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Mood (Jacquees Album)
''Mood'' is a mixtape by American R&B singer Jacquees, released on January 10, 2016. The mixtape features guest appearances from rappers Kevin Gates, Dej Loaf, Young Scooter, Kirko Bangz, Rich Homie Quan and Birdman. Production was mostly handled by Nash B and hosted by DJ Spinz Gary Rafael Hill, known professionally as DJ Spinz, is an American record producer, songwriter and disc jockey. Spinz became a DJ in the late 2000s before shifting into music production. He has since produced the ''Billboard'' Hot 100-top 40 sing .... Track listing References 2016 mixtape albums Jacquees albums {{2010s-hiphop-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacquees
Rodriquez Jacquees Broadnax (born April 15, 1994), known mononymously as Jacquees ( ), is an American singer, songwriter, and rapper. He signed with Birdman's Cash Money Records in 2014, and first gained recognition with his 2016 single, " B.E.D."; the song peaked at number 69 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and received double platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). His 2018 single, "You", saw further success on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and received double platinum certification; both the song and "B.E.D." preceded his debut studio album, '' 4275'' (2018), which moderately entered the ''Billboard'' 200. His second album, '' King of R&B'' (2019), peaked at number 20 on the chart. His third album ''Sincerely For You'' (2022), failed to attain success on the chart, peaking at number 163. Career In 2007, Jacquees met his first manager, Corey Battle. He performed in a variety of talent shows before he met and switched management to His Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Contemporary R&B
Contemporary R&B (or simply R&B) is a popular music Music genre, genre, originating from African Americans, African-American musicians in the 1980s that combines rhythm and blues with elements of Pop music, pop, Soul music, soul, funk, Hip-hop, hip hop, and electronic music. The genre features a distinctive Record producer, record production style and a smooth, lush style of vocal arrangement. Electronic music, Electronic influences and the use of hip hop or electronic dance music, dance-inspired beat (music), beats are typical, although the roughness and grit inherent in hip hop may be reduced and smoothed out. Contemporary R&B vocalists often use melisma, and since the mid-1980s, R&B rhythms have been combined with elements of hip hop culture and music, pop culture and pop music. Precursors According to Geoffrey Himes speaking in 1989, the progressive soul movement of the early 1970s "expanded the musical and lyrical boundaries of [R&B] in ways that haven't been equaled since" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hip Hop Music
Hip-hop or hip hop (originally disco rap) is a popular music Music genre, genre that emerged in the early 1970s from the African Americans, African-American community of New York City. The style is characterized by its synthesis of a wide range of musical techniques. Hip-hop includes rapping often enough that the terms can be used synonymously. However, "hip-hop" more properly denotes an entire hip-hop culture, subculture. Other key markers of the genre are the disc jockey, turntablism, scratching, beatboxing, and hip hop production, instrumental tracks. Cultural interchange has always been central to the hip-hop genre. It simultaneously borrows from its social environment while commenting on it. The hip-hop genre and culture emerged from block parties in ethnic minority neighborhoods of New York City, particularly The Bronx, Bronx. DJs began expanding the instrumental Break (music), breaks of popular records when they noticed how excited it would make the crowds. The extend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trap Music (hip Hop)
Trap music, also known simply as trap, is a subgenre of hip-hop music which originated in the Southern United States, with lyrical references to trap starting in 1991 but the modern sound of trap appearing in 1999. The genre gets its name from the Atlanta slang term " trap house", a house used exclusively to sell drugs. Trap music is known for its simple, rhythmic, minimalistic productions that use synthesized drums, and is characterized by complex hi-hat patterns, snare drums, bass drums, some tuned with a long decay to emit a bass frequency (originally from the Roland TR-808 drum machine), and lyrical content that often focuses on drug use and urban violence. Pioneers of the genre include producers DJ Spanish Fly, DJ Paul & Juicy J, Kurtis Mantronik, Mannie Fresh, Shawty Redd, Fatboi, Zaytoven, DJ Screw, and DJ Toomp, along with rappers T.I., Jeezy, and Gucci Mane. The style was popularized by producer Lex Luger, who produced the influential Waka Flocka Flame album ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cash Money Records
Cash Money Records is an American record label founded in 1991 by brothers Ronald "Slim" Williams and Birdman (rapper), Bryan "Baby" Williams. The label gained prominence in the late 1990s for having signed and released albums for New Orleans–based musical acts including Lil Wayne, Juvenile (rapper), Juvenile, B.G. (rapper), B.G., and Hot Boys. It became an imprint of Universal Records (1995−2006), Universal Records, a division of Universal Music Group in March 1998, and remained so during its following iterations as Universal Republic Records, Universal Republic, Universal Motown Records, Universal Motown and ultimately Republic Records. In the late 2000s, Cash Money signed and released projects for a number of prominent Hip hop music, hip hop artists, including Drake (musician), Drake and Nicki Minaj. Wayne launched Young Money Entertainment in 2005, which operated as an imprint of the label and Republic Records until 2018—a joint venture colloquially branded as Young Mon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DJ Spinz
Gary Rafael Hill, known professionally as DJ Spinz, is an American record producer, songwriter and disc jockey. Spinz became a DJ in the late 2000s before shifting into music production. He has since produced the ''Billboard'' Hot 100-top 40 singles " Cashin' Out" by Cash Out and "Flex (Ooh, Ooh, Ooh)" by Rich Homie Quan, as well as the multi-platinum-certified singles " Fuck Up Some Commas" by Future, "Blasé" by Ty Dolla Sign, and " Bring It Back" by Travis Porter. He has also been credited on albums by Waka Flocka Flame, Gucci Mane, French Montana, Jacquees, Rick Ross, 2 Chainz, and Lil B, among others. Early life Hill grew up in Augusta, Georgia. Spinz's grandmother and uncle ran a supper club and he knew the DJ there since he was three or four years old. Spinz used to watch him DJ, so it really inspired him. When Spinz was fourteen, his mother bought him his first turntables. The local radio station in Augusta would broadcast high school football games and Spinz made a good ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mixtape
In the modern music industry, a mixtape is a musical project, typically with looser constraints than that of an album or extended play. Unlike the traditional album or extended play, mixtapes are labeled as laid-back projects that allow artists more creative freedom and less commercial pressure. The term has significantly increased in popularity over the years due to high-profile artists marketing their projects as such. Prior to the decline of physical media, mixtapes were defined as homemade compilations of music played through a cassette tape, Compact disc, CD, or digital playlist and became significant in Hip hop (culture), hip-hop culture. The songs were typically beatmatching, beatmatched and consisted of seamless transitions at their beginnings and endings with fades or abrupt edits. It was then defined as relatively any musical project by an up-and-coming artist. Now, mixtapes have become a label of promotion and marketing for album-like projects. Dictionary.com writes that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Gates
Kevin Jerome Gilyard (born February 5, 1986), better known by his stage name Kevin Gates, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and entrepreneur. He is currently signed to Bread Winners' Association with a partnership with Atlantic Records. His debut studio album, '' Islah'', released in January 2016 and peaked at number two on the U.S. ''Billboard'' 200 chart. Prior to ''Islah'', Gates also released a number of mixtapes, including '' Stranger Than Fiction'' (2013), '' By Any Means'' (2014), and '' Luca Brasi 2'' (2014), all of which peaked in the top 40 on the ''Billboard'' 200 chart. Early life Kevin Jerome Gilyard was born on February 5, 1986, to a Puerto Rican mother and an African American father. He and his family relocated to New Orleans, Louisiana, before settling in Baton Rouge. Gates had an often tumultuous upbringing and was arrested for the first time in 1999 at the age of 13 for joyriding in a stolen vehicle as a passenger. He lost contact with his father at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dej Loaf
Deja Monét Trimble (born April 8, 1991), known professionally as Dej Loaf (stylized as DeJ Loaf), is an American rapper and singer from Detroit, Michigan. She is best known for her 2014 single " Try Me" and its 2015 follow-up, "Back Up" (featuring Big Sean). The latter received platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and served as lead single for her debut extended play '' ...And See That's the Thing'' (2015), which was released by Columbia Records. Both songs, along with her guest appearance on Kid Ink's 2015 single " Be Real", peaked within the top 50 of the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. Her debut studio album, ''Sell Sole II'' (2020), was met with positive critical reception despite failing to chart. Early life Trimble was raised on the east side of Detroit, Michigan. As a child, she often listened to music with her parents and grandmother, including 2Pac, Rakim and Miles Davis. Her father was killed when she was four years old. A self-describ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Young Scooter
Kenneth Edward Rashad Bailey (March 28, 1986 – March 28, 2025), better known by his stage name Young Scooter, was an American rapper. He was one of the first acts to sign with fellow Atlanta rapper Future (rapper), Future's record label, Freebandz, in 2012. In 2013, he jointly signed with Waka Flocka Flame's Brick Squad Monopoly, an imprint of Gucci Mane's 1017 Records. He is known for his mixtape ''Street Lottery'' (2012) and its lead single, "Colombia". His guest appearance on Future and Juice Wrld's 2018 song "Jet Lag (Future and Juice Wrld song), Jet Lag" marked his sole entry on the Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100. Early life and career Kenneth Edward Rashad Bailey was born on March 28, 1986 in Walterboro, South Carolina. When he was nine, his family moved Atlanta, Georgia, settling in Kirkwood, Atlanta, Kirkwood (also known as "Lil Mexico"). Scooter was a childhood friend with fellow Atlanta rapper Future (rapper), Future, and decided to pursue a career in music ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirko Bangz
Kirk Jerel Randle (born August 20, 1989), better known by his stage name Kirko Bangz, is an American rapper, known for his 2011 single " Drank in My Cup", which peaked at number 28 on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and received platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). His guest appearance on Meek Mill's 2012 single, " Young & Gettin' It", peaked at number 86. As his following releases have failed to chart, he has been regarded as a one-hit wonder. Early life Kirko Bangz was born Kirk Jerel Randle on August 20, 1989, in Houston, Texas. Bangz started rapping at the age of fifteen, due in part to witnessing his mother struggle as a single parent; using his mother's pain as motivation. He graduated from North Shore High School in Houston and would later go on to attend Prairie View A&M University where he would major in communications. Career 2009–2012: Career beginnings and mixtapes At Prairie View, he was able to focus on his mus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rich Homie Quan
Dequantes Devontay Lamar (October 4 989 or 1990– September 5, 2024), known professionally as Rich Homie Quan, was an American rapper. Beginning his career in 2010, Lamar first saw mainstream success with his 2013 single " Type of Way", which peaked at number 50 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. His 2015 single, " Flex (Ooh, Ooh, Ooh)", saw further success at number 26 on the chart. Alongside fellow Atlanta rapper Young Thug, Lamar was a member of Cash Money Records' spin-off project Rich Gang, who found success with their 2014 single " Lifestyle". Lamar's debut studio album, ''Rich as in Spirit'' (2018), entered the ''Billboard'' 200 at number 33. The rapper died from an accidental drug overdose after taking multiple drugs, including fentanyl, alprazolam, codeine, and promethazine in 2024. Early life Dequantes Devontay Lamar was born on October 4 (birth year is disputed: 1989 or 1990, both are claimed with an identical date), in Atlanta, Georgia. In school, Lamar had a parti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
