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The Beatnuts
The Beatnuts is an American hip hop group and production duo from New York City. Its current members are JuJu and Psycho Les. JuJu (born Jerry Tineo on December 14, 1968) is a Dominican American from Corona and Psycho Les (born Lester Fernandez on April 10, 1970) is a Colombian American from Jackson Heights, Queens. Although only peripheral members, they are routinely acknowledged by Q-Tip as being members of Native Tongues. The Beatnuts were originally a trio before Fashion (born Berntony Smalls on January 13, 1970), now known as Al' Tariq, left the group to start a solo career. V.I.C. (Groove Merchantz, Ghetto Pros) was also a member of The Beatnuts' production team for a while. History Origins JuJu and Psycho Les grew up in different communities in Queens, New York City. Psycho Les started producing beats and DJing at age 15 under aliases including DJ Les Jams and DJ Incredible. At a high school in Flushing, Queens, a friend DJ Loco Moe introduced Les to fellow producer ... [...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] |
De La Soul
De La Soul ( ) is an American hip hop music, hip hop group formed in the village of Amityville on Long Island, New York (state), New York in 1988. They are best known for their eclectic sampling, eccentric lyrics, and contributions to the evolution of the jazz rap and alternative hip hop subgenres. Kelvin Mercer, Kelvin "Posdnuos" Mercer, David Jolicoeur, David "Trugoy the Dove" Jolicoeur, and Vincent Mason, Vincent "Maseo" Mason formed the group in high school and caught the attention of producer Prince Paul (producer), Prince Paul with a demo tape of the song "Plug Tunin'". With its playful wordplay, innovative sampling, and witty skits, the group's debut album, ''3 Feet High and Rising'' (1989), has been called "a hip hop masterpiece". It remains their biggest commercial success, though subsequent albums have continued to receive acclaim. De La Soul is the second-longest-standing Native Tongues group, after the Jungle Brothers. In 2006, the group won a Grammy Award, Grammy for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suprême NTM
Suprême NTM (), or simply NTM, is a French hip hop band formed in 1989 in Saint-Denis, Île-de-France. The band comprises rappers JoeyStarr and Kool Shen. Their 6 albums were released by Sony Music. The group takes its name from the French slang "NTM", an initialism for "''Nique Ta Merde''" ("Fuck Your Poo"; the vulgar slang word "niquer" is derived from North African Sabir "i nik" ("he makes love"), which in turn comes from the Arabic "nak" (same meaning)). Suprême NTM is known for representing the perspective of minority groups in underprivileged, "invisible" neighborhoods around Paris. Through the use of politically-conscious lyrics, NTM raises awareness of police brutality, racist legislation, and youth violence, culminating in a series of highly-publicized legal battles with the French authorities. Their musical style is predominantly hardcore rap, although later albums include funk, soul and reggae influences. The group is outspokenly critical of racism and class ineq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fat Joe
Joseph Antonio Cartagena (born August 19, 1970), better known by his stage name Fat Joe, is an American rapper. He began recording as a member of Hip-hop, hip hop group D.I.T.C., Diggin' in the Crates Crew (D.I.T.C.) in 1992, and pursued a solo career with the release of his debut studio album, ''Represent (Fat Joe album), Represent'' (1993) the following year. Cartegena formed the hip hop group Terror Squad (group), Terror Squad and its Terror Squad Entertainment, namesake record label in the late 1990s, through which he has signed fellow New York artists including Big Pun, Remy Ma, Tony Sunshine, Cuban Link, Triple Seis, as well as then-unknown producers DJ Khaled and Cool & Dre. ''Represent'' was preceded by his debut single "Flow Joe", which entered the Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and peaked atop the Hot Rap Songs chart. The album was followed by ''Jealous One's Envy'' (1995), ''Don Cartagena'' (1998), and ''Jealous Ones Still Envy (J.O.S.E.)'' (2001)—the lat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chi-Ali
Chi-Ali Griffith (born May 27, 1976), better known by his stage name Chi-Ali, is an American rapper from The Bronx, best known for his debut album, '' The Fabulous Chi-Ali'', released in 1992, and as a member of hip-hop collective Native Tongues. Music career Chi-Ali made his first appearance on Black Sheep's debut album, '' A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing'', on the posse cut "Pass the 40". Chi Ali at the time was a core member of Native Tongues, a New York City-based hip-hop collective, and also had connections with the Legion family, along with Showbiz and A.G. In 1992, Chi-Ali released his first solo single, "Age Ain't Nothing But a #", which was a moderate hit and reached #6 on the Hot Rap Singles chart. The song was popular on urban radio stations, and the music video received good rotation on ''Yo! MTV Raps'' and ''Rap City''. The album in which the song was featured, '' The Fabulous Chi-Ali'', was released shortly thereafter, which yielded two other singles: "Roadrunner" a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurious
Jorge Antonio Alvarez (born May 1, 1970), better known by his stage names Kurious or Kurious Jorge, is an American hip hop recording artist from New York City. Biography Kurious is of Puerto Rican and Cuban descent, and grew up in the Upper West Side neighborhood of Manhattan Valley. In 1993, he appeared on Pete Nice and DJ Richie Rich's album '' Dust to Dust''. The duo helped Kurious get a record deal with Columbia Records via Bobbito and Nice's Hoppoh imprint. In 1992, he released his first single, "Walk Like a Duck". Then he signed a contract with Sony Music. In 1994, Kurious released his critically acclaimed debut album '' A Constipated Monkey''. In 1999, he reemerged on MF Doom's album '' Operation: Doomsday'' on the track "?" and contributed a track to a Monsta Island Czars mixtape, under the alias Biollante. Kurious later explained that his contract with Sony was "terrible" and that he "had to wait it out to get out of it." Amalgam Digital reissued ''A Constipate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DJ Richie Rich
Richard Lawson (born December 24, 1969, in Jamaica), known professionally as DJ Daddy Rich or DJ Richie Rich, is a Jamaican-American record producer and turntablist who was best known as a member of the New York-based rap trio 3rd Bass.Wynn, RonRichie Rich Biography, AllMusic, retrieved June 5, 2011 He was part of The "Supermen" DJ crew which also included other top DJs such as Scratch, Clark Kent, Miz, Supreme, and Alladin. Rich also appeared in the movie "Juice" in the DJ battle scene, and recorded the scratches for the soundtrack. While working with 3rd Bass, he was one of the first DJs ever to do a DJ trick routine on TV when they appeared on ''The Arsenio Hall Show''. Lawson attended Farmingdale State College. Biography With MC Serch and Pete Nice, Lawson formed the rap group 3 the Hard Way, which became 3rd Bass, in 1988. After releasing two albums in 1989 and 1991, the group split in 1992. Rich and Pete Nice collaborated on their only release together, the 1993 album ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pete Nice
Peter J. Nash (born February 5, 1967), known by his stage name Prime Minister Pete Nice or simply Pete Nice, is an American baseball historian and author, member of the Society for American Baseball Research, Hip Hop historian, and former rapper and record producer. Nash gained recognition as one-third of Def Jam's golden age hip hop group 3rd Bass. Early life Peter Nash was born on February 5, 1967, in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York, to Carole and Raymond Nash. After a successful high school basketball career, Nash graduated from Bishop Ford High School in 1985, joining the Columbia Lions Mens Basketball Team while majoring in English. He graduated magna cum laude from Columbia in 1989. Music career While in high school, Nash formed a rap group called Sin Qua Non with his friends Buddah B, Kibwe K, and Fresh Fred. Kibwe K's father was a friend of activist Sonny Carson, and through that connection Nash was introduced to Lumumba Carson, later known as Professor X the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Common (rapper)
Lonnie Rashid Lynn (born March 13, 1972), known professionally as Common (formerly known as Common Sense), is an American rapper and actor. The recipient of three Grammy Awards, an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Golden Globe Award, he signed with the independent label Relativity Records at the age of 20. The label released his first three studio albums: ''Can I Borrow a Dollar?'' (1992), ''Resurrection (Common album), Resurrection'' (1994) and ''One Day It'll All Make Sense'' (1997). He maintained an Underground hip hop, underground following into the late 1990s, and achieved mainstream success through his work with the Black music collective Soulquarians. After attaining a major label record deal, he released his fourth and fifth albums, ''Like Water for Chocolate (album), Like Water for Chocolate'' (2000) and ''Electric Circus (album), Electric Circus'' (2002), to continued acclaim and modest commercial response. He guest performed on fellow Soulquarian, Erykah Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monie Love
Simone Johnson (born Simone Gooden) (born 2 July 1970), better known by her stage name Monie Love, is an English rapper, actress, and radio personality known for her singles during the late 1980s and the 1990s. Love is a radio personality for urban adult contemporary station KISS 104.1 WALR-FM in Atlanta. Love is a pioneer female emcee, a two-time Grammy Award nominee, the first British female hip hop artist to hold that distinction. Career Music Love's debut studio album, '' Down to Earth'', was released on 6 November 1990. It spawned the singles "Monie in the Middle" (a track dealing with a woman's right to determine what she wants out of a relationship) and " It's a Shame (My Sister)" (which sampled the (Detroit) Spinners' "It's a Shame", written for the band by the US musician Stevie Wonder). It also featured house-music vocalist and then-labelmate Ultra Naté. The album reached No. 26 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. Love also appears on the song titled "United" fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stereo MCs
Stereo MC's are an English hip hop and electronic dance group that formed in Clapham, London, in 1985. They had an international top 20 hit with their single " Connected" and a UK top 20 hit with " Step It Up". After releasing eight albums for Island Records, !K7, Graffiti Recordings, and PIAS, they formed the label Connected with the band Terranova to release their own material and that of other artists within the house/techno/electronic genre. Career Rob Birch (vocalist/songwriter) and Nick Hallam (DJ/producer) co-founded the Gee Street recording studio and record label, in 1985 along with Jon Baker and DJ Richie Rich. Part of the finance came from Birch and Hallam's joint receipt of £14,000 from a property developer, on condition they vacated their adjacent flats. When Gee Street attracted the attention of 4th & Broadway, they recorded the debut Stereo MCs' studio album, '' 33-45-78'' (1989), on a shoestring budget with DJ Cesare. Drummer Owen If and backing vocalist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electronica
Electronica is both a broad group of electronic-based music styles intended for listening rather than strictly for dancing and a music scene that came to prominence in the early 1990s in the United Kingdom. In the United States, the term is mostly used to refer to electronic music generally. History Early 1990s: Origins and UK scene The original widespread use of the term "electronica" derives from the influential English experimental techno label New Electronica, which was one of the leading forces of the early 1990s introducing and supporting dance-based electronic music oriented towards home listening rather than dance-floor play, although the word "electronica" had already begun to be associated with synthesizer generated music as early as 1983, when a "UK Electronica Festival" was first held. At that time electronica became known as "electronic listening music", also becoming more or less synonymous to ambient techno and intelligent techno, and was considered distinc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
