 Artist: Marley Marl: mp3 download Genre(s): Rap: Hip-Hop Discography:  Hip-Hop Lives Year: 2007 Tracks: 14 One of hip-hop's low-pitched gear (and finest) superproducers, Marley Marl was an early groundbreaker in the art of sampling, development new techniques that resulted in some of the sharpest beatniks and hooks in rap's Golden Age. As the founder of Cold Chillin' Records, Marl assembled a roll filled with some of the finest rap gift in New York: MC Shan, Big Daddy Kane, Biz Markie, Roxanne Shanté, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, and Masta Ace. His production work for those and many former artists in the main boasted a bright, booming, and robust sound that -- along with his ear for a catchy sample -- helped act street-level hip-hop's transonic blueprint into more accessible soil. Most authoritative, though, were his skills as a beatmaker; Marl was among the number one to mine James Brown records for grooves and likewise well-educated how to workmanship his have drum loops through sample distribution, which decreased hip-hop's reliance on tinny-sounding drum machines and gave his '80s productions a brisk, modern flavour. Marl was born Marlon Williams on September 30, 1962, and grew up in the Queensbridge housing stick out in Queens, NY. He became interested in music through local talent shows and region parties and became an established DJ during rap's early days. He did mixture work on a number of singles for the old school hip-hop/electro label Tuff City and started up his own Cold Chillin' pronounce, which he initially ran out of his sister's apartment in Queensbridge. Marl set about recruiting for what became ane of rap's first talent collectives, the Juice Crew. He caught his number one bad break in 1984 when he produced Roxanne Shanté's "Roxanne's Revenge," one of many answer singles inspired by U.T.F.O.'s resistance smash "Roxanne, Roxanne"; as luck would have it, "Roxanne's Revenge" was the biggest and it assign artist, label, and manufacturer on the map. Marl trumped it by helming "The Bridge," an ode to Queensbridge by his full cousin MC Shan that became the unofficial Queens rap hymn and elysian a gritty feud with Bronx aboriginal KRS-One. With Marl's success came the opportunity to bring forth artists outside the Cold Chillin' stable, which he did with the monumental Eric B. & Rakim single "Eric B. Is President," as well as full-length albums by Heavy D & the Boyz. The end of the '80s is a great deal referred to as hip-hop's Golden Age, a time when the form's creativeness was expanding by leaps and bound. Marl's Juice Crew was an important force in ushering in this eRA thanks to its advances in lyrical technique and the distinctive personalities of rising stars like Biz Markie and Big Daddy Kane. With business at Cold Chillin' prosperous, Marl assign out the offset full-length freeing under his possess constitute in 1988 (he'd antecedently recorded the single "DJ Cuttin'" in 1985 with the alias NYC Cutter). In Control, Vol. 1 was for the most part a slip for several Juice Crew affiliates to strut their stuff, virtually thrillingly on the legendary, larger-than-life posse cut "The Symphony." Marl scored his greatest crossover voter success in 1990 by helming LL Cool J's Mom Said Knock You Out; bolstered by Marl's state of matter of the art production, the record album restored LL's street street street cred patch decorous his biggest vender ever so, making Marl an sought-after after remixer. 1991 brought the release of In Control, Vol. 2, which regrettably displayed signs that the Cold Chillin' natural endowment pool was beingness depleted. After working with TLC on their 1992 debut, Marl remained largely quiet for a few eld; 1995 brought the freeing of House of Hits, an splendid retrospective of his c. H. Best productions all over the years. Splitting cancelled from Cold Chillin', Marl spent several years in a legal battle over money and ownership rights that, in 1998, eventually resulted in his organism awarded control of all the songs he'd produced for the pronounce. In the late '90s, Marl's position as a high profile producer was restored thanks to his work with artists care Rakim, Queensbridge's own Capone-N-Noreaga, and Fat Joe. In 2001, Marl assign together some other compilation of original productions with guest rappers for the British BBE pronounce, highborn Reentry. |
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