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Unforgiven (X-Raided Album)
''Unforgiven'' is the third album by rapper, X-Raided. It was released in 1998 for Blackmarket Records and features production from X-Raided, The Verbal Tek/Bomb Productions, RAW and DJ Shareil. ''Unforgiven'' was X-Raided's first album to make it to the Billboard charts, reaching number 14 on the Top Heatseekers and number 54 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. X-Raided worked on ''Unforgiven'' while serving 31-years to life for murder at Salinas Valley State Prison in Soledad, California. Unlike his previous album which contained low quality vocal tracks recorded over the phone, X-Raided used a DAT recorder for ''Unforgiven''. The DAT recordings were then taken to a studio by the producer so that beats could be added. Background X-Raided recorded vocals for his previous album, '' Xorcist'', over the phone from Sacramento County Jail. The clarity of the vocal recordings that went into ''The Unforgiven'' album suggest that it was made using more sophisticated equipment. It later tu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
X-Raided
Anerae Veshaughn Brown (born July 30, 1974), better known by his stage name X-Raided, is an American rapper from Sacramento, California, United States. In 1992, Brown was sentenced to 31 years in prison on murder charges, which Brown denied, maintaining his innocence. The lyrics of his debut album, '' Psycho Active'', was submitted as evidence by the prosecutors. Subsequently, Brown continued to record rap songs in prison, until being released on parole 26 years into his sentence. He was later signed with Strange Music. Biography Brown was raised by his mother, Shirley James 'Jaz' Brown, a clerk at the Sacramento County courthouse. Brown subsequently joined the 24th Street Garden Blocc Crips. In 1992, Brown released his debut album, '' Psycho Active'', before being arrested in March with four other Crips for the killing of Patricia Harris during a home invasion, with the prosecution citing Brown's lyrics in his trial, accusing Brown of premeditated murder. The weapon that was u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gangsta Rap
Gangsta rap or gangster rap, initially called reality rap, emerged in the mid- to late 1980s as a controversial hip-hop subgenre whose lyrics assert the culture and values typical of American street gangs and street hustlers. Many gangsta rappers flaunt associations with real street gangs, like the Crips and Bloods. Gangsta rap's pioneers Ice-T in 1986, and especially N.W.A in 1988 and the rise of Tupac Amaru Shakur in 1992. In 1992, via record producer Dr. Dre, rapper Snoop Dogg, and their G-funk sound, gangsta rap took the rap genre's lead and became mainstream, popular music. Gangsta rap has been recurrently accused of promoting disorderly conduct and broad criminality, especially assault, homicide, and drug dealing, as well as misogyny, promiscuity, and materialism. Gangsta rap's defenders have variously characterized it as artistic depictions but not literal endorsements of real life in American ghettos, or suggested that some lyrics voice rage against social oppression ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blackmarket Records
Black Market Records is an American record label based in Sacramento, California founded in 1989. Its acts included Brotha Lynch Hung and X-Raided.{{{cite web , last1=Boucher , first1=Geoff , title=Tied by music and murder , url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-nov-17-ca-boucher17-story.html , website=Los Angeles Times , access-date=24 October 2021 , date=17 November 2002 History Black Market Records was founded in 1980 by Cedric Singleton.{{cite news, url=https://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/stories/1999/10/04/story4.html, title=Record exec spins off into hotel biz, first=Mark, last=Anderson, date=October 3, 1999, work=Sacramento Business Journal In 1992 the label released Sacramento rapper X-Raided's album "Psycho Active" featuring Brotha Lynch Hung. In 1993 the label released Brotha Lynch Hung's EP '' 24 Deep'', which rose to no. 91 on Billboard's Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart,{{cite web, url=http://www.billboard.com/artist/297734/brotha-lynch-hung/chart, title=Brot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xorcist (album)
''Xorcist'' is the second album by rapper X-Raided. It was released on December 12, 1995 for Blackmarket Records. In an interview X-Raided stated that he made the album while on trial. The track "Collect Call" on the album has a recording of a collect call from X-Raided which identifies him as "an inmate in Sacramento County Jail". Reception In 2009, '' Fangoria'' named it as an iconic horrorcore Horrorcore, also called horror hip hop, horror rap, death hip hop, or death rap, is a subgenre of hip hop music based on horror-themed and often darkly transgressive lyrical content and imagery. Its origins derived from certain hardcore hip h ... album. Track listing #"Open Tha Casket"- 0:59 #"I Ain't Dead Yet"- 5:24 #"Recognize" (feat. Babe Reg & Lunasicc) - 5:11 #"Body Count" (feat. Da Misses) - 3:48 #"Collect Call"- 0:18 #"Check Your Bitch"- 5:06 #"Blaze Up"- 0:21 #"Wanna Get High?" (feat. Lunasicc) - 5:47 #"Unxplainable"- 1:09 #"Deuce-5 To Life"- 4:39 #"Unfukwitabl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vengeance Is Mine (X-Raided Album)
''Vengeance Is Mine'' is the fourth solo studio album released by rapper X-Raided. It was released on November 21, 2000, through Blackmarket Records and was produced by Big Hollis and KG. This album fulfilled X-Raided's contract with Black Market Records, the label he helped get off the ground with his 1992 debut ''Psycho Active''. He left the label after ''Vengeance'' and started his own label, Mad Man Records. Track listing''Vengeance is Mine'' (Physical Album) Personnel *X-Raided – vocals, executive producer *Big Hollis Big or BIG may refer to: * Big, of great size or degree Film and television * ''Big'' (film), a 1988 fantasy-comedy film starring Tom Hanks * '' Big!'', a Discovery Channel television show * ''Richard Hammond's Big'', a television show present ... – producer (''tracks 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 14, 15'') *KG – producer (''tracks 3, 4, 10, 11, 12, 13'') *The VerbalTek – producer (''track 1'') *Cedric Singleton – executive producer, album layout & photo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allmusic
AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne. History AllMusic was launched as ''All Music Guide'' by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as CDs replaced LPs as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he researched using metadata to create a music guide. In 1990, in Big Rapids, Michigan, he founded ''All Music Guide' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billboard Charts
The ''Billboard'' charts tabulate the relative weekly popularity of songs and albums in the United States and elsewhere. The results are published in '' Billboard'' magazine. ''Billboard'' biz, the online extension of the ''Billboard'' charts, provides additional weekly charts, as well as year-end charts. The two most important charts are the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 for songs and ''Billboard'' 200 for albums, and other charts may be dedicated to a specific genre such as R&B, country, or rock, or they may cover all genres. The charts can be ranked according to sales, streams, or airplay, and for main song charts such as the Hot 100 song chart, all three data are used to compile the charts. For the ''Billboard'' 200 album chart, streams and track sales are included in addition to album sales. The weekly sales and streams charts are monitored on a Friday-to-Thursday cycle since July 2015; previously it was on a Monday-to-Sunday cycle. Radio airplay song charts, however, follow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Top Heatseekers
Top Heatseekers are "Breaking and Entering" music charts issued weekly by ''Billboard'' magazine. The Heatseekers Albums and the Heatseekers Songs charts were introduced by ''Billboard'' in 1991 with the purpose of highlighting the sales by new and developing musical recording artists. Albums and songs appearing on Top Heatseekers may also concurrently appear on the ''Billboard'' 200 or ''Billboard'' Hot 100. Albums chart The Heatseekers Albums chart contains 25 positions that are ranked by Nielsen SoundScan sales data, and charts album titles from "new or developing acts" as determined by the acts' historical chart performance. Once an artist/act has had an album place in the top 100 of the ''Billboard'' Top 200, or in the top 10 of any of the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, Country Albums, Latin Albums, Christian Albums, or Gospel Albums charts, the album and later works no longer qualify for tracking on Heatseeker Albums. This definition means that some artists can still qualify as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums
Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums is a music chart published weekly by '' Billboard'' magazine that ranks R&B and hip hop albums based on sales in the United States and is compiled by Nielsen SoundScan. The chart debuted as Hot R&B LPs in the issue dated January 30, 1965 in an effort by the magazine to further expand into the field of rhythm and blues music. It then went through several name changes, being known as Soul LPs in the 1970s and Top Black Albums in the 1980s, before returning to the R&B identification in 1990 and affixing a hip hop designation in 1999 to reflect the latter's growing sales and relationship to R&B during the decade. From 1965 through 2009, the chart was compiled based on reported sales at a core panel of stores with a "higher-than-average volume" of R&B and/or hip-hop album sales to monitor buying trends of the African-American community. This panel included more independent and smaller chain stores compared to the high percentage of mass merchants that account fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salinas Valley State Prison
Salinas Valley State Prison (SVSP) is a California state prison located north of Soledad, in Monterey County, California, adjacent to the Correctional Training Facility (aka Soledad State Prison). Facilities The prison consists of five facilities: A, B, C, D, and M. Of the five, Facility A, D, and M house Sensitive Needs Yard (SNY) inmates. The surrounding housing units hold level-4 and level-3 inmates, the two highest security rankings. M yard is a level-1 yard which houses approximately 200 inmates. The prison had a gymnasium which, due to the prison's over-crowding, at one time had been converted into a dormitory but due to inmate population reductions was shut down around 2008. The prison also houses an inpatient mental health program, formerly operated under the auspices of the California Department of State Hospitals (Salinas Valley Psychiatric Inpatient Program) to accommodate the psychological needs of inmates. As of July 31, 2022, SVSP was incarcerating people at 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xorcist
Xorcist is the name of an American musical group whose output has ranged from electro-industrial and ambient. Background Peter Stone (a.k.a. Bat) formed Xorcist in 1990 as a one-man act. By 1997, Xorcist grew to include Evoltwin. In addition to providing some vocals, Evoltwin created the cover art for ''Soul Reflection'' and other subsequent releases. Stone also created two side projects, Xenon and Diode Fetish. Stone still DJs and VJs under the name DJ/VJ Bat, and maintains the Xorcist.com website to promote his work. Stone's work in sound design has appeared in MTV's ''Aeon Flux The word aeon , also spelled eon (in American and Australian English), originally meant "life", "vital force" or "being", "generation" or "a period of time", though it tended to be translated as "age" in the sense of "ages", "forever", "timeles ...'', and his work creating music and sound design in the video games '' Iron Helix'', '' Bad Mojo'' and '' Space Bunnies Must Die''. Discography Stu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
