Joseph Saddler, who has an alias as Grandmaster Flash, is an American hip hop recording artist and one of the pioneers of hip-hop, Djing, cutting, and mixing. His family migrated to the United States from Barbados, in the Caribbean. He grew up in The Bronx, New York where he attended Samuel Gompers High School, a public vocational school. There he learned how to repair electronic equipment. His parents played an important role in his interest in music as he was fascinated by his father’s music…
In 2013, George Zimmerman began the “Black Lives Matter” movement. Today, according to www.pbs.org, 51% of white adults between the ages of 18-36 say they support this movement, while 49% say they do not. Much of the increase in support for this movement and others has come from celebrities who help gather rallies or spread information about these types of movements. One of these celebrities is the genius behind Purple Rain, Prince Rogers Nelson, who has helped this movement thrive with his…
A music producer is someone who makes sure that when a song is being recorded, it is at its best quality and as good as it can be. In addition, he or she will make sure that a song is well produced and even give the artist advice on what to change in their performance. A producer understands everything in the studio from plugging in microphones correctly to running a sound board; in fact, they are also good at understanding instruments, vocals or any type of recordable sounds. The job may seem…
H.H. Holmes In the United states there are an estimated 16,212 murders per year. This comes out to near 44 murders per day, ("Deaths and Mortality.") sounds pretty bad huh? Though serial killer 's victim only account for an average of 1% of these murders, that still adds up to around 160 killings in the U.S. alone.(Scott Bonn) I have personally researched one serial killer in particular, one known as the notorious H. H. Holmes. You will, by the end of this, know more about the mind behind the…
record deal. Legal trouble can cause different thing to happen. Jail time is usually the case. Jail time for an artist can go one of two ways. One way is the Gucci Mane route, which is going to jail and still selling records. The second on is the Bobby Shmurda route, which is going to jail and basically, falling off the face of the Earth. Legal trouble could actually indirectly help some people, like Gucci Mane and Chief Keef. Or legal trouble could do what it has been known to do for years,…
art teachers, and two gym teachers. They all had quit or gotten fired. My art teacher called everyone in my class a "stupid [expletive along racist nature]" and kissed her job away in the same breathe. The next art teacher, some female version of Bobby Ross told us it was because her mom was sick that she quit but we all knew that wasn 't true. To get back on track kindergarten was where it all began. My mom was a para and school was easy enough for me. I had tons of friends, did well enough…
Unfortunately, some companies have mismanaged their greatest asset—their brands. This is what befell the popular Snapple brand almost as soon as Quaker Oats bought the beverage marketer for $1.7 billion in 1994. Snapple had become a hit through powerful grassroots marketing and distribution through small outlets and convenience stores. Analysts said that because Quaker did not understand the brand’s appeal, it made the mistake of changing the ads and the distribution. Snapple lost so much…