Bone Thugs-N-Harmony are an American hip hop group, formed in Cleveland, Ohio in 1991. It consists of rappers Krayzie Bone, Wish Bone, Flesh-n-Bone, Layzie Bone, and Bizzy Bone. Formed in 1991 as B.O.N.E. Enterpri$e AKA the Bandaid Boys.
Rapper Eazy-E of the group N.W.A signed Bone Thugs-n-Harmony to Ruthless Records in 1994, when Bone Thugs debuted of ”Creepin on ah Come Up”. That album included the hit single Thuggish Ruggish Bone. In 1995, the group released its debut album, “E. 1999 Eternal”, which included hits 1st of tha Month, Tha Crossroads, and Buddah Lovaz. A tribute to the recently deceased Eazy-E, “Tha Crossroads” won a Grammy award in 1997. ”The Art of War”, the group’s second album, was released in 1997. Bone Thugs released two more albums that did not generate as much hype: “BTNHResurrection” 2000 and “Thug World Order” 2002. The group went on hiatus and returned in 2007 with “Strength & Loyalty”, this time released by Swizz Beatz’s label Full Surface Records. Bone Thugs-n-Harmony officially returned with their new album “Uni-5: The World’s Enemy”, released on May 4th, 2010. The album features tracks such as See Me Shine, Gone, and Rebirth. It was released by their own record label, BTNH Worldwide, with distribution by Warner Bros. Known mostly for their flow, rather than lyricism, Bone’s style and technique can be described as melodic, rapid-fire and aggressive. Their flow is often interwoven at a high-speed, melodic pace or slow, harmonic pace. They also tend to ride the beat that they’re rapping over. Sometimes there are very few choruses separating their verses from one another. In the beginning, circa Faces of Death, Bone used a pseudo-Jamaican patois delivery with their trademark style, though they rarely do this now. Bone’s subject matter has both spiritual and occult undertones. At first, their subject matter was almost always exclusively about violence and smoking marijuana. Today, however, their subject matter includes other topics such as urban socio-political issues, their old friend and mentor Eazy-E and religion. Besides minor changes to subject matter and sound, their lyrical style, locution, and overall methodology remain intact.
Rapper Eazy-E of the group N.W.A signed Bone Thugs-n-Harmony to Ruthless Records in 1994, when Bone Thugs debuted of ”Creepin on ah Come Up”. That album included the hit single Thuggish Ruggish Bone. In 1995, the group released its debut album, “E. 1999 Eternal”, which included hits 1st of tha Month, Tha Crossroads, and Buddah Lovaz. A tribute to the recently deceased Eazy-E, “Tha Crossroads” won a Grammy award in 1997. ”The Art of War”, the group’s second album, was released in 1997. Bone Thugs released two more albums that did not generate as much hype: “BTNHResurrection” 2000 and “Thug World Order” 2002. The group went on hiatus and returned in 2007 with “Strength & Loyalty”, this time released by Swizz Beatz’s label Full Surface Records. Bone Thugs-n-Harmony officially returned with their new album “Uni-5: The World’s Enemy”, released on May 4th, 2010. The album features tracks such as See Me Shine, Gone, and Rebirth. It was released by their own record label, BTNH Worldwide, with distribution by Warner Bros.
Known mostly for their flow, rather than lyricism, Bone’s style and technique can be described as melodic, rapid-fire and aggressive. Their flow is often interwoven at a high-speed, melodic pace or slow, harmonic pace. They also tend to ride the beat that they’re rapping over. Sometimes there are very few choruses separating their verses from one another. In the beginning, circa Faces of Death, Bone used a pseudo-Jamaican patois delivery with their trademark style, though they rarely do this now. Bone’s subject matter has both spiritual and occult undertones. At first, their subject matter was almost always exclusively about violence and smoking marijuana. Today, however, their subject matter includes other topics such as urban socio-political issues, their old friend and mentor Eazy-E and religion. Besides minor changes to subject matter and sound, their lyrical style, locution, and overall methodology remain intact.
Gang Starr rapper Guru died of cancer on Monday. Check out the link and the video below.
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Every culture breaks down into many categories all depending on what they people believe in, where these people live, what music they listen to, etc. My culture on the other hand, consists of these categories and many others. One important thing about my culture is the religion. I am catholic and all my family is catholic. I know that by saying this in just going to start with stereotype, but most Mexicans do believe in the Catholic Church, but yet again that’s just my opinion. Folklore is an old tradition in my family culture; this is a tradition that has passed from generations to generations. In my family, these stories told are about experiences that our ancestors, great grandparents, grandparents and even parents have lived through. This is what makes our folklore unique compared to others.
Food also makes big part of my culture. I’m used to eating Mexican food, and all my family likes to eat Mexican food, but now that we live in the United States, born and raised here too, we become familiar with the American culture, but we can’t forget that we have our Mexican culture too and this is where both these culture combine and new things evolve. “Spanglish” is a term that many of us now use. This is a combination of both Spanish and English. We can tell how both these culture kind of just crashed together into one.
Values are very important to be considered in with the culture I grew up in. My parents grew up hearing all the time that they had to stay “virgins” till the time they married, now that they have us their kids, we grew up hearing that again and again. I believe this is an important value because parents always want what’s best for their kids and so values just like stories pass down from generation to generation. Music sets apart my culture from many other students here. I like listening to Spanish music like “corridos” in which they talk about drug trafficking and the main heads of these drug dealers. These songs teach us a lot about the things happening today in our Mexican society. They talk about the thousands of people killed yearly all due to drug problems. Each song I hear has a different message and a message in which I can learn from it. Colima is where my family is from, and in this Mexican state we can now see more drug related problems. I relate these songs to my culture because well it’s our values that are out to the test. It is whether we get involved or not. My family thinks that getting involved with this kind of people is very wrong and we grow up listening to these things. So once we are grown and we know more about the consequences our values are put to the test.
Now, in my generation there are many things about my culture that have changed, now we have twitter, MySpace, Face book etc. to help us communicate with other people but yet, there are still parents who are so “old fashioned” that think that this is just dumb, but I mean now in our culture many things has changed and peoples beliefs start to change because we live in a society that makes us believe these kinds of things. Later then is when we start to bring all these new stuff into our culture. So yes my parents brought me into a culture I love, but little by little that same culture is evolving into another culture in which we get to choose what our real culture is all about.
Every culture is different. How do you make yours different from the rest?
Carlos Coy was born 1971, better known by his stage name South Park Mexican or SPM, is an American rapper, and company founder of Dope House Records. His stage name is derived from the South Park neighborhood in Houston, Texas where he was raised. Coy debuted as South Park Mexican in 1998 with the album “Power Moves” under the label. His next album, The 3rd Wish, generated two charting singles, “You Know My Name” and “High So High”. In 2002, SPM was convicted of aggravated sexual assault of a child and sentenced to 45 years incarceration. SPM is currently serving his sentence at Powledge Unit near Palestine, Texas but even incarcerated, he continues to record music.
SPM began as a Christian rapper but felt that doing so made him an outcast. In 1995, SPM along with his brother Arthur Jr. and good friend Jose Antonio Garza from McAllen, Texas founded his own record label, Dope House Records. As SPM released one album in 1998, Power Moves, through his label with distribution in Houston under Southwest Wholesale. Live album Hillwood and studio album The 3rd Wish followed in 1999. 3rd Wish was a regional hit, with single “High So High” gaining much local buzz and even charting at #50 on the Billboard Hot Rap Tracks chart. In 2000, SPM signed a joint venture between his label and Universal Music Group which earned him a $500,000 advance and national distribution. Universal released three of SPM’s albums: Time is Money and The Purity Album in 2000 and Never Change in 2001. The Purity Album included single “You Know My Name”, which peaked at #99 on the Billboard R&B chart and #31 on the rap chart. SPM’s Universal releases did not gain much mainstream attention; Jason Birchmeier of allmusic suggested: “SPM’s hardcore rapping proved to be too harsh for the masses”. SPM’s 2002 album Reveille Park, a compilation of freestyles, was released by Dope House. Dope House released two new albums by SPM that he recorded while incarcerated. When Devils Strike, released in 2006, debuted at #46 on the Billboard 200. The Last Chair Violinist followed in 2008.
Cypress Hill is an American hip hop group from South Gate, California. Originally called DVX, the name was changed after Mellow Man Ace left in 1988. Cypress Hill was the first Latino group to have platinum and multi-platinum albums, selling over 18 million albums worldwide. They are one of the most well known groups in West Coast rap and are critically acclaimed for their first two albums.
One of the band’s most striking aspects is B-Real’s exaggeratedly high-pitched nasal vocals. In the book Check the Technique B-Real describes his nasal style, saying his rapping voice is “high and annoying… the nasal style I have was just something that I developed… my more natural style wasn’t so pleasing to ears” and talking about the nasal style in the book How to Rap, B-Real says, “you want to stand out from the others and just be distinct… when you got something that can separate you from everybody else, you gotta use it to your advantage”. Sen Dog’s vocals are deeper and are a contrast to B-Real’s, who says, “Sen’s voice is so strong”, “but it all blends together” when they are both on the same track. Both B-Real and Sen Dog started writing lyrics in both Spanish and English and B-Real was inspired to start writing raps from watching Sen Dog and Mellow Man Ace writing their lyrics, and originally B-Real was going to just be the writer for the group rather than a rapper. Their lyrics are noted for bringing a “cartoonish” approach to violence by Peter Shapiro and Allmusic Sen Dog’s lyrics are progressively more violent and tend to involve fewer rhyme schemes compared with B-Real’s. In addition words are emphasized by adding a background voice to say them; however, Sen Dog’s emphases are always more prominent, mostly shouted alongside with the rapping. The sound and groove of their music, produced by Muggs, is also notable for its influence and stoned aesthetic; with its bass-heavy rhythms and odd sample loops “Insane in the Brain” is notable for having a pitched-altered horse neigh looped in its chorus, it carries a psychedelic Skinza value, which lessened in the later albums. The band is also known for involving rock instruments in their songs – this has caused the band to sometimes be classified as a Rap rock group. In IV, there is Lightning Strikes which doesn’t truly use electric guitars, but a synthesized version of it. Skull & Bones has an entire disc using such instruments, labeled Bones. As for their later works, their involvement in rock ended with the albumStoned Raiders. The band’s music is constantly subject to change; while the first album follows a more minimalistic and funky sound, Black Sunday, the successor, has a slightly darker side to it. III (Temples of Boom)and IV are mostly influenced by psychedelic music. The band abandoned that on Skull & Bones and got closer to the modern rap as it is today. The band involves horns in their songs, and often have guitar and horns together in the instrumentals. What’s Your Number?, Trouble, Tequila Sunrise, and Superstar have become some of the bands most popular songs featuring these elements.
One of the band’s most striking aspects is B-Real’s exaggeratedly high-pitched nasal vocals. In the book Check the Technique B-Real describes his nasal style, saying his rapping voice is “high and annoying… the nasal style I have was just something that I developed… my more natural style wasn’t so pleasing to ears” and talking about the nasal style in the book How to Rap, B-Real says, “you want to stand out from the others and just be distinct… when you got something that can separate you from everybody else, you gotta use it to your advantage”. Sen Dog’s vocals are deeper and are a contrast to B-Real’s, who says, “Sen’s voice is so strong”, “but it all blends together” when they are both on the same track.
Both B-Real and Sen Dog started writing lyrics in both Spanish and English and B-Real was inspired to start writing raps from watching Sen Dog and Mellow Man Ace writing their lyrics, and originally B-Real was going to just be the writer for the group rather than a rapper. Their lyrics are noted for bringing a “cartoonish” approach to violence by Peter Shapiro and Allmusic
Sen Dog’s lyrics are progressively more violent and tend to involve fewer rhyme schemes compared with B-Real’s. In addition words are emphasized by adding a background voice to say them; however, Sen Dog’s emphases are always more prominent, mostly shouted alongside with the rapping.
The sound and groove of their music, produced by Muggs, is also notable for its influence and stoned aesthetic; with its bass-heavy rhythms and odd sample loops “Insane in the Brain” is notable for having a pitched-altered horse neigh looped in its chorus, it carries a psychedelic Skinza value, which lessened in the later albums.
The band is also known for involving rock instruments in their songs – this has caused the band to sometimes be classified as a Rap rock group. In IV, there is Lightning Strikes which doesn’t truly use electric guitars, but a synthesized version of it. Skull & Bones has an entire disc using such instruments, labeled Bones. As for their later works, their involvement in rock ended with the albumStoned Raiders.
The band’s music is constantly subject to change; while the first album follows a more minimalistic and funky sound, Black Sunday, the successor, has a slightly darker side to it. III (Temples of Boom)and IV are mostly influenced by psychedelic music. The band abandoned that on Skull & Bones and got closer to the modern rap as it is today.
The band involves horns in their songs, and often have guitar and horns together in the instrumentals. What’s Your Number?, Trouble, Tequila Sunrise, and Superstar have become some of the bands most popular songs featuring these elements.
Lately I have been cracking up on some Youtube videos. You might have heard of them already The Lonely Island. They make videos which are funny but I like their music videos because Andy Samberg, singer of most of the songs . Their music videos sometime feature a guest. My favorite one would have to be “Like a Boss.”
They released an album named Incredibad and it contains these songs “Lazy Sunday,” “Like A Boss, “J— in My Pants,” “I’m on a Boat,” “We Like Sportz,” “Boombox,” and “D— in a Box” which can all be found on Youtube.
Roosevelt High School Mariachi Olimpico presents their 10th annual performance, “Este es mi Mexico”, also featuring Mariachi Olimpico Alumni, Mariachi Oropel, Danza Teocalt- Folklorico.
Roosevelt’s Mariachi Olimpico welcomes Boyle Height community and RHS students to come and experience their astonishing performance. No one has heard the mesmerizing sound of music until they have heard the great Mariachi Olimpico.
Mariachi Olimpico was founded in 1987 at Belvedere Middle School by Mr. Martinez, the previous Music Director at Roosevelt but had retired last year. Mr. Martinez had created the program to develop cultural foundation in kid’s lives and most of all, to build pride from where they come.
Mariachi Olimpico was continuously growing, by the year 1994 the program was also continued at Roosevelt High School where talented students could continue to develop their musical skills, constructing an extremely well trained performing group. Mr. Cloud obtained Mr. Martinez position at Belvedere Middle School following through the programs legacy while Mr. Martinez was actively trying to the same at RHS with a trustee companion, Mr. Ceballos.
“I am proud of Roosevelt Mariachi Olimpico; it is the spark of the school. I know that the program will continue forever,” said Mr. Ceballos, the current Musical Director of Mariachi Olimpico at Roosevelt High School.
Mr. Ceballos has been teaching music in various schools throughout the Los Angeles Unified School District for over 25 years. He has dedicated the last 20 years to Mariachi music and has been teaching at RHS for the past 12 years.
Mr. Ceballos supports his students by providing different pathways in life, “I want to open opportunities for my students by teaching them music. Music is an art form that people can pursue a career in.”
The Roosevelt High School Mariachi Olimpico Concert will take place at RHS school auditorium on Friday, March 26, at 7 p.m. Pre-sale tickets will be sold for $8 and tickets at the door will be $12.
To close friends know as Russell Tyrone Jones but for the rest of the world, we knew him as the Ol’ Dirty Bastard. One of the founders of the WU-TANG CLAN rapping crew. He had no father to his drunken style, Ol’ Dirty bastard died on november 13, 2004 just a couple of days before his 36 birthday.
On the night of his death, members from Wu-tang clan thought he was a no show again, not knowing that he accidently overdosed on cocaine and tramadol.
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Music has been a huge part of my life, and though people always seem to have a favorite band or other, I never did. Not until I listened to a certain band that went by the name Evanescence. Their music drew me in like no other music ever did and the lyrics were even more captivating then the music itself.
Above all else, though, I would say that I admire the lead singer, Amy Lee, the most. She’s written such amazing lyrics based on her own experiences and several of those experiences are ones that most of her fans can relate to. The band has come out with album after album that have only made the fans love them that much more.
Most recently, she came out with the album The Open Door, that hit the music industry with the song “Call Me When You’re Sober”. It’s gothic rock managed to catch the attention of several people, more than just her fans.
Needless, to say, the gothic rock style isn’t one that is listened to all that much, but Amy Lee has managed to put in on the map with the band’s most popular songs “My Immortal” and “Bring Me to Life”.
She’s inspired so many fans, and is finally giving them the album they’ve been waiting for this Fall, titled Together Again and although the album is still a while from coming out in stores, the first song on the album is currently on iTunes and the Evanescence website to be downloaded for money to help Haiti.
On April 9, 2010 the movie The Runaways is coming out in theatres. The movie takes place in the 1970s and it is about a group of four sixteen-year-old girls who form a band.
Through all of their struggles, they were able to become the first all girl band to perform in a filled arena. The story is based on the life of Joan Jett and what she had to go through to achieve fame.
Joan Jett is played by Kristen Stewart.
