of Atmosphere. The album received almost unanimous critical acclaim. Track listing All tracks by Brother Ali & Ant except 7 and 14 by the formers and Slug Personnel Credits for ''Shadows on the Sun'' adapted from Allmusic. Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 2011-08-01. * Ant – Scratching, Engineer, Executive Producer, Mixing, Beats * Brother Ali – Vocals, Engineer, Executive Producer, Mixing * Sean Daley – Executive Producer * Emily Lazar – Mastering * Joe Mabbott – Engineer, Mixing * Dan Monick – Photography * Brent "Abu Siddiq" Sayers – Executive Producer * Siddiq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territories, nine Minor Outlying Islands, and 326 Indian reservations. The United States is also in free association with three Pacific Island sovereign states: the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau. It is the world's third-largest country by both land and total area. It shares land borders with Canada to its north and with Mexico to its south and has maritime borders with the Bahamas, Cuba, Russia, and other nations. With a population of over 333 million, it is the most populous country in the Americas and the third most populous in the world. The national capital of the United States is Washington, D.C. and its most populous city and principal financial center is New York City. Paleo-Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Compact Cassette
The Compact Cassette or Musicassette (MC), also commonly called the tape cassette, cassette tape, audio cassette, or simply tape or cassette, is an analog magnetic tape recording format for audio recording and playback. Invented by Lou Ottens and his team at the Dutch company Philips in 1963, Compact Cassettes come in two forms, either already containing content as a prerecorded cassette (''Musicassette''), or as a fully recordable "blank" cassette. Both forms have two sides and are reversible by the user. Although other tape cassette formats have also existed - for example the Microcassette - the generic term ''cassette tape'' is normally always used to refer to the Compact Cassette because of its ubiquity. Its uses have ranged from portable audio to home recording to data storage for early microcomputers; the Compact Cassette technology was originally designed for dictation machines, but improvements in fidelity led to it supplanting the stereo 8-track cartridge and reel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Desdamona
Desdamona is a hip-hop and spoken word artist from Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. She has won five Minnesota Music Awards for 'Best Spoken Word Artist' in the years 2000, 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006 (the awards were not hosted in 2001 and 2002). For that reason, and her strong standing in the male-dominated hip-hop scene, she is considered to be the best female spoken word and hip-hop artist in the Midwest. Background Desdamona, her Emcee name, comes from Desdemona, the wife of Othello in William Shakespeare's tragedy ''Othello''. She was born and went to school in Iowa. A childhood inspiration for her music, she said, was her father who would dress up as Count Dracula and tell bedtime stories to her and also her grandmother who was a poet and artist. In college, Desdamona and her friends formed a band in which Desdamona was the rapper, inspired by the R&B group TLC. The group performed around Waterloo, Iowa and had a few shows in Iowa City. When she moved to Minneapol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Champion EP
''Champion EP'' is the first EP by American rapper Brother Ali. The 9-song EP was released on Rhymesayers Entertainment on May 11, 2004 and is produced by Ant of Atmosphere An atmosphere () is a layer of gas or layers of gases that envelop a planet, and is held in place by the gravity of the planetary body. A planet retains an atmosphere when the gravity is great and the temperature of the atmosphere is low. A s .... Track listing #"Champion (Remix)" – 4:42 #"Bad Ma Fucka" – 4:27 #"Sleepwalker" – 3:48 #"Love on Display" – 3:28 #"Self Taught" – 4:04 #"Heads Down (You Haven't Done That Yet)" – 3:59 #"Chain Link" – 4:25 #"Waheedah's Hands" – 4:04 #"Rain Water" – 6:09 References External links Rhymesayers Entertainment {{Authority control 2004 EPs Rhymesayers Entertainment EPs Brother Ali albums Albums produced by Ant (producer) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unknown Prophets
Unknown or The Unknown may refer to: Film * ''The Unknown'' (1915 comedy film), a silent boxing film * ''The Unknown'' (1915 drama film) * ''The Unknown'' (1927 film), a silent horror film starring Lon Chaney * ''The Unknown'' (1936 film), a German drama film * ''The Unknown'' (1946 film), a mystery film * '' Anjaane: The Unknown'', a 2005 Bollywood horror movie * ''The Unknown'', a 2005 action/thriller starring Miles O'Keeffe * ''Unknown'' (2006 film), a thriller starring James Caviezel * ''Unknown'' (2011 film), a thriller starring Liam Neeson Literature * ''Unknown'' (magazine), an American pulp fantasy fiction magazine published from 1939 to 1943 * ''The Unknown'' (novel), a 1998 book by K. A. Applegate * ''The Unknown'', a comic book mini-series by Mark Waid Music * ''The Unknown'' (Madeline Juno album) (2014) * ''Unknown'' (Rasputina album) (2015) * ''The Unknown'' (The Vision Bleak album) (2016) * ''The Unknown'', a 2014 album by Dillon * "The Unknown" (song) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
