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24-Carat Black

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24-Carat Black (sometimes styled as The 24-Carat Black) was an American soul and funk band who recorded in the early 1970s. [1]

36 relations: Arrangement, Berry Gordy, Billboard (magazine), Breakbeat, Cincinnati, Composer, Concept album, Conducting, Dale Warren, Digable Planets, Dr. Dre, Eric B. & Rakim, Funk, Hot Buttered Soul, Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, Isaac Hayes, It Was Written, Jay-Z, Let the Rhythm Hit 'Em, Motown, Music school, Naughty by Nature, Poverty's Paradise, Ray Singleton, Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space), Reasonable doubt, Rhythm and blues, Shrine Records, Soul music, Stax Records, String section, The Isaac Hayes Movement, United States, Violin, Wattstax, ...To Be Continued (Isaac Hayes album).

Arrangement

In music, an arrangement is a musical reconceptualization of a previously composed work.

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Berry Gordy

Berry Gordy III (known professionally as Berry Gordy Jr., born November 28, 1929) is an American record executive, record producer, songwriter, film producer and television producer.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (styled as billboard) is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries.

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Breakbeat

Breakbeat is a broad style of electronic or dance-oriented music which utilizes breaks, often sampled from earlier recordings in funk, jazz and R&B, for the main rhythm.

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Cincinnati

No description.

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Composer

A composer (Latin ''compōnō''; literally "one who puts together") is a musician who is an author of music in any form, including vocal music (for a singer or choir), instrumental music, electronic music, and music which combines multiple forms.

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Concept album

A concept album is an album in which its tracks hold a larger purpose or meaning collectively than they do individually.

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Conducting

Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance, such as an orchestral or choral concert.

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Dale Warren

Dale Ossman Warren (1940 - February 3, 1994) was an American musician, who was best known for his work as an arranger for Motown Records in the early 1960s, and later for the Stax label where he worked with Isaac Hayes among many others.

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Digable Planets

Digable Planets is an American hip hop trio formed in 1987, in Brooklyn, New York.

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Dr. Dre

Andre Romelle Young (born February 18, 1965), better known by his stage name Dr.

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Eric B. & Rakim

Eric B. & Rakim are a hip hop duo formed in Long Island, New York, in 1986, composed of Eric B. (born Eric Barrier) and MC Rakim (born William Michael Griffin Jr.). AllMusic wrote that "during rap's so-called golden age in the late '80s, Eric B. & Rakim were almost universally recognized as the premier DJ/MC team in all of hip-hop." Tom Terrell of NPR called them "the most influential DJ/MC combo in contemporary pop music period," while the editors of About.com ranked them as No.

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Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in African American communities in the mid-1960s when African American musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of soul music, jazz, and rhythm and blues (R&B).

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Hot Buttered Soul

Hot Buttered Soul is the second studio album by American soul musician Isaac Hayes.

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Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs

The Hot R&B/Hip-Hop/Rap Songs is a record chart that ranks the most popular R&B and hip hop songs in the United States and is published weekly by Billboard.

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Isaac Hayes

Isaac Lee Hayes Jr. (August 20, 1942 – August 10, 2008) was an American singer-songwriter, actor, voice actor and producer.

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It Was Written

It Was Written is the second studio album by American rapper Nas, released July 2, 1996 on Columbia Records in the United States.

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Jay-Z

Shawn Corey Carter (born December 4, 1969) known professionally as Jay-Z (stylized JAY-Z), is an American rapper, songwriter, record producer, and entrepreneur.

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Let the Rhythm Hit 'Em

Let the Rhythm Hit ’Em is the third album by rap duo Eric B. & Rakim, released on June 19, 1990.

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Motown

Motown is an American record company.

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Music school

A music school is an educational institution specialized in the study, training, and research of music.

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Naughty by Nature

Naughty by Nature is a Grammy Award-winning American hip hop trio from East Orange, New Jersey consisting of Treach (Anthony Criss, born December 2, 1970), Vin Rock (Vincent Brown, born September 17, 1970), and DJ Kay Gee (born Keir Lamont Gist, September 15, 1969).

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Poverty's Paradise

Poverty's Paradise is the fourth album from Naughty by Nature, released on May 30, 1995 as their final album under Tommy Boy Records.

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Ray Singleton

Raynoma "Ray" Mayberry Liles Gordy Singleton (March 8, 1937 – November 11, 2016) was an American R&B producer, songwriter, and vocalist perhaps best known for her association with ex-husband, Berry Gordy during the early days of Motown when she was often known as Miss Ray.

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Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space)

Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space) is the acclaimed debut album by alternative hip hop group Digable Planets.

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Reasonable doubt

Reasonable doubt is a term used in jurisdiction of common law countries.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.

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Shrine Records

Shrine Records was an American soul and R&B record label based in Washington, D.C. It was founded in 1964 by its primary songwriter Eddie Singleton and his wife, Raynoma Gordy Singleton (who had also founded Motown with her then-husband, Berry Gordy).

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Soul music

Soul music (often referred to simply as soul) is a popular music genre that originated in the African American community in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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Stax Records

Stax Records is an American record label, originally based in Memphis, Tennessee.

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String section

The string section is composed of bowed instruments belonging to the violin family.

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The Isaac Hayes Movement

The Isaac Hayes Movement is the third studio album by the American soul musician Isaac Hayes.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Violin

The violin, also known informally as a fiddle, is a wooden string instrument in the violin family.

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Wattstax

Wattstax was a benefit concert organized by Stax Records to commemorate the seventh anniversary of the 1965 riots in the African-American community of Watts, Los Angeles.

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...To Be Continued (Isaac Hayes album)

...To Be Continued is the fourth studio album by American soul musician Isaac Hayes, issued in 1970 on Stax Records' Enterprise label.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24-Carat_Black

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