Aliaume Damala Badara Akon Thiam (born April 16, 1973) (pronounced /ˈeɪkɒn/), better known as Akon, is an American singer, rapper, songwriter, businessman, record producer and actor. He rose to prominence in 2004 following the release of "Locked Up", the first single from his debut album Trouble.
He has since founded two successful record labels, Konvict Muzik and Kon Live Distribution. His second album, Konvicted received three nominations for the Grammy Awards in two categories, Best Contemporary R&B Album for Konvicted album and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration for "Smack That" and "I Wanna Love You".
He is the first solo artist to hold both the number one and two spots simultaneously on the Billboard Hot 100 charts twice. Akon has had four songs certified as 3x platinum, three songs certified as 2x platinum, more than ten songs certified as 1x platinum and more than ten songs certified as gold in digital sales. Akon has sung songs in other languages including Tamil, Hindi, and Spanish. He was listed by the Guinness Book of World Records as the #1 selling artist for master ringtones in the world.
Tricky may refer to:
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Tricky was a British children's animated television programme that aired in the ITV Network's children's strand CITV on Saturday mornings from 30 August to 20 December 1997. It was the first live children's show hosted by an animated character - a talking dragon named Tricky. His co-host was a strange dragon-cat hybrid, who hatched from an egg in the third show, and was called 'Purrdy' because of a competition won by a 5-year-old girl from Dunoon, Leanne Campbell. Claudia Winkleman made frequent appearances on the show, and Tricky would usually call her 'Claudia Winklebottom'. The second edition of Tricky was pre-empted by Princess Diana's funeral. The showed was produced by Real Time Animation for Granada Television.
The show didn't prove to be all that popular, and only lasted for one series. But Tricky made a comeback to TV screens in 2003; he was renamed 'Rorry', though Purrdy kept her name, and hosted the kid's channel POP!.
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Adrian Nicholas Matthews Thaws (born 27 January 1968), better known by his stage name Tricky, is an English record producer, vocalist, director, actor, and musician. He began his career as an early collaborator of Massive Attack before embarking on a solo career with his debut album, Maxinquaye, in 1995. The release won Tricky popular acclaim and marked the beginning of a lengthy collaborative partnership with vocalist Martina Topley-Bird. He released four more studio albums before the end of the decade, including Pre-Millennium Tension and the pseudonymous Nearly God, both in 1996. He has gone on to release six studio albums since 2000, most recently the self-titled Adrian Thaws (2014).
Often considered a pioneer of the trip hop style that rose to prominence in the UK during the 1990s, Tricky is noted for his whispering, sprechgesang vocal approach and a dark, layered musical style that draws on disparate cultural influences and genres, including hip hop, alternative rock and ragga. He has collaborated with a wide range of artists over the course of his career, including Terry Hall, Björk, Gravediggaz, Grace Jones, Massive Attack and PJ Harvey.
Podcasts:
Tricky
ALBUMS
- Adrian Thaws released: 2014
- False Idols released: 2013
- Mixed Race released: 2010
- Tricky Meets South Rakkas Crew released: 2009
- Knowle West Boy released: 2008
- Back to Mine: Tricky released: 2003
- Vulnerable released: 2003
- A Ruff Guide released: 2002
- Remixed released: 2001
- Blowback released: 2001
- Juxtapose released: 1999
- Angels With Dirty Faces released: 1998
- Grassroots released: 1996
- Pre-Millennium Tension released: 1996
- Maxinquaye released: 1995
- The B-Side Collection released:
- Ultimate Collection released:
- The Prophet: B-sides & Remixes released:
- Made in Bristol released:
- Best of Tricky released:
A Ruff Guide
Released 2002- Aftermath (version one)
- Poems (edit)
- For Real
- Black Steel (radio edit)
- Pumpkin (edit)
- Broken Homes
- Wash My Soul
- I Be the Prophet (With Drums)
- Makes Me Wanna Die
- Tricky Kid
- Scrappy Love
- Ponderosa (original 7" edit)
- Christiansands
- Hell Is Around the Corner
- Singing the Blues
- Bubbles
- Overcome
- Aftermath (I Could Be Looking for People remix)
- Black Steel (In the Draw mix)
The Prophet: B-sides & Remixes
- I Am the Prophet (feat. Starving Souls)
- If You Want My Love (feat. Starving Souls)
- I Be the Prophet (With Drums) (feat. Starving Souls)
- Grandmaster (Durban Poison mix) (feat. Intastella)
- Agolo (How's Tricks mix) (feat. Angelique Kidjo)
- Had You in Me (feat. Neneh Cherry)
- Devotion (feat. Neneh Cherry)
- I Wanna Know (feat. Neneh Cherry)
- Crack Baby (feat. Neneh Cherry)
- Horse & Carriage (Tricky remix) (feat. Cam'ron)
- Hypnotize (Trickster European remix) (feat. Notorious B.I.g.)
- Judgement Day (Tricky remix) (feat. Method Man)
- Ghost Town (live) (feat. Terry Hall)
Made in Bristol
- Hell Is Round the Corner (The Hell and Water mix)
- Psychosis
- Tonite Is a Special Nite (Chaos Mass Confusion mix)
- Aftermath (Hip Hop Blues)
- Brand New You're Retro (Alex Reele remix)
- Black Steel (Been Caught Steelin mix)
- Here Come the Aliens (Afrika Izlam remix)
- Makes Me Wanna Die (The Weekend Mix by Stereo MC's)
- Flynn
- Devil's Helper
- Smoking Beagles
- Suffocated Love
- Grass Roots
- Milk (Performed by Garbage) (The Wicked Tricky mix)
- Anti Histamine (feat. PJ Harvey)
- Where do We Go From Here (Performed by Yoko Ono) (Tricky mix)
Tricky
ALBUMS
- Maxinquaye released: 2012
- Mixed Race released: 2010
- Tricky Meets South Rakkas Crew released: 2009
- Knowle West Boy released: 2008
- Back to Mine: Tricky released: 2003
- A Ruff Guide released: 2002
- Blowback released: 2002
- Grassroots released: 1996
- Pre-Millennium Tension released: 1996
- The B-Side Collection released:
- Ultimate Collection released:
- The Prophet: B-sides & Remixes released:
- Made in Bristol released:
- Angels With Dirty Faces released:
- Vulnerable released:
- Best of Tricky released:
Ultimate Collection
- Wonder Woman (feat. John Frusciante & Flea)
- Girls (feat. Anthony Keidis & John Frusciante)
- Money Greedy
- Black Steel
- Hell Is Round the Corner
- Aftermath
- Overcome
- Tricky Kid
- Make a Change (feat. Alison Moyet)
- I Be the Prophet (feat. Martina)
- Yoga (feat. Björk)
- Together Now (feat. Neneh Cherry)
- Ghetto Youth
- Makes Me Wanna Die
- Talk to Me (Angels With Dirty Faces)
- Evolution Revolution Love (feat. Ed Kowalczyk & Hawkman)
The Prophet: B-sides & Remixes
- I Am the Prophet (feat. Starving Souls)
- If You Want My Love (feat. Starving Souls)
- I Be the Prophet (With Drums) (feat. Starving Souls)
- Grandmaster (Durban Poison mix) (feat. Intastella)
- Agolo (How's Tricks mix) (feat. Angelique Kidjo)
- Had You in Me (feat. Neneh Cherry)
- Devotion (feat. Neneh Cherry)
- I Wanna Know (feat. Neneh Cherry)
- Crack Baby (feat. Neneh Cherry)
- Horse & Carriage (Tricky remix) (feat. Cam'ron)
- Hypnotize (Trickster European remix) (feat. Notorious B.I.g.)
- Judgement Day (Tricky remix) (feat. Method Man)
- Ghost Town (live) (feat. Terry Hall)
Made in Bristol
- Hell Is Round the Corner (The Hell and Water mix)
- Psychosis
- Tonite Is a Special Nite (Chaos Mass Confusion mix)
- Aftermath (Hip Hop Blues)
- Brand New You're Retro (Alex Reele remix)
- Black Steel (Been Caught Steelin mix)
- Here Come the Aliens (Afrika Izlam remix)
- Makes Me Wanna Die (The Weekend Mix by Stereo MC's)
- Flynn
- Devil's Helper
- Smoking Beagles
- Suffocated Love
- Grass Roots
- Milk (Performed by Garbage) (The Wicked Tricky mix)
- Anti Histamine (feat. PJ Harvey)
- Where do We Go From Here (Performed by Yoko Ono) (Tricky mix)
Christopher Stewart
ALBUMS
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by Meek Mill
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by Tricky
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by Jaden Smith
Give It To Em
by: Meek MillDream team
The Life
(Meek Millz)
I aint no killer but don't push me
I look a nigga in his eyes tell yah if he pussy
Remembering the times the people would overlook me
The bitchs would try to play me
My future was looking shady
Wanted to be a star, they locked me behind bars
Trying to shatter my dreams
I tell you them times hard
I aint never give up
I hustled I grind hard
Put my faith in the lord I know ima shine hard
I had no choice but to win but the odds was against me
So I'm rolling through this bitch
With my 9s or my semi
My dad died when I was young so my mom would defend me
and my sister would protect me
now them main niggas respect me
I had to learn to be a man
Learn to hold my hands
Learn to work that scale, turn them ounces into grams
Learn to stack this money work till 2 and feed the fam
Now I'm the best thing since zaf cur on da lamb
I got 30 in my glock, Move and I'm squeezing
Ocean drop, In the drop Head, Like I'm dreaming,
Leaning,
Addicted to the money I'm feaning
Shit you wish you saw, I seen it at 23,
Skinny nigga, Big dreams,lota pride,
Somebody get in the way of that it's homicide,
My heart cold as melly heart when his mom died and cold
like tashima and ty when my aunt ronda died,
nigga's got fat when we starved it wasn't ramadan,
But sunny days we aint need alot of time,
So I'm like tony hawk on his skateboard I gotta grind,
What I wouldn't do for a dollar sign I don't know,
It aint bout money nigga I don't go,
Shoot him in his head now he john doe,
9 on me Ron doe,
I turn a fucking quarter ounce into a condo,
I turn the condo into a fucking (echo)Fucking
(Lou Williams)
And nock the breath out your boy, when tee got sinnest,
And I'm kind of tipsy so I'm spilling family business,
18 Lost my pop, too many years he's gone missing
My B mind gone that Alzheimer's shit ridiculous,
Bright lights and flights,
See what this life will bring to you,
Bitch's favoring my name,
See what that shit will bring to you,
The world is ice cold poncho shawn,
Show em with that flame will do,
9mm for evil he can aim too,
I seen it all before,
Seen my momma praying
Seen my b forget my name,
Seen my brothers walls cave in,
Life is but a dream to me,
Lately it's a nightmare,
Cause it's a war going on
and these niggas don't fight fare,
Ask em what the feeling like,
To see my family living right,
Proud of myself
cause my name light up these philly nights,
Gotta hope I'm living right, and sorry for the tattoos,
But if I go tonight please take care of my nephews,
(Mel Love)
I make the song cry, make it drip, make it tear,
Told you niggas from the writ,from the tear,
Every beat that I get I'ma rip I'ma tear,
In pieces like deuces Im'a be super sport coupin,
I said I'll be with the cool kids,
Chillin on some cool shit srt eigheter,
Like some scrapers on some cool shit,
I said we move shit, Eat a dick,
I dues this, They be on that goon shit,
we on that looney toons shit,
Bet I'd let that 2 spit,
Air sommin, Bet I let that 2 rip,
Tear sommin, roll me back we head hunting,
We be on that foreal a head buster,
A south sider, Product of my environment land buster,
I'll be in the newest coupe, rolling on some fruity fruit,
Shane look like juicy fruit, mixed up fruity loops,
Ayo where my boys at, squad up, Hoodie who,
Bitch you either in the circle like a Hoola Hoop,
Bitch I talk that like a en loop, Then I spit that fire,
You tire like an inter-tube, All these niggas flyers,
Call me pliers, I'll grip them dudes,
You should see how I be dipping through,
I said tell them they don't want this,
They can take a drum clip,
Candy and the powder in the package,
Like it's fun dip,
I be on that real shit, they be on that nut shit,
Cookie, Pussy boy, bubble gum shit,