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Born | September 30, 1983 |
Origin | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
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Years active | 2005–present |
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Georgia Anne Muldrow (born 1983) [3] is an American musician from Los Angeles, California. [4] In 2008, she co-founded the SomeOthaShip Connect record label with fellow artist and former husband Dudley Perkins. [5]
Georgia Anne Muldrow grew up in a musical environment of her session musician parents, the jazz guitarist Ronald Muldrow and a singer, now Rickie Byars-Beckwith. [6] [7] [8]
In 2006, Muldrow released the debut EP, Worthnothings, on Stones Throw Records. [9] Her first album, Olesi: Fragments of an Earth, was released on the label in that year. [10] [11]
In 2012, she released Seeds , an album entirely produced by Madlib, on SomeOthaShip Connect. [12]
In 2018, she released Overload on Brainfeeder. [13]
In The New York Times article in 2009, rapper Mos Def compared Muldrow's music to Roberta Flack, Nina Simone, and Ella Fitzgerald. [14] AllMusic described her as "one of the most daring and important (albeit underappreciated) artists of her time". [15]
Yasiin Bey, previously and more commonly known by his stage name Mos Def, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and actor. He began his hip hop career in 1994, alongside his siblings in the short-lived rap group Urban Thermo Dynamics (UTD), after which they appeared on albums by Da Bush Babees and De La Soul. He subsequently formed the duo Black Star, alongside fellow Brooklyn-based rapper Talib Kweli, and in 1998 they released their eponymous debut album, featuring the singles "Definition" and "Respiration". He was featured on the roster of Rawkus Records and in 1999 released his solo debut, Black on Both Sides. His debut was followed by The New Danger (2004), True Magic (2006), and The Ecstatic (2009). The editors of About.com listed him as the 14th greatest rapper on their "50 Greatest Rappers of All Time" list. Some of his top hits include "Oh No", "Ms. Fat Booty" and "Mathematics".
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Dudley Perkins is an American rapper and singer from Oxnard, California. He has released records on Stones Throw Records under his own name and the alias of Declaime. In 2008, he co-founded the SomeOthaShip Connect record label with his partner Georgia Anne Muldrow.
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