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Southern Hospitality (album)
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Southern Hospitality is the seventh album from Christian rock group Disciple, released October 21,2008. The album debuted at #98 on the Billboard 200, right There, 3-2-1, Romance Me, Lay My Burdens, and Whatever Reason were all released as radio singles. This would be the last album to feature longtime members Brad Noah, Joey Fife, the album was nominated for a Dove Award for Rock Album of the Year at the 40th GMA Dove Awards
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Single (music)
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In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a song recording of fewer tracks than an LP record, an album or an EP record. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats, in most cases, a single is a song that is released separately from an album, although it usually also appears on an album. Typically, these are the songs from albums that are released separately for promotional uses such as digital download or commercial radio airplay and are expected to be the most popular, in other cases a recording released as a single may not appear on an album. As digital downloading and audio streaming have become prevalent, it is often possible for every track on an album to also be available separately. Nevertheless, the concept of a single for an album has been retained as an identification of a heavily promoted or more popular song within an album collection. Despite being referred to as a single, singles can include up to as many as three tracks on them. The biggest digital music distributor, iTunes, accepts as many as three tracks less than ten minutes each as a single, as well as popular music player Spotify also following in this trend. Any more than three tracks on a release or longer than thirty minutes in total running time is either an Extended Play or if over six tracks long. The basic specifications of the single were made in the late 19th century. Gramophone discs were manufactured with a range of speeds and in several sizes. By about 1910, however, the 10-inch,78 rpm shellac disc had become the most commonly used format, the inherent technical limitations of the gramophone disc defined the standard format for commercial recordings in the early 20th century.26 rpm. With these factors applied to the 10-inch format, songwriters and performers increasingly tailored their output to fit the new medium, the breakthrough came with Bob Dylans Like a Rolling Stone. Singles have been issued in various formats, including 7-inch, 10-inch, other, less common, formats include singles on digital compact cassette, DVD, and LD, as well as many non-standard sizes of vinyl disc. Some artist release singles on records, a more common in musical subcultures. The most common form of the single is the 45 or 7-inch. The names are derived from its speed,45 rpm. The 7-inch 45 rpm record was released 31 March 1949 by RCA Victor as a smaller, more durable, the first 45 rpm records were monaural, with recordings on both sides of the disc. As stereo recordings became popular in the 1960s, almost all 45 rpm records were produced in stereo by the early 1970s
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Ludacris
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Christopher Brian Chris Bridges, better known by his stage name Ludacris, is an American hip hop recording artist and actor from Atlanta, Georgia. Alongside his manager, Chaka Zulu, Ludacris is the co-founder of Disturbing tha Peace, throughout his career, Ludacris has won Screen Actors Guild, Critics Choice, MTV, and Grammy Awards. Along with fellow Atlanta-based rappers Big Boi and André3000 of OutKast, born in Champaign, Illinois, Ludacris moved to Atlanta at age nine, where he began rapping. In 2001, he released Word of Mouf, followed by Chicken-n-Beer in 2003 and he took a more serious approach with his next two albums, Release Therapy, and Theater of the Mind. His next record, Battle of the Sexes, was released in 2010, Ludaversal was released on March 31,2015. As an actor, he has appeared in films including Crash, Gamer, and New Years Eve, but is best known for playing Tej Parker in the The Fast and the Furious film series. Ludacris was born as Christopher Brian Bridges in Champaign, Illinois and he later moved to the Chicago area, where he attended Emerson Middle School in Oak Park, and Oak Park & River Forest High School for one year. He then moved to Centreville, Virginia and attended Centreville High School for one year and he attended Banneker High School in Atlanta, Georgia and graduated in 1995. From 1998 to 1999, he studied management at Georgia State University. His parents were both African-American, and he also has some English and Native American ancestry and he is a distant cousin of late comedian Richard Pryor. Bridges wrote his first rap song at age nine when moving to Atlanta, Bridges served as an intern and then a DJ at Atlantas Hot 97.5 under the name Chris Lova Lova. He was also known for DJing during Freaknik at one point, Ludacris collaborated with Timbaland on the track Phat Rabbit from his album Tims Bio, Life from da Bassment. This song was a hit in many countries, in Ludacris early music career he collaborated with Dallas Austin and Jermaine Dupri. In 1998, Ludacris began to record his debut album Incognegro and this album was the defining example of Ludacris fast, wild, and comedic flow, a unique style for southern rappers. Timbaland handled part of the production, despite its poor sales, it was never deleted and is still sold today. Ludacris also appeared on Timbalands 1998 debut on Phat Rabbit, a track that would later be used on his re-issue of Incognegro called Back For The First Time, in 2000, Ludacris released his major label debut, Back for the First Time. It was produced with the help of the underground producer Sessy Melia, the album reached as high as #4 on the U. S. Billboard 200, and was a major success. Ludacris made his mark on the industry with such as Southern Hospitality and Whats Your Fantasy, along with his first ever single the Phat Rabbit
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CD single
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This article is about the 12cm single. Not to be confused with 8cm single, the standard in the Red Book for the term CD single. A CD single is a single in the form of a standard size compact disc. It is not to be confused with the Mini CD single, the format was introduced in the mid-1980s but did not gain its place in the market until the early 1990s. With the rise in digital downloads in the early 2010s, sales of CD singles have decreased, commercially released CD singles can vary in length from two songs up to six songs like an EP. Some contain multiple mixes of one or more songs, in the tradition of 12 vinyl singles, depending on the nation, there may be limits on the number of songs and total length for sales to count in singles charts. Containing four tracks, it had a limited print run. CD singles were first made eligible for the UK Singles Chart in 1987, the Mini CD single format was originally created for use for singles in the late 1980s, but met with limited success, particularly in the US. The smaller CDs were more successful in Japan and have become more common in Europe. By 1989, the CD3 was in decline in the US and it was common in the 1990s for US record companies to release both a two-track CD and a multi-track maxi CD. In the UK, record companies would also release two CDs but, usually, these consisted of three tracks or more each. Pressure from record labels made singles charts in some countries become song charts, allowing album cuts to chart based only on airplay, without a single ever being released. At the end of the 1990s, the CD was the single format in the UK, but in the US. In Australia, the Herald Sun reported the CD single is set to become extinct, while CD singles no longer maintain their own section of the store, copies are still distributed but placed with the artists albums. That is predominantly the case for popular Australian artists such as Jessica Mauboy, Kylie Minogue and, most recently, Delta Goodrem, the ARIA Singles Chart are now predominantly compiled from legal downloads, and ARIA also stopped compiling their physical singles sales chart. On a Mission by Gabriella Cilmi was the last CD single to be stocked in Kmart, Target and Big W, sanity Entertainment, having resisted the decline for longer than the other major outlets, has also ceased selling CD singles. In Greece and Cyprus, the term CD single is used to describe a play in which there may be anywhere from three to six different tracks. These releases charted on the Greek Singles Chart with songs released as singles, in September 2003, there was talk of ringtones for mobile phones outstripping CD singles sales for the year 2004
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Phonograph record
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The groove usually starts near the periphery and ends near the center of the disc. The phonograph disc record was the medium used for music reproduction until late in the 20th century. It had co-existed with the cylinder from the late 1880s. Records retained the largest market share even when new formats such as compact cassette were mass-marketed, by the late 1980s, digital media, in the form of the compact disc, had gained a larger market share, and the vinyl record left the mainstream in 1991. The phonograph record has made a resurgence in the early 21st century –9.2 million records were sold in the U. S. in 2014. Likewise, in the UK sales have increased five-fold from 2009 to 2014, as of 2017,48 record pressing facilities remain worldwide,18 in the United States and 30 in other countries. The increased popularity of vinyl has led to the investment in new, only two producers of lacquers remains, Apollo Masters in California, USA, and MDC in Japan. Vinyl records may be scratched or warped if stored incorrectly but if they are not exposed to heat or broken. The large cover are valued by collectors and artists for the space given for visual expression, in the 2000s, these tracings were first scanned by audio engineers and digitally converted into audible sound. Phonautograms of singing and speech made by Scott in 1860 were played back as sound for the first time in 2008, along with a tuning fork tone and unintelligible snippets recorded as early as 1857, these are the earliest known recordings of sound. In 1877, Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, unlike the phonautograph, it was capable of both recording and reproducing sound. Despite the similarity of name, there is no evidence that Edisons phonograph was based on Scotts phonautograph. Edison first tried recording sound on a paper tape, with the idea of creating a telephone repeater analogous to the telegraph repeater he had been working on. The tinfoil was wrapped around a metal cylinder and a sound-vibrated stylus indented the tinfoil while the cylinder was rotated. The recording could be played back immediately, Edison also invented variations of the phonograph that used tape and disc formats. A decade later, Edison developed a greatly improved phonograph that used a wax cylinder instead of a foil sheet. This proved to be both a better-sounding and far more useful and durable device, the wax phonograph cylinder created the recorded sound market at the end of the 1880s and dominated it through the early years of the 20th century. Berliners earliest discs, first marketed in 1889, but only in Europe, were 12.5 cm in diameter, both the records and the machine were adequate only for use as a toy or curiosity, due to the limited sound quality
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Virginia Beach, Virginia
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Virginia Beach is an independent city located in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 437,994, in 2015, the population was estimated to be 452,745. Although mostly suburban in character, it is the most populous city in Virginia, despite being larger, Virginia Beach is generally considered to be a suburb of Norfolk. Located on the Atlantic Ocean at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, Virginia Beach is a resort city with miles of beaches and hundreds of hotels, motels, and restaurants along its oceanfront. Every year the city hosts the East Coast Surfing Championships as well as the North American Sand Soccer Championship, a beach soccer tournament. Near the point where the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean meet, Cape Henry was the site of the first landing of the English colonists, the city is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as having the longest pleasure beach in the world. It is located at the end of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel. The Chesepian were the indigenous people of the area now known as Tidewater in Virginia at the time of European encounter. Little is known about them but archeological evidence suggests they may have related to the Carolina Algonquian. They would have one of the Algonquian languages. These were common among the tribes of the coastal area. The Chesepian occupied an area which is now defined as the independent cities of Norfolk, Portsmouth, Chesapeake and they named it Cape Henry, after Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, the eldest son of King James I of England. They created their first permanent settlement on the side of the James River at Jamestown. Adam Thoroughgood of Kings Lynn, Norfolk, England is one of the earliest Englishmen to settle in this area, at the age of 18, he had contracted as an indentured servant to pay for passage to the Virginia Colony in the hopes of bettering his life. He earned his freedom after several years and became a citizen of the area. In 1629, he was elected to the House of Burgesses for Elizabeth Cittie, in 1634, the Colony was divided into the original eight shires of Virginia, soon renamed as counties. Thoroughgood is credited using the name of his home in England when helping name New Norfolk County in 1637. The following year, New Norfolk County was split into Upper Norfolk County, Thoroughgood resided after 1634 was along the Lynnhaven River, named for his home in England
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Disturbing tha Peace
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Disturbing tha Peace is an American record label founded by Christopher Ludacris Bridges, his manager Chaka Zulu and Zulus brother Jeff Dixon. Today it operates as a subsidiary of Def Jam, a division of Universal Music Group, Disturbing tha Peace was founded in 2000 by Christopher Ludacris Bridges, manager Chaka Zulu, and Zulus brother Jeff Dixon. Incorporating all aspects of A&R Guidance, Marketing/Publicity, Promotions, Creative Sponsorship Opportunities, Touring and Performance set-up and that same year the label released Ludacris independent album Incognegro which it sold more than 50,000 copies that Ludacris sold himself out of the trunk of his car. The album was certified 2x Platinum becoming Ludacris best-selling album to date with sales of over 3,616,000 copies in the United States, as of July,2009. In 2003 the label released the soundtrack to the movie 2 Fast 2 Furious it spawned three hit singles Act a Fool, Pick Up the Phone, and Pump It Up. That same year the label home to St. Louis rapper Chingy who released his platinum debut album Jackpot on the label. After a dispute over royalties, Chingy abruptly left the label, in late 2003 the label released Ludacris third album Chicken-n-Beer his first to reach number one on the Billboard 200. Chicken -n- Beer brought with it another series of hits, including the Hot 100 number-one, Kanye West produced Stand Up and number-six Splash Waterfalls. In 2004 the label released Shawnnas debut album Worth tha Weight it spawned two singles Shake Dat Shit and Weight a Minute the album has sold 380,000 copies to date and that same year the label released I-20s debut album. The album spawned two singles Fightin in the Club and Break Bread, in 2005, the label released Valentinos self-titled debut album Bobby Valentino. A Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart-topper, it spawned three singles Slow Down, Tell Me and My Angel, the sultry Slow Down announced the singers rebirth as a DTP member in early 2005 and soon became a BET and radio favorite. As the ballad was landing on numerous schools prom ballots, the album spawned two singles Georgia and Gettin Some, the album was certified Gold. In 2006 the label released Shawnnas second album Block Music the album immediately follows Gettin Some a highlight from the second Disturbing tha Peace album, the second single was Damn featuring Smoke of Field Mob. The album has so far sold over 240,000 copies in the U. S and that same year Field Mob released third album and their first under the label Light Poles and Pine Trees. It spawned one single the Jazze Pha produced song So What featuring Ciara. This has become the duos most successful hit to date, climbing to #10 on the US Billboard Hot 100, the album itself achieved #1 on the US Billboard Top Rap Albums and #7 on the US Billboard 200. It has sold over 200,000 copies, the albums success has been at least partially attributed to better promotion of the group by DTP than that at their previous label, MCA Records. In late 2006 the label released Ludacris Grammy Award-winning fifth album Release Therapy an introspective album on which he vowed that he would be more seriously than in the past
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Def Jam Recordings
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Def Jam Recordings is an American record label, focused predominantly on hip hop and urban music, owned by Universal Music Group. In the UK, the takes on the name Def Jam UK and is operated through Virgin EMI, while in Japan. The label distributes various record labels, including Kanye Wests GOOD Music, Ludacris Disturbing Tha Peace, Def Jam was founded by Rick Rubin in his dormitory in Weinstein Hall at New York University and its first release was a single by his punk-rock group Hose. Russell Simmons joined Rubin shortly after they were introduced to other, according to one story. Another cites DJ Jazzy Jay as their connector, Rubin has said he met Simmons on the TV show, Graffiti Rock and recognized him then as the face of hip hop, He was five years older than me, and he was already established in the music business. And I had no experience whatsoever, the first single released with the Def Jam Recordings logo was T La Rock & Jazzy Jays Its Yours. The first releases with Def Jam Recordings catalog numbers were LL Cool Js I Need a Beat, the singles sold well, eventually leading to a distribution deal with CBS Records through Columbia Records the following year. A few years later, Russell Simmons and Lyor Cohen started a label called Rush Associated Labels to handle Def Jam. RAL became the home to Nice & Smooth and EPMD after both acts were acquired due to the folding of their former label Sleeping Bag Records, other acts under the RAL umbrella included Redman, Onyx, Flatlinerz, Domino, Warren G and Jayo Felony. As the decade drew to a close, the label signed Public Enemy, Lyor Cohen became president of Def Jam/RAL in 1988, after winning a power struggle with Rubin, who would shortly thereafter leave the company to form Def American Recordings. Rubin would take Slayer with him to Def American in its initial stages, by 1992, despite recent multi-platinum selling releases from Public Enemy, and EPMD, Def Jam ran into severe financial troubles and was faced with folding. However, in 1994, PolyGram purchased Sonys 50% stake in Def Jam Recordings — subsequently bringing the label into its fold, following PolyGrams purchase, Def Jam distributed the Violator Records-signed artist Warren Gs Regulate. G Funk Era album, which went triple platinum and brought much-needed revenue to Def Jam through its distribution deal with Violator, PolyGram acquired an additional 10% in Def Jam Recordings in 1996, further strengthening its ownership of Def Jam. Shortly thereafter, Rush Associated Labels was renamed Def Jam Music Group, the label remained profitable as its veteran star LL Cool J released his successful album Mr. Smith in 1995. The label later signed Foxy Brown, whose debut album Ill Na Na became a seller in 1997. In 1998, PolyGram was purchased by Seagram and merged with the MCA family of labels and it then purchased the remaining interest of Def Jam Recordings from Russell Simmons for a reported $100 million. UMG merged 14+ record labels including, Def Jam, Island Records, despite the formation of IDJMG, the Def Jam, Mercury, and Island labels continued to operate as separate imprints underneath the bigger umbrella. Lyor Cohen was appointed co-president of IDJMG, and Kevin Liles succeeded him as president of Def Jam, Def Soul also issued recordings by Musiq, Montell Jordan, Case,112, Patti LaBelle, and Christina Milian
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Songwriter
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A songwriter is an individual who writes the lyrics, melodies and chord progressions for songs, typically for a popular music genre such as rock or country music. A songwriter can also be called a composer, although the term tends to be used mainly for individuals from the classical music genre. The pressure from the industry to produce popular hits means that songwriting is often an activity for which the tasks are distributed between a number of people. For example, a songwriter who excels at writing lyrics might be paired with a songwriter with a gift for creating original melodies, pop songs may be written by group members from the band or by staff writers – songwriters directly employed by music publishers. Some songwriters serve as their own publishers, while others have outside publishers. The old-style apprenticeship approach to learning how to write songs is being supplemented by university degrees and college diplomas, a knowledge of modern music technology, songwriting elements and business skills are necessary requirements to make a songwriting career in the 2010s. Several music colleges offer songwriting diplomas and degrees with music business modules, the legal power to grant these permissions may be bought, sold or transferred. This is governed by international copyright law, song pitching can be done on a songwriters behalf by their publisher or independently using tip sheets like RowFax, the MusicRow publication and SongQuarters. Skills associated with song-writing include entrepreneurism and creativity, songwriters who sign an exclusive songwriting agreement with a publisher are called staff writers. In the Nashville country music scene, there is a staff writer culture where contracted writers work normal 9-to-5 hours at the publishing office and are paid a regular salary. This salary is in effect the writers draw, an advance on future earnings, the publisher owns the copyright of songs written during the term of the agreement for a designated period, after which the songwriter can reclaim the copyright. In an interview with HitQuarters, songwriter Dave Berg extolled the benefits of the set-up, unlike contracted writers, some staff writers operate as employees for their respective publishers. Under the terms of work for hire agreements, the compositions created are fully owned by the publisher. In Nashville, young writers are often encouraged to avoid these types of contracts. Staff writers are common across the industry, but without the more office-like working arrangements favored in Nashville. All the major publishers employ writers under contract, songwriter Allan Eshuijs described his staff writer contract at Universal Music Publishing as a starter deal. His success under the arrangement eventually allowed him to found his own publishing company, so that he could. keep as much as possible, songwriters are also often skilled musicians. In addition to selling their songs and musical concepts for other artists to sing, songwriters need to create a number of elements for a song
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Pharrell Williams
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Pharrell Lanscilo Williams is an American singer-songwriter, rapper, record producer, and film producer. Williams and Chad Hugo make up the production duo The Neptunes, producing soul, hip hop. He is the lead vocalist and drummer of the rock-funk-hip hop band N*E*R*D and he released his first single, Frontin, in 2003 and followed up with his debut solo album, In My Mind in 2006. His second album, Girl, was released on March 3,2014 and this album was preceded by the commercially successful single, Happy. As part of the Neptunes, Williams has produced hit singles for various recording artists. Williams has earned ten Grammy Awards including two with the Neptunes and he is also a two-time Academy Award nominee, receiving a 2014 Best Original Song nomination from Happy and a 2017 Best Picture nomination as one of the producers of Hidden Figures. Williams was born on April 5,1973, in Virginia Beach, Virginia and his roots extend for generations in Virginia and North Carolina, and one of his ancestors journeyed to West Africa in 1831, prompting other relatives to emigrate from America to Liberia in 1832. He met Chad Hugo in a summer band camp where Williams played the keyboards and drums. They were also members of a marching band, Williams played the snare drum while Hugo was drum major. Williams and Hugo attended Princess Anne High School where he played in the school band, in the MTV show When I Was 17, Pharrell stated that he was a nerd and often did things that made him stand out from most of his peers. In the early 1990s, Hugo and Williams formed a four-piece R&B-type group and they later entered a high school talent show where they were discovered by Teddy Riley, whose studio was next to Princess Anne High School. After graduating from school, the group signed with Riley. Through working with Riley, Williams went on to write a verse and that same year, he also performed a small rap solo on SWVs second hit, Right Here. Williams and Hugo met rap duo Clipse in Virginia Beach in 1993, in 1994, Hugo and Williams had established themselves as a production duo under their old name The Neptunes, and assistant-produced Tonights The Night from Blackstreets self-titled album. Over the next three years continued to produce occasionally, and some of the results had little resemblance to the Neptunes sound later. In 1999, a friend introduced Williams to Kelis. At this point the Neptunes were gaining a fanbase and audience. In 2000, they produced the song I Just Wanna Love U for Jay Zs album The Dynasty, Roc La Familia, the songs sound and success sparked the interest of maturing pop artist Britney Spears
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Record producer
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A record producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performers music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album. A producer has many roles during the recording process, the roles of a producer vary. The producer may perform these roles himself, or help select the engineer, the producer may also pay session musicians and engineers and ensure that the entire project is completed within the record companies budget. A record producer or music producer has a broad role in overseeing and managing the recording. Producers also often take on an entrepreneurial role, with responsibility for the budget, schedules, contracts. In the 2010s, the industry has two kinds of producers with different roles, executive producer and music producer. Executive producers oversee project finances while music producers oversee the process of recording songs or albums. In most cases the producer is also a competent arranger, composer. The producer will also liaise with the engineer who concentrates on the technical aspects of recording. Noted producer Phil Ek described his role as the person who creatively guides or directs the process of making a record, indeed, in Bollywood music, the designation actually is music director. The music producers job is to create, shape, and mold a piece of music, at the beginning of record industry, producer role was technically limited to record, in one shot, artists performing live. The role of producers changed progressively over the 1950s and 1960s due to technological developments, the development of multitrack recording caused a major change in the recording process. Before multitracking, all the elements of a song had to be performed simultaneously, all of these singers and musicians had to be assembled in a large studio and the performance had to be recorded. As well, for a song that used 20 instruments, it was no longer necessary to get all the players in the studio at the same time. Examples include the rock sound effects of the 1960s, e. g. playing back the sound of recorded instruments backwards or clanging the tape to produce unique sound effects. These new instruments were electric or electronic, and thus they used instrument amplifiers, new technologies like multitracking changed the goal of recording, A producer could blend together multiple takes and edit together different sections to create the desired sound. For example, in jazz fusion Bandleader-composer Miles Davis album Bitches Brew, producers like Phil Spector and George Martin were soon creating recordings that were, in practical terms, almost impossible to realise in live performance. Producers became creative figures in the studio, other examples of such engineers includes Joe Meek, Teo Macero, Brian Wilson, and Biddu
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What's Your Fantasy
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Whats Your Fantasy is a song by American rapper Ludacris. The song is a single from his debut album Back for the First Time and it debuted at #89 on September 30,2000, entered the Top 100 on November 4, and peaked at #21 on December 16. The original version features Disturbing tha Peace member Shawnna, who is featured in the tenth, the single was also included on Ludacriss first independent album Incognegro, and on the soundtrack for the 2001 comedy film How High. Whats Your Fantasy, as the name implies, is focused around the narration of explicit sexual fantasies, in addition to discussion of sexual intercourse and fellatio, Ludacris hints at cunnilingus and role-playing in the song. The song was ranked number 58 on VH1s 100 Greatest Songs of Hip Hop, in the remix, the three female artists go even further with more explicit references to cunnilingus and analingus. A track off Chris Browns mini mixtape X Files is titled Fantasy 2 which features Ludacris and he raps the famous lick lick lick you from your head to your toes line from Whats Your Fantasy prior to his verse. The mixtape was released on November 19,2013, on April 2,2015, in promotion of his ninth album Ludaversal, Ludacris performed a special acoustic rendition of the song with The Roots on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon
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Area Codes (song)
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Area Codes is a song by American hip hop recording artist Ludacris, released as the first single from his third album, Word of Mouf. The songs lyrics focus on U. S. telephone area codes that denote the location of women with whom the rapper has had relations in cities across the United States. The song was written by D. Davis, K. Hilson, J. Jones, R. Walters, bridges and was produced by Jazze Pha. At five minutes and three seconds, it is the fifth-longest track on the album, the song was originally released on the soundtrack to Rush Hour 2. It debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 at No.84 on July 14,2001, the song was also included briefly in a scene from The Fast and the Furious. These are the codes listed in the song, in order. Ludacris’ Rap Map of US Area Codes Area codes mentioned in Area Codes
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Shake Ya Ass
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Shake Ya Ass, also known by its clean title, Shake It Fast, is the first single released from American rapper Mystikals fourth album, Lets Get Ready. It also featured uncredited vocals from Pharrell Williams and it was released on July 18,2000 and was produced by The Neptunes. The single was a success for Mystikal, peaking at number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100. Both the song and music video received airplay and it has arguably become Mystikals most well-known song. Shake Ya Ass was followed by another top 20 hit, Danger, there were two edited versions of the song, allowing radio stations to choose between the two choruses but both versions had amended lyrics. Only the edited version of Shake Ya Ass was never released as opposed to Shake It Fast on the edited version. In March 2002, Mystikal was sued by Steve Winn, the creator of the Cajun in Your Pocket keychain toy, who claimed that Shake Ya Ass bore many similarities to his product. In an interview with RapGenius, Mystikal stated that he was reluctant to release the song as a single at first, however, he stated that he was grateful it was released, saying that its success proved me wrong and that it was the biggest song of my career. The music video for this song shows Mystikal being invited to a party by three young women and he later heads to the house where this party is being held. As he enters the house, he notices a group of bikini clad women wearing masks, one of the woman leads him upstairs, removes her mask and shows him that she was one of the three women he had met earlier. Pharrell Williams can also be seen dancing with some of the women, the song was listed as the 303rd best song of the 2000s by Pitchfork Media. Since its release, the song has featured in numerous films. It also appeared in the 2008 video game Grand Theft Auto IV when the player enters either of the two clubs in the city. Shake Ya Ass –4,20 Shake Ya Ass –4,39 Shake Ya Ass –4,17 Shake It Fast –4,16 Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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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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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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Music video
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A music video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings. There are also cases where songs are used in tie in marketing campaigns that allow them to more than just a song. Tie ins and merchandising could be used in toys or marketing campaigns for food, although the origins of music videos date back to musical short films that first appeared in the 1920s, they came into prominence in the 1980s when MTV based their format around the medium. Prior to the 1980s, these works were described by terms including illustrated song, filmed insert, promotional film, promotional clip, promotional video, song video. Music videos use a range of styles of contemporary videomaking techniques, including animation, live action filming, documentaries. Some music videos blend different styles, such as animation, music, combining these styles and techniques has become more popular because of the variation it presents to the audience. Many music videos interpret images and scenes from the songs lyrics, other music videos may be without a set concept, being merely a filmed version of the songs live performance. Product placement is a technique in music videos, exemplified by the appearance of the Beats Pill in numerous hip hop videos. In 1894, sheet music publishers Edward B, marks and Joe Stern hired electrician George Thomas and various performers to promote sales of their song The Little Lost Child. Using a magic lantern, Thomas projected a series of images on a screen simultaneous to live performances. This would become a form of entertainment known as the illustrated song. In 1926, with the arrival of many musical short films were produced. Vitaphone shorts featured many bands, vocalists and dancers, early 1930s cartoons featured popular musicians performing their hit songs on-camera in live-action segments during the cartoons. The early animated films by Walt Disney, such as the Silly Symphonies shorts and especially Fantasia, the Warner Brothers cartoons, even today billed as Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies, were initially fashioned around specific songs from upcoming Warner Brothers musical films. Live action musical shorts, featuring such performers as Cab Calloway, were also distributed to theaters. Blues singer Bessie Smith appeared in a short film called St. Louis Blues featuring a dramatized performance of the hit song. Numerous other musicians appeared in short musical subjects during this period, soundies, produced and released from 1940 to 1947, were musical films that often included short dance sequences, similar to later music videos
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Lil Jon
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Jonathan Smith, better known by his stage name Lil Jon, is an American record producer, rapper, songwriter, entrepreneur, DJ and actor from Atlanta, Georgia. He was the frontman of the group Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz, which he formed in 1997, after going solo, he released a new album in 2010 titled Crunk Rock. He was featured on Celebrity Apprentice during its 11th and 13th seasons, born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, Smith graduated from Frederick Douglass High School in Atlanta. After working as a DJ for Atlanta night clubs, he worked for So So Def Recordings between 1993 and 2000, Smith took the stage name Lil Jon and formed musical group Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz, with rappers Big Sam and Lil Bo. The group signed to the Atlanta-based Mirror Image Records and were distributed by Ichiban Records, in 1997, Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz debuted with Get Crunk, Who U Wit, Da Album. It included singles Who U Wit. and Shawty Freak a Lil Sumthin, both singles charted on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart at No.70 and No. In 2000, Jon started up his own label, BME Recordings and he released his breakthrough album titled We Still Crunk. Among the tracks on that project was the hit single I Like Those Girls, Lil Jon was talked about as the new guy by street team people in the markets where he was attracting his biggest audiences – namely Atlanta, St. Louis, Memphis and Dallas. Bryan Leach, A&R at TVT, went to one of Lil Jons Atlanta shows and was blown away by its immense energy. Leach told HitQuarters, It was like early Beastie Boys, when they had the energy of a group but they were rapping. Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz signed to TVT Records in 2001 and debuted there with Put Yo Hood Up, the groups first nationally played single was Bia Bia, which featured rappers Ludacris, Too Short, Big Kapp, and Chyna Whyte. Bia Bia peaked at No.97 on the Billboard Hot 100, in 2002, the group released Kings of Crunk. I Dont Give A. was its first single, it featured Mystikal and Krayzie Bone and peaked at No.50 on the R&B chart. What U Gon Do peaked at No.22 on the Hot 100, No.13 on the R&B chart, Lil Jon has also produced many hit urban singles. From 2003 to 2005, while still with The East Side Boyz, Lil Jon produced hits such as Salt Shaker by Ying Yang Twins, Yeah. By Usher, Freek-a-Leek by Petey Pablo, Shorty Wanna Ride by Young Buck, Shake That Monkey by Too Short, Girlfight by Brooke Valentine, during that same year he produced a song called Go to Church for Ice Cube. In 2006, Lil Jon severed his negotiation with record label TVT and he vowed never to record for TVT Records again, alleging that TVT owner Steve Gottlieb was shortchanging him. He also began recording a music album, Crunk Rock
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Scarface (rapper)
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Brad Terrence Jordan, better known by his stage name Scarface, is an American rapper, music producer, and author. He hails from Houston, Texas and is a member of the Geto Boys. He is originally from the citys South Acres neighborhood, in 2012, The Source ranked him #16 on their list of the Top 50 Lyricists of All Time, while About. com ranked him #10 on its list of the 50 Greatest MCs of Our Time. Scarface attended Woodson Middle School in Houston, Texas and he was brought up as a Christian, but converted to Islam in 2006. He began his career as DJ Akshen recording solo for Lil Troys Short Stop Records, on That Other Level, a highly successful album that garnered the group a large fanbase, in spite of their violent lyrics keeping them from radio and MTV. He took his name from the 1983 film Scarface. In 1992, Scarface appeared on the Kool G Rap & DJ Polo album Live, the album Mr. Scarface Is Back was a success, and Scarfaces popularity soon overshadowed the other Geto Boys. This peaked with The Diary and The Last of a Dying Breed, which received positive reviews and sales. In 2002, he released The Fix, the follow-up to The Last of a Dying Breed and returned to the studio with the Geto Boys for their album and he was also featured on The Biggie Duets alongside Big Gee and Akon. He guested on Ray Cashs debut single Bumpin My Music, Scarface has appeared on Freeways album Free at Last and on Beanie Sigels album, The Solution. Scarface is currently planning production, he has produced three tracks on UGKs Underground Kingz including Life Is 2009, Still Ridin Dirty, and Candy, some of Scarfaces early music videos featured community activist Quanell X in supporting roles. In 2008, Scarface collaborated with rapper Tech N9ne on his album Killer on the song Pillow Talkin, despite limited commercial appeal, he remains out of the norm and uniquely popular amongst those in the industry, and has been described as your favorite rappers favorite rapper. On August 6,2009 Scarface performed at the 2009 Gathering of the Juggalos, in 2005, comedian Chris Rock praised Scarface as one of the best three rappers of all time on his list of the Top-25 Hip-Hop Albums ever. On June 30,2010, Scarface announced that he is working on a new album entitled The Habit would include features from John Legend, the album would feature a production from Eminem. In February 2011, news came that he had held in jail without bail since September 2010 for failure to pay child support in four different cases. As of August 2011, Scarface was released from jail, in 2012, Scarface collaborated with Ice Cube on an Insane Clown Posse remix called Chris Benoit on The Mighty Death Pop. s bonus album Mike E. Clarks Extra Pop Emporium. Scarface appeared in the Mike Judge film Idiocracy as a pimp named Upgrayedd, Judge also used the Scarface track No Tears and Geto Boys tracks Still and Damn It Feels Good to Be a Gangsta in his 1999 movie Office Space. Scarfaces track On my Block is also featured in the movie My Babys Daddy and he has appeared in the two video games, Def Jam Vendetta and its sequel Def Jam, Fight For NY
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Too Short
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Todd Anthony Shaw, better known by the stage name Too Short, is an American rapper, producer, and actor. He is best known for his hit songs like The Ghetto, Too Short is one of the very few musicians to have been able to collaborate with both 2Pac and The Notorious B. I. G. during the height of their careers. Too Short is credited as being one of the rappers of West Coast hip hop. His rap lyrics are primarily about pimping, drug use, Shaw was born and grew up in South Central Los Angeles, California. In the early 1980s, Shaw and his moved to Oakland. He was a drummer in the band at Fremont High School in Oakland, in the mid 1980s, Shaw produced custom songs for people with his high school friend, Freddy B. In 1985, Too Short had his first release, Dont Stop Rappin which, along with the following three releases, featured raw, simple drum beats from a LinnDrum drum machine. This was also one of the first hip hop records to use the word bitch - a word which one of the rappers trademarks and was the focus of subsequent raps such as Aint nothing. In the early 1990s his beats came from mostly a TR-808 and from mid-to-late 2000s, in 1985, Too Short and Freddie B. formed the label Dangerous Music to regionally distribute his music and with others formed rap group The Dangerous Crew. Dangerous Music became Short Records, and then Up All Nite Records, with his 1989 release, Life Is. Too Short, he began using replayed established funk riffs with his beats. Subsequent work was collaborative, including work with Tupac Shakur. One of his notable collaborations during this period was on the track The World Is Filled. on the classic Notorious B. I. G, album Life After Death, he comes in on the third verse after Diddy and Biggie. Being featured on the album introduced him to an audience as well. He also appeared on TWDYs hit single Players Holiday from their 1999 debut album Derty Werk as well as the Priority Records compilation Nuthin, after these appearances, he began working on his eighth album, Cant Stay Away. The album included guest appearances by 8Ball & MJG, Jay-Z, Jermaine Dupri, Sean Combs, E-40, Daz Dillinger, Lil Jon, Soopafly, Scarface and B-Legit. Too Short relocated to Atlanta in 1994, but he did not begin working with a diverse variety of Southern artists until 2000. However, he didnt totally give up on his trademark funk grooves or sexually explicit style, new albums released 2000-2003 were You Nasty, Chase the Cat, Whats My Favorite Word. and Married to the Game. These albums all charted well, as they all were in the top 71 of the Billboard 200
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Word of Mouf
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Word of Mouf is the second studio album by American rapper Ludacris, it was released on November 27,2001, by Disturbing tha Peace and Def Jam South. It contains the singles, Rollout, Area Codes, Move Bitch, however, he felt that amid all of these various team-ups you do lose a little bit of the sincere, personal edge that had characterized much of Ludacris debut. Even his skits are funny enough that they could serve as the foundation for a comedy album. for sales of over 3 million copies. As of July 2014, the album has sold over 3,674,000 copies in the United States to date. This is Ludacris best selling album and it was nominated at the 45th Grammy Awards for Best Rap Album, but lost to The Eminem Show. All tracks are co-written by Christopher Bridges Coming 2 America Requiem,9, From the New World, 4th movement by Antonín Dvořák Rollout Yay Boy by Africando Area Codes Do It by B. T. Express Growing Pains I Forgot To Be Your Lover by William Bell Welcome to Atlanta Five Minutes of Funk by Whodini Do it baby by The Miracles
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Chicken-n-Beer
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Chicken-n-Beer is the third studio album by American rapper Ludacris. It was released on October 7,2003, by Disturbing tha Peace, the albums production took place from 2002 to 2003, and it was handled by several record producers, including DJ Nasty & LVM, Kanye West, Mo B. Dick, DJ Paul, Juicy J and Ludacris himself and this Southern hip hop album, Chicken-n-Beer is musically similar to Ludacris previous work, with his use of a fast, highly versatile flow. Some of the songs on the album take a political overtone and it was supported by four singles that were released from the album, two of which – Stand Up and Splash Waterfalls – became Ludacris first to peak in the top 10 on the US Billboard Hot 100. Ludacris frequently employs a fast paced flow on Chicken-n-Beer, whilst often suffusing the words he raps with humorous punchlines, writing for BBC Music, Lewis Dene noted Ludacris to typically incorporate lightning-quick phrasing, cutting wit and reference points a plenty into his lyrics. Many of the songs on Chicken-n-Beer are of a sexual nature. Club, to the material recorded by the likes of the hip hop group 2 Live Crew, Rabin further observed that Ludacris addresses such topics with irreverent glee, despite describing these themes well-worn and clichéd. Ludacris attacks political commentator Bill OReilly, who specifically criticized Ludacris for the content of his lyrics, blow It Out and Screwed Up contain direct references to OReilly and his comments, as well as observations on the difficulties of fame. In its second week, Chicken-n-Beer fell to number 2, selling 194,000 copies, representing an overall decrease of 55%. The album spent five weeks inside the top ten of the chart, selling 936,000 copies in that time, it went on to spend a total of 45 weeks on the chart. On June 18,2004, the album was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America for shipments of 2,000,000 copies within the United States. Unlike Ludacris previous releases, Chicken-n-Beer achieved reasonable success outside the United States. It became Ludacris first album to chart in Australia, where it debuted and peaked at number 98, then exited the chart after a single week. In Ireland, the album debuted and peaked at number 71 on the Irish Albums Chart, before exiting the chart the week, to date. It also became Ludacris most commercially successful album in Germany, appearing at number 87 on the German Albums Chart in the week in which it charted. Upon its release, Chicken-n-Beer received generally positive reviews music critics. He varies his flows with such dexterity and has so much musicality in his tones that his mouth truly seems like an instrument. Ludacris is an outsize character – hes Mr. Fantastic from the Fantastic Four, perhaps a Southern Busta Rhymes, finds him part of the hip-hop establishment
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The Red Light District
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The Red Light District is the fourth studio album from Def Jam recording artist Ludacris. The album was released on December 7,2004 through Disturbing tha Peace and Def Jam Recordings and it debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 album chart with 322,000 copies sold in its first week. The albums title refers to a district in Amsterdam where prostitution is common and this was the last album that saw Ludacris wearing his once signature cornrows. The album has sold over 2.1 million copies to date, number One Spot Soul Bossa Nova by Quincy Jones Get Back Interpolation from “Fuck You Tonight” by Notorious B. I. G
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Release Therapy
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Release Therapy is the fifth studio album by American hip hop recording artist Ludacris. It was released on September 26,2006, under Disturbing tha Peace, Release Therapy won the Best Rap Album award for the 2007 Grammy Awards. Ludacris also shaved his cornrows off for a new caesar haircut. He said with a new album that was different than his four albums, there would be a new haircut. Ludacris released a mixtape called Pre-Release Therapy with DJ Green Lantern, unlike the previous albums released by Ludacris, Release Therapy has a more mature and serious approach to the music. It is also Ludacriss darkest album to date, both in mood and subject matter, the different approach Ludacris took with Release Therapy has caused many listeners and fans to debate on whether the album is Ludacriss best or worst. Ludacris also stated that his new album will be somewhat like a tape on CD, the way were going to try to format the record is you have your Release side and your Therapy side, he said. Everybody knows the Release side would be War With God, Tell It Like It Is, I have a record called Slap. Just getting everything off my chest, the Therapy side would be feel-good — a song like Woozy with R. Kelly on it is therapeutic. Some womens therapy is getting out, going to the club, the first single, Money Maker, which was produced by and features Pharrell, was released to U. S. radio outlets on July 17,2006. It was a success making number 1 on various charts through the U. S. These charts included the Billboard Hot 100, the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, Hot Rap Tracks, the second single is Grew Up a Screw Up, featuring Young Jeezy. The single dispels rumors that Ludacris and Young Jeezy are having beef with each other, the third single is Runaway Love, featuring Mary J. Blige. It peaked at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100, the album debuted at number 1 on the Billboard 200, chart selling over 309,000 copies in the first week, making it Ludacris third number one album in a row. To date, the album has sold about 1.3 million copies, list of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 2006
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Theater of the Mind
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Theater of the Mind is the sixth studio album by American hip hop recording artist Ludacris. It was released on November 24,2008, through Disturbing tha Peace, the album was slated for release on October 21, but was pushed back to November 22. In April 2008, a song named Lets Stay Together appeared on xxlmag. com and it is now an iTunes bonus song on the album. T. I. appeared on a track called Wish You Would, the album cover was released on October 24,2008 at wemix. com. The cover is an homage to Sly and The Family Stones Life album, Ludacris planned on releasing a sequel to this album in 2009. In ’09, I’m definitely dropping another album, I’m working on a Battle of the Sexes album and a Theater of the Mind 2. With Battle of the Sexes, I’m trying to do stuff with Shawnna. Ludacris has been talking to T. I. and Young Jeezy about a tour together and its little talks here and there. But Ill put it out there, I would love to do a tour where its me, T. I. Me, Tip and Jeezy would be outrageous. But nothing is confirmed at the moment, Ludacris stated before the release of the album that, rather than featuring guests, the tracks would have co-stars, in keeping with the concept of the album as a movie. Co-stars on Theater of the Mind include Nas, Plies, Jay-Z, T. I. Common, T-Pain, Willy Northpole, Rick Ross, Playaz Circle, Ving Rhames, Chris Rock, Spike Lee, Chris Brown, Sean Garrett, Lil Wayne, Floyd Mayweather Jr. Jamie Foxx, and The Game. Ludacris released a Gangsta Grillz mixtape, with DJ Drama, titled The Preview, the mixtape was released as a digital download on July 28,2008. This mixtape was well known for his disses toward George W. Bush, Hillary Clinton, Ludacris commented on the situation, Although I dont know where the leaks came from, the 3 songs leaked to the Internet today were unfinished tracks and premature versions of songs. Im glad that my fans are excited about the new project, but to get the final masterpiece, the first official single is What Them Girls Like, featuring Chris Brown & Sean Garrett. The single peaked at #33 on the Billboard Hot 100, the second official single is One More Drink, featuring T-Pain, peaking at #24 on the Billboard Hot 100. The third single is confirmed to be Nasty Girl, featuring Plies, the first promo single is Wish You Would, featuring T. I. The second promo single is Undisputed, featuring Floyd Mayweather Jr, the song Last of a Dying Breed, featuring Lil Wayne, peaked at #65 on the Billboard 100
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Ludaversal
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Ludaversal is the eighth studio album by American rapper Ludacris. It was released on March 31,2015, by Disturbing tha Peace, on March 13,2012, Ludacris announces the album, titled Ludaversal would be released on September 11,2012. One of the recorded for Ludaversal, titled Ocean Skies originally featured vocals from singer Anita Baker. Bakers vocals were replaced by singer Monica. On October 9,2014, Ludacris announced an EP, titled Burning Bridges will be released in December 2014, on October 31,2014, Ludacris released the lead single from his EP, titled Good Lovin featuring American singer Miguel. On March 3,2015, Ludacris held a party for Ludaversal with Def Jam. The tracks Ludaversal, Not For Long featuring Usher and Come N See Me featuring Big K. R. I. T, on December 15,2014, Ludacris released an EP, titled Burning Bridges. The final track from the EP, titled Good Lovin featuring Miguel, on March 10,2015, Ludacris released 2 pre-order tracks from the album titled, Call Ya Bluff and Beast Mode. Come & See Me and Grass Is Always Greener were both sent to urban radio to further promote the album. Ludaversal received generally positive reviews music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, the album received an average score of 63. In a mixed review for Exclaim, the album debuted at number 3 on the Billboard 200 with 73,000 album-equivalent units, it sold 62,000 copies in its first week, and boasted over 4.8 million streams. It was the second best-selling album of the week and it marked Ludacriss eighth top-five album. In its second week, the fell to number 18 on the Billboard 200, selling 23,000 equivalent album units, it sold 18,000 copies. For a two-week total, Ludaversal sold just under 82,000 copies, sample credits Lyrical Healing contains a sample from Hubey performed by Maneesh Bidaye. Ocean Skies contains a sample from Diamond on a Landmine performed by Billy Talent, Not Long contains a sample from Tired of Fighting performed by Menahan Street Band. Charge It to the Rap Game contains a sample from Lonnie Blacksmith performed by Maneesh Bidaye, money contains a sample from All About the Paper performed by The Dells. In My Life contains a sample from Changing Faces performed by The J. J and this Has Been My World contains a sample from Human Nature performed by Michael Jackson
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Disturbing tha Peace (album)
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Disturbing tha Peace is the second compilation album released by record label Disturbing tha Peace. Artists who appear on the album include Ludacris, Bobby V, I-20 and this album has been certified Gold by the RIAA. The first single from the album was Georgia by Ludacris and Field Mob featuring Jamie Foxx, the original edition featured lyrics from Ray Charless Georgia On My Mind, but a disagreement with his recording company led to a re-recording of the song. The second single was Shawnnas only song on the album, Gettin Some
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Rollout (My Business)
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Rollout is a hip-hop song by Ludacris. It was the single released from his 2001 album Word of Mouf. The song debuted at #95 on the Billboard Hot 100 on November 10,2001, reached the Top 40 at #34 on December 29 and it was also nominated for the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Male Rap Solo Performance. The official music video for the song was directed by Jeremy Rall, Rollout Rollout Rollout Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Move Bitch
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Move Bitch is the fourth official single from American rapper Ludacris album Word of Mouf. The single features American rappers Mystikal and I-20, the single reached #10 on the Billboard Hot 100, making it Ludacriss first top ten hit on the chart. It also reached #3 on the Hot Rap Tracks chart and #3 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart and it was also featured in an episode of the TV series Castle. Retired NBA star and now ESPN analyst Jalen Rose is featured in the music video, the song has been covered by rock band Start Trouble, on their album Every Solution Has Its Problem. It was sampled by Girl Talk on the first track of his album All Day, puerto Rican reggaeton duo Maicol & Manuel sampled the song on Hoy Me Levanté on their 2002 release Yakaleo. Also the German Hip Hop group 257ers has sampled this song on Aus Dem Weg of the album Boomshakkalakka, move Bitch Official music video on YouTube Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Fatty Girl
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Fatty Girl is a collaborative single by rappers Ludacris, LL Cool J and Keith Murray. The song was produced by the Trackmasters and was released as the single from the FUBU compilation The Good Life. The music video was directed by Hype Williams, the song became a minor hit on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number 87. It found more success on the Hot Rap Singles, reaching number six, the album was mentioned by FUBU CEO Daymond John on an episode of ABCs Shark Tank. John said he was in the hole for $6 million on the album, Fatty Girl –3,55 Fatty Girl –3,54 Fatty Girl –3,52 Fatty Girl –3,54
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P-Poppin
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P-Poppin is the first single from Ludacriss fourth album Chicken-n-Beer. It features Shawnna and Lil Fate, the song samples Danger by Mystikal, and depicts what goes on in a strip club and a dance that can be done with or without clothes. This song and Nellys song Tip Drill were attacked for influencing younger audiences to be sexually active, the chorus repeats, Head down pussy pussy poppin. The explicit version of the video was not shown on MTV or BET because it was so sexually explicit. The words pussy poppin were replaced by booty poppin to make the lyrics less explicit, some of the women posed sexually, exposing their vulvas, and Ludacris smacks their buttocks. The uncut version that BET and MTV showed allowed the words pussy poppin to be said but the women were blurred, however, the song received limited airplay due to its lyrics
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Stand Up (Ludacris song)
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Stand Up is a song by Ludacris, released as the second official single in 2003, and taken from his fourth album Chicken-n-Beer. It was his first number-one single, with production by Kanye West, the chorus consists of three repetitions of Ludacris rapping, When I move you move and Shawnna responding, Just like that. After three repetitions, Ludacris says, Hell yeah, hey, DJ, bring that back, then Shawnna says, When I move you move and Ludacris says Just like that and they trade parts of the chorus. It topped the Billboard Hot 100 for the week of December 6,2003, Ludacris went on to be nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rap Solo Performance. This song was featured on the 2004 compilation album Now Thats What I Call Music. A music video was made for the song, directed by Dave Meyers, chingy, Katt Williams,2 Chainz, Scooter Braun, Kanye West, Tyra Banks & Lauren London made cameo appearances on the video. An official remix was recorded, in which Ludacris third verse was removed and replaced with a verse from Kanye West. The remix appeared on the Akademiks, JeaniusLevelMusikKanye West Vol.2 & Kon The Louis Vuitton Don mixtapes, richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine covered the song as a lounge-style version on his 2004 album Id Like a Virgin. Ludacris also made a remix of the song for the Atlanta Falcons, Ludacris used this song to mix it with Sweet Dreams in a faster tone in some club radio stations. Stand Up Official music video on YouTube
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Splash Waterfalls
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Splash Waterfalls the third single off Ludacris album Chicken-n-Beer. The song features Sandy Coffee responding to Ludacris verses, but she is not credited as featured guest on the single, the song describes a desired love between two people, continually contrasting intimate romantic scenarios with more sexually explicit ones. This songs video and song content resembles another famous Ludacris single called Whats Your Fantasy, with its explicit lyrics, in the radio/music video versions lyrics, touch me replaces the explicit versions fuck me. The official remix, Splash Waterfalls, sampling Tony, toné. s Whatever You Want, was released and features Sandy Coffee and Raphael Saadiq. The song was produced by The Trak Starz, along with Ludas previous videos, it alludes to the songs lyrics. Midway through the video, the song out and the Whatever You Want remix of the song plays for the rest of the video. Malaysia Pargo, future wife of Jannero Pargo and co-star of Basketball Wives, Splash Waterfalls performed very well on the charts. Its ranking at peak position were all in the Top Ten, including a #6 placing on the Billboard Hot 100. The composers of the song are, Guy, M. Mizell, L. Bridges, C Splash Waterfalls Official music video on YouTube
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Diamond in the Back
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Diamond in the Back is a single released from the album Chicken-n-Beer by Ludacris. It is based on William DeVaughns Be Thankful for What You Got and it is produced by DJ Paul & Juicy J of Three Six Mafia. This was Ludacriss first single to not hit the Billboard Hot 100s Top 40, Diamond in the Back peaked on the Billboard Hot 100 at #94. On the Hot Rap/R&B chart it reached #51, lupe Fiasco has also freestyled over this instrumental. R. /Moody, Diamond in the Back Official music video on YouTube Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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