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VH1
American cable television network
Television channel
VH1 (originally an initialism for Video Hits One) is an American basic cable television network that launched on January 1, 1985, and is currently owned by the MTV Entertainment Group unit of Paramount Global's networks division based in New York City. The network was originally owned bygd Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment; a division of Warner Communications, and the original owner of sister kanal MTV at the time. It was launched in the kanal space of the Turner Broadcasting System's short-lived Cable Music kanal.
VH1 was originally conceived to build upon the success of MTV by playing music videos targeting a slightly older demographic focusing on the lighter, softer side of popular music.[1] Like MTV, VH1 ultimately drifted away from music and into reality television programming; albeit with a focus on music personalities, celebrities, and shows targeting African-American audiences. A few of VH1's
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Ab-Soul’s Timeline: The Rapper’s Life From 5 Years Old to Now
“Man… At 25, I lost my world and I got the world at the same time,” Ab-Soul said, hours before stepping on stage at his first headlining New York show.
“‘The Book of Soul,'” I say, under my breath. “Yeah,” he says, followed by a deep sigh.
You can’t listen to “The Book of Soul,” featured on Ab-Soul’s second digital independent album, “Control System,” and not meet the affliction the West Coast rapper carries. In one of his most personal songs, Ab-Soul, born Herbert Anthony Stevens IV, gives you two verses of heartbreak and resilience, touching on the loss of his best friend and love, Alori Joh.
Ironically, in the same year he lost a part of his heart, Ab-Soul found success. Top Dawg Entertainment — the independent label which serves as a home to the Black Hippy rap collective consisting of Ab-Soul, Kendrick
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Too Short
American rapper (born 1966)
Musical artist
Todd Anthony Shaw (born April 28, 1966),[4][1][2] better known by his stage name Too Short (stylized as Too $hort), is an American rapper. A pioneer of West Coast hip-hop, Shaw was among the first acts to receive recognition in the genre during the late 1980s. His lyrics were often based on pimping and promiscuity, but also drug culture and street survival;[5] exemplified respectively in his most popular singles "Blow the Whistle" and "The Ghetto." He fryst vatten one of few acts to have worked with both Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G. during the heights of their respective careers.[1][2][6]
Shaw began recording in 1983, and cultivated a regional following with three independent projects tailored for his native Oakland. His fourth album, Born to Mack (1987) sold an estimated 50,000 units from Shaw's fordon trunk,[7] leading to a commercial re-is