Album “The Diary” 1994 Scarface was born Bradley Jordan on November 9, 1970. He is originally from the South Acres neighborhood of Houston, Texas. He was an early member of the Southern rap group The Geto Boys and still maintains ties with them, though he has been a solo artist since 1991. Even if he has never scored any national hits or stormed up the Billboard charts with any of his numerous albums throughout the ’90s, no one could question his clout throughout the South. He has managed to define what it meant to be a Southern thug rapper years before anyone even coined the term Dirty South. This became glaringly evident in the late ’90s when a massive wave of young MCs arose from Houston, New Orleans, and Memphis emulating his style of hard-boiled, ghetto-bred, straight-up hardcore rapping. Scarface (at the time recording under the alias of Akshen) began his rap career first as a solo artist in his native Houston during the mid-’80s for James Smith’s then fledging Rap-a-Lot label. Smith was trying to launch a group he tagged the Geto Boys, and he eventually asked Akshen to join the group in the late ’80s. Smith was trying to launch a group he tagged the Geto Boys, and he eventually asked Akshen to join the group in the late ’80s. The Geto Boys’ debut album — Grip It! On That Other Level (1990), later repackaged and re-released that same year simply as The Geto Boys — shocked many with its vivid depictions of violence and its overall extreme nature. This album …

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Tallahassee-based MC and vocalist T-Pain (born Faheem Najm) came up in a rap group called Nappy Headz but went pro as a solo R&B artist after he recorded “I’m F**ked Up,” a personal take on Akon’s Top Ten hit “Locked Up.” Akon heard the track and took T-Pain under his wing with a contract on his Jive-distributed Konvict Muzik label. Produced and written mostly by T-Pain, Rappa Ternt Sanga was released in December 2005, led by the Top 20 single “I’m Sprung.” Epiphany followed in June 2007.

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See Music Videos www.bvmtv.com that you CAN’T See on You Tube! even some X RATED music videos! +Live Chat and Embed video codes. Prakazrel Samuel Michel, known as Pras, (born October 19, 1972) is a Grammy Award-winning American rapper, actor, film producer, and promoter for the hip hop trio The Fugees, considered one of the most influential groups of the 1990s for their album The Score. Pras has also forged a successful solo career, beginning with an international hit single from his first full-length solo LP, “Ghetto Supastar (That Is What You Are)”, featuring Mýa and Ol’ Dirty Bastard. “Ghetto Superstar” became a top ten single in 1999, and the #8 most played single; it was received with critical acclaim and earned Pras a performance at the World Music Awards. The hit single was included in the soundtrack for the Warren Beatty-starring film, “Bulworth”. “Ghetto Superstar” spent eight weeks in the UK Top 5, peaking at number 2 in July of 1998, and reached US #15 a month later. “Blue Angels”, from the same album, was acknowledged as a UK Top 10 hit, reaching #6 in November of the same year.

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Once dubbed “the Jay-Z of the South” by Pharrell Williams, TI gradually came into his own and established himself as one of rap’s greatest and most successful mcs during the early 2000s. Like Jay-Z, TI — born Clifford Harris in Atlanta, GA — has always carried a balance of smoothness and toughness, and though 2001′s I’m Serious (released on Arista) didn’t shoot him out of the gate à la Reasonable Doubt, he consistently grew and began a string of major hits with 2003′s “24′s.” From that point through 2007, there wasn’t any point when TI couldn’t be heard within a couple hours on any given urban radio station throughout the US

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See Music Videos www.bvmtv.com that you CAN’T See on You Tube! even some X RATED music videos! +Live Chat and Embed video codes. “It Was a Good Day” is a 1993 single by American gangsta rapper Ice Cube from his third solo album, The Predator. It is the second single from the album and it peaked at number seven on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. It was also a hit in the UK Charts, peaking at number 27. It was ranked as the 81st greatest rap song of all time by About.com and number 77 on vh1′s 100 Greatest Songs of the 90s. In 2008, it was ranked number 28 on vh1′s 100 greatest songs of hip hop. The song was featured in the 2004 game Grand Theft Auto San Andreas on the Los Santos radio station. The music video was directed by F. Gary Gray and was first aired during March 1993. Each scene follows and depicts the respective lyrics. At the end of the accompanying music video, police are depicted surrounding Ice Cube’s house in order to arrest him. It then states “To Be Continued”, a segue to his next music video and single “Check Yo Self,” which was released the following August. The shirt Cube was wearing in the video was the same one he later wore in the 1995 movie Friday.

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See Music Videos www.bvmtv.com that you CAN’T See on You Tube! even some X RATED music videos! +Live Chat and Embed video codes. Scarface has appeared on Freeway’s album Free at Last and will appear on Beanie Sigel’s album, The Solution. Scarface is currently planning production; he has recently produced three tracks on ugk’s Underground Kingz: “Life In 2009,” “Still Ridin’ Dirty,” and “Candy.” Some of Scarface’s early music videos (“A Minute to Pray, A Second To Die”) featured community activist Quanell X in supporting roles. In 2008, Scarface collaborated with rapper Tech N9ne on his album Killer (Tech N9ne album) on the song “Pillow Talkin’”.

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Video also includes Large Professor and Grand Puba Making sure the parental advisory sticker will never become obsolete, Lord Finesse broke into the rap game as yet another hardcore rapper. After gaining a following in his native New York, Finesse cut Funky Technician, an excellent debut for Wild Pitch Records. He then signed a management deal with Ice-T’s Rhyme Syndicate Management and recorded his 1991 major-label debut, Return of the Funky Man, for Giant. When his rapping career didn’t explode, Finesse began producing and has since become a competent studio player, producing albums by Notorious BIG and Noreaga.

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See Music Videos www.bvmtv.com that you CAN’T See on You Tube! even some X RATED music videos! +Live Chat and Embed video codes. On the night of November 30, 1994, the day before the verdict in his sexual abuse trial was to be announced, Shakur was shot five times and robbed after entering the lobby of Quad Recording Studios in Manhattan by two armed men in army fatigues. He would later accuse Sean Combs, Andre Harrell, and Biggie Smalls — whom he saw after the shooting — of setting him up. Shakur also suspected his close friend and associate, Randy “Stretch” Walker, of being involved in the attempt. According to the doctors at Bellevue Hospital, where he was admitted immediately following the incident, Shakur had received five bullet wounds; twice in the head, twice in the groin and once through the arm and thigh. He checked out of the hospital, against doctor’s orders, three hours after surgery. In the day that followed, Shakur entered the courthouse in a wheelchair and was found guilty of three counts of molestation, but innocent of six others, including sodomy. On November 30, 1995, exactly one year to the day of the shooting, Stretch was killed in an execution-style murder in Queens. On March 27, 2008, the LA Times issued an apology to Combs for blaming him for having a role in the ’94 attack on Shakur. The article stated that Shakur was led to the studio by Biggie’s associates to gun him down to make favor with Biggie. The newspaper relied on forged documents that The Smoking Gun proved to be faked.Combs stated that he is disgusted with the LA Times for printing the story.

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The Wu-Tang Clan is a New York City-based hip-hop musical group, consisting formerly of nine, currently eight American rappers. Among its members are multi-platinum selling solo artists, multi-platinum record producers, Grammy winners, TV and film stars, screenwriters, product spokespersons, business owners and, most recently, major motion picture composers. The Clan featured nine mcs until the death of Ol’ Dirty Bastard in 200

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See Music Videos www.bvmtv.com that you CAN’T See on You Tube! even some X RATED music videos! +Live Chat and Embed video codes. Kill at Will is a seven track EP, released by Ice Cube in 1990. It was released soon after amerikkka’s Most Wanted, and capitalized off Cube’s newfound solo success. The EP quickly shipped Gold in sales, a first for a hip hop EP, and a year later, had sold over a million copies. It featured a remix of “Endangered Species”, featuring a brand new verse from Public Enemy’s Chuck D. Kill at Will is considered by Ice Cube fans to be among his best works, and original vinyl pressings are still highly sought after. Kill at Will contains two of Ice Cube’s most famous tracks, the rambunctious “Jackin’ for Beats”, and the soulful ode “Dead Homiez”. “Dead Homiez” was Cube’s second solo single/music video. The song deals with the violence, death, and social problems of the inner city ghettos and is essentially a dedication to all those killed through urban violence. The song was praised later on by countless rap artists and critics, and is one of the first hip hop songs to deal with the pain and loss suffered specifically by the families of black men lost to black on black violence. “Jackin’ for Beats”, likewise, began the popular trend of an MC rapping over the various instrumentals of popular beats, which rotate during the course of one song. The song and its sentiment is an excellent example of plunderphonics. The EP was remastered and added to the re-release of the amerikkka’s Most Wanted album in 2003.

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