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Swass
''Swass'' is the debut studio album by Sir Mix-a-Lot. It was released in 1988 on Nastymix and re-released on CD by Def American Recordings. The album featured the singles "Posse on Broadway", "Square Dance Rap", "Iron Man" (a rap metal version of the Black Sabbath song featuring the band Metal Church) and "Rippn'". In 1990, the album received a platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America. According to Sir Mix-a-Lot, the word "swass" originally was an inside joke with no meaning in itself. After the album's release, the word came to mean "Some Wild Ass Silly Shit". The hook of the song "Swass" is reprised in "Don't Cha" by Busta Rhymes and CeeLo Green, becoming a world hit recorded by the Pussycat Dolls. Track listing The 1988 vinyl and CD issues on Nastymix Records contained the same track listing. The 1991 CD reissue on Def American Records added two bonus tracks, "Attack on the Stars" and "F the BS". Personnel * Anthony Ray - performer, p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don't Cha
"Don't Cha" is a song written by Busta Rhymes and CeeLo Green, and produced by the latter. The chorus is a slightly modified Interpolation (popular music), interpolation of the chorus line sung by Sir Mix-a-Lot in a song he wrote called "Swass" from his 1988 album ''Swass''. The song was originally recorded and published in 2004 by Tori Alamaze, former backing vocalist for the Hip-hop, hip hop duo OutKast, and was released as her debut single. After minor success, and dissatisfaction with Universal Records (1995−2006), Universal Records, Alamaze gave up her rights to the song. The Pussycat Dolls, an American burlesque dance troupe who were poised to reinvent themselves as a pop music girl group, were offered the song from Universal. The group recorded a new version of "Don't Cha" with raps from Busta Rhymes and released it in 2005 as the lead single from their debut studio album ''PCD (album), PCD''. The Pussycat Dolls' version received positive reviews from Music journalism, mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Mix-a-Lot
Anthony L. Ray (born August 12, 1963), better known by his stage name Sir Mix-a-Lot or his CB handle Prime Minista, is an American rapper. He is best known for his 1992 hit song " Baby Got Back", which peaked at number one on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. Early life Anthony Ray was born on August 12, 1963, in Auburn, Washington, and grew up in Seattle's Central District. In Ray's youth, his mother worked as a licensed practical nurse at the King County Jail. Ray was a fan of hip hop and started rapping in the early 1980s. While living in the Bryant Manor apartments on 19th Ave and East Yesler Way, Anthony Ray started school at Roosevelt High School, near the University District, when the Seattle Public School District was in the throes of what would be a 21-year experiment to integrate the school system. Students were bused from their neighborhoods to schools at the other end of the city. From 1978 to 1999, when the busing program was in operation, minorities carried the burde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seminar (album)
''Seminar'' is the second studio album by American rapper Sir Mix-a-Lot. It was released on October 17, 1989, via Nastymix and was produced by Sir Mix-a-Lot. The album peaked at number 67 on the Billboard 200, number 25 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, and was certified gold by Recording Industry Association of America. It spawned three singles: "Beepers", which peaked at number 61 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and number 2 on the Hot Rap Songs, "My Hooptie", which peaked at number 49 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and number 7 on the Hot Rap Songs, and "I Got Game", which peaked at number 86 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and number 20 on the Hot Rap Songs. Track listing Sample credits *Track 1 contains elements from " Irresistible Bitch" by Prince (1983) *Track 2 contains elements from " Batdance" by Prince (1989) *Track 3 contains elements from "The Star-Spangled Banner" by Francis Scott Key & John Stafford Smith (1814) *Track 4 contains elements from " Posse on Broadway" by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Posse On Broadway
"Posse on Broadway" is a hip hop Hip-hop or hip hop (originally disco rap) is a popular music genre that emerged in the early 1970s from the African-American community of New York City. The style is characterized by its synthesis of a wide range of musical techniques. Hip- ... song first recorded by Sir Mix-a-Lot on his 1988 debut album ''Swass''. He also released a music video. The single is regarded as Mix-a-Lot’s career breakthrough and the first Golden age hip hop, golden age hip-hop record from outside the well-established East Coast hip hop, East Coast, West Coast hip hop, West Coast, and Southern hip hop, Southern scenes to be nationally embraced. Background The song is a day in the life inspired by "an actual night that we actually had" where Mix-a-Lot and his friends Cruising (driving), cruise their hometown of Seattle. The Broadway (Seattle), Broadway in the song is the main drag in Seattle's Capitol Hill, Seattle, Capitol Hill neighborhood, a street on whic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kid Sensation
Xola Malik (formerly Stephen Spence) (born 1971), best known by his stage name Kid Sensation, is an American rapper. Born and raised in Seattle, Washington, Spence made his debut as a guest rapper featured on Sir Mix-a-Lot's album ''Swass'', where he appeared on the track "Rippn'". Spence has sold over one million units during his hip hop career, and has hosted hip-hop based shows such as ''Yo! MTV Raps'' and BET's ''Rap City''. Biography Kid Sensation Spence released his debut album, ''Rollin' With Number One'', on July 2, 1990 on the Nastymix record label. Several videos were released from the album. "Prisoner of Ignorance", which goes into detail about a young man's life of crime, shows Spence rapping from an electric chair and a jail cell. Spence also released the song "Seatown Ballers" and "Skin 2 Skin" as singles from this CD. Two years later, Spence released his follow up album ''The Power of Rhyme'', also on Nastymix Records. A single, "The Weekend", was the only singl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rap Metal
Rap metal is a fusion genre that combines hip hop music, hip hop with heavy metal music, heavy metal. It usually consists of heavy metal guitar riffs, funk metal elements, Rapping, rapped vocals and sometimes turntablism, turntables. History Origins and early development (1980s–early 1990s) Rap metal's roots are based both in hip hop acts who sampled heavy metal music, such as Beastie Boys, Cypress Hill, Esham and Run-DMC, and rock music, rock bands who fused heavy metal and hip hop influences, such as 24-7 Spyz and Faith No More. Scott Ian of Anthrax (American band), Anthrax (who helped pioneer the genre) believes Rage Against the Machine invented the genre. In 1987, the heavy metal band Anthrax (American band), Anthrax fused hip hop with heavy metal for their extended play ''I'm the Man (EP), I'm the Man.'' The next year rapper Sir Mix-a-Lot teamed up with Metal Church for his 1988 single "Iron Man", from his debut album ''Swass'', loosely based upon the Black Sabbath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CeeLo Green
Thomas DeCarlo Callaway-Burton (born May 30, 1975), known professionally as CeeLo Green (or Cee Lo Green or simply Cee-Lo), is an American singer, songwriter, rapper, record producer, and actor. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Green came to initial prominence as a member of the Southern hip hop group Goodie Mob in 1991. Following three studio albums with the group, he subsequently began a solo career and released two modestly successful albums for Arista Records: '' Cee-Lo Green and His Perfect Imperfections'' (2002) and '' Cee-Lo Green... Is the Soul Machine'' (2004). He is known for his soul-infused delivery in hip hop and R&B, displayed in his signature song " Crazy" (with Danger Mouse as "Gnarls Barkley") and his solo single " Fuck You." Green's next project was Gnarls Barkley, a collaborative duo with record producer Danger Mouse. Their debut album, ''St. Elsewhere'' (2006) quickly achieved success with its lead single "Crazy," which charted within the top five in 20 countries ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pussycat Dolls
The Pussycat Dolls were an American girl group and dance ensemble, founded in Los Angeles, California, by choreographer Robin Antin in 1995 as a neo-burlesque troupe. At the suggestion of Jimmy Iovine, Antin decided to take the troupe mainstream as a pop group. Antin negotiated a record deal with Interscope Geffen A&M Records in 2003 turning the group into a music franchise comprising Nicole Scherzinger, Carmit Bachar, Ashley Roberts, Jessica Sutta, Melody Thornton, and Kimberly Wyatt. Their debut single, " Sway", was featured on the soundtrack of the 2004 film '' Shall We Dance?''. The Pussycat Dolls achieved worldwide success with the singles "Don't Cha", " Stickwitu", "Buttons", and their multi-platinum debut album '' PCD'' (2005). However, despite their commercial success, the group was plagued by internal conflict due to the emphasis on Scherzinger, the group's lead vocalist, and the subordinate treatment of the other members. Bachar's departure from the group prece ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of the longest-running newspapers in the United States, the ''Times'' serves as one of the country's Newspaper of record, newspapers of record. , ''The New York Times'' had 9.13 million total and 8.83 million online subscribers, both by significant margins the List of newspapers in the United States, highest numbers for any newspaper in the United States; the total also included 296,330 print subscribers, making the ''Times'' the second-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States, following ''The Wall Street Journal'', also based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' is published by the New York Times Company; since 1896, the company has been chaired by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, whose current chairman and the paper's publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Iommi
Anthony Frank Iommi Jr. (born 19 February 1948) is an English musician. He co-founded the pioneering Heavy metal music, heavy metal band Black Sabbath, and was the band's guitarist, leader, primary composer, and sole continuous member for over five decades. He is considered one of the pioneers of heavy metal music and is responsible for inspiring numerous subgenres of metal, most notably doom metal. Iommi was ranked number 13 on ''Rolling Stone'''s 2023 list of the “250 Greatest Guitarists of all Time. On his last day of work in a sheet metal factory, as a teenager, Iommi lost the tips of the middle and ring fingers of his right hand in an accident, an event which crucially impacted his playing style. He briefly left Black Sabbath (then known as Earth) in 1968 to join Jethro Tull (band), Jethro Tull, but did not record any material with the band, and subsequently returned to Black Sabbath in 1969. In 2000, he released his first solo album ''Iommi (album), Iommi'', followed by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geezer Butler
Terence Michael Joseph "Geezer" Butler (born 17 July 1949) is an English musician, best known as the bassist and primary lyricist of the pioneering Heavy metal music, heavy metal band Black Sabbath. He has also recorded and performed with Heaven & Hell (band), Heaven & Hell, GZR, Ozzy Osbourne, and Deadland Ritual. Early life Butler adopted the nickname "Geezer" at an early age. "It came because when I was at school, my brother was in the army, and he was based with a lot of Cockneys. And people in London call everybody a 'geezer.' [It means] just a man — like, 'Hello, mate.' It's just like somebody calling you 'dude' over here (in the United States). In England, it'd be 'geezer.' So my brother used to come home from leave from the army, and he'd be going, 'Hello, geezer. How are you, geezer?' So because I had looked up to my brother when I was about seven years old, I'd go to school calling everybody a geezer. So that's how I got cursed with it." Butler grew up in a working- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ozzy Osbourne
John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne (born 3 December 1948) is an English singer, songwriter, and media personality. He rose to prominence during the 1970s as the lead singer of the heavy metal music, heavy metal band Black Sabbath, during which period he adopted the nickname "Prince of Darkness". Osbourne became a founding member of Black Sabbath in 1968, providing lead vocals from Black Sabbath (album), their self-titled debut album in 1970 to ''Never Say Die!'' in 1978. The band was highly influential in the development of heavy metal music, in particular their critically acclaimed releases ''Paranoid (album), Paranoid'', ''Master of Reality'', and ''Sabbath Bloody Sabbath''. Osbourne was fired from Black Sabbath in 1979 due to problems with alcohol and other drugs. He then began a successful solo career with ''Blizzard of Ozz'' in 1980 and has released Ozzy Osbourne discography, 13 studio albums, the first seven of which received multi-platinum certifications in the US. He has si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
