Brotha Lynch Hung
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Brotha Lynch Hung, born Kevin James Mann on January 10, 1972, is an American rapper from Sacramento, California.[1] Since the release of his debut album 24 Deep in 1993, Brotha Lynch Hung has sold 1.4 million CDs independently.[2]
Music career
Lynch was born in Sacramento, California and grew up in the Florin Gardens area known as the "Garden Blocc" (believed to be 24th and Florin Rd.)in his songs. He started rapping as Ice Cold in 1986. He established a reputation in high school as a freestyle rapper who could "execute" his opponents lyrically, prompting his half-brother Sicx to dub him "Lynch".[3]
He appeared and produced 11 of the 12 tracks on fellow-Garden Blocc Crip' X-Raided's first album Psycho Active in 1992. He Also Featured on the Song "Hoes E Schemin Too" as well as a skit with his brother Sicx on KRD's Sac-Town Funk Album. As the "Street Talk Crew" Lynch, X-Raided, and Sicx recorded the cassette tape Niggaz In Black (1991), according to Lynch to be "some of my best work".[4]
In 1992 Lynch signed with Cedric Singleton's Black Market Records and recorded his first EP, 24 Deep (1993).[5] The album reached #91 on Billboard's R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart,[6] the first of the label's albums to chart.[7]
His 1995 album Season of da Siccness depicted a life of drug abuse and trafficking, promiscuity, ultraviolence, and rape, with themes of cannibalism. In 2000 he appeared in the film Now Eat, along with Sicx, Loki, Art B. and others from the Sacramento scene.[8] In May 2009, he signed a deal with Midwest rapper Tech N9ne's Strange Music label.[9] In March, he released his Strange Music debut, Dinner & A Movie, selling around 7,000 albums its first week alone.
Discography
Solo albums
Year | Album details | Peak chart positions | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Billboard 200 [10] |
Top Independent [11] |
Top R&B/Hip-Hop [12] |
Top Rap [13] | ||
1993 | 24 Deep
|
— | — | 91 | * |
1995 | Season of da Siccness | 163 | — | 26 | * |
1997 | Loaded
|
28 | — | 9 | * |
2000 | EBK4
|
86 | — | 28 | * |
2001 | The Virus
|
— | 25 | 71 | * |
2002 | Appearances: Book 1
|
— | 26 | 91 | * |
Remains: Book II
|
— | — | — | * | |
Book III
|
— | — | — | * | |
2003 | Lynch by Inch: Suicide Note
|
132 | 6 | 21 | * |
2007 | The Ripgut Collection
|
— | — | 55 | 25 |
2008 | Snuff Tapes
|
— | — | 78 | — |
2010 | Dinner and a Movie
|
69 | 7 | 18 | 6 |
TBA | Tha Coathanga Strangla[14]
|
To Be Released | |||
Mann-a-bal Lector![14]
|
To Be Released | ||||
"—" indicates albums that did not chart. "*" with a light gray background indicates albums released prior to charts existence. |
Collaboration albums
with C.O.S.
Year | Album details | Peak chart positions | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Billboard 200 | Top Independent | Top R&B/Hip-Hop [12] |
Top Rap | ||
2001 | Trigganometry
|
— | — | — | * |
2007 | The Fixxx
|
— | — | 67 | — |
2009 | Suspicion Vol. 2
|
— | — | — | — |
"—" indicates albums that did not chart. "*" with a light gray background indicates albums released prior to charts existence. |
with C-Bo
Year | Album details | Peak chart positions | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Billboard 200 [10] |
Top Independent | Top R&B/Hip-Hop [12] |
Top Rap | ||
2001 | Blocc Movement
|
79 | — | 20 | * |
"—" indicates albums that did not chart. "*" with a light gray background indicates albums released prior to charts existence. |
with Doomsday Productions
Year | Album details | Peak chart positions | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Billboard 200 | Top Independent | Top R&B/Hip-Hop | Top Rap | ||
2002 | The Plague
|
— | — | — | * |
2004 | Siccmixx: Our Most Gangsta Hits
|
— | — | — | * |
"—" indicates albums that did not chart. "*" with a light gray background indicates albums released prior to charts existence. |
with MC Eiht
Year | Album details | Peak chart positions | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Billboard 200 | Top Independent [11] |
Top R&B/Hip-Hop [12] |
Top Rap | ||
2006 | The New Season
|
— | 27 | 81 | — |
"—" indicates albums that did not chart. "*" with a light gray background indicates albums released prior to charts existence. |
with Sicx
Year | Album details | Peak chart positions | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Billboard 200 | Top Independent | Top R&B/Hip-Hop | Top Rap | ||
1998 | Nigga Deep
|
— | — | — | * |
"—" indicates albums that did not chart. "*" with a light gray background indicates albums released prior to charts existence. |
with Tall Cann G
Year | Album details | Peak chart positions | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Billboard 200 | Top Independent | Top R&B/Hip-Hop | Top Rap | ||
2003 | The Uthanizm
|
— | — | — | * |
"—" indicates albums that did not chart. "*" with a light gray background indicates albums released prior to charts existence. |
Soundtracks
Year | Album details | Peak chart positions | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Billboard 200 | Top Independent | Top R&B/Hip-Hop [15] |
Top Rap | ||
2000 | Now Eat – The Album
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— | — | 86 | * |
"—" indicates albums that did not chart. "*" with a light gray background indicates albums released prior to charts existence. |
Music videos
Year | Title | Director |
---|---|---|
2010 | "Meat" | Dan Gedman[16] |
"I Plotted (My Next Murder)" | Dan Gedman[17] | |
"Colostomy Bag" | Dan Gedman[18] |
Filmography
- 2000: Now Eat: The Movie
References
- ^ allmusic ((( Brotha Lynch Hung > Overview )))
- ^ http://www.cwgmagazine.com/columns/whitechicksonrap/2010/02/brotha-lynch-hung-releases-dinner-a-movie-on-march-23rd
- ^ sing365.com ((( Brotha Lynch Hung > Bio )))
- ^ Brotha Lynch Hung 2007 Interview
- ^ "Interview with Brotha Lynch Hung". Murder Dog Magazine. Archived from the original on February 15, 2002. Retrieved January 15, 2010.
- ^ "24 Deep – Brotha Lynch Hung". Billboard.com. Billboard. Retrieved January 22, 2010.
- ^ Black Market Records Myspace page
- ^ Now Eat (2000)
- ^ "Brotha Lynch Hung Signs To Tech N9ne's Strange Music Label". BallerStatus.com. May 14, 2009. Retrieved May 14, 2009.
- ^ a b "Billboard 200 Chart History". Billboard.com. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. Retrieved April 1, 2010.
- ^ a b "Independent Albums Chart History". Billboard.com. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. Retrieved April 1, 2010.
- ^ a b c d "R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Chart History". Billboard.com. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. Retrieved April 1, 2010.
- ^ "Rap Albums Chart History". Billboard.com. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. Retrieved April 1, 2010.
- ^ a b http://www.therealbrothalynchhung.com/forum/topics/about-my-dinner-and-a-movie?id=4640277:Topic:2419&page=3
- ^ "Brotha Lynch Hung Presents: Now Eat – The Album". Billboard.com. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. Retrieved February 26, 2010.
- ^ "Brotha Lynch Hung "Meat" Official Music Video". Strange Music Inc. February 3, 2010. Retrieved February 3, 2010.
- ^ Sharks (February 17, 2010). "Brotha Lynch Hung's Split Personailty Surfaces on New Album". The Boombox. AOL. Retrieved February 21, 2010.
and has partnered with director Dan Gedman to film nine music videos [...] The first video from 'Dinner and a Movie' is [...] with 'I Plotted (My Next Murder)' to follow in the next couple of weeks.
- ^ Paine, Jake (February 19, 2010). "Brotha Lynch Hung Prepares Video Trilogy With Dan Gedman". HipHopDX.com. Cheri Media Group. Retrieved February 27, 2010.
and "Colostomy Bag" respectively. All three videos are directed by Dan Gedman.