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This is my project on music of the 1990s. l am going to tell you about different artist and songs from the 1990s. The first artist I am going to tell you about is the Beastie Boys. They became one of the first huge selling groups.Their second album, Paul's boutique suffered but was hailed as as a critics success and went platinum.

The Beastie Boys proved that they were the best music group they continued with the success of their other albums check your head which came out in 1992,111 communications which came out in 1994, featuring the hit song sabotage and hello nasty(1998 winner of two grammys).The Beastie Boys' went on tour as the opening act for Madonna and for rappers Run-DMC... The Beastie Boys have been active in raising awareness and money for the political situation in Tibet... Kid Adrock was briefly married to actress Ione Skye (1991-93).

In the late 1980s, Run Dmc was accused of rape,but he was not charged and the early stages of DMCS vocal cord problems began. The group re_invented itself as born again Christians and released a good album Back from hell in 1990. But the album suffered poor sales.It had two singles, the clean anti-drug song pause and the avenue.The group enjoyed a big success again in 1993 with DOWN WITH THE KING,which cracked billboard magazines top 10.

Pete Rock and CL Smooth contributed parts of the first single, DOWN WITH THE KING. The albums second single,Ooh, Watchacha Gonna Do?,failed to match its predecessors chart success. Others guests featured on the album.In 1998 ,jason nevins remixed ITS LIKE THAT and its tricky.The remix of its like that hit number 1 in the united kingdom,Germany,and many other countries. In 1999, Run-DMC recorded the theme song for WW F wrestling stable D-Generation X entitled "The Kings".

Along with LL Cool J, the trio had major hits in both the '80s and '90s, and, if anything, they hit the height of their popularity in 1994, when shoop and Whatta Man drove their third album into the Top Ten. Salt n peppa signed with Signing with London/Polygram and they released very necessary in 1993.Cheryl "Salt" James and Sandy "Pepa was working at a sears store in Queens New York when the co worker,and salts boyfriend hurby luv burg Azor asked the duo to rap on a song he was producing for his audio production class at New York City's Center for Media Arts.According to yahoo answers and wikipedia,Before they recorded their fourth album, Salt-n-Pepa separated from Azor, who had already stopped seeing Salt several years ago. Signing with London/Polygram, the group released Very Necessary in 1993. The album was catchy and sexy without being a sellout, and the group's new, sophisticated sound quickly became a monster hit.

"Shoop" reached number four on the pop charts, which led the album to the same position as well. "Whatta Man," a duet with the vocal group En Vogue, reached number three on both the pop and R&B charts in 1994. A final single from the album, "None of Your Business," was a lesser hit, but it won the Grammy for Best Rap Performance in 1995. Since the song release of Very Necessary, Salt-n-Pepa have been quiet, spending some time on beginning acting careers.

Both had already appeared in the 1993 comedy Who's the Man? ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine. Ice Cube went from being a rapper to being a movie star famous for successful franchises that was from the movies Friday,Barbershop. Ice Cube founded the hip-hop music into the early 90s. Ice Cube solo albums was just as popular including the albums Americas most wanted,(1990), Lethal Injection (1993) and War & Peace, vols. 1 and 2 (1998-2000).

His performance in the 1991 movie Boyz N the Hood (co-starring Laurence Fishburne) proved he also had the makings of a movie star, and now he's known in films as an actor, writer, producer and director (he has also directed several music videos). His films include: Anaconda (1997, with Jennifer Lopez); Three Kings (1999, starring George Clooney); Ghosts of Mars (2001); Torque (2004); and Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2004). Ice Cube also recorded with mack 10 and w.c as the group website connection who album include Bow Down (1996) and Terrorist Threat (2003). Ice Cube appeared at the Tex-Mex Grill in Baltimore.He was pouring Jägermeister into a fellow reveller's mouth while he was signing his hit song Ice Ice baby.

In 2002 Van Winkle was in the reality show Celebrity Boxing, in which he was defeated by actor Todd Bridges.. Two years later, he starred in VH1's hit series The Surreal Life.According to wikipedia and yahoo answers On the show, despite his vow not to sing his past hits, Van Winkle eventually agreed to sing a karaoke version of "Ice Ice Baby" at a bar with Trish Elle Cannatella and Traci Bingham.
Van Winkle was on the British reality show The Farm,where he came in second place.He also starred in the shows The helix loaded and a parody of the Matrix. In June 2005, Van Winkle beat the second round of NBC's Hit Me Baby One More Time, performing "Ice Ice Baby" and also covering Destiny's Child's hit "Survivor.He also was on a Vh1 special entitled "Remaking Vanilla Ice," and featured the revamped Van Winkle preparing for the release of his new album Platinum Underground. Ice appeared on the series Damage Control on MTV2 to promote the album. Platinum Underground was released August 2005.

It was a combination of new material along with tracks from Bi-Polar and covers of his older works; the album received mixed reviews and limited sales. Van Winkle currently lives in Wellington, Florida with his wife, Laura (whom he married in 1996), and two daughters, Dusti Rain and Keelee Breeze.


Where i got most of my resources from was wikipedia and yahoo answers.I got my resources from those websites because they have interesting information. Also thats where i get alot of my information from when i want to know some thing. To conclude i think that those resources have interesting information.

Rough draft of 5 page essay

This is my project on music of the 1990s. Iam going to tell you about differnt artist and songs from the 1990s. The first artist im goin to tell you about is the Beastie Boys. They became one of the first huge selling groups.Their second album,Pauls boutique suffered but was hailed as as a criticasuccess and went platinum.The beastie Boys proved that they werethe best music group they continued with the sucess of their other alubums check your head which came out in 1992,111 communications which came out in 1994, featuring the hit song sabotage and hello nasty(1998 winner of two grammys).the Beastie Boys' went on tour as the opening act for Madonna and for rappers Run-DMC... The Beastie Boys have been active in raising awareness and money for the political situation in Tibet... Kid Adrock was briefly married to actress Ione Skye (1991-93).In the late 1980s, run dmc was accused of rape,but he was not charged and the early stages of DMCS vocal cord problems began. The group re_invented itself as born again christians and released a goog album Back from hell in 1990.But the album sufferd poor sales.It had two singles, the clean anti-drug song pause and the avenue.The group enjoyed a big success again in 1993 with DOWN WITH THE KING,which cracked billboard magazines top 10.Pete Rock and CL Smooth contributed parts of the first single, DOWN WITH THE KING.The albums second single,Ooh, Watchacha Gonna Do?,failed to match its predecessors chart success.Others guests featured on the alubum.In 1998 ,jason nevins remixed ITS LIKE THAT and its trickey.The remix of its like that hit number 1 in the united kingdom,germany,and manmy other countries.In 1999, Run-DMC recorded the theme song for WWF wrestling stable D-Generation X entitled "The Kings".Along with LL Cool J, the trio had major hits in both the '80s and '90s, and, if anything, they hit the height of their popularity in 1994, when shoop and Whatta Man drove their third album into the Top Ten.Salt n peppa signed with Signing with London/Polygram and they released very necessary in 1993.Cheryl "Salt" James and Sandy "Pepa was working at a sears store in Queens New York when the co worker,and salts boyfriend hurby luv burg Azor asked the duo to rap on a song he was producing for his audio production class at New York City's Center for Media Arts.According to yahoo answers and wikipedia,Before they recorded their fourth album, Salt-n-Pepa separated from Azor, who had already stopped seeing Salt several years ago. Signing with London/Polygram, the group released Very Necessary in 1993. The album was catchy and sexy without being a sellout, and the group's new, sophisticated sound quickly became a monster hit. "Shoop" reached number four on the pop charts, which led the album to the same position as well. "Whatta Man," a duet with the vocal group En Vogue, reached number three on both the pop and R&B charts in 1994. A final single from the album, "None of Your Business," was a lesser hit, but it won the Grammy for Best Rap Performance in 1995. Since the song release of Very Necessary, Salt-n-Pepa have been quiet, spending some time on beginning acting careers. Both had already appeared in the 1993 comedy Who's the Man? ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide