User:YaBoyQB
Quincy B | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Quincy Adam Brown |
| Origin | Los Angeles, California |
| Genres | Hip hop, R&B |
| Occupation(s) | Songwriter,Singer,Rapper,Music Producer |
| Labels | QB Ent |
| Website | MySpace Page |
Quincy B is a 17-year-old American/Indonesian Hip Hop Artist from Los Angeles, California currently has licensing deal with a Japaneses Label called Village Again. Quincy is expected to release his debut album, Now Boarding, in the 4th quarter of 2009.
Early Life
[edit]Quincy B grew up in the suburbs of Encinitias, a small town roughly 10 miles northeast of San Diego. Growing up, Roth was exposed to little hip-hop in his family, with his parents preferring “Michael Jackson, Earth, Wind & Fire… The Temptations and Frank Sinatra.
Career
[edit]After linking up with Braun, Roth left college and moved to Atlanta full-time to pursue a hip-hop career. As industry buzz grew, Roth was courted by a number of labels, including SRC, Def Jam, Warner Bros. Records and Atlantic.[1] Braun organized a meeting between Roth and Jay-Z, where Roth was asked to rap for the Def Jam executive on the spot.[2] Roth would eventually sign a joint venture between Braun's Schoolboy Music and Steve Rifkind, chairman of SRC/Universal Records. On June 13, 2008, Roth put out his first professional release, the Don Cannon and DJ Drama-helmed The Greenhouse Effect, via the Internet. Roth was the first white rapper to be featured on Drama and Cannon’s influential Gangsta Grillz series.
Style
[edit]Roth's lyrics characteristically center around what has been called "middle-class minutiae."[3] Like many hip hop songs, Roth's song “I Love College” is about partying with alcohol and marijuana, but includes innocuous lyrics such as “I can get pizza a dollar a slice”[3] that have been identified as "far from threatening"[3]
Roth has earned many comparisons to Eminem. About the comparison, Roth told Complex magazine:
Him and I are different artists. I think the music’s going to portray that as time goes on. The comparisons are just…it’s cool to be compared to Em, but he’s one of the number one selling artists of all time. I’d rather be compared to him than pretty much anybody else. I think content and everything we rap about is completely different. We’re different artists. We just happened to be under the same genre.[4]
When asked about the comparison, Roth told Hiphopdx.com, “I think it’s too easy. ‘A white emcee with a sense of humor and a political side? Oh, let’s compare him to Em!’… I have nothing but respect for him though; he made it possible for me to be here, he opened the doors, but we come from an entirely different inspiration.”[5] Also in a song entitled "Silly Boy" produced by Don Cannon he raps "That Eminem comparison is barely accurate/My rapping is as passionate, but lacks the psychopath of it". Roth has professed to Mos Def, The Roots, Biggie, and Outkast as being some of his main hip-hop influences.[1]
In 2008 Roth had a part in the song "We're Here to Save the Day" with the band The Constellations. The song is featured on The Constellation's album "Sothern Gothic".
Discography
[edit]Albums
[edit]| Year | Title | Chart positions | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Billboard 200 | Hot Rap Albums | U.S. R&B | ||
| 2009 | Asleep in the Bread Aisle
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- | - | - |
Singles
[edit]| Year | Song | Billboard Hot 100 | Pop 100 | U.S. R&B | U.S. Rap | Album |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | I Love College | 28 | 37 | - | 25 | Asleep in the Bread Aisle |
References
[edit] | This article has an unclear citation style. (February 2009) |
- ^ a b http://allhiphop.com/stories/features/archive/2008/07/10/20276597.aspx Labels
- ^ http://www.xxlmag.com/online/?p=23318
- ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference
vibewas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ http://www.complex.com/blogs/2008/07/28/asher-roth-rap-is-in-the-suburbs-now/ Suburbs
- ^ http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/features/id.1222/title.asher-roth-moment-of-clarity
External links
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