Crooked I
Dominick Wickliffe (born September 23, 1978), better known by his stage name Crooked I or KXNG Crooked, is an American rapper from Long Beach, California. He is a member of the hip hop supergroup, Slaughterhouse with other members Joe Budden, Joell Ortiz and Royce da 5'9". Slaughterhouse is currently signed to Shady Records. He is currently CEO of his own record labels, Dynasty Entertainment and C.O.B. Digital as well as Senior Vice President of Treacherous Records. Before starting his own label, he was also signed to Virgin Records and Death Row Records.
Career
Virgin Records Era
Around the age of seventeen, Crooked I started an independent record company called Muscle Records with professional football players also from Long Beach, Chucky Miller and Leonard Russell. It's not known how many songs were recorded, and the music recorded during this period still remains unreleased. This is when he caught the attention of Noo Trybe/Virgin Records, and landed his first record deal in 1995.
Wake Up
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Wake Up (Make a Move)
"Wake Up (Make a Move)" is the third single from Start Something, the second album by the Welsh rock band Lostprophets. This single was under much debate up to its release; both Lostprophets and their management wanted the dark, brooding "Make a Move" as a single, whereas the label wanted the poppier, catchier "I Don't Know". The band and their management walked away victorious and the song was released as a single with the modified title "Wake Up (Make a Move)". However, "I Don't Know" was later released for radio airplay in the U.S. and made it to #11 in the Modern Rock Charts.
A music video was produced for the song and saw moderate airplay upon release.
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Stop and Smell the Roses
Stop and Smell the Roses is the eighth studio album by Ringo Starr, released in 1981 following the twin commercial disasters of Ringo the 4th (1977) and Bad Boy (1978). It includes the hit single "Wrack My Brain", written and produced by George Harrison, in addition to contributions from Paul McCartney, Harry Nilsson, Ronnie Wood and Stephen Stills.
Background and recording
While visiting John Lennon at his Dakota apartment, Starr was given a demo of "Life Begins at 40" by Lennon. Lennon wrote the song specifically for Starr, and wanted him to record it for his next album. Soon after meeting soon-to-be second wife Barbara Bach on the film set of Caveman in early 1980,Ringo Starr met fellow former-Beatle Paul McCartney, and his wife, Linda, at a hotel while they had earlier visited the 33rd annual Cannes Film Festival, on 16 May. Starr asked McCartney whether he would like to play on and possibly produce Starr's next album, to which McCartney agreed. Starr started sessions in France for a new album, at this point titled Can't Fight Lightning, on 11 July, at Super Bear Studios, lasting until 21 July. With Wings then in limbo and McCartney II just released, McCartney booked time with Starr to record three songs: "Private Property" and "Attention" (both McCartney originals) plus a cover of "Sure to Fall". They also recorded the song "You Can't Fight Lightning", which Starr wrote after he and Bach were nearly stuck by lightning. Following on from a brief holiday, Starr and Bach flew to Los Angeles on 27 July. Recording moved to Devonshire Sound Studio in Hollywood on 11 August.
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Crooked I
ALBUMS
- Apex Predator released: 2013
- Dynasty Boss, Volume 3: The Block Obama Edition released: 2009
- The Block Obama: A Mixtape for the Streets released: 2008
- Young Boss, Volume 2 released: 2006
- Taking Over the West released: 2002
- I for an I released:
The Block Obama: A Mixtape for the Streets
Released 2008- Intro
- Rappers Ain't Shit
- A Milli Freestyle
- Trafficin' Green
- I'm Cold
- Hood Politics
- Straightin' It Out
- Hard On Da Blvd.
- Stronger Freestyle
- Circle Gang
- Freak (NC-17)
- W's Down
- New West Baby
- Signs
- Lift Them Up
- Horse Shoe Gang Freestyle
- Swagga Like Crook
- What's HipHop
- Fast Money
- Welcome to My City
- I'm a Problem
Taking Over the West
Released 2002- Intro
- Step Up
- The Anthem
- Poor Man Cry
- Gangsta (rap)
- Freestyle 1
- Death Rizzo
- Murdering McS
- Uh Oh
- Underground Tactics
- Gangsta Rap (remix)
- Homie
- Dont Test Me
- Can I Get Bucc
- Freestyle 2
- I Aint Shit Without My Homeboys
- Str8 Outta Cali
- Real Gs Get Lonely
- Girl
- Do Your Thang
- Straight Outta L.A.
- Rebirth of the West Coast
- Rap Killers
- Stay Outta L.A.
- Gangstaology
- One Ninein
- Welcome to tha Row
- Tha Row Dot Com
- Feel So Good
- Nobody Understands Me
- Niggaz Got Game
- Outro
I for an I
- Intro
- Wake Up Show Anthem
- Murderin Mcs
- Uh Oh
- Poor Man Cry
- Gangsta Rap
- Underground Tactics
- Stay Outta La
- Rap Killers
- I Ain't Shit Without My Homeboyz
- Rebirth of the West Coast
- Straight Outta La
- Girl
- Do Your Thang
- Gangsta Rap
- Gangstaology
- One Ninein
- Welcome to Death Row
- Tha Row Dot Com Promo
- Death Rizzo
- The Nexx Niggaz
- So Damn Hood
- Feel So Good
- Can I Get Bucc
- Step Up
- Nobody Understands Me
- Niggaz Got Game
- Outro
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Nobody Cares (feat. Tena Jones)
by: Crooked II got a question for you
When you see another human being who's being treated worse than a disease
On his knees, beggin' please, for egg and cheese
Or anything to eat do you see his test as a lesson for you
Or do you move on say "fuck em", ignore em
Can't do nothing for em, if this is true, let me count your blessings for ya
You could be fighting hunger, not the Gandhi type hunger strike fighting for something right
I mean fighting the type of hunger a little girl in the third world
Fights everyday 'til her stomach is nothing but something that her spine is hiding under
Only been alive 5 summers
Hunger pains, her heart beating like some live drummers
It's beating harder, then she drop, died
Momma lost a daughter ause they ain't have food and drinking water
God damn I shed a tear in the booth
Cause when I say it I'm simultaneously hearing the truth
But do you care?
I need to know if you care
We dying out here in the streets
Little kids, they got nothing to eat
But does anybody care?
(Are you there?
Who cares?
You need to see you in them out there, to care.)
Like Zero Dark Thirty we saw terror
Growing up in the hood, a small error
In judgement can make your parents become some pallbearers
For nothing, they saw Eric and he gangbanged, but they can't aim
So them straight shots caught??? for nothing, do you care what
Get involved, get out of your chair, stand the fuck up
Do something, don't lie down and do nothin
Five rounds, hit him in his side now
Blood paints the streets of the Chitown since the news [?]
When is the truce coming?
Violence hit a new summit
And the view from it allows us to see the youth plummet
Gotta be sad, colostomy bags, shots got teenagers rockin' a new stomach
And I ain't saying that this rap was perfect
But I'm strapped with purpose
Trying to get past the surgeons in that emergency room
But if I don't get past the casket service
Just write this shit on my tomb
Nobody care
We dying out here in the streets
Little kids, they got nothing to eat
But does anybody care?
Does anybody care?
Put a lighter in the sky tonight, put a lighter in the sky tonight