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Sean Daley
Sean Michael Daley (born September 7, 1972), better known by his stage name Slug, is an American rapper from Minneapolis, Minnesota. Slug is best known as one half of the hip hop group Atmosphere, which he founded with Derek Turner (Spawn). Turner has since left and Anthony Davis (Ant) produces Atmosphere with Slug. In 1995, Slug, in collaboration with Anthony Davis, Musab Saad, and Brent Sayers founded the Minneapolis-based independent hip hop record label Rhymesayers Entertainment. Biography Slug was born Sean Michael Daley in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on September 7, 1972. The son of Valerie and Craig Daley, he is of Irish, Norwegian, African-American, and Native American descent. Slug's nickname comes from his father's; his dad was known to his friends as "Sluggo" and thus they began to call Sean "little Sluggo," which he shortened to "Slug". In Atmosphere's early years, Slug DJ'd behind the scenes and let Spawn handle lyrics. The group eventually formed a strong relationship w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minneapolis
Minneapolis () is the largest city in Minnesota, United States, and the county seat of Hennepin County. The city is abundant in water, with thirteen lakes, wetlands, the Mississippi River, creeks and waterfalls. Minneapolis has its origins in timber and as the flour milling capital of the world. It occupies both banks of the Mississippi River and adjoins Saint Paul, the state capital of Minnesota. Prior to European settlement, the site of Minneapolis was inhabited by Dakota people. The settlement was founded along Saint Anthony Falls on a section of land north of Fort Snelling; its growth is attributed to its proximity to the fort and the falls providing power for industrial activity. , the city has an estimated 425,336 inhabitants. It is the most populous city in the state and the 46th-most-populous city in the United States. Minneapolis, Saint Paul and the surrounding area are collectively known as the Twin Cities. Minneapolis has one of the most extensive public par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deep Puddle Dynamics
Deep Puddle Dynamics was a collaborative group featuring underground hip hop artists Sole, Doseone, Alias and Slug. History Deep Puddle Dynamics released the album '' The Taste of Rain... Why Kneel?'' on Anticon in 1999. Discography Albums * '' The Taste of Rain... Why Kneel?'' (1999) EPs * ''We Ain't Fessin' (Double Quotes)'' (2002) Singles * "Rainmen" (1999) Compilation appearances * "Rainmen" on ''Music for the Advancement of Hip Hop ''Music for the Advancement of Hip Hop'' is a compilation album released by American hip hop record label Anticon in 1999. The album collects tracks by members of the label's core crew. Critical reception Dan Gizzi of AllMusic gave the album 4.5 ...'' (1999) * "Mothers of Invention" on '' Anticon Label Sampler: 1999-2004'' (2004) References External links * {{Authority control American hip hop groups Anticon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southsiders (album)
''Southsiders'' is the seventh studio album by American hip hop duo Atmosphere. The album was released via Rhymesayers Entertainment on May 6, 2014. The title ''Southsiders'' refers to the south side of Minneapolis. Critical reception Upon its release, ''Southsiders'' was met with generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, the album received an average score of 70, based on 9 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Commercial performance The album debuted at number eight on the ''Billboard'' 200 chart, with first-week sales of 23,159 copies in the United States through the independent hip hop label 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 th .... Tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Family Sign
''The Family Sign'' is the sixth studio album by American hip hop group Atmosphere. It was released on Rhymesayers Entertainment on April 12, 2011. The album debuted at number 13 on the ''Billboard'' 200 selling 28,000 copies in its first week. Reception At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, ''The Family Sign'' received an average score of 73% based on 20 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Commenting on Slug's writing on ''The Family Sign'' for ''College Magazine'', Taylor Jaymes wrote that he "is as much a rapper as he is a poet." Track listing Personnel *Slug – Vocals *Ant Ants are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the order Hymenoptera. Ants evolved from vespoid wasp ancestors in the Cretaceous period. More than 13,800 of an estimated total of 22 ... – Production *Nate Collis – Guitar *Erick Anderson – Keyboards Cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
You Can't Imagine How Much Fun We're Having
''You Can't Imagine How Much Fun We're Having'' is the fourth studio album by American hip hop duo Atmosphere. It was released through Rhymesayers Entertainment in 2005. In 2015, it was re-released as the 10-year anniversary vinyl edition. Reception At Metacritic Metacritic is a website that review aggregator, aggregates reviews of films, TV shows, music albums, video games and formerly, books. For each product, the scores from each review are averaged (a weighted arithmetic mean, weighted average). M ..., which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 77% based on 15 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". The album was ranked by ''Hip Hop Golden Age'' as the fourth best hip hop album of 2005. Track listing Charts References External links * {{Authority control 2005 albums Atmosphere (music group) albums Rhymesayers Entertainment albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seven's Travels
''Seven's Travels'' is the third studio album by the Minneapolis hip hop group Atmosphere, their first and only for Epitaph. It was released on September 23, 2003. "Trying to Find a Balance" and "National Disgrace" were released as singles and music videos were made for both. Background The original cover features a naked, bare-breasted woman laying in a field. It was changed to a plain white cover resembling The White Album due to the death of Marissa Mathy-Zvaifler, a 16-year-old girl who was murdered by a janitor during an Atmosphere show in Albuquerque, NM on July 16, 2003. The janitor, convicted child sex offender Dominic Akers, had led the girl backstage, claiming he would allow her to meet vocalist Sean Daley (aka Slug). Slug dedicates the album to Zvaifler in the liner notes, and later wrote about the incident and his reaction in a song entitled "That Night, which appears on the 2005 album ''You Can't Imagine How Much Fun We're Having''. Slug would later describe the so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Overcast!
''Overcast!'' is the debut studio album by Minneapolis hip hop group Atmosphere, released on August 5, 1997 on Rhymesayers Entertainment. It is the only Atmosphere album to feature MC Spawn trading verses with Slug. Before the album's release, Spawn left the group due to conflicting motives. The cover art is inspired by that of ''Judgment!'', released in 1964 by jazz pianist Andrew Hill. The album was remastered and re-released in 2017 with new artwork and bonus tracks. Track listing *All songs produced by Ant Ants are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the order Hymenoptera. Ants evolved from vespoid wasp ancestors in the Cretaceous period. More than 13,800 of an estimated total of 22 .... 2017 Remaster Bonus tracks References External links Rhymesayers Entertainment {{Authority control Atmosphere (music group) albums 1997 debut albums Rhymesayers Entertainment albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
God Loves Ugly
''God Loves Ugly'' is the second studio album by American hip hop group Atmosphere. It was released on Rhymesayers Entertainment on June 11, 2002. Release The album, via distribution with Fat Beats, went on to sell more than 130,000 copies in the United States. The single from the album, titled "Modern Man's Hustle", reached #18 on the '' Billboard'' Hot Rap Tracks chart. On January 20, 2009, ''God Loves Ugly'' was re-released with a bonus DVD, featuring cameos from Eyedea, Aesop Rock and Crescent Moon, among others. Originally released as ''Sad Clown Bad Dub 4'', the DVD features two hours of live performance footage, special guest appearances, and music videos for " GodLovesUgly", "Summer Song", and "Say Shh". Reception and legacy At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, ''God Loves Ugly'' received an average score of 76% based on 9 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". In 2011, "Modern Man's Hustl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold
''When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold'' is the fifth studio album by the Minneapolis hip hop group Atmosphere. It was released on Atmosphere's own Rhymesayers Entertainment label on April 22, 2008. It was praised for Ant's synthesizer-based production and Slug's storytelling rap. The album features a cameo performance by singer-songwriter Tom Waits, who performs guitar and beatboxing on the song "The Waitress". Release The album was released in two different packages: a standard digipak and a limited edition (25,000 copies) 36-page hard-cover book featuring an illustrated children's story written by Slug and a bonus DVD entitled ''Sad Clown Bad Dub 13'' containing over an hour of live footage and extras. Reception At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 68 out of 100 based on 15 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". ''When Life Gives You Lemons, You P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucifer
Lucifer is one of various figures in folklore associated with the planet Venus. The entity's name was subsequently absorbed into Christianity as a name for the devil. Modern scholarship generally translates the term in the relevant Bible passage ( Isaiah 14:12), where the Greek Septuagint reads ὁ ἑωσφόρος ὁ πρωὶ, as "morning star" or "shining one" rather than as a proper noun, Lucifer, as found in the Latin Vulgate. As a name for the Devil in Christian theology, the more common meaning in English, "Lucifer" is the rendering of the Hebrew word he, הֵילֵל, hêlēl, label=none, (pronunciation: ''hay-lale'') in Isaiah given in the King James Version of the Bible. The translators of this version took the word from the Latin Vulgate, Originally published New York: The MacMillan Co., 1923. which translated by the Latin word (uncapitalized), meaning "the morning star", "the planet Venus", or, as an adjective, "light-bringing". As a name for the planet in its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Atmosphere EPs
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of pronoun ''thee'') when followed by a v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SE7EN , also includes Seven
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Se7en or SE7EN may refer to: * ''Seven'' (1995 film), stylized as ''Se7en'', 1995 American thriller film ** ''Seven'' (comic book), stylized as ''SE7EN'', 2008 comic book based on the film * Se7en (born 1986), stage name of singer Sevyn Streeter while in the band RichGirl * Seven (South Korean singer), stylized as Se7en (born 1984) * David Gallegos, rapper and screamer of the crunk group Brokencyde * Damien Broman Se7en, one of the stage names used by rapper Silver Bullet *'' Headshots: SE7EN'', a 2005 remaster compilation album by the band Atmosphere See also *7 (other) 7 is a number, numeral, and glyph. 7 or seven may also refer to: * AD 7, the seventh year of the AD era * 7 BC, the seventh year before the AD era * The month of July Music Artists * Seven (Swiss singer) (born 1978), a Swiss recording arti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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