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Austin Richard Post was born on July 4, 1995, [2] in Syracuse, New York. [16] [17] He was raised by his father, Richard Post, and his stepmother, Jodie.His father had been a DJ in his youth and introduced Malone to many different genres of music including hip hop, country, and rock. [18]
Dr. Dre. Andre Romell Young (born February 18, 1965), known professionally as Dr. Dre, is an American rapper, record producer, record executive, and actor. He is the founder and CEO of Aftermath Entertainment and Beats Electronics, and co-founder of Death Row Records. Dre began his career as a member of the World Class Wreckin' Cru in 1984, and ...
Rhythm and blues, frequently abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B, is a genre of popular music that originated within African-American communities in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to African Americans, at a time when "rocking, jazz based music ... [with a] heavy, insistent beat ...
Atlantic Recording Corporation (simply known as Atlantic Records) is an American record label founded in October 1947 by Ahmet Ertegun and Herb Abramson.Over the course of two decades, starting from the release of its first recordings in January 1948, [3] Atlantic earned a reputation as one of the most important American labels, specializing in jazz, R&B, and soul by Aretha Franklin, Ray ...
Riff (American band) Riff is an American R&B and soul a cappella group from Paterson, New Jersey. The group RIFF appeared in the 1989 biographical - drama film, Lean on Me starring Morgan Freeman as the 'Songbirds' in the bathroom scene. They recorded two albums in the 1990s. Three of the members (Anthony Fuller, Dwayne Jones, and Michael Best ...
It had also charted at number 17 on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Digital songs chart. [27] In October 2012, Hopsin made an appearance on a BET Cypher during the 2012 BET Hip Hop Awards alongside Schoolboy Q, Mac Miller and Mystikal. [28] [29] Hopsin's album, Knock Madness was released on November 26, 2013, to fairly good success in US Rap Charts ...
Urban contemporary music, also known as urban music, hip hop, [1] urban pop, or just simply urban, is a music radio format. The term was coined by New York radio DJ Frankie Crocker in the early to mid-1970s as a synonym for Black music. Urban contemporary radio stations feature a playlist made up entirely of Black genres such as R&B, pop-rap ...
Rage (also known as rage music, [1] [2] rage rap, [3] or rage beats [4] [5] [6]) is a microgenre of trap music. [3] [7] Distinguishing features of rage include short looping stereo-widened future bass -influenced synthesizer lead hooks and basic, energetic trap rhythms. [4] [7] [8] Among the pioneers of rage are rappers Playboi Carti, Lil Uzi ...