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Seattle
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Seattle is a seaport city on the west coast of the United States and the seat of King County, Washington. With an estimated 684,451 residents as of 2015, Seattle is the largest city in both the state of Washington and the Pacific Northwest region of North America. In July 2013, it was the major city in the United States. The city is situated on an isthmus between Puget Sound and Lake Washington, about 100 miles south of the Canada–United States border, a major gateway for trade with Asia, Seattle is the fourth-largest port in North America in terms of container handling as of 2015. The Seattle area was inhabited by Native Americans for at least 4,000 years before the first permanent European settlers. Arthur A. Denny and his group of travelers, subsequently known as the Denny Party, arrived from Illinois via Portland, the settlement was moved to the eastern shore of Elliott Bay and named Seattle in 1852, after Chief Siahl of the local Duwamish and Suquamish tribes. Logging was Seattles first major industry, but by the late-19th century, growth after World War II was partially due to the local Boeing company, which established Seattle as a center for aircraft manufacturing. The Seattle area developed as a technology center beginning in the 1980s, in 1994, Internet retailer Amazon was founded in Seattle. The stream of new software, biotechnology, and Internet companies led to an economic revival, Seattle has a noteworthy musical history. From 1918 to 1951, nearly two dozen jazz nightclubs existed along Jackson Street, from the current Chinatown/International District, to the Central District, the jazz scene developed the early careers of Ray Charles, Quincy Jones, Ernestine Anderson, and others. Seattle is also the birthplace of rock musician Jimi Hendrix and the alternative rock subgenre grunge, archaeological excavations suggest that Native Americans have inhabited the Seattle area for at least 4,000 years. By the time the first European settlers arrived, the people occupied at least seventeen villages in the areas around Elliott Bay, the first European to visit the Seattle area was George Vancouver, in May 1792 during his 1791–95 expedition to chart the Pacific Northwest. In 1851, a party led by Luther Collins made a location on land at the mouth of the Duwamish River. Thirteen days later, members of the Collins Party on the way to their claim passed three scouts of the Denny Party, members of the Denny Party claimed land on Alki Point on September 28,1851. The rest of the Denny Party set sail from Portland, Oregon, after a difficult winter, most of the Denny Party relocated across Elliott Bay and claimed land a second time at the site of present-day Pioneer Square, naming this new settlement Duwamps. For the next few years, New York Alki and Duwamps competed for dominance, david Swinson Doc Maynard, one of the founders of Duwamps, was the primary advocate to name the settlement after Chief Sealth of the Duwamish and Suquamish tribes. The name Seattle appears on official Washington Territory papers dated May 23,1853, in 1855, nominal land settlements were established. On January 14,1865, the Legislature of Territorial Washington incorporated the Town of Seattle with a board of managing the city
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Hip hop music
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It developed as part of hip hop culture, a subculture defined by four key stylistic elements, MCing/rapping, DJing/scratching with turntables, break dancing, and graffiti writing. Other elements include sampling beats or bass lines from records, while often used to refer solely to rapping, hip hop more properly denotes the practice of the entire subculture. Hip hops early evolution occurred as sampling technology and drum machines became available and affordable. Turntablist techniques such as scratching and beatmatching developed along with the breaks and Jamaican toasting, rapping developed as a vocal style in which the artist speaks or chants along rhythmically with an instrumental or synthesized beat. The Sugarhill Gangs 1979 song Rappers Delight is widely regarded to be the first hip hop record to gain popularity in the mainstream. The 1980s marked the diversification of hip hop as the genre developed more complex styles, prior to the 1980s, hip hop music was largely confined within the United States. However, during the 1980s, it began to spread to scenes in dozens of countries. New school hip hop was the wave of hip hop music, originating in 1983–84 with the early records of Run-D. M. C. The Golden age hip hop period was a period between the mid-1980s and the early 1990s. Notable artists from this era include the Juice Crew, Public Enemy, & Rakim, Boogie Down Productions and KRS-One, EPMD, Slick Rick, Beastie Boys, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Ultramagnetic MCs, De La Soul, and A Tribe Called Quest. Gangsta rap is a subgenre of hip hop that often focuses on the violent lifestyles, in the West Coast hip hop style, G-funk dominated mainstream hip hop for several years during the 1990s. I. G. In the 1990s, hip hop began to diversify with other regional styles emerging, such as Southern rap, at the same time, hip hop continued to be assimilated into other genres of popular music, examples being Neo soul and nu metal. Hip hop became a pop music genre in the mid-1990s. The popularity of hip hop music continued through the 2000s, with hip hop influences also increasingly finding their way into mainstream pop, the United States also saw the success of regional styles such as crunk, a Southern genre that emphasized the beats and music more than the lyrics. Starting in 2005, sales of hip hop music in the United States began to severely wane, during the mid-2000s, alternative hip hop secured a place in the mainstream, due in part to the crossover success of artists such as OutKast and Kanye West. Creation of the hip hop is often credited to Keith Cowboy, rapper with Grandmaster Flash. However, Lovebug Starski, Keith Cowboy, and DJ Hollywood used the term when the music was known as disco rap. Cowboy later worked the hip hop cadence into a part of his stage performance, the first use of the term in print was in The Village Voice, by Steven Hager, later author of a 1984 history of hip hop
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Ryan Lewis
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Ryan Lewis is an American DJ, musician, record producer, videographer, photographer, graphic designer, music video director and hip hop recording artist. Along with producing his own album titled Instrumentals, Lewis produced the albums The VS. EP, Ryan Lewis was born on March 25,1988 to Julie and Scott Lewis. Lewis has two sisters, Teresa and Laura, four years and two older than he is, respectively. At an early age, he played guitar in bands with his childhood best friend Ryan Sanson. He attended Ferris High School in Spokane, Washington and graduated from Roosevelt High School in Seattle and he graduated from the University of Washington majoring in Comparative History of Ideas. Lewis became a photographer and videographer. In 2008 he released his extended play, Instrumentals, with four alternative hip hop songs. In the same year, Lewis collaborated with Rhode Island-based emcee Symmetry in a self-titled work, Lewis first met Macklemore in 2006, but only in 2009 they formalized the collaboration with Macklemore as the duo Macklemore & Ryan Lewis and released the EP The VS. EP. In October 2010, he produced the VS. Redux EP and, in December, their debut single, Wings was released on January 21,2011, followed by Cant Hold Us featuring Ray Dalton on August 16,2011. Their album The Heist was released in October 2012, previously released singles My Oh My, Wings, and Cant Hold Us were announced to be included on the album – as was the song Make the Money. Cant Hold Us was used as soundtrack for a Miller beer ad in UK, same Love was released on July 18,2012, and songs White Walls featuring Schoolboy Q and Jimmy Iovine featuring Ab-Soul were confirmed to be included on the album. The Heist debuted on the US Billboard 200 at number 2, the song topped the Billboard Hot 100 for six weeks, giving them their first number 1 hit in the US. The Heist World Tour began in August 2012 to promote The Heist, in January 2015, Lewis announced via Twitter that his third studio album will be released sometime in the second half of the year. On August 5,2015, Macklemore released a song for free download titled Growing Up, which features Ed Sheeran. On August 27,2015, the duo released a new song, Downtown, featuring Eric Nally, Kool Moe Dee, Melle Mel, Downtown is part of their new album, This Unruly Mess Ive Made, which was released on February 26,2016. On January 22,2016, the duo released White Privilege II, list of awards and nominations received by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Official website
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Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
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Macklemore & Ryan Lewis are an American hip hop duo, formed in 2008, from Seattle, Washington. In 2009, they released their first collaborative effort, an EP titled VS. EP and they have since followed up with VS. Redux, the Grammy Award-winning album The Heist and This Unruly Mess Ive Made. Macklemore and Lewis single Thrift Shop reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 in 2013, records’ radio promotion department to push his singles. Macklemore and Lewis released their studio album, The Heist, on October 9,2012. The pair won four Grammy Awards at the 2014 ceremony, including Best New Artist, Best Rap Album, Best Rap Song and their second album, This Unruly Mess Ive Made, was released on February 26,2016. Macklemore and Ryan Lewis met in 2006, Lewis spent a few years working on Macklemores promotion as a photographer and, after, they would soon become good friends. Lewis would go on to produce for Macklemore, the two eventually working full-time as a title-credited duo. In 2008 they formalized the collaboration as a duo and performed at Bumbershoot, at the Sasquatch Music Festival in The Gorge Amphitheatre, in 2009 was released the debut extended play, The VS. EP. The latter would reach No.7 on the iTunes Hip Hop chart and they also released Irish Celebration in December 2009 in anticipation of the release of The VS. EP. In March 2010, the duo released for free download Stay At Home Dad, in October 2010, they created the VS. Redux EP. Macklemore and Lewis used his experience with substance abuse to create the critically acclaimed song Otherside. In 2011, they released a song named My Oh My as debut single for recently deceased Seattle Mariners broadcaster Dave Niehaus. On April 8,2011, they performed the song at the 2011 Mariners Opening Day in front of a crowd of nearly 48,000 attendees. Wings was released on January 21,2011, and charted on Billboards Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles at number 12, Cant Hold Us eventually became the duos second number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on May 18,2013 and stayed there for 5 weeks. In February 2011, they kicked off a multi-city tour in Pullman, Washington and that same year, the rapper appeared at many U. S. music festivals, including Bumbershoot, Outside Lands, Lollapalooza, Rock the Bells, SoundSet, Sasquatch, and Bonnaroo. His album The Heist was released in October 2012, previously released singles My Oh My, Wings, and Cant Hold Us were announced to be included on the album – as was the song Make the Money. Cant Hold Us was used as soundtrack for a Miller beer ad in UK and Ireland in June 2012, increasing Macklemore, Same Love was released on July 18,2012, and later peaked at number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100. The songs White Walls featuring ScHoolboy Q and Jimmy Iovine featuring Ab-Soul were confirmed to be included on the album
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Mixtape
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A mixtape is a home-made compilation of music recorded in a specific order, traditionally onto a cassette tape, though later replaced by CD or MP3 playlist formats. The songs can be sequential, or by beatmatching the songs and creating overlaps, compilations may include a selection of favorite songs, or music linked by theme or mood, perhaps tailored to the tapes intended recipient. Writing in 2004, essayist Geoffrey OBrien called the mix tape perhaps the most widely practiced American art form. Homemade mix tapes became common in the 1980s, but improvements in fidelity finally allowed the cassette to become a major player. The growth of the mixtape was also encouraged by improved quality and increased popularity of audio players in car entertainment systems. These recordings tended to be of technical ability than home-made mixtapes. One 12 October 1974 article in Billboard Magazine reported, Tapes were originally dubbed by jockeys to serve as standbys for times when they did not have disco turntables to hand, the tapes represent each jockeys concept of programming, placing, and sequencing of record sides. The music is heard without interruption, one- to three-hour programs bring anywhere from $30 to $75 per tape, mostly reel-to-reel, but increasingly on cartridge and cassette. Club proprietors, as well as DJs, would often prepare such tapes for sale, throughout the 1980s, mixtapes were a highly visible element of youth culture. The high point of traditional culture was arguably the publication of Nick Hornbys novel High Fidelity in 1995. Some mix enthusiasts also appreciate the potential of the mix CD for extended, continuous mixes, MP3 players have further enhanced track accessibility, though ones without a screen defeat that purpose. Today, websites concerned with electronic music provide mixes in a digital format and these usually consist of recorded DJ sets of live, beat-matched mixes of songs, which are used by DJs seeking to demonstrate their mixing skills to an online audience. Some radio shows worldwide specialize in mix series, including The Breezeblock on BBC Radio 1, The Solid Steel Show, and Eddy Temple-Morris/The Remix on Xfm. Additionally, DJs such as Grandmaster Flash, DJ QBert, DJ Spooky, DJ Z-Trip or DJ Shadow, The Avalanches, and Rjd2 have gained fame for creating new songs by combining fragments of existing songs. This practice is derived from the use of song loops as musical backdrops for an MCs rhymes in hip hop music. Frank Creighton, a director of anti-copyright infringement efforts for the Recording Industry Association of America and this requires the mixtape creator to consider the transitions between songs, the effects caused by juxtaposing a soft song with a loud song, and the overall narrative arc of the entire tape. It also came with an actual CD featuring ten of the songs discussed in the text, many have been so widely distributed that the CDDB has logged and can identify ID3 tags when a disc mix tape is inserted into a PC. In hip hops earliest days, the music existed in live form, so performers music was spread via tapes of parties
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Thrift Shop
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Thrift Shop is a song by American hip hop duo Macklemore & Ryan Lewis. It was released on August 27,2012 as Macklemores eighth career single, the song was composed to show Macklemores esteem for thrift shops and saving money, opposing the flaunting of expensive items many rappers display. Music reviewers praised the song for its humorous lyrics and social critique and it was released in the United Kingdom in January 2013. Despite being released on Macklemores independent label with distribution by the Alternative Distribution Alliance, a Warner Music Group Company and it peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and has since sold over 7 million copies in the US alone. The song also reached number one in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, France, Denmark, Netherlands, Australia, a music video was released to accompany the songs release on August 29,2012. The video has garnered more than 1.04 billion views on YouTube, in 2014, the single won two Grammy Awards for Best Rap Performance and Best Rap Song. The song illustrates Macklemores interest in buying cheap clothing from thrift shops, disdaining designer labels and he claims to enjoy donning your granddads clothes and impulsively buying a sharp-looking but dubious-smelling fur stole just because it was 99 cents. Its the polar opposite of it and its kind of standing for like lets save some money, lets keep some money away, lets spend as little as possible and look as fresh as possible at the same time. Upon being asked why he thought the track was so successful, Macklemore replied, I think hip-hop goes in waves and its obviously against the status quo of what people normally rap about. This is a song that goes against all of that, how fresh can you look by not looking like anybody else. And on top of that, you have an infectious beat, Thrift Shop is written in the key of G♯ minor and has a tempo of 96 beats per minute. The song is prominently underpinned by a saxophone melody. The song received critical acclaim. Robert Copsey of Digital Spy gave the song 5 out of 5 stars, calling it a rare beast of a song - original, musically daring and genuinely funny. Common Sense Medias Kyle Jackson said it is funny and captures the hipster zeitgeist perfectly, defining the song as an eclectic and socially conscious tour de force of lyricism, entertainment Weekly named the song as the 18th best single of 2012. The song took the #1 spot in the Triple J Hottest 100 countdown of 2012, in the United States, the song debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 on September 15,2012. It dropped out the week but re-entered six weeks later on October 20,2012. The song then climbed the chart until it entered the top ten in the issue dated January 5,2013
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Billboard Hot 100
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The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for singles, published weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on sales, radio play and online streaming, the weekly sales period was originally Monday to Sunday, when Nielsen started tracking sales in 1991, but was changed to Friday to Thursday in July 2015. Radio airplay, which, unlike sales figures and streaming data, is available on a real-time basis. A new chart is compiled and officially released to the public by Billboard on Tuesdays, as of the issue for the week ending on April 15,2017, the Hot 100 has had 1,061 different number one hits. The current number one song is Shape of You by Ed Sheeran, prior to 1955, Billboard did not have a unified, all-encompassing popularity chart, instead measuring songs by individual metrics. At the start of the era in 1955, three such charts existed, Best Sellers in Stores was the first Billboard chart, established in 1936. This chart ranked the biggest selling singles in retail stores, as reported by merchants surveyed throughout the country, Most Played by Jockeys was Billboards original airplay chart. It ranked the most played songs on United States radio stations, as reported by radio disc jockeys, Most Played in Jukeboxes ranked the most played songs in jukeboxes across the United States. On the week ending November 12,1955, Billboard published The Top 100 for the first time, the Top 100 combined all aspects of a singles performance, based on a point system that typically gave sales more weight than radio airplay. The Best Sellers In Stores, Most Played by Jockeys and Most Played in Jukeboxes charts continued to be published concurrently with the new Top 100 chart. The week ending July 28,1958 was the publication of the Most Played By Jockeys and Top 100 charts. On August 4,1958, Billboard premiered one main all-genre singles chart, the Hot 100 quickly became the industry standard and Billboard discontinued the Best Sellers In Stores chart on October 13,1958. The Billboard Hot 100 is still the standard by which a songs popularity is measured in the United States, the Hot 100 is ranked by radio airplay audience impressions as measured by Nielsen BDS, sales data compiled by Nielsen Soundscan and streaming activity provided by online music sources. There are several component charts that contribute to the calculation of the Hot 100. Charts are ranked by number of gross audience impressions, computed by cross-referencing exact times of radio airplay with Arbitron listener data. Hot Singles Sales, the top selling singles compiled from a sample of retail store, mass merchant and internet sales reports collected, compiled. The chart is released weekly and measures sales of commercial singles. With the decline in sales of singles in the US
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Billboard (magazine)
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Billboard is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Hollywood Reporter-Billboard Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries. It publishes pieces involving news, video, opinion, reviews, events and it is also known for its music charts, including the Billboard Hot 100 and Billboard 200, tracking the most popular singles and albums in different genres. It also hosts events, owns a publishing firm, and operates several TV shows, Billboard was founded in 1894 by William Donaldson and James Hennegan as a trade publication for bill posters. Donaldson later acquired Hennegens interest in 1900 for $500, in the 1900s, it covered the entertainment industry, such as circuses, fairs and burlesque shows. It also created a service for travelling entertainers. Billboard began focusing more on the industry as the jukebox, phonograph. Many topics it covered were spun-off into different magazines, including Amusement Business in 1961 to cover outdoor entertainment so that it could focus on music. After Donaldson died in 1925, Billboard was passed down to his children and Hennegans children, until it was sold to investors in 1985. The first issue of Billboard was published in Cincinnati, Ohio, on November 1,1894 by William Donaldson, initially, it covered the advertising and bill posting industry and was called Billboard Advertising. At the time, billboards, posters and paper advertisements placed in public spaces were the means of advertising. Donaldson handled editorial and advertising, while Hennegan, who owned Hennegan Printing Co. managed magazine production, the first issues were just eight pages long. The paper had columns like The Bill Room Gossip and The Indefatigable, a department for agricultural fairs was established in 1896. The title was changed to The Billboard in 1897, after a brief departure over editorial differences, Donaldson purchased Hennegans interest in the business in 1900 for $500, to save it from bankruptcy. That May, Donaldson changed it from a monthly to a paper with a greater emphasis on breaking news. He improved editorial quality and opened new offices in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, London and he also re-focused the magazine on outdoor entertainment like fairs, carnivals, circuses, vaudeville and burlesque shows. A section devoted to circuses was introduced in 1900, followed by more prominent coverage of events in 1901. Billboard also covered topics including regulation, a lack of professionalism, economics and it had a stage gossip column covering the private lives of entertainers, a tent show section covering traveling shows and a sub-section called Freaks to order. According to The Seattle Times, Donaldson also published articles attacking censorship, praising productions exhibiting good taste
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Warner Bros. Records
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Warner Bros. Records was established on March 19,1958, as the recorded-music division of the American film studio Warner Bros. For most of its existence it was one of a group of labels owned and operated by larger parent corporations. The sequence of companies that controlled Warner Bros. and its allied labels evolved through a series of corporate mergers. Over this period, Warner Bros. Records grew from a minor player in the music industry to become one of the top recording labels in the world. In 2003, these assets were divested by their then owner Time Warner. This independent company traded as the Warner Music Group before being bought by Access Industries in 2011, WMG is the smallest of the three major international music conglomerates and the worlds last publicly traded major music company. Cameron Strang serves as CEO of the company, artists currently signed to Warner Bros. At the end of the silent movie period, Warner Bros, pictures decided to expand into publishing and recording so that it could access low-cost music content for its films. This new group controlled valuable copyrights on standards by George and Ira Gershwin and Jerome Kern, the label signed rising radio and recording stars Bing Crosby, Mills Brothers, and Boswell Sisters. In December 1931, Warner Bros. offloaded Brunswick to the American Record Corporation for a fraction of its former value, in a lease arrangement which did not include Brunswicks pressing plants. Warner Bros. sold Brunswick a second time, this time along with the old Brunswick pressing plants Warner owned, to Decca Records in exchange for a financial interest in Decca. The studio stayed out of the business for more than 25 years. Warner Bros. reëntered the record business in 1958 with the establishment of its own recording division, by this time, the established Hollywood studios were reeling from multiple challenges to their former dominance - the most notable being the introduction of television in the late 1940s. Legal changes also had a impact on their business—lawsuits brought by major stars had effectively overthrown the old studio contract system by the late 1940s. Pictures sold off much of its library in 1948 and, beginning in 1949. Semenenko in particular had a professional interest in the entertainment business. With the record business booming - sales had topped US$500 million by 1958 - Semnenko argued that it was foolish for Warner Bros, another impetus for the labels creation was the brief music career of Warner Bros. actor Tab Hunter. In 1958, the studio signed Hunter as its first artist to its newly formed record division, to establish the label, the company hired former Columbia Records president James B
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Can't Hold Us
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The song became a sleeper hit and reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100, making it their second number-one hit in the United States. It is also their third consecutive single in Australia. The music video was nominated for Best Music Video at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards in 2014, the song was also listed as The Most-Streamed Song of 2013 by Spotify. The song is in the key of E minor with a set at 146 beats per minute. The beat is similar to their performances of the song. Cant Hold Us was generally received by music critics. Lewis Corner of Digital Spy gave the four stars out of five, praising its infectious, soul-soaked piano line. Due to the international success of the duos Thrift Shop, there was a resurgence in sales of their previous singles. In the United Kingdom, the song debuted in the UK Singles Chart at number 187 on March 17,2013 and it eventually peaked at number three on the chart. In Australia, Cant Hold Us became Macklemore & Ryan Lewis third consecutive number one single, reaching the top of the chart on March 25,2013, after Thrift Shop and Same Love. Cant Hold Us reached number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 during the week dated May 17,2013 and they became the first duo to place their two debut singles atop the chart. The song stayed at one for five consecutive weeks before being surpassed by Robin Thickes Blurred Lines. As of January 2014, the song has sold 4,383,000 downloads in the United States with 4,260,000 sold in 2013, with the helpful release and advertisement of DJ crue and several other artists/producers, remixes were made. One of the most successful ones was Eminem, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - Just Cant Hold Us and this was hosted by Ryan Lewis himself and produced by many artists such as OfficialDJLithium who is current day Dj Crue, and Sparks Hopes who is currently known as Jimmy Kang. Sparks Hopes also helped with the dated release/production working closely with Ryan Lewis, going as far as helping with the film production, as you can see him in the background of the filming. Overall contributing to the success of the launch. Macklemore premiered the video for Cant Hold Us on April 17,2013. Several prominent parts were filmed on the tall ship Lady Washington, the video won two MTV Video Music Awards for Best Hip-Hop Video and Best Cinematography, and was nominated for Best Direction and Best Editing
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The Heist (album)
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The Heist is the debut studio album by American hip hop duo Macklemore & Ryan Lewis. It was released on October 9,2012, by Macklemore LLC, the album was independently self-produced, self-recorded and self-released by the duo, with no mainstream promotion or support. After the albums release, the duo hired Warner Music Groups radio promotion department to help the push with their singles for a percentage of the sales. The album was recorded in Seattle, Washington between 2009 and 2012, the albums third single Cant Hold Us was also largely commercially successful, peaking at number one in the United States, Australia, and Sweden. The album received positive reviews from critics. On January 26,2014, it won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Album, as of early 2016, the album has sold 1,490,000 copies in the United States. On July 18,2012, the duo released the Mary Lambert-assisted single Same Love and it was announced that the song will be included on the album, as were previously released singles Wings and Cant Hold Us. In an interview with The Sermons Domain, Macklemore confirmed a collaboration with Schoolboy Q on a song about Cadillacs called White Walls, the song titled Jimmy Iovine featuring Ab-Soul was also confirmed. On September 4,2012, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis released a video promoting the deluxe edition of The Heist, the official debut single, Wings was released on January 21,2011. It was produced by Ryan Lewis, the song reached at number 40 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, and number 12 on the Billboards Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart. The albums second single, Cant Hold Us featuring Ray Dalton, was released on August 16,2011, the track eventually caught the attention of Sean Lynch, a writer from The Source, who initiated an interview to land Macklemore in the magazines Unsigned Hype column in 2012. It also peaked at one on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. It as well reached at one in Australia and Belgium. Same Love debuted at number 99 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for the week ending February 16,2013, the single reached at number one in Australia in the ARIA Charts and on New Zealands RIANZ chart. The albums fourth single, Thrift Shop featuring Wanz, was successful commercially. It was released on August 27,2012, and peaked on the Billboard Hot 100 at number one for six non-consecutive weeks, Thrift Shop has sold over 6 million copies in the United States. Thrift Shop also reached the top of the Australian and New Zealand singles charts and was certified 6× Platinum in Australia, in Canada, it reached at number one on the Canadian Hot 100. The albums fifth single, White Walls featuring guest vocals from fellow rapper Schoolboy Q and singer Hollis and it was officially released to mainstream radio on October 8,2013
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Grammy Award
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A Grammy Award, or Grammy, is an honor awarded by The Recording Academy to recognize outstanding achievement in the mainly English-language music industry. The annual presentation ceremony features performances by prominent artists, and the presentation of awards that have a more popular interest. It shares recognition of the industry as that of the other performance awards such as the Emmy Awards, the Tony Awards. The first Grammy Awards ceremony was held on May 4,1959, to honor, following the 2011 ceremony, The Academy overhauled many Grammy Award categories for 2012. The 59th Grammy Awards, honoring the best achievements from October 2015 to September 2016, was held on February 12,2017, the Grammys had their origin in the Hollywood Walk of Fame project in the 1950s. The music executives decided to rectify this by creating a given by their industry similar to the Oscars. This was the beginning of the National Academy of Recording Arts, after it was decided to create such an award, there was still a question of what to call it, one working title was the Eddie, to honor the inventor of the phonograph, Thomas Edison. They finally settled on using the name of the invention of Emile Berliner, the gramophone, for the awards, the number of awards given grew and fluctuated over the years with categories added and removed, at one time reaching over 100. The second Grammy Awards, also held in 1959, was the first ceremony to be televised, the gold-plated trophies, each depicting a gilded gramophone, are made and assembled by hand by Billings Artworks in Ridgway, Colorado. In 1990 the original Grammy design was revamped, changing the traditional soft lead for a stronger alloy less prone to damage, Billings developed a zinc alloy named grammium, which is trademarked. The trophies with the name engraved on them are not available until after the award announcements. By February 2009,7,578 Grammy trophies had been awarded, the General Field are four awards which are not restricted by genre. Album of the Year is awarded to the performer and the team of a full album if other than the performer. Record of the Year is awarded to the performer and the team of a single song if other than the performer. Song of the Year is awarded to the writer/composer of a single song, Best New Artist is awarded to a promising breakthrough performer who releases, during the Eligibility Year, the first recording that establishes the public identity of that artist. The only two artists to win all four of these awards are Christopher Cross, who won all four in 1980, and Adele, who won the Best New Artist award in 2009 and the other three in 2012 and 2017. Other awards are given for performance and production in specific genres, as well as for other such as artwork. Special awards are given for longer-lasting contributions to the music industry, the many other Grammy trophies are presented in a pre-telecast Premiere Ceremony earlier in the afternoon before the Grammy Awards telecast
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Grammy Award for Best New Artist
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The Grammy Award for Best New Artist has been awarded since 1959. Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were handed out, the award was not presented in 1967. The official guidelines are as follows, For a new artist who releases, during the Eligibility Year, note that this is not necessarily the first album released by an artist. It is sometimes asserted, with varying degrees of sincerity, that winning the award is a curse, as several award winners were never able to duplicate the success they experienced in their debut year. This viewpoint was expressed by former Starland Vocal Band member Taffy Danoff in a 2002 interview for VH1s 100 Greatest One Hit Wonders, so that was basically the kiss of death and I feel sorry for everyone whos gotten it since. The category is also notable for being the one of its kind in which a Grammy Award was vacated. This occurred in 1990 after it was revealed winners Milli Vanilli did not contribute their own vocals on their debut album, the award was revoked, but was not handed out to another artist. Of the 54 awards presented in the category since its inception, the honor has been presented to 25 solo female artists,18 duos or groups, between 1997 and 2003, all the winners were solo female artists. Also, from 1993 to 2005, no winner was a male artist. In 2006, John Legend broke this trend, which started with Marc Cohn in 1992. Only four artists have won both Best New Artist and Album of the Year in the year, Bob Newhart in 1961, Christopher Cross in 1981, Lauryn Hill in 1999. Of all the winners, only three have been country artists, in 1997, LeAnn Rimes became the first country artist to win the award. She was followed by Carrie Underwood in 2007 and Zac Brown Band in 2010, additionally,2017 marked the first time that two country artists were nominated in this category in the same year. 1984 marked the first time all of the nominees were from outside of the United States. Over the years, the eligibility rules for this category have changed several times, in 2010, Lady Gagas exclusion from the Best New Artist category caused the Recording Academy to change eligibility requirements for the next ceremony. She was ineligible for the nomination because her hit Just Dance had been nominated in 2008, the new rule stated that an artist can be nominated as long as that artist has not previously released an entire album and has subsequently not won a Grammy. To be eligible in the category of Best New Artist, the artist, duo, or group, Must have released a minimum of five singles/tracks or one album, but no more than 30 singles/tracks or three albums. May not have entered into this more than three times, including as a performing member of an established group
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Grammy Award for Best Rap Album
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In 1995, the Academy announced the addition of the award category Best Rap Album. The first award was presented to the group Naughty by Nature at the 38th Grammy Awards the following year, according to the category description guide for the 52nd Grammy Awards, the award is presented for albums containing at least 51% playing time of tracks with newly recorded rapped performances. Award recipients often include the producers, engineers, and/or mixers associated with the work in addition to the recording artists. As of 2015, Eminem holds the record for the most wins in this category, lauryn Hill is currently the only female artist to win in this category, when she won in 1997 with the Fugees. Kanye West was presented the four times, and the duo known as Outkast received the award twice. Jay-Z holds the record for the most nominations, with nine, canadian artist Drake became the first non-American winner in this category when he won in 2013. The Roots have received the most nominations without a win, with five, ^ Each year is linked to the article about the Grammy Awards held that year. Grammy Award for Best Rap Solo Performance Grammy Award for Best Rap Song Hip hop music Official site of the Grammy Awards
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Grammy Award for Best Rap Song
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The award was first presented to Eminem along with Jeff Bass and Luis Resto for the song Lose Yourself from the soundtrack 8 Mile in 2004. According to the 54th Grammy Awards description guide, the honors the songwriter of new songs or songs first achieving prominence during the period of eligibility. Songs containing prominent samples may be eligible, kanye West holds the records for the most wins and nominations in this category, having won six times out of nine nominations. He is followed by Jay-Z with three wins and six nominations, following the two, Kendrick Lamar and Pharrell each have two wins. No further songwriters have won this more than once. T. I. holds the record for most nominations without a win with four, ^ Each year is linked to the article about the Grammy Awards held that year. ^ The performing artist is listed but does not receive the award. ^ Showing the name of the songwriter, the nominated song, Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance List of Grammy Award categories Official site of the Grammy Awards
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Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance
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The Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance is an honor presented to recording artists for quality rap performances. These two categories were combined again in 2012 as a result of a restructure of Grammy categories, the first award for Best Rap Performance was presented to DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince for Parents Just Dont Understand. Rappers Jay Z, Kanye West and Kendrick Lamar are two-time winners of this award, the Best Rap Performance category was first presented at the 31st Annual Grammy Awards in 1989. NARAS President Mike Green said in Billboard that the genre has matured into several kinds of music. Diane Theriot, a representative of the department for the Academy. In 1991, the category was split into the categories Best Rap Solo Performance, in 2003, the Best Rap Solo Performance category was divided into separate recognitions for Female and Male Rap Solo Performances. The categories remained separated by gender until 2005 when they were combined into the genderless category originally known as Best Rap Solo Performance, additional rap categories include Best Rap/Sung Collaboration and Best Rap Song, established in 2002 and 2004, respectively. Parents Just Dont Understand appeared on the duos 1988 album Hes the DJ, going Back to Cali appeared on the soundtrack to the film Less Than Zero as well as LL Cool Js 1989 studio album Walking with a Panther. Kool Moe Dees Wild Wild West and Salt-n-Pepas Push It appeared on the albums How Ya Like Me Now and Hot, Cool & Vicious, respectively. Rap and heavy metal categories were introduced the year, but, according to the shows producers. Nominee Kool Moe Dee performed during the ceremony, but the rap award was presented during the usually fast-paced pre-televised ceremony, DJ Jazzy Jeff and Will Smith led a boycott of the ceremony and were joined by fellow nominees LL Cool J and Salt-n-Pepa. Salt-n-Pepa issued the statement, If they dont want us. Adding to the surrounding the category, some members of the rap community believed artists such as Big Daddy Kane, KRS-One. Awards were presented to Jeff and Smith at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, while Smith was absent from the ceremony, Jeff was present to accept his award. In 2004, Serena Kappes of People magazine ranked Smiths ceremony boycott number eight on its list of Top 10 Grammy Moments. Smith later earned Best Rap Solo Performance awards in 1998 for Men in Black and 1999 for Gettin Jiggy wit It, and was nominated again in 2000 for Wild Wild West. Me Myself and I appears on De La Souls studio album 3 Feet High and Rising, I Think I Can Beat Mike Tyson, written by the duo along with Pete Harris, appears on DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Princes third album And in This Corner. Fight the Power appeared on the 1988 soundtrack for the film Do the Right Thing and later on Public Enemys third studio album Fear of a Black Planet
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Skylar Grey
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Holly Brook Hafermann, who goes by the stage name Skylar Grey, is an American singer and songwriter from Mazomanie, Wisconsin. In 2006, she released her album, Like Blood Like Honey. In 2010, she co-wrote Eminem and Rihannas hit single Love the Way You Lie, alongside Eminem and British record producer Alex da Kid, who subsequently signed her to his label imprint, KIDinaKORNER. Grey is best known as a guest vocalist on several hit singles, including Fort Minors Whered You Go, Diddys Coming Home, Dr. Dres I Need a Doctor and Nicki Minajs Bed of Lies. Greys second album, Dont Look Down, was released in July 2013, as a child, Grey performed professionally in a folk duo with her mother, called Generations. Together, with producer and engineer Randy Green, they produced three albums, Dream Maker, Lift Me, and Millennial Child / Waiting for You. Grey started her first band at the age of 15, after sneaking into bars and working with jazz musicians Jeff Eckles, Tim Whalen and Leo Sidran in Madison, Wisconsin. In 2003, Grey moved to Los Angeles and recorded a demo under the alias Holly Brook, which would be her stage name for several years. This demo led to her being signed in the fall of 2004 by Linkin Park guitarist Brad Delson, to the vanity label, Machine Shop Recordings. Grey co-wrote Done Like Me and She Said, alongside Jon Ingoldsby and American actress Brie Larson, for Larsons first and only album, in 2005, Grey was featured on American hip hop group Fort Minors songs, Whered You Go and Be Somebody. Whered You Go was released as a single on April 14,2006, the song gained commercial success and ended up becoming a top four hit on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart and also became certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. After working with music producer Jonathan Ingoldsby, Grey released her album, titled Like Blood Like Honey, on June 6,2006. The album peaked at number 35 on Billboards Heatseekers Albums chart, during this time, Grey had landed opening spots for concert tours with Jamie Cullum, k. d. lang, Daniel Powter, Teddy Geiger and Duncan Sheik. Through her connections from Machine Shop Records, Grey became closely affiliated with Linkin Park affiliates Styles of Beyond and she was even featured on two tracks titled Victim and No Sad Tomorrow, from Apathys second studio album, Wanna Snuggle. Grey toured as part of Duncan Sheiks band and contributed substantially to his 2009 album, in 2009, Grey appeared as a backing vocalist on Eurovision contestant Yohannas debut album, Butterflies and Elvis. In August 2009, still under the alias Holly Brook, she lent both her song Its Raining Again and her image to a campaign for Ciao Water. In early 2010, she performed in the version of Whisper House. On June 10,2010, she self-released the seven-song extended play, O’Dark, production of the EP was handled by Duncan Sheik and Jon Ingoldsby
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Washington (state)
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It was admitted to the Union as the 42nd state in 1889. Washington is sometimes referred to as Washington State or the State of Washington to distinguish it from Washington, Washington is the 18th largest state with an area of 71,362 square miles, and the 13th most populous state with over 7 million people. Washington is the second most populous state on the West Coast and in the Western United States, Mount Rainier, an active stratovolcano, is the states highest elevation at almost 14,411 feet and is the most topographically prominent mountain in the contiguous United States. Washington is a leading lumber producer and its rugged surface is rich in stands of Douglas fir, hemlock, ponderosa pine, white pine, spruce, larch, and cedar. Manufacturing industries in Washington include aircraft and missiles, shipbuilding and other equipment, lumber, food processing, metals and metal products, chemicals. Washington has over 1,000 dams, including the Grand Coulee Dam, built for a variety of purposes including irrigation, power, flood control, the Washington Territory was named after George Washington, the first President of the United States. The area was part of a region called the Columbia District after the Columbia River. The area was renamed Washington in order to avoid confusion with the District of Columbia, Washington is the only U. S. state named after a president. To distinguish it from the U. S. capital, which is named for George Washington, Washington is sometimes referred to as Washington State, or, in more formal contexts. Washingtonians and other residents of the Pacific Northwest refer to the state simply as Washington, calling the nations capital Washington, D. C. or, often, Washington is the northwestern-most state of the contiguous United States. Washington is bordered by Oregon to the south, with the Columbia River forming the western part, to the west of Washington lies the Pacific Ocean. The high mountains of the Cascade Range run north-south, bisecting the state, from the Cascade Mountains westward, Western Washington has a mostly marine west coast climate, with mild temperatures and wet winters, autumns and springs, and relatively dry summers. The Cascade Range contains several volcanoes, which reach altitudes significantly higher than the rest of the mountains, from the north to the south, these major volcanoes are Mount Baker, Glacier Peak, Mount Rainier, Mount St. Helens, and Mount Adams. Mount Rainier, the tallest mountain in the state, is 50 miles south of the city of Seattle and it is also covered with more glacial ice than any other peak in the contiguous 48 states. Western Washington also is home of the Olympic Mountains, far west on the Olympic Peninsula and these deep forests, such as the Hoh Rainforest, are among the only temperate rainforests in the continental United States. Eastern Washington – the part of the state east of the Cascades – has a dry climate. It includes large areas of steppe and a few truly arid deserts lying in the rain shadow of the Cascades. Farther east, the climate becomes less arid, with annual rainfall increasing as one goes east to 21.2 inches in Pullman, the Okanogan Highlands and the rugged Kettle River Range and Selkirk Mountains cover much of the northeastern quadrant of the state
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Digital Underground
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Digital Underground was an alternative hip hop group from Oakland, California. Their personnel changed and rotated with each album and tour, heavily influenced by the various funk bands of the 1970s, Digital Underground sampled such music frequently, which became a defining element of West Coast rap. As Rackadelic, Jacobs designed album covers and cartoon-laced liner notes, Digital Underground is also notable for launching the career of member Tupac Shakur, as well as spinning off side projects and solo acts including Raw Fusion, Saafir, and singer Mystic. Following the release of their Doowutchyalike single and video in the summer of 1989, Digital Underground toured nearly every year until 2008, this consisted of live shows in Europe, Japan, Canada, Australia, and the U. S. While the groups origins lay mostly in Oakland and Berkeley, California, various characters, Shock G and Money-B were the only individuals to appear on every album. Other recurring key contributors were David DJ Fuze Elliot, and deejay/producer Jeremy J-Beats Jackson, the group appeared in and donated music to the 1991 Dan Aykroyd film Nothing but Trouble. After approximately 20 years of touring, Shock G announced that the group would disband in 2008. Shortly after that announcement was made, the group confirmed that their May 2008 album. Cuz a D. U. Party Dont Stop. would be their last studio effort, Jacobs spent most of his youth in Tampa, Florida and New York City. Founded in 1987, the image was originally more militant. However, when Public Enemy became a prominent band, Jacobs chose to take the image in a more whimsical direction, sex Packets, the groups debut album, was released in the spring of 1990 following the success of its two lead off singles. It was rapped by Shock Gs alter ego Humpty Hump, sex Packets features P-Funk samples, jazz-influenced interludes, and a combination of samples and live instrumentation, earning it positive reviews and platinum sales. Tie The Knot, features jazzy piano tracks and an interpretation of Bridal Chorus. Same Song has a solo and improvised organ bits throughout the song, making it one of hip hops first singles to successfully integrate live instrumentation with music samples. Tupac Shakur made his debut on the song and portrayed an African king in the video. Tupac also can be heard joking around on the version of The Way We Swing as a background vocalist. Tupac first began to appear on stage with the group as one of its dancers, despite the fact that a choir of singers were portrayed in the video, the actual studio singing was exclusively Boni on all tracks, excluding the male voices. It has been reported that Kiss You Back was co-written and co-performed by George Clinton
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YouTube
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YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. The service was created by three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—in February 2005, Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion, YouTube now operates as one of Googles subsidiaries. Unregistered users can watch videos on the site, while registered users are permitted to upload an unlimited number of videos. Videos deemed potentially offensive are available only to registered users affirming themselves to be at least 18 years old, YouTube earns advertising revenue from Google AdSense, a program which targets ads according to site content and audience. YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, Hurley had studied design at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and Chen and Karim studied computer science together at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Karim could not easily find video clips of either event online, Hurley and Chen said that the original idea for YouTube was a video version of an online dating service, and had been influenced by the website Hot or Not. YouTube began as a venture capital-funded technology startup, primarily from an $11.5 million investment by Sequoia Capital between November 2005 and April 2006, YouTubes early headquarters were situated above a pizzeria and Japanese restaurant in San Mateo, California. The domain name www. youtube. com was activated on February 14,2005, the first YouTube video, titled Me at the zoo, shows co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo. The video was uploaded on April 23,2005, and can still be viewed on the site, YouTube offered the public a beta test of the site in May 2005. The first video to reach one million views was a Nike advertisement featuring Ronaldinho in November 2005. Following a $3.5 million investment from Sequoia Capital in November, the site grew rapidly, and in July 2006 the company announced that more than 65,000 new videos were being uploaded every day, and that the site was receiving 100 million video views per day. The site has 800 million unique users a month and it is estimated that in 2007 YouTube consumed as much bandwidth as the entire Internet in 2000. The choice of the name www. youtube. com led to problems for a similarly named website, the sites owner, Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment, filed a lawsuit against YouTube in November 2006 after being regularly overloaded by people looking for YouTube. Universal Tube has since changed the name of its website to www. utubeonline. com, in October 2006, Google Inc. announced that it had acquired YouTube for $1.65 billion in Google stock, and the deal was finalized on November 13,2006. In March 2010, YouTube began free streaming of certain content, according to YouTube, this was the first worldwide free online broadcast of a major sporting event. On March 31,2010, the YouTube website launched a new design, with the aim of simplifying the interface, Google product manager Shiva Rajaraman commented, We really felt like we needed to step back and remove the clutter. In May 2010, YouTube videos were watched more than two times per day. This increased to three billion in May 2011, and four billion in January 2012, in February 2017, one billion hours of YouTube was watched every day
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East Coast hip hop
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East Coast hip hop is a regional subgenre of hip hop music that originated in the New York City area during the 1970s. In contrast to other styles, East Coast hip hop music has prioritized complex lyrics for attentive listening rather than beats for dancing, the main components of hip hop culture from that time and still today are MCing, DJing, break dancing, and graffiti. In contrast to the rhyme pattern and scheme utilized in old school hip hop. It has also characterized by multi-syllabic rhymes, complex wordplay. East Coast hip hop has a sound and style, it tends to gravitate to aggressive beats. The aggressive and hard-hitting beats of the form were emphasized by such acts as EPMD and Public Enemy, & Rakim, Boogie Down Productions, Big Daddy Kane, Nas, Notorious B. I. G and Slick Rick were noted for their lyrical skill. East coast hip hop is occasionally referred to as New York rap due to its origins, according to AllMusic, At the dawn of the hip-hop era, all rap was East Coast rap. Early artists of the form, including DJ Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash, Afrika Bambaataa, the Sugarhill Gang, Kurtis Blow, Jam Master Jay, pioneered East Coast hip hop during hip hops development. New York-based groups such as De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest, later in 1992, Dr. Dres G-Funk record The Chronic would introduce West Coast hip hop to the mainstream. Along with an ability to retain its primary function as party music. Although G-Funk was the most popular variety of hip hop during the early 1990s, during this period, several New York City rappers rising from the local underground scene, began releasing noteworthy albums in the early and mid nineties. Black Moons 1993 debut, Enta Da Stage, was one of the first major recordings to emerge from New Yorks hardcore hip hop scene. The album has been credited with helping spark trends that would come to characterize this period in East Coast hip hop. The Notorious B. I. G. became the figure in East Coast hip hop during most of the 1990s. His success on the charts and rise to the mainstream drew more attention to New York at the time of West Coast hip hops dominance. His commercial success helped pave the way for the success of other East Coast rappers such as Jay-Z, many hip hop aficionados look favorably upon this period as a time of creative growth and influential recordings, describing it as The East Coast Renaissance. Music writer May Blaize of MVRemix Urban comments on the nostalgia felt among hip hop fans for records released during this time, wu-Tang brought the ruckus with 36 Chambers. The world was ours when Nas released Illmatic, Big L, the MVP, came out with Lifestylez ov da Poor and Dangerous
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Hieroglyphics (group)
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Hieroglyphics, also known as the Hieroglyphics Crew and Hiero, is an American underground hip hop collective based in Oakland, California. The collective was founded in the early-1990s by rapper Del the Funky Homosapien, Hieroglyphics combine fundamental sound deliveries and lyrical content with original and sometimes jazzy or funky beats and samples. Since their inception, Hieroglyphics have found a following largely through their concerts, podcasts. The collective uses a three-eyed, straight-lipped face logo that figures prominently on their albums, website, stickers, as a collective, the Hieroglyphics have released three studio albums, 3rd Eye Vision in 1998, Full Circle in 2003, and The Kitchen in 2013. In 2005, the released a live DVD and accompanying CD of the Hieros 2003 Full Circle Tour. The collective has also released five albums, Hieroglyphics B-Sides and Hieroglyphics Oldies. I in 1997, Hieroglyphics Oldies, Vol. II in 1998, The Building in 2004, The Corner in 2005, individual members of the collective have also released albums of their own, either through solo projects or outside group projects. The collectives ubiquitous, third eye logo is the Mayan numerical for 8, also used as a symbol for infinite
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Freestyle Fellowship
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Freestyle Fellowship is a hip hop group from Los Angeles, California. It consists of Aceyalone, Myka 9, P. E. A. C. E. and they are part of an underground hip hop collective Project Blowed. Freestyle Fellowship was formed at the Good Life Cafe in Los Angeles, in an interview, Myka 9 stated that he knew and grew up with Aceyalone and Self Jupiter since elementary school, and he met P. E. A. C. E. in 10th grade. Before Freestyle Fellowship was formed, Aceyalone, Spoon and Myka 9 had been in a called the MC Aces in high school. Freestyle Fellowship released the first album, To Whom It May Concern. in 1991 and their second album, Innercity Griots, was released in 1993. Freestyle Fellowship went on due to the incarceration of Self Jupiter. After his release, the group reunited to record the Shockadoom EP in 1998 and their third album, Temptations, was released on Ground Control in 2001. They released the album, The Promise, on Decon in 2011. Innercity Griots Temptations The Promise The Masters To Whom It May Concern, version 2.0 Power Plant Shockadoom Bullies of the Block Hot Potato Can You Find the Level of Difficulty in This. Temptations b/w Ghetto Youth Sex in the City Nobody - Planets Aint Aligned from Soulmates Abstract Rude & Tribe Unique - Heavyweights Round 4 from P. A. I. N. T
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Aceyalone
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Edwin M. Eddie Hayes, Jr. better known by his stage name Aceyalone, is an American rapper from Los Angeles, California, United States. He is a member of Freestyle Fellowship, Haiku DEtat and The A-Team, Aceyalone is best known for his role in evolving left-field hip-hop on the West Coast at a time when the West Coast was dominated by Gangsta Rap. Aceyalone emerged from the legendary Project Blowed collective, considered to be the open mic hip-hop workshop. He began rapping as part of the group Freestyle Fellowship, which consisted of himself, Myka 9, Freestyle Fellowship developed a reputation for influencing a style of fast double-time rap used by rappers like Busta Rhymes and Bone Thugs-n-Harmony. Aceyalone released his solo debut album, All Balls Dont Bounce. He returned three years later with his second album A Book of Human Language, a collaboration with producer Mumbles and his third solo album, Accepted Eclectic, was released in 2001, featuring Abstract Rude and production from Evidence. He released Hip Hop and the World We Live In in 2002, Aceyalones next offering came a year later, and was titled Love & Hate. The track Find Out was featured on the soundtrack to You Got Served, in 2006, Aceyalone released Magnificent City, a collaborative album with producer RJD2, followed by the Grand Imperial mixtape. Aceyalone frequently collaborates with producer Bionik such as on the 2007 release Lightning Strikes, both albums explored different genres – dancehall and doo-wop respectively – as part of Aceyalones goal of exploring the world of music through hip hop. The Phil Spector-inspired Aceyalone & the Lonely Ones followed, inspired by Spectors Wall of Sound, Motown and Bo Diddley, Aceyalone said, Im not from that era, but this is my ode to it. Im just putting myself into that character as a showman and bandleader, leanin on Slick, released in 2013 with Decon Records, continued the retro flow of the previous release, this time taking inspiration from 1960s style-R&B and hot buttered soul. Aceyalone has been noted particularly for his lyrical style and content. Some attribute the double-time rap styles that emerged in the mid-1990s to Aceyalone and Freestyle Fellowship, Aceyalone and Freestyle Fellowship were noted for their rejection of the West Coast trend in Gangsta Rap. Aceyalone developed strong critiques of rap music’s commercialization and glorification of violence
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Wu-Tang Clan
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Cappadonna later became an official member of the group. The group was formed in and is associated with the New York City borough of Staten Island, the Wu-Tang Clan has released seven gold and platinum studio albums with worldwide sales of more than 40 million albums, including members solo projects, since 1992. Its debut album, Enter the Wu-Tang, is considered to be one of the greatest albums in hip-hop history and it is said to have been groundbreaking for hip-hop and one of the most important hip-hop albums. In 2008, About. com ranked them the No.1 greatest hip hop group of all time, kris Ex of Rolling Stone called Wu-Tang Clan the best rap group ever. In 2004, NME hailed them as one of the most influential groups of the last ten years, All in Together Now was never signed to a record label. See, me, GZA, and ODB had a crew called FOI, Force of the Imperial Master, nah mean. We made a song, called All in Together Now, which became famous on tapes throughout Brooklyn, Downtown Staten Island, New York, I remember Biz Markie, when he was famous and I wasnt famous, and he was like, Yo. Your song with Ason Unique and The Specialist, so we never got signed as a group back then. We never had a record deal under that title. The Wu-Tang Clan was assembled in the early 1990s with RZA as the de facto leader, Method Man – who met RZA in 1990 after hearing a tape the producer recorded as Prince Rakeem – recalled, I went round his house. We went to the basement and I guess they was showin off cos I was there, thered be RZA and his brother Devon on the decks. RZA was cuttin, Devond go cut off the light, then RZAs go cut on the light, Devond be cutting and they was doing some wild shit, man. And Ol Dirty was there and hed echo every rhyme of RZAs while beatboxing and that was the beginning of Wu-Tang. RZA and Ol Dirty Bastard adopted the name for the group after the film Shaolin, the groups debut album loosely adopted a Shaolin vs. Wu-Tang theme, dividing the album into Shaolin and Wu-Tang sections. This album turned out to be acclaimed, and to date is regarded as one of the greatest hip hop/rap albums of all time. And all these labels still put Razor Sharp Records on the credits Wu Tang was a financial movement, so what do you wanna diversify. RZA was the first to follow up on the success of Enter the Wu-Tang with a project, founding the Gravediggaz with Prince Paul and Frukwan. The Gravediggaz released 6 Feet Deep in August 1994, which one of the best known works to emerge from hip hops small subgenre of horrorcore
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Mobb Deep
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Mobb Deep is an American hip hop duo from the Queensbridge Houses in New York City. The group consists of Havoc and Prodigy and is one of the most critically acclaimed hardcore East Coast Hip-Hop groups and they are known for their dark, hardcore delivery as exemplified in Shook Ones. Mobb Deep has become one of the most successful rap duos in hip hop, Mobb Deeps net worth is $10 million USD. Two of their albums have been successes, The Infamous. The group briefly disbanded in 2012 but has since reunited, in 1993, Havoc and Prodigy, released their debut album, Juvenile Hell, which was promoted by the single Peer Pressure. Also that year, Havoc made a guest appearance on the Black Moon album Enta Da Stage on a song titled U Da Man, in 1994 the duo released a single titled Shook Ones Part 1. The group saw its first major success with their album, The Infamous. Mobb Deep catapulted to the top of the hardcore hip-hop scene through Havoc, in this album, Mobb Deep portrayed the struggles of living in New York Citys Queensbridge Houses where Havoc grew up. Following the release of The Infamous, Mobb Deep became some of the most prolific artists of the East Coast, the production of this album was very dark and sample-based thanks to Havoc, who produced the beats from this point forward. Furthermore, the hit single Shook Ones Pt. II, a remix to the hit Shook Ones, jay-Z, Wu-Tang Clan, and fellow Queensbridge rapper Nas. Nas as well as Method Man and Raekwon of the Wu Tang Clan appear on Hell on Earth. In 1996, they appeared on the Red Hot Organizations compilation CD, America is Dying Slowly alongside Biz Markie, Wu-Tang Clan and Fat Joe among many other prominent Hip Hop artists. This compilation was meant to raise awareness of the AIDS epidemic among African American men and this compilation was heralded as a masterpiece by The Source Magazine. 1997 Mobb Deep was featured on Frankie Cutlass Politics & Bullsh*t album track title Know Da Game which also features Kool G Rap, in 1998, the duo collaborated with reggae dancehall artist Bounty Killer on the track Deadly Zone for the soundtrack to Blade. In 1999, they released the highly anticipated Murda Muzik album which and this resulted in delays in the official album release. Shortly afterward, Prodigy released his solo album H. N. I. C in which he collaborated with fellow artists like. Mobb Deep was part of the infamous East Coast vs West Coast Hip Hop rivalry that was fueled and increasingly promoted by the private media. The beef started when Snoop Dogg and the West Coast group, Tha Dogg Pound, released New York, New York which Mobb Deep, along with Capone-N-Noreaga and this song was released during rapper Tupac Shakurs final days of incarceration
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Nas
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Nasir Bin Olu Dara Jones, better known by his stage name Nas /ˈnɑːz/, is an American rapper, record producer, actor and entrepreneur. The son of jazz musician Olu Dara, Nas has released eight consecutive platinum and multi-platinum albums and has sold over 25 million records worldwide. He is also an entrepreneur through his own label, he serves as associate publisher of Mass Appeal magazine and is the owner of a Fila sneaker store. He is currently signed to Mass Appeal Records and his musical career began in 1991 as featured artist on Main Sources Live at the Barbeque. His debut album Illmatic received universal acclaim from critics and the hip hop community and is frequently ranked as one of the greatest hip hop albums of all time. Nas follow-up It Was Written debuted at one on the Billboard 200, stayed on top for four consecutive weeks. From 2001 to 2005, Nas was involved in a publicized feud with rapper Jay Z. Nas signed to Def Jam in 2006. In 2010, he released Distant Relatives, an album with reggae artist Damian Marley. His eleventh studio album, Life Is Good was nominated for Best Rap Album at the 55th Annual Grammy Awards, Nas is often named as one of the greatest hip hop artists. MTV ranked him at number 5 on their list of The Greatest MCs of All Time, in 2012, The Source ranked him number two on their list of the Top 50 Lyricists of All Time. In 2013, Nas was ranked fourth on MTVs Hottest MCs in the Game list. About. com ranked him first on their list of the 50 Greatest MCs of All Time in 2014, nasir bin Olu Dara Jones was born September 14,1973, in Brooklyn, New York. His father, Olu Dara, is a jazz and blues musician and his mother, Fannie Ann Jones, was a Postal Service worker from North Carolina. He has one sibling, a brother named Jabari Fret who is best known as Jungle and his father took his name Olu Dara from the Yoruba people. His African DNA indicates he has roots in countries with high Yoruba populations Nigeria, Benin, Togo and Ghana – as well as Mali, the Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Congo, and Senegal. His matrilineal DNA haplogroup is of African origin, found among the Yoruba and he also found that his Y-DNA traces directly back to Scandinavia, through which he is a descendant of the Vikings. As a young child, Nas and his family relocated to the Queensbridge Houses in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens and his neighbor, Willy Ill Will Graham, influenced Nass interest in hip hop by playing him records. His parents divorced in 1985, and he dropped out of school after the eighth grade and he educated himself about African culture through the Five Percent Nation and the Nuwaubian Nation
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Talib Kweli
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Talib Kweli Greene is an American hip hop recording artist, entrepreneur, and social activist. He is the son of professional educators, in 2011, Kweli founded Javotti Media, which is self-defined as a platform for independent thinkers and doers. Kweli earned recognition early on through his work with fellow Brooklyn artist, Yasiin Bey, formerly known as Mos Def, Kwelis career continued with solo success including collaborations with famed producers Kanye West, Just Blaze, and Pharrell Williams. Kweli is known to artists on the rise, such as J. Cole, Jay Electronica, Kendrick Lamar. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Kweli grew up in a household in Park Slope and his mother, Brenda Greene, is an English professor at Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York and his father an administrator at Adelphi University. His younger brother, Jamal Greene, is a professor of Constitutional Law at Columbia Law School, a graduate of Yale Law School, and former clerk to Justice John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court. As a youth, he was drawn to Afrocentric rappers, such as De La Soul, Kweli was a student at Cheshire Academy, a boarding school in Connecticut. He was previously a student at Brooklyn Technical High School before being academically dismissed and he later studied experimental theater at New York University. Kweli made his debut in 1996, with featured five appearances on Doom. In Cincinnati, Kweli also met DJ Hi-Tek and the two collaborated on a few well received underground recordings as Reflection Eternal, including Fortified Live, shortly afterwards, upon returning to New York, he reconnected with Mos Def and formed Black Star. Kweli brought along Hi-Tek to produce their album, 1998s Mos Def. The album, released amidst a late 90s renaissance of conscious, Afrocentric hip hop, was hailed by critics. Kweli and Hi-Tek continued their Reflection Eternal partnership on the 2000 album Train of Thought, which was met with critical acclaim. The album was recorded at Electric Lady Studios, Hip Hop for Respect was organized by Mos Def and Kweli to speak out against police brutality, specifically, the case of Amadou Diallo. The project released one EP for Rawkus Entertainment, on February 4,1999, Amadou Diallo was shot 41 times by four police officers while reaching into his pocket for his wallet. The project aimed to assemble 41 emcees to represent the 41 shots fired, producers included DJ Khalil Mr. Khaliyl, Organized Noize, and 88-Keys. In 2001, Kweli and Mos Def, contributed to the Red Hot + Indigo compilation album created by the Red Hot Organization, the compilation was a tribute to Duke Ellington, that raised money for various charities devoted to increasing AIDS awareness and fighting the disease. Black Star collaborated with fellow artists John Patton and Ron Carter to record Money Jungle, in 2002, Kweli contributed to the critically acclaimed Red Hot + Riot, a compilation CD created by the Red Hot Organization in tribute to the music and work of Nigerian musician Fela Kuti
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Garfield High School (Seattle)
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James A. Garfield High School is a public high school in the Seattle Public Schools district of Seattle, Washington, USA. Located along 23rd Avenue between E. Alder and E. Jefferson Streets in Seattles urban Central District, Garfield draws students from all over the city. Garfield is also one of two options for the districts Highly Capable Cohort for academically gifted students, with the other being Ingraham International School. As a result, it has many college-level classes available ranging from calculus-based physics to Advanced Placement studio art. ”Construction was delayed until the end of World War I, and by that time there was a pressing need for space in the city’s four high schools. Immediate action had to be taken, which meant that a structure was erected at the East High School site in 1920. The 12-room wooden structure housed 282 incoming freshmen who transferred from Broadway High School, midway through the 1920–21 school year,140 more students entered East High School. Portables were added, and, by 1922–23, a total of 27 temporary buildings stood on the grounds, enrollment by this time exceeded 900 students. Additional property was acquired and construction began on a permanent building, the first principal, George N. Porter, suggested that the school be named after James A. Garfield, 20th President of the United States who earned recognition as a congressman and Civil War leader. Porter also selected the Bulldog as school mascot and the colors purple, the new James A. Garfield High School opened in September 1923 with over 1,000 students. The three-story structure was designed in the Jacobean style by Floyd Naramore with elaborate terra cotta details, the main entrance features a projecting bay with triple arched doorways. As the 1920s progressed, Garfield’s student body increased to over 1,500, a bond issue passed in March 1929 provided funds for an addition to the building, and the city commissioned Naramore to design an addition. The south wing included laboratories and classrooms for 680 more students, enrollment continued to grow until 1939, when it reached an all-time high of 2,300 students. In 1955, 9th graders transferred to high school, reducing enrollment from 1,500 to 1,250. Throughout much of its history, Garfield has been known for its ethnic and racial diversity. The Arrow, the yearbook, in 1938 described the school as “a thriving community comprised of many races which are bound together by the staunchness of the Bulldog tradition. ”The Christian Science Monitor featured Garfield in 1946, referring to it as a school of many races. Activities growing in popularity during the first two decades were numerous service, music, and athletic clubs, the Big “G” Club was established for girls who were active in sports. The Ski Club, which sponsored trips to Snoqualmie Summit, won several ski tournaments in the 1930s, from the beginning, Garfield set high standards for its publications. The school annual, The Arrow, received the All-American Honor Rating from the National Scholastic Press Association in 1934–36, the Messenger, the school newspaper, grew from a single page to an eight-page tabloid and also received national recognition
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Nathan Hale High School
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Nathan Hale High School is a public high school in Seattle, Washington. Nathan Hale is part of Seattle Public Schools and is a member of the Coalition of Essential Schools, the area northeast of Seattle was part of the Shoreline School District until 1954. For a number of years that area had only one secondary school, steady population growth during the 1950s prompted a need for a new high school. In the planning stage, the school was given the name of Northeast High School. This was later changed to Meadowbrook High School, the site for the new school, originally part of the Fisher Dairy, had most recently been the Meadowbrook Golf Course owned by the Tachell family. While the school was under construction, new guidelines and procedures for the naming of schools were adopted, as a result, Meadowbrook was replaced by Nathan Hale, named after the Continental Army soldier. Once built, the model school building and parking lot were positioned on either side of Thornton Creek. The site is directly across the street from what is currently Jane Addams Middle School, the first principal, Claude Turner, helped design the school. In its first year, Hale opened to sophomores and juniors only, two years later, it had a student body of 2,002. By the late 1960s, Hale’s enrollment had reached 2,400, a new learning resource center opened in fall 1972, nearly doubling the size of the school’s original library. From 1964 through the mid-1970s, Nathan Hale was a sports powerhouse, the music department also excelled, with the stage band capturing numerous regional awards. The district’s 1978 desegregation plan cut the number of schools feeding Hale from ten to four, some of these feeder schools were closed, drastically cutting into Hale’s enrollment, despite the addition of 9th graders in September 1979. Some students who would have attended Hale were sent to south end schools, jill Hudson, 2009–present As of April 23,2015, all 280 juniors at Nathan Hale boycotted the Smarter Balanced state tests. Taking these tests was not a requirement for the junior class. Many of teachers, parents, and administrators previously questioned the worthiness of the new state testing requirements, Nathan Hales journalism class, headed by Ted Lockery, writes for the Sentinel, Nathan Hales official newspaper and website. Nathan Hale is home to the nationally acclaimed radio station KNHC and it is mostly student-run, but has a full-time DJ. KNHC plays dance music, and is one of six stations monitored by Nielsen BDS for inclusion in Billboard Magazines weekly Hot Dance Airplay chart, in addition, Nathan Hale boasts a Radio class taught by Simon Thwaits and Richard J. Dalton. Nathan Hale is a member of the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association, the school is currently in the second largest classification, known as 3A, and has been so since the 1984-85 school year
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The Evergreen State College
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The Evergreen State College is an accredited public liberal arts college and a member of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges, located in Olympia, Washington, USA. Founded in 1967, Evergreen was formed to be an experimental and non-traditional college, full-time students enroll in interdisciplinary academic programs instead of classes. Programs typically offer students the opportunity to study several disciplines in a coordinated manner, faculty write narrative evaluations of students work in place of issuing grades. Evergreen offers a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts and Bachelor of Science, Master of Environmental Studies, Master of Public Administration, in 2012, there were 4,509 students,4,193 of whom were undergraduates, and 240 faculty members. This report spurred the 1965 Washington legislature to create the Temporary Advisory Council on Public Higher Education to study the need, on January 24,1968, The Evergreen State College was selected from 31 choices as the name of the new institution. On November 1,1968, Charles J. McCann assumed the first presidency of the college, McCann and the founding faculty held the first day of classes October 4,1971 with 1128 students. McCann served from 1968 until stepping down to join the faculty June 6,1977 when former Governor Daniel J. Evans, who signed the legislation creating Evergreen, assumed the presidency. Evans left the presidents office abruptly in 1983 when he was appointed to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy created by the death of Senator Henry M. Jackson, the largest building on campus is named in honor of Evans, the Daniel J. Evans Library Building. The entrance to the campus bears McCanns name, the Charles J. McCann plaza, in 2004, the college completed the 170, 000-square-foot Seminar II building, and a significant remodel of the Daniel J. Evans Library is now complete. In 1999, Mumia Abu-Jamal was invited to deliver the address by audiotape for the graduating class at the college. The entire campus comprises about 408 hectares, much of it forested land and this total includes 11 hectares of southern Puget Sound tidelands. In addition to the campus, there is also an organic farm as well as an urban campus located in Tacoma. According to U. S. News & World Reports 2009-2010 college rankings and it was ranked as the 5th best public college in the Masters West Category a region stretching from Texas to the Pacific. Author and former New York Times education editor Loren Pope cites Evergreen as one of two colleges in the United States in his book Colleges That Change Lives. In addition, The Princeton Review lists Evergreen as one of the Best Western Colleges for 2009-2010, Evergreen State teams, nicknamed athletically as the Geoducks, are part of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, primarily competing in the Cascade Collegiate Conference. Mens sports include basketball, cross country, soccer, crew, a geoduck is a clam native to the region. Former mens soccer star Joey Gjertsen, who led the Geoducks to the 2004 NAIA National quarterfinals, has gone on to have success with the San Jose Earthquakes of Major League Soccer. Shawn Medved previously had success in the MLS, playing for D. C, United and the San Jose Clash
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Sasquatch! Music Festival
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Music Festival is an annual music festival held at the Gorge Amphitheatre in George, Washington. In recent years, it has taken place on the Memorial Day weekend, in 2014, Adam Zacks decided to expand the festival to two weekends due to the high demand for tickets in 2013. Rather than expanding to two weekends, the festival instead only expanded to two- to three-day weekends. Typically features a range of genres, with the emphasis being on indie rock bands and singer-songwriters, but also including alternative rock, hip hop, EDM. As of 2012 the festival features five stages, Sasquatch, main Stage, Bigfoot Stage, Banana Shack, Yeti Stage, and Uranus Stage. Most attendees of the camp in designated campsite fields nearby, as the venue is relatively remote. Sasquatch. was voted as one of the Top 10 Summer Music Festivals in the US by ConcertBoom, Music Festival was founded in 2002 by Pacific Northwest-based concert promoter Adam Zacks, then at House of Blues. Prior to the inception of the festival, Zacks booked and managed shows at the Roseland Theater in Portland, after moving to Seattle, Washington to be closer to friends and family, Zacks began considering the creation of a music festival in the Pacific Northwest. In an interview with Seattle Weekly in September 2007, Zacks described the birth of Sasquatch, Sasquatch was an idea born on a hunch that there was untapped demand for a certain kind of festival that catered to the eclectic tastes of music enthusiasts. On March 21,2014 the Independence Day Weekend of Sasquatch was cancelled, Jeff Trisler, President of Live Nation, released the following statement upon the announcement, The Sasquatch. They continue to support the traditional Memorial Day Weekend event with enthusiasm, Jeff Trisler, president of Live Nation Seattle. Unfortunately, the weekend was not embraced. We felt it was better to cancel the new event now, Music Festival will be at the Gorge Amphitheatre on the weekend the fans want, Memorial Day Weekend only. The lineup for the 2011 Sasquatch, Music Festival was announced on 6 February 2011. The lineup for the 2010 Sasquatch, Music Festival was announced on 15 February 2010. Headliners for the event included My Morning Jacket, Massive Attack, the event took place on Memorial Day weekend, 29–31 May 2010. The comedy lineup included Rob Riggle, Bobcat Goldthwait, Luke Burbank, Mike Birbiglia, Patton Oswalt, the lineup for the 2009 Sasquatch. Music Festival was announced on 17 February 2009, headliners for the event included Janes Addiction, Kings of Leon, and Ben Harper & Relentless7
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Bumbershoot
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Bumbershoot is an annual international music and arts festival held in Seattle, Washington. One of North Americas largest such festivals, it takes place every Labor Day weekend at the 74-acre Seattle Center, Seattle Center includes both indoor theaters and outdoor stages. The name of the festival was taken from bumbershoot, a term for umbrella, probably coined in the 19th century as a portmanteau of the words umbrella. Bumbershoot began as an arts and music festival called Mayors Arts Festival, also known as Festival 71. This event had an attendance of 125,000 visitors. Talk radio host Irving Clark Jr, in 1972, Festival 72, held on July 21–23, took in 175,000 guests. In 1973 the festival adopted the present name Bumbershoot, grew to five days, national acts included Cal Tjader, Joe Venuti, and John Handy. In 1974 it grew again, to 10 days and 325,000 visitors, another prominent Bumbershoot event from this era was the Bumbernationals Artists Soapbox Derby, which continued into the early 1980s. First, the festival retrenched on the number of days and on bringing in national talent, in 1980 the city brought in Northwest non-profit organization One Reel to produce the event, they have been running it ever since. A mid-1980s attempt by Seattle Center itself to wrest back control was overruled by the City Council, according to its website, One Reel originated as a traveling show, The One Reel Vaudeville Show in 1972 and was founded by former One Reel president and CEO Norman Langill. One Reel has also operated Teatro ZinZanni, the Summer Nights concert series, as the One Reel Vaudeville Show, the organization had been involved in the event since its second year,1972, but with their new role as festival producer came big change. Once again, the festival featured headlining national and international talent, initially that admission charge was US$2.50 a day, as of 2007, it had grown to US$40 a day, and to $62 by 2013. The new formula featured world-class acts while continuing to ground the festival on a bedrock of Pacific Northwest talent, record numbers of art and music lovers flocked to the multiple indoor and outdoor stages, galleries, and food, art and craft vendors. Artists such as The Eurythmics, James Brown, Spinal Tap and Tina Turner shared the turf with art oddities like the flying pencil. Although initially resistant to hip hop, in the mid-90s Bumbershoot introduced some of the first large-scale hip hop shows ever held in Seattle, a tradition thats still very much alive. In the new millennium, international artists have included such as Baba Maal, The Grand Kabuki Theatre of Japan. The One Reel Film Festival, held within Bumbershoot, celebrates American independent film shorts, Bumbershoot incorporated new arts forms such as poetry slams and break dancing as well as older arts such as circus, contortion, aerial, and street theater. One Reel signed a three-year programming and promotional agreement in 2008 with AEG Live, one of the largest for-profit international promoters of rock concerts, the deal allowed AEG to assist One Reel with booking musical acts and sponsorship but ultimately proved unfruitful for both parties
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Macklemore
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Benjamin Hammond Haggerty, known by his stage name Macklemore and formerly Professor Mack Lemore, is an American hip hop recording artist from Kent, Washington. His stage name originated from his childhood, it was the name of his made-up superhero, since 2000, he has independently released one mixtape, three EPs, and four albums. He has significantly collaborated with producer Ryan Lewis as Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Macklemore and Ryan Lewiss single Thrift Shop reached number one on the U. S. Billboard Hot 100 in 2013. Recordss radio promotion department to push his singles, Macklemore and Lewis released their debut studio album The Heist on October 9,2012, which charted at number 2 on the U. S. Billboard 200. The pair won four Grammy Awards at the 2014 ceremony, including Best New Artist, Best Rap Album, Best Rap Song and their second album, This Unruly Mess Ive Made, was released on February 26,2016. Haggerty was born to Bill Haggerty and Julie Schott, Haggerty is one of two boys and was raised with his brother Tim in Kent, Washington. His ethnicity is almost entirely Irish, Haggerty was six years old when hip hop first came into his life by way of Digital Underground. According to a YouTube interview with Macklemore, he listened to parental advisory music from the radio when he was an underage youth, Macklemore was 15 when he started writing lyrics. At Garfield High School, Macklemore and other students started a group called Elevated Elements. He earned a degree from The Evergreen State College in 2009. Macklemore recorded an EP titled Open Your Eyes in 2000 under the name Professor Macklemore, Macklemore first met Ryan Lewis in 2006. Lewis spent a few years working on Macklemores promotion as a photographer and they would soon become good friends. Lewis would go on to produce for Macklemore, the two eventually working full-time as a title-credited duo and he appeared as a featured artist on The Physics song Good in 2009. In 2008,2009, and 2011, Macklemore performed at Bumbershoot, in 2009 he released the The Unplanned Mixtape. The latter would reach No.7 on the iTunes Hip Hop chart, Macklemores debut single The Town was released from The Unplanned Mixtape and later remixed by Sabzi of the Blue Scholars. In 2009, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis formalized the collaboration as a duo Macklemore & Ryan Lewis and they released the EP The VS. EP. They also released Irish Celebration in December 2009 in anticipation of the release of The Vs. EP, in March 2010, the duo released Stay At Home Dad, a track that didnt quite make Vs. In October 2010, they created the VS. Redux EP, Macklemore used his experience with substance abuse to create the mixtapes song Otherside, which samples the Red Hot Chili Peppers song of the same title
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Blue Scholars
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Blue Scholars is an American hip hop duo based in Seattle, Washington, created in 2002 while the members, DJ Sabzi and MC Geologic, were students at University of Washington. The name Blue Scholars is a play on the blue collar. Their music and lyrics focus on struggles between socioeconomic classes, challenging authority and youth empowerment. S. Recent music has begun to even further outward, reflecting the groups greater West Coast. Since 2002, Blue Scholars have been based in southeast Seattle, the hip hop group first came to be in 2002 because, two students skipped a class, went and crafted an album, as it says in the track Bayani. The two students, George Quibuyen and Alexei Saba Mohajerjasbi, were attending the University of Washington at the time, the two met at a meeting for S. H. O. W. Which was organized by classmate and future manager Marc Matsui, the organization had set out to revive an authentic interest in hip hop within Seattle which, at the time, had become a solely rock town. This was a result of a series of incidents including a shooting at an Ice Cube concert in the early 1990s as well as the Teen Dance Ordinance. George and Alexei soon joined forces and formed their own duo that utilized Geos raps and Sabzis beats, since then the duo has performed in over 400 shows together across the United States including the Sasquatch. Music Festival in 2005,2006, and 2008, and Bumbershoot opening for Kanye West in 2006. They have opened for and shared stages with artists as De La Soul, Slick Rick, Wordsworth, Kanye West, Hieroglyphics, Immortal Technique, The Coup. Over the years the duo has continued to use their music as a tool for social change, since those formative years in S. H. O. W. In 2007, Geologic, representing Blue Scholars, went on tour with Hip Hop artist, Kiwi, Geologic is the vocalist for the Blue Scholars and has also performed as a spoken word poet. The son of Filipino immigrants, Quibuyen lived in locations along the west coast. Geo feels rooted in his Filipino heritage and that there is a revolution among his people. His lyrics are drawn from experience, crafted for a connection to community, in 2011, Prometheus Brown released the album Prometheus Brown and Bambu Walk Into A Bar with Los Angeles rapper Bambu. In 2014, they released an album, titled Barkada. Sabzi is of Iranian American heritage and is a jazz-trained pianist and he holds a background in punk and ska before he turned to beats and turntables with the Blue Scholars
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Red Hot Chili Peppers
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Red Hot Chili Peppers, also sometimes shortened to The Chili Peppers or abbreviated as RHCP, are an American funk rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1983. The groups musical style consists of rock with an emphasis on funk, as well as elements from other genres such as punk rock. When played live, their music elements of jam band due to the improvised nature of much of their performances. Currently, the band consists of founding members vocalist Anthony Kiedis and bassist Flea, longtime drummer Chad Smith, in 2012, they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The bands original line-up, originally named Tony Flow and the Miraculously Majestic Masters of Mayhem, featured guitarist Hillel Slovak and drummer Jack Irons, alongside Kiedis, because of commitments to other bands, Slovak and Irons did not play on the bands self-titled debut album. Slovak performed on the second and third albums, Freaky Styley and The Uplift Mofo Party Plan, as a result of his friends death, Irons chose to depart from the group. After short-lived replacements at guitar and drums, John Frusciante and Chad Smith joined in 1988, the line-up of Flea, Kiedis, Frusciante, and Smith was the longest-lasting and recorded five studio albums beginning with Mothers Milk. In 1990, the signed with Warner Bros. Records. This album became the bands first commercial success, but Frusciante grew uncomfortable with it, after two temporary guitarists, Dave Navarro joined the group in 1993 and played on their subsequent album, One Hot Minute. Although commercially successful, the failed to match the critical or popular acclaim of Blood Sugar Sex Magik. Navarro was fired from the band in 1998, Frusciante, fresh out of drug rehabilitation, rejoined the band that same year at Fleas request. The reunited quartet returned to the studio to record Californication, which became the bands biggest commercial success with 16 million copies worldwide. That album was followed three years later by By the Way, and then four years later by the double album Stadium Arcadium, after a world tour, the group went on an extended hiatus. Frusciante announced he was leaving the band in 2009 to focus on his solo career. Klinghoffer, who had worked both as a sideman for the band on their Stadium Arcadium tour and on Frusciantes solo projects, the bands tenth studio album, Im with You, was released in 2011 and topped the charts in 18 different countries. The band released their studio album, The Getaway, in 2016. The album was produced by Danger Mouse, marking the first time since 1989s Mothers Milk that the Red Hot Chili Peppers had not worked with Rubin, and topped the charts in ten different countries. Red Hot Chili Peppers were formed in Los Angeles by singer Anthony Kiedis, guitarist Hillel Slovak, bassist Flea, and drummer Jack Irons, all of whom were classmates from Fairfax High School
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Otherside
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Otherside is a song by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, released in 2000. It was the single from their album Californication, and confronts the battles addicts have with their prior addictions. The song remained at one on this chart for 13 consecutive weeks. This song refers to one of the members, Hillel Slovak who died of a heroin overdose on June 25,1988. This song talks about his struggles from this addiction, the name of the song, Otherside, is also used to say afterlife. Although it is sung by Anthony Kiedis, it is supposed to be Slovaks voice and this song talks about how Slovak knows how much the drug has affected him and how he must kill himself to end his addiction. This song also shows his struggles to end this addiction by saying, I yell and tell it that its not my friend, I tear it down tear it down, and then its born again. The video also shows his struggles by having a scene where the man is fighting against his shadow which shows that he was fighting with himself due to the addiction. This song is not only a commentary of Slovaks struggles but also demonstrative of the effects of drug use as a whole. Elements of Cubism and work by the graphic artist M. C, escher are also seen in the video. A cartoonish story line is juxtaposed upon the song, that of a young mans dream sequence, the band members appear dressed in black in unusual locations, with props intended to appear as surreal instruments. Throughout the video Anthony Kiedis with short, platinum hair is seen in a castle tower and his stage persona is different and quite dark when compared to his more energetic performances in other videos. John Frusciante plays a rope down a corridor as if a guitar. Flea is hanging on high voltage wires and playing them as if they were a bass guitar, jonathan Dayton, We did look at Caligari, and we looked at a lot of German Expressionist film. But it was very important to avoid Caligari. It was both inspiration and something to work around, because it has such a strong, specific style, valerie Faris, We didnt look at Calagari all that much, really. We did, but then we just left it and we did look at a lot of the works of the futurist artists from the 30s, and the illustrations of the surrealists and from cubism. We were inspired more by paintings than by films… Otherside has remained a constant staple on the tours since 1999
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Wings (Macklemore & Ryan Lewis song)
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Wings is a song by American hip hop duo Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, released as the debut single from their first studio album The Heist. It features uncredited vocals from Hollis, Macklemore explained the subject of the single as follows, The music video, directed by Zia Mohajerjasbi, alludes to an autobiographical story line. The music video starts with Macklemore now a man, going into an empty basketball court, where the indications are. Macklemore raps while he himself as a small kid wearing a Chicago Bulls jersey number 23 and wearing, in a close-up. He describes touching the net as being the best day of my life, boasting about his skills to his mother, until that is my friend Carlos brother got murdered for his fours, whoa, a reference to the basketball shoes he was wearing. This incident becomes a wake-up call to young Macklemore, then the music video shows kids and youth practicing because they wish to fly. The music video shows a flashback of the young kid back in school wearing Seattle SuperSonics apparel. On his way back home all alone, he is followed by three juveniles eyeing him, then there is a scene where the kid has been roughed up and his sneakers stolen as he walks home only with his socks on. Reaching home, he can take off his socks to wear a new clean pair. The choosing of the Sonics jersey is poignant to add further autobiographical aspect to the video again showing that it is about Macklemores own experiences. Then there is a cut back to other young boys. Then back a final flashback at the kid wearing a Nike pair dreaming of his first day in school. The final shot is back to the scene at the basketball court with Macklemore still rapping as a grown. An alternative version of song was used for commercials involving the 2013 NBA All-Star Game. It was heavily used in TNT television channels promotion to the event, the promotional film with Macklemore wearing the West #3 Chris Paul red jersey, is shown in a new video accompanied by a young choir wearing All Star T-shirts. Macklemore responded in a message to the criticism levelled against him of selling out. He says, The song was sampled in the song Alles hat sein Sinn by German rappers Farid Bang and KC Rebell from Farid Bangs 2016 album Blut, in which the original songs hook was used as the chorus
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Ray Dalton
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Ray Dalton is an Grammy nominated American singer and songwriter based in Seattle, Washington. He began his career as a gospel and R&B singer, Dalton gained prominence as the featured singer on Macklemore & Ryan Lewis 2011 hit song Cant Hold Us, which gained popularity when it was re-released as a single in early 2013. The song was certified platinum in the U. S. in April 2013 and he has won two MTV Video Music Awards. Daltons mother is Mexican American and his father is African American and he began singing at the age of 6 on the advice of his music teacher, joining the Seattle Childrens Choir. He continued to sing through high school and he has described himself as a fan of Fleetwood Mac. Dalton spent his year in high school listening to Missy Elliott, Amy Winehouse. Aside from music, Dalton is a player who has worked as a tennis instructor. He gave up teaching tennis following the success of Cant Hold Us to pursue a career as a musician. Dalton sings in the Total Experience Gospel Choir of Seattle, as of 2013, Daltons work drew the attention of producer Ryan Lewis, who had heard Daltons singing on a song for another artist. Lewis reached out to Dalton via Facebook, Dalton soon began collaborating with Lewis and Macklemore in the studio. The first song the trio worked on together was Macklemores and Lewis 2011 single, in June 2012, Dalton released his first single, So Emotional, which was mixed by Ryan Lewis. He also announced he was working on his own project to be called The Dalton Show, Dalton, Lewis and Macklemore created the hook for Cant Hold Us in one day. Dalton shot his scenes for the music video while on tour in New Zealand in March 2013. Official website Ray Dalton on Facebook
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The Showbox
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The Showbox is a music venue in Seattle, Washington. It has been owned by AEG Live since 2007, founded in 1939, the Showbox has hosted a diverse offering of music over the decades. Other acts to perform at The Showbox have included Al Jolson, Mae West, Nat King Cole, Jimmy Durante, the Police, XTC, X, Blondie, Gang of Four, Iggy Pop, Devo and Dead Kennedys. Showbox SoDo opened in 2007 and belongs to Showbox Presents family and it is located at 1700 1st Avenue South, Seattle, Washington. It takes its name from the SoDo district, referring to an area south of Safeco Field and it has hosted concerts for M. I. A, Heart, Josh Ritter, The Hives, Kid Rock & Adam Lambert, among others. The Showbox added to its family in 2007 with the addition of the larger Showbox SoDo, the space has wood-beam and brick architecture
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Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival
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The Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival is a music festival held annually in San Francisco, California, at Golden Gate Park. The first edition occurred from August 22 to 24,2008, the festival grounds included the Polo Fields, Hellmans Hollow/Speedway Meadow, and Lindley Meadow. Bringing in 40,000 to 60,000 attendees a day, the second edition of the festival was held between August 28 and 30,2009, and streamed live on YouTube via the festivals YouTube account. The festival is produced by Another Planet Entertainment, Superfly Presents, the Man, Ryan Bingham, Extra Golden, Infantree Tenacious D, M. I. A. The Man, Amadou & Mariam, Wolfgang Gartner, Fun, teeth and The Electric Mayhem, E-40 & Warren G Outside Lands also features attractions that focus around food, wine, and art. There is a wine lands portion of the festival that allows people to purchase tickets, there are also areas that offer separate entertainment, including a sports lounge, an arcade/bar, and various food and art vendors. The festival is designed to utilize several strategies of being eco-friendly, there are solar power stages, a refillable water program, a waste diversion program, a recycling program, and bike valet parking program. There have also been workshops to educate about organic food and farming, bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival Board of Supervisors Unanimously Approved Recreation and Park’s Outside Lands Contract
