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W.L.A.K.
W.L.A.K. also known as We Live As Kings or WLAK is a Christian hip hop and Contemporary R&B music group from the United States that started in 2011. It released its eponymously titled debut album in 2013. Background W.L.A.K. or We Live As Kings is music group that currently consists of Alex Faith, Corey Paul, Dre Murray, and Ki'shon Furlow. They formed 2011, when they started Collision Records together as a collective. The group was founded by Christon Gray, Alex Faith, Dre Murray, and Swoope, but Gray left in 2015 and was replaced by Corey Paul. Swoope was later replaced by Ki'shon Furlow. Music history The group release their debut album on March 5, 2013, through Collision Records, which it was the eponymously-titled '' W.L.A.K.''. The album charted on numerous ''Billboard'' charts on March 23, 2013. It was the No. 81 most sold album in the entirety of the United States via the ''Billboard'' 200, which it was the No. 6 most sold on the Christian Albums chart, and the No. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Faith
Alex Faith (born December 27, 1989) is an American hip hop singer-songwriter born and raised between the Cabbagetown enclave of Atlanta, Georgia and Riverdale, just south of Atlanta, GA. He was formerly a member of the rap collective W.L.A.K. Background Alex Faith was born on December 27, 1989, in Riverdale, Georgia and raised in the Cabbagetown community. History Faith first appeared on Sho Baraka's Barakology mixtape in 2009. He is a member of the collective W.L.A.K. In 2012, Faith released a mixtape entitled ''Honest 2 God''. In 2013, Faith released his first studio album with Collision Records entitled ''ATLast ''ATLast'' is the debut studio album from Christian hip hop musician Alex Faith. The album released on November 5, 2013 by Collision Records to select retailers such as iTunes and November 19, 2013 to all retailers. It charted on the ''Billboard' ...''. His second studio album, ''Bloodlines'', was released on October 30, 2015, from Collision Records. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dre Murray
Andre' Ledarryl Murray, better known by the stage name Dre Murray, (born September 14, 1981) is an American hip hop artist born and raised in Houston, Texas. He is a member of the rap collective We Live As Kings ( W.L.A.K.). Biography Murray was born Andre' Ledarryl Murray on September 14, 1981, in Houston, Texas, to Andrew Lee Murray and Marjorie Ann Murray (''née'', Jones). He currently lives in Oklahoma with his wife and three children. In 2008, Murray released his first album entitled ''Manumit''. Between 2009 and 2011, Murray along with Wit created a series entitled ''Hell's Paradise''. In 2012, Dre Murray signed to Collision Records, and became part of the Christian hip hop collective W.L.A.K. In 2013, Murray released his second studio album, ''Gold Rush: Maybe One Day'', with Collision Records. He released, '' Southern Lights: Overexposed'', with Alex Faith on April 28, 2015 by Collision Records as well as "Southern Lights Remix" also with Alex Faith and was produce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christon Gray
Christon Michael Gray (born July 18, 1986), is an American R&B singer and rapper born and raised in Columbus, Ohio. He calls his music "about being human". It is this approach that has allowed him a successful transition from Christian music to mainstream. Background Gray was born Christon Michael Gray on July 18, 1986, in Columbus, Ohio. His parents, Arthur Gray (a former choir leader), and his mother Leigh Ann (a trained soprano) have two other children; Christon's older brother, Taelor Gray, who is also a rapper and pastor, and his younger sister Aubrey, who is currently a college student. He resides in Cincinnati, Ohio with his wife, Shana Gray and has a daughter named Mya Blue. On February 22, 2020, they welcomed a baby girl, Story Monroe Gray. Music career 2006–2011: Elevationists and EWEWM In 2006, Gray was a part of The Elevationists with his brother, Taelor and childhood friend BJ (James Hazley). After a few years together, they disbanded the group. In 2011, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swoope
Lawrence Allen Swoope II, mononymously-known as Swoope, (born April 2, 1986) is an American hip hop Christian singer-songwriter and producer born and raised in Akron, Ohio. He was a member of the rap collective W.L.A.K. and High Society with Sho Baraka. Background Swoope was born Lawrence Allen Swoope II on April 2, 1986 in Akron, Ohio Akron () is the fifth-largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Summit County. It is located on the western edge of the Glaciated Allegheny Plateau, about south of downtown Cleveland. As of the 2020 Census, the city .... His mother, Diana Lynn Swoope (née, Cook), is the Pastor for Arlington Church of God, also in Akron. His father is Lawrence Allen Swoope I. History His career started off in 2010 with the release of the EP ''Applause Vol. 1'' and the single "Actions Speak Louder". On April 24, 2011, Swoope released an EP entitled ''Spring Fling''. On June 15, 2011, he released ''Spring Fling Instrumentals''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swoope (rapper)
Lawrence Allen Swoope II, mononymously-known as Swoope, (born April 2, 1986) is an American hip hop Christian singer-songwriter and producer born and raised in Akron, Ohio. He was a member of the rap collective W.L.A.K. and High Society with Sho Baraka. Background Swoope was born Lawrence Allen Swoope II on April 2, 1986 in Akron, Ohio Akron () is the fifth-largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Summit County. It is located on the western edge of the Glaciated Allegheny Plateau, about south of downtown Cleveland. As of the 2020 Census, the city .... His mother, Diana Lynn Swoope (née, Cook), is the Pastor for Arlington Church of God, also in Akron. His father is Lawrence Allen Swoope I. History His career started off in 2010 with the release of the EP ''Applause Vol. 1'' and the single "Actions Speak Louder". On April 24, 2011, Swoope released an EP entitled ''Spring Fling''. On June 15, 2011, he released ''Spring Fling Instrumentals''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corey Paul
Corey Paul Davis (born March 10, 1987), known by the stage name Corey Paul, is an American Christian hip hop musician from Houston, Texas. His debut album, ''Grace Love Mercy'', released on July 30, 2013, by Frontline Media Group. This album was his ''Billboard'' chart debut album.http://www.billboard.com/biz/search/charts?f ts_chart_artistname%3ACorey%20Paul&f ss_bb_type%3Achart_item&type=2&artist=Corey%20Paul In March 2015, Corey Paul was signed onto Collision Records, by December he released his second Billboard charting album, "Today Tomorrow Forever". In July 2017 he announced his departure from Collision Records. Early life Corey Paul was born on March 10, 1987, as Corey Paul Davis, in Houston, Texas. Corey was raised by his mother and his stepfather, who eventually became a crack cocaine addict. At the age of six his father beat and burned his mother with an iron, and by the age of eight he witnessed his mother shoot his father in self-defense. When Corey was nine his fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Hip Hop
Christian hip hop (originally gospel rap, also known as Christian rap, gospel hip hop or holy hip hop) is a subgenre of contemporary Christian music and hip hop music. It emerged from urban contemporary music and Christian media in the United States during the 1980s. Christian hip hop music first emerged on record in 1982 with a track entitled "Jesus Christ (The Gospel Beat)" by Queens, New York artist McSweet. The first full-length, Christian hip hop album, '' Bible Break'', by Oklahoma artist Stephen Wiley, was released in 1985 with the title track becoming a hit on Christian radio in 1986. Other early Christian hip recording artists from the mid-1980s included P.I.D. (Preachas in Disguise), who recorded to funky rock rhythms, as well as JC & the Boys and Michael Peace. During the 1990s and 2000s, rapper KJ-52 rose to prominence in the field. Christian rock band DC Talk blended hip-hop and rock, and were successful in mainstream Christian music. All three band members hav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rap Albums
Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums is a music chart published weekly by ''Billboard'' magazine that ranks R&B and hip hop albums based on sales in the United States and is compiled by Nielsen SoundScan. The chart debuted as Hot R&B LPs in the issue dated January 30, 1965 in an effort by the magazine to further expand into the field of rhythm and blues music. It then went through several name changes, being known as Soul LPs in the 1970s and Top Black Albums in the 1980s, before returning to the R&B identification in 1990 and affixing a hip hop designation in 1999 to reflect the latter's growing sales and relationship to R&B during the decade. From 1965 through 2009, the chart was compiled based on reported sales at a core panel of stores with a "higher-than-average volume" of R&B and/or hip-hop album sales to monitor buying trends of the African-American community. This panel included more independent and smaller chain stores compared to the high percentage of mass merchants that account for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Hip Hop Groups
Christians () are people who follow or adhere to Christianity, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. The words ''Christ'' and ''Christian'' derive from the Koine Greek title ''Christós'' (Χριστός), a translation of the Biblical Hebrew term ''mashiach'' (מָשִׁיחַ) (usually rendered as ''messiah'' in English). While there are diverse interpretations of Christianity which sometimes conflict, they are united in believing that Jesus has a unique significance. The term ''Christian'' used as an adjective is descriptive of anything associated with Christianity or Christian churches, or in a proverbial sense "all that is noble, and good, and Christ-like." It does not have a meaning of 'of Christ' or 'related or pertaining to Christ'. According to a 2011 Pew Research Center survey, there were 2.2 billion Christians around the world in 2010, up from about 600 million in 1910. Today, about 37% of all Christians live in the Am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musical Groups Established In 2011
Musical is the adjective of music. Musical may also refer to: * Musical theatre, a performance art that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance * Musical film and television, a genre of film and television that incorporates into the narrative songs sung by the characters * MusicAL, an Albanian television channel * Musical isomorphism, the canonical isomorphism between the tangent and cotangent bundles See also * Lists of musicals * Music (other) * Musica (other) Musica (Latin), or La Musica (Italian) or Música (Portuguese and Spanish) may refer to: Music Albums * '' Musica è'', a mini album by Italian funk singer Eros Ramazzotti 1988 * ''Musica'', an album by Ghaleb 2005 * ), a German album by Giov ... * Musicality, the ability to perceive music or to create music * {{Music disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music Download
A music download (commonly referred to as a digital download) is the digital transfer of music via the Internet into a device capable of decoding and playing it, such as a personal computer, portable media player, MP3 player or smartphone. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyrighted material without permission or legal payment. According to a Nielsen report, downloadable music accounted for 55.9 percent of all music sales in the US in 2012."All music sales" refers to albums plus track equivalent albums. A track equivalent album equates to 10 tracks. By the beginning of 2011, Apple's iTunes Store alone made 1.1 billion of revenue in the first quarter of its fiscal year. Music downloads are typically encoded with modified discrete cosine transform (MDCT) audio data compression, particularly the Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) format used by iTunes as well as the MP3 audio coding format. Online music store Paid downloads are sometimes encoded wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Compact Disc
The compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was co-developed by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings. In August 1982, the first compact disc was manufactured. It was then released in October 1982 in Japan and branded as '' Digital Audio Compact Disc''. The format was later adapted (as CD-ROM) for general-purpose data storage. Several other formats were further derived, including write-once audio and data storage ( CD-R), rewritable media ( CD-RW), Video CD (VCD), Super Video CD (SVCD), Photo CD, Picture CD, Compact Disc-Interactive (CD-i) and Enhanced Music CD. Standard CDs have a diameter of and are designed to hold up to 74 minutes of uncompressed stereo digital audio or about 650 MiB of data. Capacity is routinely extended to 80 minutes and 700 MiB by arranging data more closely on the same sized disc. The Mini CD has various diameters ranging from ; they are sometimes used for CD singles, storing up to 24 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
