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Jonny Shipes
Jonny Shipes is an American record executive. Credited with discovering Nipsey Hussle, Joey Bada$$, Sean Kingston, Big K.R.I.T., Smoke DZA, and Druski, he is the founder and CEO of GoodTalk, an independent record label and successor to Cinematic Music Group, a label he founded in 2007. Shipes is also the co-founder of Smoker's Club, a cannabis lifestyle brand and semi-annual music festival and tour, and a partner of a donut shop in the Hamptons. Early life and education Shipes was born and raised in New York City. He heard hip-hop and rap for the first time when he was six, while attending a summer basketball camp, and "fell in love with the genre from the start." His taste extended beyond hip hop and rap, and in addition to the Geto Boys, Run-DMC, the Beastie Boys, Tupac, Biggie Smalls, Jay Z, OutKast, Nas, Scarface, and Snoop Dogg, he grew up listening to Guns N' Roses, Dido (singer), Dido, Portishead (band), Portishead, and Bjork. Shipes was expelled from the high school he a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cinematic Music Group
Cinematic Music Group is an American record label, management, publishing & touring company distributed by Geffen Records founded in 2007 by Jonny Shipes. Their roster as of 2020 consists of Joey Badass, Joey Bada$$, Pro Era, T-Pain, Smoke DZA, Vashtie Kola, Va$htie, Mick Jenkins (rapper), Mick Jenkins, G Herbo, Caveman (American band), Caveman, Public Access T.V. (band), Public Access TV, Flipp Dinero, and others. In August 2023, Shipes sold Cinematic's recording catalogue to Interscope Geffen A&M Records, Interscope Geffen A&M and formed a new music company named GoodTalk. History Cinematic Music Group made one of its earliest signings in 2007 with Harlem’s Smoke DZA. That same year, Cinematic signed Sean Kingston whose self-titled debut album included two #1 ''Billboard (magazine), Billboard'' singles, including the double platinum "Beautiful Girls." The album sold in excess of 1,000,000 units. Cinematic’s next signee, West Coast MC Nipsey Hussle, signed to the compan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DJ Spinbad
Chris Sullivan (October 23, 1974 – November 10, 2020), known professionally as DJ Spinbad, was a DJ, producer, and remixer on New York City's radio station WHTZ. Career DJ Spinbad was a guest on the syndicated radio show ''Live In Tha Den With Big Tigger''. Spinbad was also formerly heard on WWPR at 10:00 p.m.–12:00 a.m. on Fridays. He was also heard on WHTZ in twenty-minute sets at 7:00 p.m. and 12:00 a.m. on weekdays, Fridays at 5:00 p.m., and Saturdays and Sundays at 7:00 p.m. He was also heard on WHTZ on Saturdays from 11:00 p.m.–2:00 a.m. live from Webster Hall in New York City. Recent recession cutbacks, according to his MySpace page, forced WHTZ to cut him from their lineup. In 2011, Spinbad returned to WHTZ as a part of the Saturday Night Online staff, which is also simulcast in other various radio markets around the country through syndication by Premiere Radio Networks. DJ Spinbad toured with electronic artist Moby,Power ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luh Kel
Turran Coleman (born May 20, 2002), known professionally as Luh Kel, is an American singer and rapper. He gained popularity after releasing his debut single "Wrong" in 2019, which peaked at number 1 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart and spawned a remix with Lil Tjay. The official music video gained over 180 million views on YouTube. Early life Kel was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He began freestyle rapping with his cousin Kai, and gained popularity on Instagram. He initially recorded songs in his grandparents' home. Kel was a member of the local R&B group, Project X. Career Kel released his single "Wrong" on April 5, 2019. The song peaked at number 37 on the ''Billboard'' Hot R&B / Hip-Hop Songs chart. It was certified Gold by RIAA The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is a trade organization that represents the music recording industry in the United States. Its members consist of record labels and distributors that the RIAA says "create, manufact ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guala Way
Christopher Saint Victor (born November 16, 1995), better known by his stage name Flipp Dinero, is an American rapper from Brooklyn, New York City. He is best known for his 2018 single " Leave Me Alone," which received quadruple platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and peaked at number 20 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. After both football wide-receiver Odell Beckham Jr. and NBA player Jordan Bell danced to and performed the song on Instagram, it quickly gained viral status. He was first discovered by fellow Brooklyn rapper Joey Badass, who led him to sign with Cinematic Music Group in May 2016, and two years later, Victor signed onto a joint venture with DJ Khaled's We the Best Music Group, an imprint of Epic Records to re-issue "Leave Me Alone" as a single in August 2018. The song served as the lead single for his debut studio album '' Love for Guala'' (2019), which was released in November of the following year to commercial failure. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pro Era
Pro Era (short for Progressive Era) is an American hip-hop Musical collective, collective from Brooklyn, New York (state), New York. The group is a collective of Rapping, rappers and record producers that includes East Coast hip hop, East Coast rappers Joey Badass, CJ Fly, Kirk Knight, Nyck Caution, Dessy Hinds, Dirty Sanchez 47, Rokamouth, Aaron Rose, J.A.B. and Jakk Da Rhymer, along with producers Chuck Strangers and Powers Pleasant. The collective was formed in 2011 by the late Capital Steez, Capital STEEZ and Powers Pleasant, with Joey Badass and CJ Fly among its founding members. History Music career 2009–2011: The 3rd Kind and formation of Pro Era Capital STEEZ (then known as JaY STeeZ) had started recording music around 2009. Around this time, STEEZ and his friend Jakk Da Rhymer (then known as BlakkJakk (The Rhymer)) formed a rap duo known as The 3rd Kind. The duo released their only mixtape, ''The Yellow Tape'', in 2010. Shortly after the tape's release, STEEZ & Jakk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MySpace
Myspace (formerly stylized as MySpace, currently myspace; and sometimes my␣, with an elongated Whitespace character#Substitute images, open box symbol) is a social networking service based in the United States. Launched on August 1, 2003, it was the first social network to reach a global audience and had a significant influence on technology, pop culture and music. It also played a critical role in the early growth of companies like YouTube and created a developer platform that launched companies such as Zynga, RockYou, and Photobucket, among others, to success. From 2005 to 2009, Myspace was the largest social networking site in the world. In July 2005, Myspace was acquired by News Corporation for $580 million; in June 2006, it surpassed Yahoo and Google to become the most visited website in the United States. During the 2008 fiscal year, it generated $800 million in revenue. At its peak in April 2008, Myspace had 115 million monthly visitors; by that time, the recently emerg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beautiful Girls (Sean Kingston Song)
"Beautiful Girls" is the debut single by American singer Sean Kingston from his 2007 eponymous debut album; it was first released in 2007, when Kingston was 17 and is considered his signature song. The song is about a boy who feels "suicidal" (a radio edit changes this to "in denial") over the prospect of dating a "beautiful girl" only to have her break up with him. The song samples the 1961 song " Stand by Me" by American singer-songwriter Ben E. King. Rapper Lil Mama and actors Kenny Vibert and Lil' JJ are featured in the music video directed by Marcus Raboy, which hit 1 billion YouTube views on September 8, 2022. Lyrics controversy Due to the lyrics containing references to suicide, the song was ineligible to be played on Radio Disney. A re-recorded, clean version with new lyrics was added to the Radio Disney playlist on September 3, 2007. On September 21, 2007, it was reported that the original version of the song was removed from the radio playlist of FM104 in Dublin due ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
JR Rotem
Jonathan Reuven Rotem (born July 23, 1975) is a South African-born American record producer, songwriter and music publisher. Biography Early life Rotem was born in July 23, 1975 in Johannesburg, South Africa to Jewish Israeli immigrant parents. He moved to Canada at the age of two and to Moraga, California at the age of twelve. Rotem's entry point into music was in receiving classical piano instruction at a young age. When he attended Berklee College of Music in Boston it was initially with the intention of studying film scoring, but he ended up majoring in jazz composition. Career As his first major label placement, Destiny's Child song "Fancy", from their 2001 album ''Survivor'', is cited by Rotem as being his first 'big break', and the song that convinced the young producer that it was worth pursuing this career path. Nevertheless, further success was not forthcoming and for years Rotem struggled to make further headway in the industry. A significant breakthrough ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cam’ron
Cameron Ezike Giles (born February 4, 1976), known mononymously as Cam'ron, is an American rapper. Beginning his career in the early 1990s as Killa Cam, Giles signed with Lance "Un" Rivera's Untertainment, an imprint of Epic Records to release his first two studio albums ''Confessions of Fire'' (1998) and '' S.D.E. (Sports Drugs & Entertainment)'' (2000); the former received gold certification by the RIAA. After leaving Epic, Giles signed with Roc-A-Fella Records in 2001 to release his third studio album, ''Come Home with Me'', the following year. It received platinum certification by the RIAA and spawned the singles " Oh Boy" (featuring Juelz Santana) and " Hey Ma" (featuring Juelz Santana, Freekey Zekey and Toya), which peaked at numbers four and three on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, respectively. His fourth studio album, ''Purple Haze'' (2004) was met with similar success and likewise received gold certification by the RIAA. Due to personal disagreements with Jay-Z, Giles an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joey Badass
Jo-Vaughn Virginie Scott (born January 20, 1995), known professionally as Joey Badass (stylized as Joey Bada$$), is an American rapper and actor. Born in Brooklyn, New York City, he formed the regional hip-hop group Pro Era in 2011, with whom he has released three mixtapes and formed the larger collective, Beast Coast the following year. Joey Badass signed with Cinematic Music Group as a solo act to release his debut mixtape, ''1999'' (2012) and its follow-up, '' Summer Knights'' (2013), both of which yielded critical acclaim. His first two studio albums, '' B4.Da.$$'' (2015) and ''All-Amerikkkan Badass'' (2017), both peaked at number five on the ''Billboard'' 200 and saw continued critical praise, while his third, ''2000'' (2022), peaked at number 22. He made his television acting debut in the USA Network series, ''Mr. Robot''. Early life Scott was born on January 20, 1995, and was the first of his immediate Caribbean family to be born in the United States. His maternal fami ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
T-Pain
Faheem Rashad Najm (born September 30, 1984), known professionally as T-Pain, is an American singer and rapper. He is known for popularizing creative use of Auto-Tune pitch correction, often used with extreme parameter settings to create electronic music, electronic-styled vocal performances. Blending its use with contemporary R&B, R&B and hip-hop sensibilities, T-Pain became a prominent figure in both genres throughout the 2000s. Other music industry artists, such as Lil Wayne, Kanye West, Future (rapper), Future, and Travis Scott, have since utilized Auto-Tune to a similar effect. T-Pain began his recording career as part of the hip-hop group Nappy Headz. He released his debut solo mixtape, ''Back @ It'' independently in 2004, and signed with Akon's Konvict Muzik, in a joint venture with Jive Records, the following year. His 2005 debut single, "I'm Sprung", was quickly met with commercial success, peaking at number eight on the Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and rece ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
