Once Russell heard the song “I Need a Beat” he loved it. I mean he really loved. He loved so much that he not only signed LL to Def Jam but also released his debut album, "Radio," the year after. It was also after securing a distribution deal for Def Jam with Columbia/CBS Records. The record sold over 100,000 copies, establishing both the label and the rapper.
He still was living by the thug life rule. Tupac had a lot of people that had disliked him for how was taking over the rap game. He had dropped his third album in 1995 “Me Against the World”. Tupac was the first artist in the music industry to serve time while having his album number one on the Billboard 200. Soon after dropping this album there was a big feud with the East-coast and West-coast rap style.
Raised in Chicago, Fiasco developed an interest in hip hop after initially disliking the genre for its use of vulgarity. After adopting the name Lupe Fiasco and recording songs in his father's basement, 19-year-old Fiasco joined a group called Da Pak. The group disbanded shortly after its inception, and Fiasco soon met rapper Jay-Z who helped him sign a record deal with Atlantic Records. In September 2006, Fiasco released his debut album Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor on the label, which received three Grammy nominations. He released his second album, Lupe Fiasco's The Cool, in December 2007.
Jean Michel Basquiat. Jean Michel Basquiat, though he left school at 17 was a very educated man, born to a Haitian father a Puerto Rican mother his work shows immense talent and asks a lot of questions in regard to see how we see race, despite his short carer of 6 yeas he managed in a few short years to become one of the most celebrated artists of his style of neo-expressionist in the 20th century. The artist started out as a graffiti artist with his tag SAMO, partnered with another artist he created the term SAMO which is shorting for “same old shit” this is what he and his partner referred to as the weed they smoked, the tag SAMO became synonymous for the streets of New York city from 1977 to 1980, the tag often partnered with a slogan commented on commercialism in the 20th century. in 1980 after a disagreement with his partner the tag “SAMO is dead” started to appear which signified an end of an era. He became widely popular in the summer of 1980 as he moved more into the style the art which we know him for today, his graffiti artist beginnings shows throughout his work.
A Tribe Called Quest is a hip-hop group formed in 1988. It consists of four rappers named Q-Tip (Jonathan Davis), Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Phife (Malik Taylor), and Jarobi White, who has both left and rejoined the group throughout Tribe's musical career. A Tribe Called Quest is a largely influential group that have been coined iconic pioneers of alternative hip hop music (Allmusic 2012). Q-Tip and Phife grew up together in Queens, New York. Q-Tip met Ali and Jarobi through high school, and eventually formed an official hip-hop group.
He helped shaped the sound of Motown Records in the 1960’s and the 1970’s. In many of Gaye’s songs he would sing about love, anti-war and the good and bad of being black in America. Years after Marvin Gaye music was out, and still being listened to there came another great lyrical artist, Tupac Shakur. Tupac was an American rapper and actor. In the early 1990’s there was many issues going on that Tupac focused on and even though he expressed them differently than Marvin, they were similar in many ways.
Lil Wayne raps about the opposite that the Hip Hop pioneers would rap about in the 1990’s. Lil Wayne would promote his affiliation in the Bloods gang. Lil Wayne would also show his drug addiction to sizzurp, some kind of drink that contains a lot of chemicals that has already killed a hip hop pioneer Pimp C. Most of the time Lil Wayne shows up to an event or would record a song drunk or high creating his lyrics not understandable and his appearance to all of his anti-fans incredibly
Several Musicians and bystanders became the victims of ignorant violence through this piece of pop-culture and it is something that its audience needs to evaluate. Hip hop music began in the 1970s with a popular sound called “beats” resonating at house parties and social gatherings in the young streets of New York. In 1979, a group called the sugar hill gang came out with a song called “Rappers Delight”. This song is considered to be the first popular Rap song in the United States and around the hip-hop world. In America, rap music became a way for urban Black and Hispanic youths to express themselves in a funky- rhythmic form along with breakdancing and graffiti.
The Black Mafia Family would then go on to create BMF Records in order to get themselves involved into the hip hop world and culture. It has been said that BMF records as well as high ranking officials of the Black Mafia Family have been seen with the famous rappers such as the likes of Jay-Z, Rick Ross, Sean “P Diddy” Combs, and Bun-B. The Black Mafia Family other then the large quantities of drug distribution centers coming in from their sources in Mexico and the hip hop record label that they themselves have created there is not much more business involvement. They have spanned out across the country in hopes to become the most powerful drug distributors across the continental United States. By the time the year 2005 had come around, the Black Mafia Family had pretty much come to a screeching halt when, in part to their large growth and popularity, had become under the investigation of federal
Lil Wayne is one of the most talented and famous rappers. Lil Wayne's childhood, his freestyle abilities in singing, his insane lyrics and offbeat songs, and the hip-hop rhythm are all reasons why he IS the best rapper in the world. You don't always have to go to school to become successful. Lil Wayne was in a gifted program at school and was in the drama club but dropped out when he was only 14. He grew up in the crime-filled city of New Orleans in the neighborhood of the 17th ward.