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Okay...dachte mal zum aktuellen Diskussionsanlass (Mr. Doctor)
könnte man so eine Ecke eröffnen, falls man irgendwo Biographien
entdeckt...also...

Mr. Doctor

Born to a 19 year old woman that escaped an abusive relationship, which certainly would have killed her, the young woman fled Portland, Oregon with two children back to her family in Sacramento with the help of a complete stranger. Mr. Doctor spent the first seven years of his life there with his family in Lincoln Village hopping fences, throwing dirt clouds and hoping to get picked by the bigger kids for the epic games of street football. In the seventh year of his life Mr. Doctor's mother fell in love, got engaged, and moved with Lil' Junior (Doc) and his sister to Vancouver, Washington. They stayed for only about 8 months before moving back to California. The family stopped briefly in Rocklin and then for a few years in Northgate where Mr. Doctor would witness his first gang violence involving the "G" force, a Hispanic family and other Latino gangstas from the north area's "V.G.L." (Varrio Garden Land). This and other gang violence led to Mr. Doctor's fascination at a young age with the strength of the area's Northgate Crips. Mr. Doctor was ten and attended Hazel Strauss Elementary. Soon Doc was running away from the family that he felt he was not a part of and trying to hang with the big boys. Back then, he and his homie Fred thought that there were two divisions of the Crips - the Crips and the Cuzzez (at only ten years old). Young and dumb they spent all their time wasting quarters on Double Dragon and fighting out in front of the Bel-Air on West El Camino. This all ended one night when Doc had to listen to his homie accept a severe wuppin' while he crouched outside his window and calculated his next move. That was the end of Doc and Fred. When Mr. Doctor moved to the South area with his family, Doc attended Harkness Elementary in the Gardens. Things became very real, very fast. By age 12, Doc was official with his set. Life turned into a blur of robberies, G.T.A.'s, trafficking for big homies and parties pounding everything from 40 oz. bottles of Orange Cisco, to weed, adolescent sex, fights and introduction to weapon handling. By 14, Mr. Doctor had fought every one of his friends several times and had spent his first few months in Juvenile Hall where he would frequent along with other youth reformation programs. Mr. Doctor spent the next few years of his life between his mother's house in the South area, his grandparents in Lincoln Village and the Hall. One evening at a party on the East Side, Mr. Doctor took over the mic while battling a blood (freestyle). The evening ended with no bloodshed. A week later while visiting a chick (which is Mr. Doctor's truest and closest friend to this day) Doc was invited to a studio called Enharmonic to check out a session conducted by a local rapper who never quite got established. However, the producer there at the studio would be instrumental in Doc's future. That producer was Brotha Lynch Hung. Lynch advised Doc to try his hand in the rap game and produced a track for Mr. Doctor. Doc put three verses and a hook to the Lynch gangsta melody and then Lynch took the rough draft of "Leavin' Em Wit No Clue" to Black Market Records. Within a few weeks Mr. Doctor had a record deal and was invited into the conception of the classic "Season of da Siccness". After the success of Lynch's LP, Mr. Doctor and Brotha Lynch began Doc's first underground hit, "Setripn' Bloccstyle". These albums were easy for Mr. Doctor and Lynch to create because all the pair had to do was write about their lives. Lynch even created the "Bloccstyle" intro while Doc lye in his hospital bed with injuries from a .45 caliber bullet. Mr. Doctor's sophomore effort "Bombay" charted on Billboard just underneath the likes of Mobb Deep. But with X-Raided in jail, Lynch battling Cedsing, and a host of other Black Market talent struggling to take off in the game, the label began to falter and crack. Soon Mr. Doctor began to create other monetary avenues (Odysea, Foe Loco, and hustles with operations in South Sacramento, Highlands from time to time and West Sacramento). Mr. Doctor, in a request by his label owner Cedsing, rushed his third record to Black Market and for the first time, with the exception of about 4 songs, did not write about his happening life. Shortly there after Mr. Doctor bought out his recording contract and left Black Market. Black Market was to release and to do with "Doc Holiday" as they would. For the first time since his teen years, Mr. Doctor was out of a record deal. Negotiations with Mike Mosely fell through when Mike's first compilation release fizzled despite the presence of hard hitters such as E-40, Yukmouth, C-Bo and so on. Poor marketing caused a weak response in the new big budget campaign era that left Warlock and Sony to split paths with Mike Mosely and Steady Mobbin' Entertainment. Mr. Doctor passed on offer after offer until finally, after several discussions with Mr. Doctor's good friend and respected advisor Lorenzo Green-Eyes, the two agreed on terms for a small project. However, Lorenzo Green-Eyes never thinks small and so the team began to conceive Mr. Doctor's story, the "Documentary". Moves began to reveal themselves and enormous alliances formed. Super producer "Spec" was hired to produce fire for the record and the first steps in promotion were made. Now Mr. Doctor fills you in on his life of triumphs, battles, parties, victories, losses, loves, pain and perseverance. Lorenzo Green-Eyes of Epidemic Entertainment proudly brings you...Mr. Doctor, "Documentary".


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coole Idee...

Blade, London's Pioneer

The story of Blade
If Hollywood could script pop careers, they'd still have struggled to come up with a tale to rival that of the adopted south Londoner who goes by the name of Blade.

His story takes in revolution, tragedy and death by way of stardom, success and a happy family life; not so much rags-to-riches as an endless cycle of forward motion countered by obstacles a recalcitrant music business seems to delight in placing in his path.

The only constant in Blade's rollercoaster existence has been the undimmed self-belief that burns in his heart, so it's little surprise to find that, after tasting chart glory on a major label, the fiercely independent rhymesmith is back where he feels most comfortable - on his own.

In the beginning
It's not difficult to see why. Born in the Armenian quarter of Iran thirty-odd years ago, Blade came to London aged 7, ready to get an education in Blackheath. But within months of arriving, he felt the effect of the Islamic revolution back home.

Unable to send money out of the country, Blade's family could no longer support him; and with the threat of two years' national service to contend with should he ever return, going back to Iran wasn't an option.
So, with no money, no family, alone in a strange country, Blade's self-reliance and determination were all he had to see him through. Ten years later he was expelled from college after a childish prank backfired. Then again, perhaps holding up the principal with a toy gun wasn't the smartest move he'd ever make.

The Hip Hop era
A self-taught lyricist, beatboxer and rap performer, Blade had been captivated by hip hop after hearing the Sugarhill Gang in 1979. A gifted footballer and sportsman, his frustrations reached fever pitch after a training accident left him unable to compete on the pitch. The microphone and the studio provided his only release.

'Lyrical Maniac', a single, surfaced in 1989, and immediately got people's attention. Blade took to selling his single out of a bag off his shoulder on the capital's streets. Soon the talk wasn't simply of this gifted rapper and his debut release - Blade's one-man record operation quickly became the stuff of rap mythology.

A year later, the acknowledged classic 'Mind Of An Ordinary Citizen' hit the shops. An insistent piano loop, tough drums and a lyric about the day-to-day realities of life as Blade ("So what if I was stealin'? At least I was doin' it with feelin'"), Mind... became the blueprint. 'Rough It Up', again released a year on, offered more of the same. But still it wasn't right. Blade's sales were healthy, but the cashflow wasn't.

As always, there were bills to be paid, and one single a year isn't going to help much. So Blade decided to cut out the middlemen - distributors and shops - and try to profit from his own work instead of handing over the readies.


The Releases
In 1992, his mini-album, 'Survival Of The Hardest Workin', became the prototype for a new way of doing business. So successful did it prove, that Blade was ready to hit the studio in '93, finally ready to tell his story in the sort of widescreen detail it merited. A massive 22-track double album, 'The Lion Goes From Strength To Strength', was the result. With a gatefold sleeve and 16-page illustrated lyric book, Blade demonstrated his passionate commitment to give his growing army of fans top value for money.

He toured with non-rap bands for the first time, covering the country on the anti-racist United Colours Of Frustration tour and supporting Carter USM, appearing on the b-side of their Glam Rock Cops single with an overhauled reworking of one of the south London group's previous hits. And then it all went quiet. There were some rumours, most of them invented by Blade himself, concerning retirement, emigration and a particularly bizarre one about a chicken farm.

The truth - more mundane, perhaps, but undeniably real - was that he needed to take time out after the death of his father and the birth of his son. But, as the saying goes, you can't keep a good man down, and in 1996 Blade got back on the streets with another mini-album, 'Planned And Executed'. A more introspective record, it closed with the deliberately downbeat autobiographical track 'Keep Watchin' This Space', in which Blade laid bare the conflicting emotions that had wracked him since his father's death and his son's birth.

He returned to Iran to try to attend his father's funeral, only escaping national service after direct entreaties to a senior Army official convinced him that Blade was by now no more Iranian than Prince Charles, and should be allowed the chance to return to his destiny.

A change had come over Blade, though: while still determined to make music the way he thought it should be made, he appeared ready to, if not embrace the record business, certainly see what common ground he might have with it.
A single with the US label Bomb a year later can, in retrospect, be seen as Blade dipping his toe in the record labels' water. Its sales brought his career stats to a mightily impressive 60,000 units.


Enter DJ Mark B
He may not have been selling stratospheric quantities of records, but every purchaser got far more than they could have expected. He tried to retire in 1997, announcing his performance at the Fresh festival was to be his last. But they wouldn't let him go. Teaming up with producer and DJ Mark B was a departure for Blade.

On the duo's Hitmen For Hire EP, released in 1998, he allowed another man to produce the music he rapped on for the first time. But he trusted Mark to make beats that were right for him: for his part, Mark was a Blade fan, and wanted nothing less than to hear his hero in a suitable musical setting.

The partnership became the focus for both men, and for two years their names were inseparable. The album they recorded together, 'The Unknown', remains one of the best selling LPs in UK rap history, and it brought the pair to a new peak of prominence. They spent most of 2000 and 2001 on the road, playing hip hop gigs, rock festivals, indie tours and rock clubs. They even got to support the biggest star in hip hop, Eminem, on his UK tour in 2001.

The album's first single, 'Ya Don't See The Signs', was re-recorded with a guest appearance from Grant Nicholas of Feeder, who Mark and Blade toured with; crashlanding in the top 20, it earned them their first bona fide hit. Blade even got to fulfil, if not an ambition, then certainly a dream, taking his motormouth lyricism in front of an unsuspecting nation as the song was broadcast on Top Of The Pops.

But Mark B & Blade was always meant as a side project for both men. It was no surprise when they announced that they would be working on their own records in the future. Unfortunately, the label that had released The Unknown, the Virgin France-funded Source, wasn't in a position to act. Internal restructuring meant that key people involved in the first record had left the company, and control of operations had reverted to the corporate parent

It's time for BLADE
The only thing that was certain was that Blade and corporations don't mix. Throughout his career, Blade has shown that there is another way of making progress in this industry. Among those who've worked for him for free, given him studio time, loaned or donated expensive equipment or simply put their hands in their pockets to show their support are chart-topping musicians, major label A&Rs, mega-successful pop svengalis, respected music journalists and radio and TV broadcasters. Oh, and tens of thousands of ordinary fans.

One of the most amazing things about Blade, and something Virgin clearly couldn't believe, is that he has a way of winning over even the most unlikely of people. Just not record label people, evidently. His first post-Mark solo project has been in preparation for a long time. He's spent two years working on material.

Unknown, south London's worst-kept rap secret: he's a man on the verge of becoming a star, an acknowledged hip hop great whose time, surely, is now.

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TECH N9NE !!!

1971 geboren als Aaron D. Yates und schon seit 16 (naja fast 17) Jahren dabei Rhymez zu droppen......Für mich persöhnlich "DER BESTE" Mc den es gibt (aber Meinungen sind ja immer anders, bitte nich falsch verstehen)
Naja er Produzierte zahlreiche alben.....

- Celcius
- The Worst
- The Calm before the Storm
- Anghellic
- Absolute Power

Er hat auch clipz zu "Imma Tell" und "Slacker" gemacht.Er war auch bei Sway und King Tech zu sehen und hören.Der in Kansas lebende Mc hat mit den Jahren seinen eigenen und auch überaus guten style immer mehr aus gepfeilt.Seine Beatz sind auch mit den Jahren immer besser geworden.Von seinem Flow nich zu schweigen, kurz gesagt "Geisteskrank" schnell und immer wieder knaller anzuhören....Er hinterlässt der Welt ein gutes bild von Kansas City (In sachen Rap).
Er und sein Ex Producer Don Juan (JCOR Records) vervielen im streit und nun ist Tech bei Strange Music......(Was auch in keinster weise zu kritiesieren ist !!!)Tech plant sein neues album (Everready: The Religion)
und dieses wird bestimmt auch hammer geil.........freu mich schon drauf !!! So mehr fällt mir im moment nich ein also peace und CHA !!!

The Worst:
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Celcius:
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The Calm before the Storm:
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Anghellic:
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Absolute Power:
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Hier der link zur offiziellen page http://www.therealtechn9ne.com
und jetzt noch ein fettes CHA !!! peace.....

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