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Richard Walters alias Slick Rick aka: "MC Ricky D" aka: "The Ruler"(* 14. Januar 1965 in London, England) ist ein US-amerikanischer East Coast Rapper und gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Oldschool-MCs. Leben Geboren in England, zog er mit zehn Jahren mit seinen Eltern nach New York. Als Kind hatte er ein Auge verloren und trägt seitdem eine markante Augenklappe. Werdegang Slick Rick begann bald an Rap-Contests teilzunehmen und mit 20 Jahren hatte er seine ersten Erfolge. Unvergessen bis heute und einer der meistgesampelten Hip-Hop-Songs ist der Track „The Show“ („There is no competition ´cause we are the best“) den er...

The Great Society was a 1960s San Francisco rock band in the burgeoning Haight Ashbury folk-psychedelic style pervasive during the time of its existence, 1965 to 1966. The band was also known as "The Great! Society!!." Remembered as the original group of model turned singer Grace Slick, the initial line-up of the band also featured her then-husband Jerry Slick on drums, his brother Darby Slick on guitar, David Miner on vocals and guitar, Bard DuPont on bass, and Peter Vandergelder on saxophone. Miner and DuPont would not remain with the band for the duration. In the late summer of 1965,...

Ran Slavin is a multi media artist. Born in Jerusalem and living in Tel Aviv. He is an autodidact in cinema having recently completed his first feature title; THE INSOMNIAC CITY CYCLES. His video and sound installations, digital live video/sound improvisations are frequently shown across diverse platforms internationally. He is active in both the international music, and contemporary art scenes. His work has been described as poetic, confrontational, urban surreal, at times on the threshold of digital painting. His audio work is a culmination of digitally processed acoustic sources to various means of generative sound that form evasive atmospheres between...

Lindley Armstrong "Spike" Jones (1911–1965) was a popular musician and bandleader specialising in performing satirical arrangements of popular songs. Ballads and classical works receiving the Jones treatment would be punctuated with gunshots, whistles, cowbells, and ridiculous vocals. Jones was born on the 14th December 1911 in Long Beach, California. He got his nickname by being so thin that he was compared to a railroad spike. At the age of eleven he got his first set of drums. As a teenager he played in bands that he formed himself. A railroad restaurant chef taught him how to use pots and pans,...

Mitchy Slick (eig. Charles Mitchell, * in San Diego, Kalifornien) ist ein US-amerikanischer Rap-Künstler. Mitchy Slick stammt aus einer Stadt, in der es so gut wie keine bekannten Rap-Künstler gibt. Daher fiel es ihm leicht, durch den Verkauf einiger Mixtapes auf sich aufmerksam zu machen und sich den Lokalpatriotismus zu Nutzen zu machen. Das verdiente Geld setzte er ein, um sein eigenes Label zu gründen, Wrongkind Records. Unter diesem Label veröffentlichte er sein Debütalbum, das - fast ausschließlich durch Verkäufe in San Diego - auf Platz 13 der Top Independent Albums-Billboard-Charts einstieg. Durch diesen Erfolg aufmerksam geworden, beschloss Xzibit, den...