Quiz 11/29
Toni Braxton
"Secrets" 1996 album
Marcus Reeves
"Somebody Scream"
Tupac
- rap (and film) icon - express pain and fears of generation -- symbolic, important
Midnight Marauders
1993 A Tribe Called Quest album big album
Ready to Die
1994 Biggie/Notorious B.I.G classic album dealt with drugs, violence, love; heavily sampled album (70s and 80s hits) swept awards
"Hit Em Wit Da Hee" "the Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)"
1997 Missy Elliott songs on Supa Dupa Fly (two)
Aquemini
1998 OutKast's third album
"One Minute Man"
2001 Missy Elliott song
MC/rap DJ graffiti breakdancing
4 elements of hip hop
Nas (debut) Illmatic Common (second album Resurrection Biggie/Notorious B.I.G (classic album) Ready to Die Mary J. Blige (second) My Life Outkast (debut) Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik
Albums released in 1994
Jodeci
American R&B quartet with members DeVante Swing, Mr. Dalvin, K-Ci, and JoJo.
Guy
American hip hop, R&B and soul band of singer-songwriters (Teddy Riley, Aaron Hall, and Timmy Gatling) creators of the new jack swing style of the late 1980s and early 1990
Lauryn Hill
American singer, rapper and songwriter. She is known for being a member of Fugees and for her solo album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (1998), which won many awards and broke several sales records.
Mary J. Blige
American singer, songwriter, rapper and actress Albums include "My Life" (1994)
Morehouse University, Clark Atlanta University, Spelman College
Atlanta HBUs
OutKast
Atlanta based rapper duo: Andre 3000 & Big Boi
LaFace
Atlanta based record label LA Reid & Babyface signed OutKast
Erykah Badu
Baduizm 1996
Neptunes
Chad Hugo & Pharrell Williams VA Beach produced many hits including by Jay Z, Usher, Nelly, Britney Spears
Kiese Laymon
Da Art of Storytellin': A Prequel "I already knew OutKast; I loved their first album, Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik, in part because of the clever way they interpolated funk and soul into rap. ATLiens, however, sounded unlike anything I'd ever heard or imagined." "With OutKast, Dre and Big each carved out their own individual space, and along with sonic contrast—Big lyrically fought and André lyrically conjured—they gave us philosophical contrast." "OutKast created a different kind of stank, too: an urban Southern stank so familiar with and indebted to the gospel, blues, jazz, rock, and funk born in the rural black South. And while they were lyrically competing against each other on track after track, together Big and Dre were united, railing and wailing against New York and standing up to a post-civil rights South chiding young Southern black boys to pull up our pants and fight white supremacy with swords of respectability and narrow conceptions of excellence. ATLiens made me love being black, Southern, celibate, sexy, awkward, free of drugs and alcohol, Grandmama's grandbaby, and cooler than a polar bear's toenails."
Devante Swing
Devante of Jodeci
Outkast, TLC, Toni Braxton
LaFace artists
Supa Dupa Fly
Missy Elliott 1997 album - rap of 80s, gangsta rap of 90s
Illmatic
Nas's first album, released in 1994 - hip hop as art, a classic - 10 songs - took two years to go gold
ATLiens
OutKast album 1996 P-Funk influence, not immediate positive reception
Andre 3000 & Big Boi
OutKast members
New Jack Swing
R&B-style vocals sung over hip hop and dance/pop-influenced instrumentation pinoeered by Teddy Riley
Atlanta Virginia Beach Daytona
Three spots for black college students
Pharrell Williams
Virginia Beach, VA singer; He and Chad Hugo make up the record production duo the Neptunes. He is also the lead vocalist and drummer of the rock-funk-hip hop band N*E*R*D. *In My Mind* *Girl* "Happy" "Frontin'"
Tim Mosley
aka Timbaland
Bad Boy Records
at center of NY rap commercial scene, founded by Sean Combs (Diddy) released Biggie's Ready to Die
Teddy Riley
big producer, from NY & went to VA Beach in 1990, created Future Studios which impacted the community really positively New Jack Swing
Aaliyah
first album produced by R.Kelly, they got married when she was 15 smh second album "One in a Million" 1996, produced by Missy Elliot and Timbaland
D'Angelo
from Richmond, Virginia 1995: Brown Sugar
TLC
girl hip hop group, one of the biggest selling of all time songs: Ain't 2 Proud 2 Beg (1992) album: Crazy Sexy Cool (1994)
Missy Elliot
hip hop late 90s and early 2000s from Portsmouth, VA black female sexuality that decentered the body
Jay-Z
influential rap artist Reasonable Doubt Blue Print (2001) Dynasty
Biggie/Notorious B.I.G.
influential rapper 1994 album Ready to Die
Nas
made his debut in 1994 with Illmatic brilliant, artistic hip hop artist
Neo-Soul
reformation and contemporary recontextualization of the soul aesthetic; combines elements of soul and spoken word of the 50s
Pharrell Williams Chad Hugo
these two made up the Neptunes
LA Reid, Babyface
two LaFace founders
Timbaland
writer, producer worked a lot with Missy Elliott revolutionized noise, music, sounds; experimental
Dream Hampton
wrote "D: Angelo: Soul Man" "Twenty-one-year-old D'Angelo and his sticky ode to cannabis seemed to come out of nowhere; he simply could not have been anticipated. Black radio gave the single a cautious embrace then caught up as momentum for the record soared. (I distinctively remember my stripper girlfriends from Detroit going on and on about this song that was making them rich weeks before radio broke it.) With an 8-track sensibility, keys that recalled choir organs, and D'Angelo's often incomprehensible but guided falsetto, Brown Sugar the album (EMI) was the early tremor of what lovers of soul hoped would be a seismic shift, a repatriation, if you well, to real music."
