Kwasi Danquah (/ˈkweɪsi dæŋˈkwɑː/ KWAY-see dang-KWAH), better known by his stage name Tinchy Stryder (born 14 September 1986) also known as The Star in the Hood, is a Ghanaian-born English businessman, investor, and rapper.

Stryder has released three solo studio albums, Star in the Hood (2007), Catch 22 (2009), and Third Strike (2010).

Stryder's business ventures include the clothing line Star in the Hood, the Cloud 9 x Goji headphone and audio equipment range in collaboration with the Goji brand (distributed exclusively throughout Europe by Currys PC World, Cloud 9 Records & Cloud 9 Publishing.

Biography

Early life & Education

Stryder was a resident in the United Kingdom from 1995 until 2008, in Bow, London and he attended St Bonaventure's Catholic Comprehensive School in nearby Forest Gate, Newham; this is where he met one of his lifelong friends to this day, Callum Snell. He gained a B.A. (Hons) in Digital arts, Moving image and Animation at the University of East London. He began making music in 1997 and started in business almost immediately after completing his GCE advanced level and general certificate of education in 2006.

"Help Me" is a song by recording artist Tinchy Stryder, and was released on 30 September 2012, as the fourth single from his scrapped fourth album: Full Tank. Full Tank was scrapped so Help Me became a non-album single. The song, produced by Art Bastian, was written by Tinchy Stryder, Camille Purcell and Ollie Jacobs, and features uncredited vocals by Camille Purcell.

Background

The single was announced during an interview with Digital Spy, uploaded on July 12, 2012, and Tinchy Stryder announcing he is now reinvented, and that with "Help Me" – It reaches out religiously to God. "Help Me" is incorporated with female verses and vocals.

The track was co-written by Kwasi Danquah III, Camille Purcell and Ollie Jacobs, and was produced by Art Bastian.

Music video

A music video was made for "Help Me", and it was filmed in New Orleans, Louisiana. The accompanying music video sees Tinchy Stryder performing the track in a poverty-stricken neighbourhood.

Other scenes focus on Christian iconography, statues and buildings, directly representing the chorus's lyrics of "God, help me".

Help Me may refer to:

Music

Albums

Songs

See also

"Help Me!!" (Help me!!) is the 52nd single by the Japanese female idol group Morning Musume, released in Japan on January 23, 2013.

Release details

"Help Me!!" will be the first single by Morning Musume on which Sakura Oda participates.

The single will be released in eight versions: regular editions A and B and six limited editions: A, B, C, D, E, and F. The Limited Editions A, B, and C will come with a bonus DVD, all the other edition will be CD-only. Also, all the limited editions will include an entry card for the lottery to win a launch event ticket.

Members at time of single

Track listing

Regular Edition A

All songs written and composed by Tsunku. 

Limited Editions A, B, C, Regular Edition B

Limited Edition D

Limited Edition E

Limited Edition F

"Help Me!" is a song by Marcy Levy (better known now as Marcella Detroit) and Robin Gibb. The song was recorded for the official soundtrack of Times Square, and released as the album's lead single, going on to peak at #50 on the Billboard Top 100. It was also considered as Levy's first single and her only song that was charted in the United States.

Background

After working on Jimmy Ruffin's Sunrise (including the track "Where Do I Go", a duet by Ruffin and Marcy Levy) Robin Gibb and Bee Gees keyboardist Blue Weaver work together again by supplying tracks for the soundtrack of the film Times Square (an RSO movie). And the result was the song "Help Me!" sung by Levy and Gibb. The song was heard in the film's closing credits.

Related session outtake, "Touch Me", a song also written by Gibb and Levy with lead vocals provided by Levy as a demo for Linda Clifford but was not recorded by Clifford himself. Weaver says he and Levy didn't like its sexually charged lyrics and Gibb had to talk Levy into singing it. The B-side of the single, an instrumental version of "Help Me!" on which they made two instrumental versions of the same track, one with Gary Brown playing a sax solo.