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Vol. 2... Hard Knock Life

Index Vol. 2... Hard Knock Life

Vol. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 99 relations: Album, AllMusic, Amil, Annie (musical), Bad Boy Records, Beanie Sigel, Billboard (magazine), Billboard 200, Billboard Hot 100, Blues & Soul, Brian Eno, Can I Get A..., Charles Strouse, Chris Frantz, Chris Jasper, Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s, Complex Networks, D&D Studios, Damon Dash, David Byrne, Def Jam Recordings, DJ Premier, DMX, Erick Sermon, Ernie Isley, Four Tops, Foxy Brown (rapper), Golden Axe, Grammy Award for Best Rap Album, Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem), Hip hop music, Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, Hot Rap Songs, IGN, In My Lifetime, Vol. 1, Irv Gotti, Isaac Hayes, Ja Rule, Jadakiss, Jay-Z, Jaz-O, Jermaine Dupri, Jerry Harrison, Kid Capri, Kraftwerk, List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 1998, List of Billboard number-one R&B albums of 1998, Los Angeles Times, Macmillan Publishers, Manhattan Center, ... Expand index (49 more) »

  2. Albums produced by the 45 King
  3. Grammy Award for Best Rap Album
  4. Jay-Z albums
  5. Roc-A-Fella Records albums

Album

An album is a collection of audio recordings (e.g., music) issued on a medium such as compact disc (CD), vinyl (record), audio tape (like 8-track or cassette), or digital.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database.

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Amil

Amil Kahala Whitehead (born September 19, 1973) is an American former rapper and singer.

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Annie (musical)

Annie is a musical with music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin, and a book by Thomas Meehan.

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Bad Boy Records

Bad Boy Entertainment, doing business as Bad Boy Records, is an American record label founded in 1993 by Sean "Puffy" Combs.

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Beanie Sigel

Dwight Equan Grant (born March 6, 1974), better known by his stage name Beanie Sigel, is an American rapper from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (stylized in lowercase since 2013) is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation.

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Billboard 200

The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States.

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Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.

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Blues & Soul

Blues & Soul is a British music magazine, established in 1967 by John Abbey.

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Brian Eno

Brian Peter George Jean-Baptiste de la Salle Eno (born 15 May 1948), also mononymously known as Eno, is an English musician, songwriter, record producer and visual artist.

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Can I Get A...

"Can I Get A..." is a song recorded by American rapper Jay-Z, featuring Ja Rule and Amil.

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Charles Strouse

Charles Strouse (born June 7, 1928) is an American composer and lyricist best known for writing the music to such Broadway musicals as Bye Bye Birdie, Applause, and Annie.

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Chris Frantz

Charton Christopher Frantz (born May 8, 1951) is an American musician and record producer.

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Chris Jasper

Christopher Howard Jasper (born December 30, 1951) is an American singer, composer, and producer.

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Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s

Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s is a music reference book by American music journalist and essayist Robert Christgau.

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Complex Networks

Complex Networks is an American media and entertainment company for youth culture, based in New York City.

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D&D Studios

D&D Studios was a recording studio at 320 West 37th Street in the Garment District and Hudson Yards neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City.

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Damon Dash

Damon Anthony Dash (born May 3, 1971) is an American entrepreneur and record executive.

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David Byrne

David Byrne (born 14 May 1952) is a Scottish-American musician, writer, visual artist, and filmmaker.

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Def Jam Recordings

Def Jam Recordings (also simply known as Def Jam) is an American multinational record label owned by Universal Music Group.

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DJ Premier

Christopher Edward Martin (born March 21, 1966), known professionally as DJ Premier (also known as Preemo), is an American record producer and DJ.

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DMX

Earl Simmons (December 18, 1970 – April 9, 2021), known professionally as DMX, was an American rapper and actor.

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Erick Sermon

Erick Sermon (born November 25, 1968) is an American rapper and producer.

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Ernie Isley

Ernest Isley (born March 7, 1952) is an American musician, best known as a member of the musical ensemble The Isley Brothers, and also the splinter group Isley-Jasper-Isley.

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Four Tops

The Four Tops are an American vocal quartet from Detroit, Michigan.

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Foxy Brown (rapper)

Inga DeCarlo Fung Marchand (born September 6, 1978), better known by her stage name Foxy Brown, is an American rapper.

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Golden Axe

is a series of side-scrolling beat 'em up arcade video games developed by Sega.

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Grammy Award for Best Rap Album

The Grammy Award for Best Rap Album is an award presented to recording artists for quality albums with rapping at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards.

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Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)

"Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)" is a single from American rapper Jay-Z's third album Vol. 2... Hard Knock Life, released on October 27, 1998.

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Hip hop music

Hip hop or hip-hop, also known as rap and formerly as disco rap, is a genre of popular music that originated in the early 1970s from the African American community.

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Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs

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

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Hot Rap Songs

Hot Rap Songs (formerly known as Hot Rap Tracks and Hot Rap Singles) is a chart released weekly by Billboard in the United States.

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IGN

IGN is an American video game and entertainment media website operated by IGN Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Ziff Davis, Inc.

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In My Lifetime, Vol. 1

In My Lifetime, Vol. Vol. 2... Hard Knock Life and In My Lifetime, Vol. 1 are albums produced by DJ Premier, def Jam Recordings albums, Jay-Z albums and roc-A-Fella Records albums.

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Irv Gotti

Irving Domingo Lorenzo Jr. (born June 26, 1970), professionally known as Irv Gotti (or DJ Irv), is an American DJ, music producer and record executive.

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Isaac Hayes

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

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Ja Rule

Jeffrey Bruce Atkins Sr. (born February 29, 1976), better known by his stage name Ja Rule, is an American rapper, singer, and actor.

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Jadakiss

Jason Terrance Phillips (born May 27, 1975), better known by his stage name Jadakiss, is an American rapper from Yonkers, New York.

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Jay-Z

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

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Jaz-O

Jonathan Allen Burks Sr. (born October 4, 1964), better known by his stage name Jaz-O (formerly The Jaz and Big Jaz), is an American rapper and record producer.

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Jermaine Dupri

Jermaine Dupri Mauldin (born September 23, 1972) is an American record producer, rapper, singer, songwriter, and record executive.

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Jerry Harrison

Jeremiah Griffin Harrison (born February 21, 1949) is an American musician, songwriter, producer, and entrepreneur.

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Kid Capri

David Anthony Love Jr. (born February 7, 1967) is an American DJ and rapper, better known by his stage name Kid Capri.

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Kraftwerk

Kraftwerk ("power plant") are a German electronic band formed in Düsseldorf in 1970 by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider.

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List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 1998

The ''Billboard'' 200, published in ''Billboard'' magazine, is a weekly chart that ranks the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States.

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List of Billboard number-one R&B albums of 1998

These are the Billboard magazine R&B albums that reached number one in 1998.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.

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Macmillan Publishers

Macmillan Publishers (occasionally known as the Macmillan Group; formally Macmillan Publishers Ltd in the UK and Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC in the US) is a British publishing company traditionally considered to be one of the 'Big Five' English language publishers (along with Penguin Random House, Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster).

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Manhattan Center

The Manhattan Center is a building in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

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Martin Charnin

Martin Charnin (November 24, 1934 – July 6, 2019) was an American lyricist, writer, and theatre director.

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Marvin Isley

Marvin Isley (August 18, 1953 – June 6, 2010) – accessed June 2010 was an American musician best known as the youngest member of the family music group the Isley Brothers and its bass guitarist.

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Memphis Bleek

Malik Deshawn Cox (born June 23, 1978), known by his stage name Memphis Bleek, is an American rapper.

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Money Ain't a Thang

"Money Ain't a Thang" is the second single from rapper Jermaine Dupri's 1998 album Life in 1472.

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Money, Cash, Hoes

"Money, Cash, Hoes" is a song by American rapper Jay-Z as the third single from his third album Vol. 2... Hard Knock Life (1998).

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MTV

MTV (originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable television channel.

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Nathan Rabin

Nathan Rabin is an American film and music critic.

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Nigga What, Nigga Who (Originator 99)

"Nigga What, Nigga Who (Originator 99)" (or it’s edited title "Jigga What, Jigga Who (Originator 99)" for the song's title to avoid hearing the word "Nigga") is a single by rapper Jay-Z's third album Vol. 2... Hard Knock Life.

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NME

New Musical Express (NME) is a British music, film, gaming, and culture website and brand.

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O'Kelly Isley Jr.

O'Kelly "Kelly" Isley Jr. (December 25, 1937 – March 31, 1986) was an American singer and one of the founding members of the family group the Isley Brothers.

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Omnibus Press

Omnibus Press is a publisher of music-related books.

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Philip Glass

Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937) is an American composer and pianist.

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Playboy

Playboy (stylized in all caps) is an American men's lifestyle and entertainment magazine, formerly in print and currently online.

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Postminimalism

Postminimalism is an art term coined (as post-minimalism) by Robert Pincus-Witten in 1971Chilvers, Ian and Glaves-Smith, John, A Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art, second edition (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), p. 569.

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Q (magazine)

Q was a popular music magazine.

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Recording Industry Association of America

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is a trade organization that represents the music recording industry in the United States.

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Robert Christgau

Robert Thomas Christgau (born April 18, 1942) is an American music journalist and essayist.

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Roc-A-Fella Records

Roc-A-Fella Records was an American hip hop record label and music management company founded by record executives and entrepreneurs Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter, Damon Dash, and Kareem "Biggs" Burke in 1994.

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Rockwilder

Dana Stinson a.k.a. Rockwilder is an American hip hop producer and songwriter best known for his work with Redman, Jay-Z, LL Cool J, Busta Rhymes, Xzibit, and Janet Jackson.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on music, politics, and popular culture.

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Ronald Isley

Ronald Isley (born May 21, 1941) is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer.

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Rudolph Isley

Rudolph "Rudy" Bernard Isley (April 1, 1939 – October 11, 2023) was an American singer-songwriter and Christian minister and one of the founding members of The Isley Brothers.

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Ruff Ryders Entertainment

Ruff Ryders Entertainment is an American hip hop record label and management company founded by siblings and record executives Joaquin "Waah", Darrin "Dee" and Chivon Dean in 1988.

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Sauce Money

Todd Eric Gaither (born September 6, 1969) also known as Sauce Money, is a rapper who worked with Jay-Z in his early career.

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Sheek Louch

Sean Divine Jacobs (born November 9, 1974), better known as Sheek Louch (or simpy Sheek), is an American rapper best known as a member of the Lox and founder of D-Block Records, along with Styles P and Jadakiss.

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Simon & Schuster

Simon & Schuster LLC is an American publishing company owned by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.

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Sony Music Studios

Sony Music Studios was an American music recording and mastering facility in New York City.

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Steve Arrington

Steven Ralph Arrington (born March 5, 1956) is an American singer, songwriter, drummer, record producer, engineer and minister, who grew up in Dayton, Ohio.

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Steve Reich

Stephen Michael Reich (better-known as Steve Reich, born October 3, 1936) is an American composer who is known for his contribution to the development of minimal music in the mid to late 1960s.

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Stevie J

Steven Aaron Jordan (born November 2, 1973) Note: Live HHS link goes to error page, but copy-pasting the URL works.

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Styles P

David R. Styles (born November 28, 1974), better known by his stage name Styles P (also known mononymously as Styles), is an American rapper, best known as a member of hip hop group the Lox, alongside childhood friends Sheek Louch and Jadakiss.

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Swizz Beatz

Kasseem Daoud Dean (born September 13, 1978), known professionally as Swizz Beatz, is an American record producer and rapper.

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Talking Heads

Talking Heads were an American new wave band formed in 1975 in New York City.

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The 45 King

Mark Howard James (October 16, 1961 – October 19, 2023), professionally known as The 45 King and also known as DJ Mark the 45 King, was an American hip hop producer and DJ from The Bronx, New York.

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The A.V. Club

The A.V. Club is an online newspaper and entertainment website featuring reviews, interviews, and other articles that examine films, music, television, books, games, and other elements of pop-culture media.

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The Baltimore Sun

The Baltimore Sun is the largest general-circulation daily newspaper based in the U.S. state of Maryland and provides coverage of local, regional, national, and international news.

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The Encyclopedia of Popular Music is an encyclopedia created in 1989 by Colin Larkin.

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The Isley Brothers

The Isley Brothers are an American musical group originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, that began as a vocal trio consisting of the brothers O'Kelly Isley Jr., Rudolph Isley and Ronald Isley in the 1950s.

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The Lox

The Lox (stylized The LOX or The L.O.X.) is an American hip hop group from Yonkers, New York, formed in 1994.

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The Rolling Stone Album Guide

The Rolling Stone Album Guide, previously known as The Rolling Stone Record Guide, is a book that contains professional music reviews written and edited by staff members from Rolling Stone magazine.

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The Source

The Source is an American hip hop and entertainment website, and a magazine that publishes annually or.

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Timbaland

Timothy Zachery Mosley (born March 10, 1972), known professionally as Timbaland, is an American record producer, rapper, and singer.

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Tina Weymouth

Martina Michèle Weymouth (born November 22, 1950) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and a founding member and bassist of the new wave group Talking Heads and its side project Tom Tom Club, which she co-founded with her husband, Talking Heads drummer Chris Frantz.

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Too Short

Todd Anthony Shaw (born April 28, 1966), better known by his stage name Too Short (stylized as Too $hort), is an American rapper.

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Vibe (magazine)

Vibe is an American music and entertainment magazine founded by producers David Salzman and Quincy Jones.

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Vol. 3... Life and Times of S. Carter

Vol. Vol. 2... Hard Knock Life and Vol. 3... Life and Times of S. Carter are albums produced by DJ Premier, albums produced by Irv Gotti, albums produced by Rockwilder, albums produced by Swizz Beatz, albums produced by Timbaland, def Jam Recordings albums, Jay-Z albums, roc-A-Fella Records albums and Sequel albums.

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Wet Willie

Wet Willie is an American southern rock band from Mobile, Alabama.

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Young MC

Marvin Young (born May 10, 1967), better known by his stage name Young M.C., is a British-born American rapper, singer and actor.

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41st Annual Grammy Awards

The 41st Annual Grammy Awards were held on February 24, 1999, at Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles.

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See also

Albums produced by the 45 King

Grammy Award for Best Rap Album

Jay-Z albums

Roc-A-Fella Records albums

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vol._2..._Hard_Knock_Life

Also known as Hard Knock Life, Volume 2, Vol. 2: Hard Knock Life.

, Martin Charnin, Marvin Isley, Memphis Bleek, Money Ain't a Thang, Money, Cash, Hoes, MTV, Nathan Rabin, Nigga What, Nigga Who (Originator 99), NME, O'Kelly Isley Jr., Omnibus Press, Philip Glass, Playboy, Postminimalism, Q (magazine), Recording Industry Association of America, Robert Christgau, Roc-A-Fella Records, Rockwilder, Rolling Stone, Ronald Isley, Rudolph Isley, Ruff Ryders Entertainment, Sauce Money, Sheek Louch, Simon & Schuster, Sony Music Studios, Steve Arrington, Steve Reich, Stevie J, Styles P, Swizz Beatz, Talking Heads, The 45 King, The A.V. Club, The Baltimore Sun, The Encyclopedia of Popular Music, The Isley Brothers, The Lox, The Rolling Stone Album Guide, The Source, Timbaland, Tina Weymouth, Too Short, Vibe (magazine), Vol. 3... Life and Times of S. Carter, Wet Willie, Young MC, 41st Annual Grammy Awards.