Kendrick Lamar Duckworth was born on June 17, 1987 in Compton, California. His parents had moved from Chicago to escape the city's rising gang culture. However Lamar's father was associated with the Gangster Disciples gang then later the Bloods. As the 1980s crack epidemic and West Coast gang presence grew, Lamar was exposed to gang activity and was influenced by it. He grew up on welfare and section 8 housing. In 1995, at the age of eight in Compton, Lamar witnessed his idols, Tupac and Dr. Dre, film the music video for the single "California Love", which highly influenced him. As a child, Lamar attended McNair Elementary in the Compton Unified School District. He was a good student who enjoyed writing, stories and poems, and then lyrics. …show more content…
At age 16 he created a mix tape called Youngest Head Nigga in Charge (2003) which drew a lot of interest in his native Southern California. The project was enough to get Lamar a record deal with Top Dawg Entertainment, respected California Indy label. He would release two other acclaimed mix tapes, Training Day (2005) and C4 (2009), steadily working with other up-and-coming West Coast rappers like Jay Rock, Ab-Soul and Schoolboy Q. Lamar and these performers would form their own rap collective, Black Hippy. In 2010 Lamar dropped the K-Dot tag and began using his own name. He also put out a fourth mix tape, Overly Dedicated. That same year Lamar released his first full-length independent album under TDE, Section.80, it was released exclusively on iTunes. Dr. Dre took the young artist under his wing, becoming his mentor in both music and business. As the buzz on Lamar continued to build, Dr. Dre signed him to his independent record label, Aftermath Entertainment, alongside more established rap stars Eminem and 50 Cent. Aftermath was distributed by Interscope, which would have the marketing, sales and distribution to take Lamar's career to the next level and have him become rap's newest
Soon after doing this he began looking for a record deal as a solo artist. But Shawn just wasn’t getting lucky. It wasn't until a friend, Roc-A-Fella CEO Damon Dash, convinced him to form a record company with him that Jay-Z's career finally got off the ground. Jay-Z released his first single through Roc-A-Fella in 1995, "In My Lifetime." It was a hit in New York, and helped Dash secure a distribution deal for Jay-Z’s first album, “Reasonable Doubt.”
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"After some time Tupac released his own album "2Pacalypse Now", which was a success. His career skyrocketed; he became tight with main pawns in the rapping industry. Tupac signed to Deathrow Labels and released songs and albums with them."
Throughout America’s history there have been countless influential leaders that have proudly been American. Those have held positions of politicians, soldiers, and . Kanye Omari West has opened the eyes of today's generation and still continues to shape American history. His musical influence has transformed the lives of countless people. Inspiring many to stand up and fight for what they believe in is something Kanye West continues to do even today.. Also, opening the eyes of many to racial injustice towards African American citizens. I’ll further elaborate my claim in the following paragraphs using historical evidence.
Tupac Amaru Shakur born in East Harlem section of Manhattan in New York City. His birth name was Lesane Parish Crooks, June 16 1971. His both parents were members of the Black Panther Party. Tupac Shakur was a vocal participant during the East Coast and West Coast hip hop rivalry. He went to High School in California and Maryland. His career brought him back to New York City. Forget about his education and family background, thinking about how he put himself into his career so successfully. To succeed and accomplishment that made him in legacy…..
Tupac’s first big break came when he joined the group Digital Underground as a dancer and roadie. During that time, Tupac spent a lot of the time composing his own poetry and lyrics to launch his own career. In 1991 he signed with Interscope records and a year later he released his first album 2Pacalypse Now, which immediately landed him
With N.W.A. he melded the noise collages of the Bomb Squad with funky rhythms. On his own, he reworked George Clinton's elastic funk into the self-styled G-Funk, a slow-rolling variation that relied more on sound than content. When he left N.W.A. in 1992, he founded Death Row Records with Suge Knight, and the label quickly became the dominant force in mid-'90s hip-hop thanks to his debut, The Chronic. Soon, most rap records imitated its sound, and his productions for Snoop Doggy Dogg, Warren G and Blackstreet were massive hits. For nearly four years, G-funk dominated hip-hop, and Dre had enough sense to abandon it and Death Row just before the whole empire collapsed in late 1996. Dre retaliated by forming a new company, Aftermath, and while it was initially slow getting started, his bold moves forward earned critical respect.
Rap music became popularized in Atlanta and the rest of the South in the early to mid-1980s. The first rap to come out of the city of Atlanta was uptempo party music with heavy bass and very obvious Florida influence. Hits like “Whoomp! (There It Is)” by Tag Team, and “Jump” by Kriss Kross defined the pre-Outkast era of Atlanta hip-hop. While these songs were immensely popular (“Whoomp!” is ranked by Billboard as one of the greatest songs of all time (“Greatest of All Time”) while “Jump” was one of the top 3 selling songs of 1992 (“Week Ending May”), groups from the city, for the most part, were commonly seen as “novelty” and “kiddie crews” (“Kriss Kross: Da Bomb”). While the emergence of relatively simple but enjoyable music was going on in Atlanta, rap as a whole began to truly explode. The newest major music genre entered its golden era; “Ready to Die” by Biggie Smalls, “Illmatic” by Nas, and “Me Against The World” by 2Pac were all albums that were rated “five mics” by The Source (“5 Mics?”) The “five mic” rating from The Source indicated an exceptional and rare hip-hop album. In this time of growth in hip-hop culture Atlanta, and the South as a whole was in large part left out. People were enthralled by cross country feuds between rap superstars; but just when it seemed like there was no space at the time for rap from anywhere but New York or California, the duo of Andre “3000” Benjamin and Antwan “Big Boi” Patton, better known as Outkast single-handedly redefined rap music. Andre 3000 played an instrumental role in defining not just rap, but music as a whole in the 1990s and 2000s. His presence transitioned Southern rap from being viewed as nothing more than exciting, throw away party music to music that could be timeless an...
Kendrick Lamar Duckworth was born in Compton California on June 17, 1987. When he was young he started to put lyrics into songs about his life in the rough city of Compton. He started his rapping career as K-Dot at the age of 16. In 2010 he dropped the name K-Dot and went by his name Kendrick Lamar. During this time he dropped several mixtapes and his first album "Section.80". This got the attention of hip-hop legend Dr. Drea. Drea signed Kendrick to his own independent record label "Aftermath Entertainment". Here he released 3 new albums including "To Pimp a Butterfly".
As a kid Luke Bryan was just a normal child. Thomas Luther Bryan was born on July 17, 1976 in Leesburg, Georgia to his parents Tommy and LeClaire Bryan, he was the youngest out of three kids (Biography.com Editors, Finan, Eileen). Growing up, his dad was a Fertilizer salesman, and his mom worked as a local public
Kanye Omari West was born in Atlanta, Georgia on June, 8 1977. His mom and him soon relocated to Chicago, Illinois after his parents divorced. Kanye spent all of his youth life in Chicago. He spent his time during the school year with his mother, who was an English professor, and spent summers with his dad, who was an award-winning photographer then turned church counselor. “I was taught to think on my own growing up, that’s what a lot of black kids don’t get” (Newsmakers 2). During his time in high school he became friends with producer No I.D., who was working with the rapper Common prior to him becoming famous. This is where Kanye got his beginnings in the producing industry. Kanye wen...
In 1997 he went to the Rap Olympics in Los Angeles where a few producers were very impressed and took a demo to Dr. Dre. After the two met, they recorded four songs within the first six hours of working together, creating his first album Marshall Mathers LP. That album was the first rap album to ever be nominated for “Album of the Year” and won 3 Grammy awards. In the first week the album was released, it sold 1.76 million copies in the U.S. which is a record for a solo artist. Eminem has released 10 albums, all rap music. He would spend hours...
Tupac Shakur was an actor and a rapper. He was born in Harlem, New York on June 16, 1971, as Lesane Parish Crooks. Both his mother and father were members of the Black Panthers, which later in his career influenced his political views in his songs .At the age of 13, he began his acting career in the production, “Raisin in the Sun” at the Apollo Theater. Tupac’s mother was single mother of two and struggled with money, forcing them to move around a lot and often stay in shelters.Tupac went to Baltimore School of Arts before dropping out and moving to Marin County in California at the age of 17.
Those three albums really didn’t break out until he produced his album “Victory” which has the song “All I do is win” which is probably DJ Khaled’s most famous song yet! Then in 2011 he produced “We The Best Forever” a year passed and he made his new album “Kiss the Ring” in 2012. As the year went by he made the album “Suffering from Success” in 2013. He took a year off and came back with one of his better albums “I changed a Lot” in 2015. Last year in 2016 he debuted his album “Major Key” which had many superstars on it, but that album didn’t go as big as his most recent album “Grateful” which has two songs go
Tupac was born on June 16, 1971 to Afeni Shakur in New York City. His real name is Lesane Parish Crooks. Tupac was mainly raised by his mom, because his dad really didn’t have much to do with him when he was born. Tupac spent his earlier years in Harlem in 1984. His family soon moved to Baltimore, Maryland where he became good friends with Jada Pinkett Smith. ( Tupac’s brief Biography)