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Soundbombing III
''Soundbombing III'' is the third installment of the Rawkus Records Rawkus Records was an American hip hop record label known for starting the careers of many rappers. Rawkus started in 1995 with releases in hip-hop, drum and bass and fun-dustrial (Dystopia One). Label heads Brian Brater and Jarret Myer then si ... ''Soundbombing'' series. Track listing Album chart positions Singles chart positions Albums produced by Ayatollah 2002 compilation albums Hip hop compilation albums Rawkus Records compilation albums Albums produced by DJ Quik Albums produced by Hi-Tek Albums produced by Q-Tip (musician) Sequel albums {{2000s-compilation-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rawkus Records
Rawkus Records was an American hip hop record label known for starting the careers of many rappers. Rawkus started in 1995 with releases in hip-hop, drum and bass and fun-dustrial (Dystopia One). Label heads Brian Brater and Jarret Myer then signed some of the top underground talent from the New York area, notably Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Hi-Tek and Company Flow, who went on to define the label's sound. The string of 12" releases and full-length albums that followed helped initiate a resurgence in the New York/ East Coast sound. Many of these are considered classics among hip-hop aficionados. During the mid to late 1990s, Rawkus became a dominant label in the underground hip-hop scene, producing a string of gold albums and a platinum album. History Rawkus Records was established in 1995 by Brian Brater and Jarret Myer, with financial backing from their high school buddy James Murdoch, son of Rupert Murdoch. In 1996, Rupert Murdoch bought a majority of Rawkus. In 1999 the label en ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crew Deep
"Crew Deep" is a single by American rapper Skillz. The song features guest vocals by rapper–singer Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott and former Xscape member Kandi. It was released as the lead single from Skillz's unreleased album, '' I Ain't Mad No More'' (2002). Two versions of the single saw conflicting releases. One version was released as the music video and single version with the chorus being performed entirely by Kandi while sampled additional vocals were performed by Missy Elliott in the latter. An alternate version was released promotionally with the exclusion of Kandi's vocals and the extension of Missy Elliott performing the chorus entirely by herself; this version was also incorporated into "The V.A. Remix" featuring Elliott, Clipse and Pharrell Williams. Release Physical copies of the single were released on August 20, 2002. As the song obtained buzz, it was later featured on various compilations among the likes of Tony Touch's ''Hip Hop #71: True Gangsta'' and ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Talib Kweli
Talib Kweli Greene (; born October 3, 1975) is an American rapper. He earned recognition early on through his collaboration with fellow Brooklyn rapper Mos Def in 1997, when they formed the group Black Star. Kweli's musical career continued with solo success including collaborations with producers and rappers Kanye West, Just Blaze, and Pharrell Williams. His most recent album, ''Gotham'', was released in 2020. In 2011, Kweli founded his own record label, Javotti Media. Early life Born in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, Kweli grew up in a household in Brooklyn's Park Slope. His mother, Brenda Greene, is an English professor at Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York, and his father is an administrator at Adelphi University. His younger brother, Jamal Greene, is a professor of constitutional law at Columbia Law School and a graduate of Harvard University and Yale Law School, and former clerk to Justice John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court. As a you ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zap Mama
Zap Mama is the music act of Belgian artist Marie Daulne. Zap Mama sings polyphonic and afro-pop music, a harmonic music with a mixture of infused African vocal techniques, urban, hip hop with emphasis on voice. The worldwide success of Zap Mama, and an ensemble of female polyphonic singers, inspired influences in American hip hop, nu-soul, jazz and elements of pop. The evolving musical compositions created a diverse band of singers and musicians for Zap Mama. "The voice is an instrument itself," says Daulne. "It's the original instrument. The primary instrument. The most soulful instrument, the human voice. Singing songs in French and English with African World Music Roots." Sources of Zap Mama's music Sources of Zap Mama's music include Daulne's roots in the Democratic Republic of Congo, her upbringing in Belgium, and her return to Africa to rediscover her musical roots. Democratic Republic of Congo Marie Daulne, the daughter of a Belgian father and a Congolese mother, wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Tidd
Anthony Tidd is a British-born bass player, composer and music producer, who has been based in the United States since 1996. A well-known name on the international jazz scene and veteran touring bass player, he has graced stages alongside many staple names, including Steve Coleman, The Roots, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Wayne Krantz, Meshell Ndegeocello, Common, and Jill Scott. Currently, Tidd regularly tours and records with alto saxophonist Steve Coleman, is the Creative Music Program Director at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia. and is the owner of recording/production studio Tidbit Sonos. Early life Anthony Tidd was born in London, England to Trinidadian immigrants. At the age of 5 he enrolled at London's prestigious Newham Academy of Music and began studying classical violin. Tidd said "There, I got a whole classical background, playing in orchestras and learning how to read music, and they also taught me music theory." Tidd went on to learn how to play th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hi-Teknology
''Hi-Teknology'' is the debut album from producer Hi-Tek, released on Rawkus Records. Most songs feature rapping or singing by other artists, and all are produced by Hi-Tek. A sequel, ''Hi-Teknology 2'', was made for MCA Records but never released; a second ''Hi-Teknology 2'' was recorded and released on Babygrande Records. Track listing #"Scratch Rappin'" #"The Sun God" (Featuring Common & Vinia Mojica) #"Get Back Pt. II" (Featuring DCQ, Talib Kweli) #"Breakin' Bread" (Featuring Brian Digby Jr., Crunch, Donte, Main Flow) #"All I Need Is You" (Featuring Cormega & Jonell) #"Where I'm From" (Featuring Jinx Da Juvy) #"Tony Guitar Watson" #"Round & Round" (Featuring Jonell) #"Get Ta Steppin'" (Featuring Mos Def & Vinia Mojica) #"Theme From Hi-Tek" (Featuring Talib Kweli) #"L.T.A.H." (Featuring Slum Village) #"Suddenly" (Featuring - Donte, Main Flow) #"The Illest It Gets" (Featuring Buckshot) #"Hi-Teknology" (Featuring Jonell) Samples Breakin' Bread *"Rejected" by Elmer Bernstein *" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Method Man
Clifford Smith, Jr. (born March 2, 1971), better known by his stage name Method Man, is an American rapper, songwriter, record producer, and actor. He is known as a member of the East Coast hip hop collective Wu-Tang Clan. He is also half of the hip hop duo Method Man & Redman. He took his stage name from the 1979 film ''Method Man''. In 1996, Smith won a Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group, for "I'll Be There for You/You're All I Need to Get By", featuring American R&B singer Mary J. Blige, whom he currently stars with in '' Power Book II: Ghost'', a spin-off of its original show ''Power''. Smith has appeared in films such as '' 187'' (1997), ''Belly'' (1998), ''How High'' (2001), '' Garden State'' (2004), ''The Wackness'' (2008), ''Venom'' (2005), ''Red Tails'' (2012), '' Keanu'' (2016), and ''The Cobbler'' (2014). On television, he and frequent collaborator, fellow East Coast rapper Redman, co-starred on the short-lived Fox sitcom ''Method & Red''. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonell
Jonell is a contemporary R&B singer. In 2001, Jonell introduced with her first hit ''Round and Round'' on producer Hi-Tek's album ''Hi-Teknology''. Later that year Jonell intended to release her debut album on the Def Soul label. Her first single "So Whassup" featured a guest appearance by Redman. However, the album was never released. In 2005, her webpage on the Def Soul Def Soul was an R&B-based division of American multinational record label Def Jam Recordings. It was formed in 1996 by Russell Simmons and Kevin Liles to expand R&B and soul music through Def Jam's said genre-related roster following the successe ... website was no longer accessible. Discography Singles References Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American women singers 21st-century African-American women singers American contemporary R&B singers Musicians from Cincinnati Singers from Ohio {{US-RnB-singer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Giancana Story
''The Giancana Story'' is the third solo album by American rapper Kool G Rap, released by Koch Records on November 26, 2002. Its producers included Bink, Buckwild, Jaz-O, Knobody, Rockwilder and V.I.C., while AZ, Capone-N-Noreaga, Havoc, Joell Ortiz and Prodigy were amongst the guest vocalists. Background After contributing to the Hip Hop for Respect project, a collection of rappers who released an EP to protest against police brutality, and performing the opening verse on the single "One Four Love Pt. 1", Kool G Rap's critically acclaimed turn on the track led to a deal with Rawkus Records. ''The Giancana Story'' was intended to be his debut album on the label and was initially set to be released in October 2000. However, the release of the album was delayed for over two years while Rawkus sorted out its increasingly labyrinthine label affiliations and the album was eventually licensed to a Koch Records subsidiary and finally received its debut on November 26, 2002. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capone-N-Noreaga
Capone-N-Noreaga (also known as C-N-N) are an American hip hop duo formed in 1995 from Queens, New York. The duo features East Coast rappers Capone and N.O.R.E. History In October 1995, Capone-N-Noreaga appeared in ''The Source'' magazine's "Unsigned Hype" column. In 1996, the duo secured a recording contract with Neil Levine's Penalty Recordings. In 1996, before the group's debut album was completed, Capone was jailed for a parole violation, and Noreaga finished their debut album ''The War Report'', with the help of various fellow New York City hip-hop acts, including Mobb Deep and Tragedy Khadafi. The album was met with critical and commercial acclaim; it also saw the group partake in the conflict between Death Row Records and Bad Boy Entertainment, making it a more widespread East Coast/West Coast rivalry, responding to West Coast hip hop duo Tha Dogg Pound's single "New York, New York", with their own rendition of "L.A L.A". In 2000, the group released '' The Reunion'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kool G Rap
Nathaniel Thomas Wilson (born July 20, 1968), better known by his stage name Kool G Rap (or simply G Rap), is an American rapper from Queens, New York City. He began his career in the mid-1980s as one half of the group Kool G Rap & DJ Polo and as a member of the Juice Crew. He is widely considered to be one of the most influential and skilled MCs of all time,Kool Moe Dee, 2003, ''There's A God on the Mic: The True 50 Greatest MCs'', Thunder's Mouth Press, p.225, 228. Biography )))">allmusic ((( Kool G Rap > Biography )))/ref> This album and their two later albums, '' Wanted: Dead or Alive'' (1990) and '' Live and Let Die'' (1992), are highly regarded and considered hip-hop classics. Eventually, in 1993, Kool G Rap parted ways with DJ Polo to pursue a solo career. Solo career In 1995, Wilson started his solo career with the album '' 4, 5, 6'', which featured production from Buckwild, and guest appearances from Nas, MF Grimm and B-1. It has been his most commercially successful r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Ain't Mad No More
''I Ain't Mad No More'' is the second album by Virginia–native rapper Skillz. The album featured guest appearances by Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott, Danja Mowf, Kandi, Pretty Ugly, Big Swells, Musiq Soulchild, AAries, Cee-Lo Green, Pretty Willie, Jazze Pha and Nicole Wray's brother Kenny Wray. The album generated one charting single, "Crew Deep", which peaked at #83 on ''Billboard'' Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. Two other promo singles, "Your Favorite Joints" and "Ghostwriter," were excluded from the album but were added to its sampler release. The lack of success from the album's lead single ("Crew Deep") resulted in a cancellation of the album's U.S. release and a granted promotional release in Canada was made instead. However, Skillz would feature most of the album's tracks on his U.S. independent release, ''Confessions of a Ghostwriter'' (2005). Track listing Leftover tracks *"Your Favorite Joints" *"Full Cooperation" *"Off the Wall" (produced by Timbaland) *"Ghostwriter" Refer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
