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Rap-A-Lot Records
Parent companyWarner Music Group
Founded1986
FounderJames Smith
Distributor(s)Asylum Records
GenreHip hop, Gangsta Rap
Country of originUS
LocationHouston, Texas
Official websitehttp://www.rapalotrecords.com

Rap-A-Lot Records (AKA Rap-A-Lot 4 Life) is a Houston hip hop record label. Rap-A-Lot was created in 1986. Sublabels include Smoke-A-Lot Records. The label was founded by James Smith (A.K.A. J Prince) in the mid-1980s and, with its most famous act the Geto Boys, put the South on the hip hop map. Since then, it has maintained its success and focus on gangsta and southern rap. It was referenced by The Notorious B.I.G. on the song "Flava in Ya Ear (remix)" when he said, "I'm not from Houston, but I Rap-A-Lot." At the end of the Devin the Dude song, "What a Job" featuring Snoop Dogg, Snoop congratulates the record company, "J. Prince, Jazz Prince, Rap-A-Lot, still on top, 2007". Geto Boys were the labels first nationally popular act, while Devin the Dude remains the labels long-running act, who the New York Times calls "A brilliant oddball with a spaced-out flow."[1]

J. Prince Jr., the son of J. Prince, has a label under Rap-A-Lot called Southern Empire Entertainment.[2].

It was just recently announced that Devin The Dude, Yukmouth & Trae had all left the label.

Discography

1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
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2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008

External links

References

  1. ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/17/arts/music/17BSann.html
  2. ^ http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=44191911
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