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Carlos Stephens
Carlos Stephens (born January 24, 1972) is an American record producer and mixing engineer from New Orleans, Louisiana, best known as a member of No Limit Records' in-house production team, Beats by the Pound. After leaving the label, he founded the record label Flame Entertainment. As of 2022, Stephens has over 75 million in credited record sales. Early years Born In New Orleans, but raised in the Gretna area, Carlos started producing music for a few local groups in the early 1990s and this allowed Stephens to develop his skills and production methods. No Limit In 1994, Stephens would produce for Ron Gray "The Bossman: which would be one of his final outside productions before joining the No Limit in-house production team of Beats by the Pound. Over the next few years he would provide substantial production for all No Limit artists, with his first major production on Silkk the Shocker's debut album '' The Shocker'' in 1996. In 1996, Carlos, with the permission of Master P, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Orleans
New Orleans (commonly known as NOLA or The Big Easy among other nicknames) is a Consolidated city-county, consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the U.S. state of Louisiana. With a population of 383,997 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, it is the List of municipalities in Louisiana, most populous city in Louisiana and the French Louisiana region, the second-most populous in the Deep South, and the twelfth-most populous in the Southeastern United States. The city is coextensive with Orleans Parish, Louisiana, Orleans Parish. New Orleans serves as a major port and a commercial hub for the broader Gulf Coast of the United States, Gulf Coast region. The New Orleans metropolitan area has a population of approximately 1 million, making it the most populous metropolitan area in Louisiana and the List of metropolitan statistical areas, 59th-most populous in the United States. New Orleans is world-renowned for Music of New Orleans, its distincti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beats By The Pound
The Medicine Men (formerly Beats by the Pound) are a New Orleans, Louisiana-based American music production team made up of KLC, Mo B. Dick, Craig B, Carlos Stephens, DJ Daryl, and Odell. The collective helped sell 30 million records for Master P's No Limit Records, from 1995 to 1999, as well the majority of releases from No Limit Records during the days it was distributed by Priority Records Priority Records is an American distribution company and record label known for artists including N.W.A, Ice Cube, MC Ren, Eazy-E, Master P, Snoop Dogg, Mos Def, Silkk the Shocker, Jay-Z, Paris, Mack 10, 504 Boyz, Brotha Lynch Hung, .... They would later receive nomination for Producers of the Year and collectively be voted as one of Hip-Hop's "Thirty Most Powerful People" by The Source in 1999. From 1995 to 1999 many of The Medicine Men productions feature hooks from Mo B. Dick or Odell Vickers credited as a featured artist. Singles produced Other production ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghetto Postage
''Ghetto Postage'' is the ninth studio album by American rapper Master P. It was released on November 28, 2000, on No Limit Records and Priority Records in the United States. This is Master P's last album to be distributed by Priority. The album features Snoop Dogg, Silkk the Shocker and Tamar Braxton. The album included the singles "Bout Dat" featuring Silkk the Shocker and "Souljas". The album was mostly produced by Carlos Stephens and Donald XL Robertson along with Myke Diesel. Critical reception ''Ghetto Postage'' garnered mixed reviews from music critics, who were divided over the production and Master P's musical performance. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 57, based on 6 reviews. Steve 'Flash' Juon of ''RapReviews'' gave note of the album's in-house production providing catchy bangers, sparse list of guest artists and Master P adopting different personas and limiting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wobble Wobble
"Wobble Wobble" is the debut single by 504 Boyz, released in 2000 from their debut studio album, '' Goodfellas''. The song was produced by Beats by the Pound member Carlos Stephens and featured seven members of the group, Master P, C-Murder, Silkk the Shocker, Mac, Magic, Krazy and Mystikal. The production incorporates elements of the New Orleans hip-hop subgenre of bounce music. The Goodfellas version is a remix, since the original appeared on Magic's album '' Thuggin''' first. The original version, also produced by Carlos Stephens, features a slightly different beat and only features Magic, C-Murder, and Mac. The song became one of No Limit's biggest hits, peaking at number 17 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and topping the Hot Rap Singles chart. It was the third biggest rap single of 2000, held from the top spot by Missy Elliott Melissa Arnette "Missy" Elliott (born July 1, 1971), also known as Misdemeanor, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer. She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
504 Boyz
504 Boyz were an American hip hop group from New Orleans, Louisiana, named for the New Orleans area code. The original 504 Boyz, Master P (as "Nino Brown"), Mystikal (as "G. Money"), Silkk the Shocker (as "Vito"), C-Murder, and Krazy, released their first album, '' Goodfellas'', in 2000. It included the hit single " Wobble Wobble", a " bounce-flavored song"Matt Miller, ''Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans'' (University of Massachusetts Press, 2012), , pp. 126, 143-145Excerpts availableat Google Books. which peaked at #17 in the U.S. In 2002, new members were introduced as part of the New No Limit rebrand. Choppa, Currensy, Afficial, and T-Bo were on the 2002 album Ballers, which produced a minor hit single ''Tight Whips''. C-Murder was arrested for murdering a fan in 2001. After Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005, 504 Boyz released a benefit compilation ''We Gon Bounce Back'', their third and final album.Lewis Watts, Eric Porter, ''New Orleans Suite: M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oz (TV Series)
''Oz'' is an American Prison film, prison Drama (film and television), drama television series set at a fictional men's prison created and principally written by Tom Fontana. It was the first one-hour dramatic television series to be produced by the premium television, premium cable television, cable network HBO. ''Oz'' premiered on July 12, 1997, and ran for six seasons. The series finale aired on February 23, 2003. Overview "Oz" is the nickname for the Oswald State Correctional Facility, formerly Oswald State Penitentiary, a fictional Incarceration in the United States#Security levels, level 4 prison#Security levels, maximum-security state prison in an unspecified east coast state, although references throughout the series point to New York as its location. The nickname "Oz" is also a reference to the classic film ''The Wizard of Oz (1939 film), The Wizard of Oz'' (1939), which popularized the phrase, "There's no place like home." A poster for the series uses the tagline: "It's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Light It Up (film)
''Light It Up'' is a 1999 film starring an ensemble cast that consists of R&B singer/actor Usher Raymond (in his first leading role), Forest Whitaker, Rosario Dawson, and Vanessa L. Williams. The film was written and directed by Craig Bolotin, and produced by Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds and his wife Tracy Edmonds. The film follows five teenage high school seniors and one sophomore, who hold a wounded police officer hostage and barricade themselves inside the school. Plot summary In an urban Queens high school students, Lester DeWitt ( Usher Raymond), who lost his father, his younger best friend, artist Zacharias 'Ziggy' Malone ( Robert Ri'chard), hard-working Stephanie Williams (Rosario Dawson), criminal Rodney J. Templeton (Fredro Starr), rebellious pregnant Lynn Sabatini ( Sara Gilbert), and hustler Robert Tremont a.k.a. "Rivers" ( Clifton Collins, Jr.), attend the history class of the caring Ken Knowles ( Judd Nelson). The room is freezing so Mr. Knowles takes them to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Only God Can Judge Me
''Only God Can Judge Me'' is the eighth studio album by American hip hop recording artist Master P, released on October 26, 1999, by No Limit Records, Priority Records and EMI. It was produced by Carlos Stephens, XL, Ke'Noe, Sons Of Funk, Jermaine Dupri, and features several guest contributions from fellow American rappers such as Nas, Jermaine Dupri, Mac, Silkk the Shocker, Mystikal and Magic. Background It marked Master P's return to rap as a solo artist after the chart-topping "MP Da Last Don" in 1998. Videos were released for the two singles "Step to Dis" and "Da Ballers". Commercial performance ''Only God Can Judge Me'' sold 153,000 copies in its first week. It has been certified Gold by the RIAA for shipments of 500,000 units. Track listing ;Samples Ghetto Prayer interpolates Aaliyah's " If Your Girl Only Knew". Personnel *Aswad - Composer *C-Murder - Primary Artist *Jodi Cohen - Design, Layout Design *De'Mond - Guest Artist, Performer, Primary Artist *Je ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Source (magazine)
''The Source'' is an American music magazine and website specializing in hip-hop and entertainment. Founded in August 1988 by Harvard University students David Mays and Jonathan Shecter, it began as a black-and-white, one-page newspaper promoting their college radio show. Within months, it evolved into a professionally designed, full-color magazine. Dubbed "the bible of hip-hop," primarily focused on hip-hop music and culture while also covering politics and fashion. Its music reviews held great significance in the hip-hop community, with the "five mics" rating considered a prestigious honor and a significant achievement. The ratings often sparked heated debates among both artists and fans. At its height in the late 1990s, ''The Source'' was the highest-selling magazine on the newsstands in the United States. It launched its own compilation album series and an award show. The 1995 Source Awards were noted for their effect on the hip-hop landscape, particularly in escalating ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skull Duggery (rapper)
Andrew Jordan (September 24, 1971 – June 4, 2022), better known as Skull Duggery, was an American rapper best known for his time spent with Master P's No Limit Records in the late 1990s. Skull Duggery made his first appearance on No Limit's 1995 compilation, '' Down South Hustlers: Bouncin' and Swingin''' on the song entitled "Darkside". About a year later, Master P released a trailer on Silkk the Shocker's first album '' The Shocker'' promoting Duggery's debut album, and setting the album's release date for September 24, 1996, but the release was pushed back to a week later. Skull Duggery released '' Hoodlum Fo' Life'' on October 1, 1996, under the alias Skull Dugrey, but the album failed to sell well, only peaking at #29 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and #8 on the Top Heatseekers. His next album, 1998's '' These Wicked Streets'' fared better, making it to #21 on the ''Billboard'' 200 and #4 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. After leaving No Limit in 1999, Skull Duggery ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Master P
Percy Robert Miller (born April 29, 1967), better known by his stage name Master P, is an American rapper, record producer, record executive, dancer, actor and entrepreneur. He founded the record label No Limit Records in 1991, which was relaunched into the spin-off labels New No Limit Records and No Limit Forever Records. Miller gained fame in the mid-1990s as a member of the label's Hip-hop, hip hop group TRU (group), TRU, as well as his fifth solo album, ''Ice Cream Man (album), Ice Cream Man'' (1996), and its Mr. Ice Cream Man, namesake lead single. His 1997 single, "Make 'Em Say Uhh!" received Music recording sales certification, platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). In total, Miller has released 15 studio albums. Early life Percy Robert Miller was born and raised in the Third Ward of New Orleans, Third Ward of Uptown New Orleans, Louisiana. He grew up in the Calliope Projects. He is the second oldest of five children. He has on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Discogs
Discogs ( ; short for " discographies") is a database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases. Database contents are user-generated, and described in ''The New York Times'' as "Wikipedia-like". While the site was originally created with the goal of becoming the largest online database of electronic music, it now includes releases in all genres and on all formats. By 2015, it had a new goal: that of "cataloging every single piece of physical music ever created." As of 2025, its database contains over 18 million user-submitted album listings. History Discogs was started in 2000 by Kevin Lewandowski who worked as a programmer at Intel Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and Delaware General Corporation Law, incorporated in Delaware. Intel designs, manufactures, and sells computer compo .... It wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
