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The Biz Never Sleeps
''The Biz Never Sleeps'' is the second studio album by Biz Markie. It was released on October 10, 1989, on Cold Chillin'/ Warner Bros. Records and was produced by Biz, his cousin Cool V on Cold Chillin' Records. The album proved to be a success, peaking at #66 on the ''Billboard'' 200 and #9 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, as well as producing his most famous song and biggest hit " Just a Friend", which made it to #9 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and #5 on the Hot Rap Singles. The album was certified gold by the RIAA on April 24, 1990. "She's Not Just Another Woman (Monique)" samples 8th Day's song "She's Not Just Another Woman". A video for the track "Spring Again" was released in the spring of 1990. A 2006 Japanese issue includes song "A Thing Named Kim" as track 8. Though out of print for many years, the album was reissued on LP and CD in 2012 by Traffic Entertainment Group. The release has received praise both from critics as well as fellow musicians over the years, ...
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Biz Markie
Marcel Theo Hall (April 8, 1964 – July 16, 2021), known professionally as Biz Markie, was an American rapper, singer, songwriter, DJ, and record producer who gained prominence during hip hop's golden age. He was particularly recognized for his humorous and comedic style within hip hop, often leading to his nickname, the " Clown Prince of Hip Hop".Ma, DavidBiz Markie, Pioneering Beatboxer And 'Just A Friend' Rapper, Dies At 57 NPR, July 16, 2021 Markie's achieved mainstream success with his 1989 single " Just a Friend", which reached No. 9 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart and became a platinum-certified hit. The song has since been widely regarded as a classic, featured prominently in pop culture and recognized on VH1's list of the greatest hip-hop songs. Throughout his career, Markie was associated with influential hip-hop groups and labels, notably the Juice Crew collective and Cold Chillin' Records. Beyond his music, Biz Markie had an extensive presence on television ...
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8th Day (R&B Group)
8th Day was an American R&B group from Detroit, Michigan. History The Holland–Dozier–Holland (HDH) songwriting team had scored hits in 1970 with the group 100 Proof (Aged in Soul). When the latter's song "Somebody's Been Sleeping in My Bed" became a hit, radio stations also began playing the tune "She's Not Just Another Woman". HDH wanted to release the song as another single but did not want to hurt the sales of "Somebody's Been Sleeping in My Bed", so they released "She's Not Just Another Woman" on Invictus Records under the name 8th Day in 1971. The song, written by Clyde Wilson (a member of 100 Proof who performed under the name of Steve Mancha) and Ronald Dunbar and produced by HDH, became a hit, peaking at No. 11 in the U.S. ''Billboard'' chart. The record sold over a million copies and received a gold disc from the Recording Industry Association of America on September 15, 1971. A second song released under the 8th Day name, "You've Got to Crawl (Before You Walk) ...
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Biz Markie Albums
Biz, BIZ or The Biz may refer to: * Belize, IOC code BIZ * Biz, colloquial for business * Biz (detergent), a laundry detergent * People: ** Biz Mackey (1897—1965), American catcher and manager in Negro league baseball ** Biz Markie Marcel Theo Hall (April 8, 1964 – July 16, 2021), known professionally as Biz Markie, was an American rapper, singer, songwriter, DJ, and record producer who gained prominence during hip hop's golden age. He was particularly recognized for ... (1964–2021), American rapper, singer, DJ, record producer, actor, comedian, and writer ** Biz Stone (born 1974), co-founder of Twitter * .biz, a generic top-level domain name * BIZ ('' Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung''), a German news magazine * BIZ (German: ''Bank für internationalen Zahlungsausgleich''), the Bank for International Settlements * ISO 639 code for the Ngiri language, native to the Democratic Republic of the Congo * ''The Biz'' (album), 1995, by The Sea and Cake * ''The Biz'' (newspa ...
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1989 Albums
1989 was a turning point in political history with the "Revolutions of 1989" which ended communism in Eastern Bloc of Europe, starting in Poland and Hungary, with experiments in power-sharing coming to a head with the opening of the Berlin Wall in November, the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and the overthrow of the communist dictatorship in Romania in December; the movement ended in December 1991 with the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Revolutions against communist governments in Eastern Europe mainly succeeded, but the year also saw the suppression by the Chinese government of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, 1989 Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing. It was the year of the first 1989 Brazilian presidential election, Brazilian direct presidential election in 29 years, since the end of the Military dictatorship in Brazil, military government in 1985 that ruled the country for more than twenty years, and marked the redemocratization process's final poin ...
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Biz Markie Discography
Marcel Theo Hall (April 8, 1964 – July 16, 2021), known professionally as Biz Markie, was an American rapper, singer, songwriter, DJ, and record producer who gained prominence during hip hop's golden age. He was particularly recognized for his humorous and comedic style within hip hop, often leading to his nickname, the " Clown Prince of Hip Hop".Ma, DavidBiz Markie, Pioneering Beatboxer And 'Just A Friend' Rapper, Dies At 57 NPR, July 16, 2021 Markie's achieved mainstream success with his 1989 single " Just a Friend", which reached No. 9 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart and became a platinum-certified hit. The song has since been widely regarded as a classic, featured prominently in pop culture and recognized on VH1's list of the greatest hip-hop songs. Throughout his career, Markie was associated with influential hip-hop groups and labels, notably the Juice Crew collective and Cold Chillin' Records. Beyond his music, Biz Markie had an extensive presence on television ...
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Paul C
Paul C. McKasty (September 20, 1964July 17, 1989), better known as Paul C, was an American East Coast hip hop pioneer, producer, engineer, and mixer in the 1980s.Pritt Kalsi McKasty gained recognition for his work with notable artists such as Devo, Organized Konfusion, Kwamé, Queen Latifah, Biz Markie, Ultramagnetic MCs, Rahzel, and Eric B & Rakim. ''Complex'' called him "one of the most important figures in the development of sampling" and Questlove of the Roots called McKasty, "damn near the J Dilla of his day." Work Paul gave himself the middle name "Charles" after Ray Charles, which he shortened to the initial "C". He developed an interest in music from his older brother Michael, who was a guitarist, and Tim, who worked as a recording engineer at 1212 Studio in Queens. According to Paul's middle school friend TeQnotic, he was an already gifted artist and bass guitar player in junior high. McKasty began his musical career as a bassist of the pop rock band the Mandolindle ...
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Streaming Services
A streaming media service (also simply called a streaming service) is an online platform that allows users to watch or listen to content, such as film, movies, Television show, TV shows, music, or podcasts, over the internet. Instead of downloading the content to their device, users can stream it in real-time, which means they can start watching or listening immediately without having to wait for the entire file to download. Popular examples of streaming services include Netflix, Spotify, YouTube, and Disney+. Streaming services offer instant access to content, allowing users to watch or listen on-demand without the need for downloads or physical media. An over-the-top media service (OTT) is a streaming media service offered directly to viewers via the Internet. OTT bypasses Cable television, cable, Broadcast television, broadcast, and satellite television platforms, the companies that traditionally act as controllers or distributors of such content. Most of these services are own ...
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Jet (magazine)
''Jet'' is an American weekly digital magazine focusing on news, culture, and entertainment related to the African-American community. Founded in print by John H. Johnson in November 1951 in Chicago, Illinois, the magazine was billed as "The Weekly Negro News Magazine". As publisher, the Johnson Publishing Company created ''Jet'' magazine to offer Black Americans proper representation, noting under-representation of African Americans in the general media. ''Jet'' chronicled the civil rights movement from its earliest years, including the murder of Emmett Till, the Montgomery bus boycott, and the activities of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. ''Jet'' was printed from November 1, 1951, in digest-sized format in all or mostly black-and-white until its December 27, 1999, issue. In 2009, ''Jet'' expanded one of the weekly issues to a double issue published once each month. Johnson Publishing Company struggled with the same loss of circulation and advertising as other maga ...
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The Cactus Album
''The Cactus Al/Bum'' (also known as ''The Cactus Cee/D'' and ''The Cactus Cas/Ette'' depending on release format) is the debut album by hip hop trio 3rd Bass, released on Def Jam Recordings on November 14, 1989. The album received positive reviews from the hip hop press and is also notable for featuring the recording debut of rapper Zev Love X of KMD, later known as MF Doom, on "The Gas Face". It was certified gold by the RIAA on April 24, 1990. ''The Cactus Album'' peaked at No. 5 on ''Billboard''s Top Hip Hop/R&B Albums chart and at No. 55 on the Billboard 200 chart. In 1998, the album was selected as one of ''The Source''s "100 Best Rap Albums". A decade later, Rhapsody included ''The Cactus Album'' in its list of "The 10 Best Albums By White Rappers". Background Most of the music was produced by Sam Sever, alongside members MC Serch and Pete Nice, except for the Prince Paul-produced tracks "The Gas Face" and "Brooklyn-Queens," and "Steppin' to the A.M." and "Oval Offi ...
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3rd Bass
3rd Bass is an American hip hop group that was most active in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Formed by MC Serch, Pete Nice, and DJ Richie Rich, the group was notable for being one of the first successful interracial hip hop acts. Along with the Beastie Boys and producer Rick Rubin, MC Serch and Pete Nice were two of the very few white hip hop artists who were widely respected in the community. The group dissolved in 1994 and again in 2000 and 2013 after short-lived reunions. The group released two studio albums in their initial career and both of them were certified gold by the RIAA. Career MC Serch (Michael Berrin), Prime Minister Pete Nice (Peter J. Nash), and DJ Richie Rich (Richard Lawson) were the three founding members of the group. Richie Rich was a local D.J., while Nice was an English major at Columbia University and hosted a hip hop show on Columbia's student radio station, WKCR-FM. Serch performed at clubs and block parties, and released a single called "Hey ...
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Cassette Tape
The Compact Cassette, also commonly called a cassette tape, audio cassette, or simply tape or cassette, is an analog audio, analog magnetic tape recording format for Sound recording and reproduction, audio recording and playback. Invented by Lou Ottens and his team at the Netherlands, Dutch company Philips, the Compact Cassette was released in August 1963. Compact Cassettes come in two forms, either containing content as a prerecorded cassette (''Musicassette''), or as a fully recordable "blank" cassette. Both forms have two sides and are reversible by the user. Although List of magnetic tape cartridges and cassettes, other tape cassette formats have also existed—for example the Microcassette—the generic term ''cassette tape'' is normally used to refer to the Compact Cassette because of its ubiquity. From 1983 to 1991 the cassette tape was the most popular Timeline of audio formats, audio format for new Record sales, music sales in the United States. Compact Cassettes con ...
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Compact Disc
The compact disc (CD) is a Digital media, digital optical disc data storage format co-developed by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings. It employs the Compact Disc Digital Audio (CD-DA) standard and was capable of holding of uncompressed stereo audio. First released in Japan in October 1982, the CD was the second optical disc format to reach the market, following the larger LaserDisc (LD). In later years, the technology was adapted for computer data storage as CD-ROM and subsequently expanded into various writable and multimedia formats. , over 200 billion CDs (including audio CDs, CD-ROMs, and CD-Rs) had been sold worldwide. Standard CDs have a diameter of and typically hold up to 74 minutes of audio or approximately of data. This was later regularly extended to 80 minutes or by reducing the spacing between data tracks, with some discs unofficially reaching up to 99 minutes or which falls outside established specifications. Smaller variants, such ...
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