Derrick May
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Derrick May (musician)
Derrick May (born April 6, 1963), also known as Mayday and Rhythim is Rhythim, is an electronic musician from Belleville, Michigan, United States. He was an only child born in Detroit and began to explore electronic music early in his life. Along with his Belleville, Michigan high school friends Juan Atkins and Kevin Saunderson, commonly known as the Belleville Three, May is credited with developing the futuristic variation on house music that would be dubbed "techno" by Atkins.
Early life
May met Kevin Saunderson when the two were fourteen. May had decided not to pay Saunderson after losing a bet and, one day at school, Saunderson punched May in the face, knocking him out cold and giving him a concussion. After the altercation, May and Saunderson became best friends.
During high school, Saunderson and Belleville High School classmate Juan Atkins were fans of DJ Charles "The Electrifying Mojo" Johnson.
Career
May's career started his production career in 1987 with the release of a record called "Nude Photo" (co-written by Thomas Barnett), which helped kickstart the Detroit techno music scene. A year later he was following it with what was to become one of techno's classic anthems, the seminal track "Strings of Life," which was named by Frankie Knuckles. It "hit Britain in an especially big way during the country's 1987-1988 house explosion." It became May's best known track, which, according to Frankie Knuckles, "just exploded. It was like something you can't imagine, the kind of power and energy people got off that record when it was first heard. Mike Dunn says he has no idea how people can accept a record that doesn't have a bassline." The song was featured in video game Midnight Club: Street Racing
Derrick May (baseball)
Derrick Brant May (born July 14, 1968 in Rochester, New York) is a former first round pick (#9 pick in 1986) and former outfielder in Major League Baseball who played for the Chicago Cubs (1990–94), Milwaukee Brewers (1995), Houston Astros (1995–96), Philadelphia Phillies (1997), Montreal Expos (1998) and Baltimore Orioles (1999). He also played three seasons in Japan, from 2001 until 2003, for the Chiba Lotte Marines. He is currently the hitting coordinator for the St. Louis Cardinals.
May batted left-handed and threw right-handed. After signing to play football/baseball at Virginia Tech. May was drafted in the first round (#9) of the 1986 June draft by the Chicago Cubs at the age of 17. May hit .320 (3rd), .298 (11th), .305 (5th), .295 (5th), and .296 (5th) including being a Carolina League and Southern League All-Star before making his Major League debut. May enjoyed an 18-year professional baseball career including ten seasons in the MLB. He was a .271 hitter with 52 home runs and 310 RBI in 797 Major League games played. In Japan, he hit an additional 59 home runs in just three seasons, batting .274.
Podcasts:
Derrick May
ALBUMS
- FACT Mix 339: Derrick May released: 2012
- Innovator released: 2009
- Mysterious Traveller released: 2002
- Mix-Up, Volume 5: The Mayday Mix released: 1997
Innovator
Released 2009- Strings of the Strings of Life
- Another Kaos Beyond Kaos
- Freestyle
- A Rest - Beyond Kaos
- The Dance
- Spaced Out
- Daymares, It Is What It Is
- Some More Spaced Out
- Beyond the Dance - The Cult Mix
- Feel Surrreal Ends the Feel Surreal
- R-Theme
- Emanon Begins
- Sinister
- The End
- To Be or Not to Be
- Icon (Montage mix)
- Phantom
- Kaotic Harmony
- Phantom Lurks
- Salsa Life
- Nude Photo
- The Beginning
- A Relic Long Ago
- Drama
- Emanon Ends
- Winter on the Blvd
- Strings of Life
- Dreams of Dreamers
- Wiggin (Juan's mix)
Mix-Up, Volume 5: The Mayday Mix
Released 1997- Maydays Intro (A Mayday mix Thang)
- The Message Is Love
- Dance
- Make Up Your Mind
- French Kiss
- Lonely Disco Dancer
- You Are My Heaven
- Soundz in My Head
- Prelude
- A Little Suntin Suntin
- Time Out for Love (Ebola mix)
- The Preacher Man
- Cosmic Coast
- Tribal Life
- Car Crash Mixer
- Alarm
- Spank-spank
- 1999
- Good Girls
- Club MCM (K.A. Happy mix)
- Masterplan
- Serial Operations
- The Dancer
- Mindless Funk
- Fructose
- Convextion
- Relish
- Get Down Get Horny
- Shimmer
- Nite Drive
- Eu Nao
- Meditative Fusion (Kenny Larkin remix)
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Truck Yeah
by: Tim McGrawGot Lil' Wayne pumpin' on my iPod
Pumpin' on the subs in the back of my crew cab
Redneck rockin' like a rockstar
Sling a lil' mud off the back, we can do that
Friday night football, Saturday Last Call, Sunday Hallelujah
If you like it up loud and you're hillbilly proud
Then you know what I'm talking about
Let me hear you say, Truck Yeah
Wanna get it jacked up yeah
Let's crank it on up yeah
With a little bit of luck I can find me a girl with a Truck Yeah
We can love it on up yeah
'Til the sun comes up yeah
And if you think this life I love is a little too country
Truck Yeah
Our party in the club is a honky tonk downtown
Yeah that's where I like to hang out
Chillin' in the back room
Hangin' with my whole crew
Sippin' on a cold brew, hey now!
Got a mixed up playlist, DJ play this
Wanna hear a country song
If you like it up loud and you're hillbilly proud
Throw your hands up now, let me hear you shout
Truck Yeah
Wanna get it jacked up yeah
Let's crank it on up yeah
With a little bit of luck I can find me a girl with a Truck Yeah
We can love it on up yeah
'Til the sun comes up yeah
And if you think this life I love is a little too country
Truck Yeah
Rap or country, city farm
It don't matter who you are
Got a little fight, got a little love
Got a little redneck in your blood
Are you one of us?
Truck Yeah
Wanna get it jacked up yeah
Let's crank it on up yeah
With a little bit of luck I can find me a girl with a Truck Yeah
We can love it on up yeah
'Til the sun comes up yeah
And if you think this life I love is a little too country
You're right on the money
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