Black Milk

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Black Milk in Toronto (2012)
Black Milk in Toronto (2012)
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Album of the Year
  US 136 October 02, 2010 (1 week)
Random Ax (with Guilty Simpson & Sean Price )
  US 83 07/02/2011 (1 week)

Black Milk (* 14. August 1983 in Detroit , Michigan ; bourgeois Curtis Cross ) is an American hip-hop - producer and rapper . His productions mostly consist of pieces sampled with the MPC and, especially at the beginning of his career, were heavily influenced by J Dilla and Madlib , with whom he is often compared.

Musical career

In 2002 Black Milk contributed one beat each to the mixtape Dirty District and the album Trinity (Past, Present and Future) by Slum Village . With producer and rapper Young RJ he founded the duo BR Gunna in 2004 and released the mixtape Dirty District, Vol. 2 . Together they also produced the majority of Slum Village's Detroit Deli (A Taste of Detroit) album . While working on Dirty District, Vol. 2 he met J Dilla, who worked in the same studio and can be heard on the album as a rapper. The following year Black Milk released his first solo album Sound of the City, Vol. 1, on his own record label and produced again with Young RJ Slum Villages self-titled successor.

In 2006 the New York label Fat Beats Records signed him and released his second album Popular Demand a year later . Productions for Pharoahe Monch and Lloyd Banks as well as a collaboration with Californian rapper Bishop Lamont and Detroit rapper Fat Ray followed. In 2008 he also produced the solo album by Elzhi (Slum Village). In October 2008 Black Milk's third solo album Tronic was released , which includes guest contributions by, among others, Dwele , Royce da 5'9 ″ and DJ Premier . On the album he used less soul and more electronica elements and also integrated real instruments for the first time . This musical advancement was rated very positively.

In September 2010, the next solo album, Album of the Year , was released, with which he was able to achieve his first chart success when it reached number 136 on the Billboard 200 for a week .

The collaboration with rappers Guilty Simpson and Sean Price from Boot Camp Clik , announced since the end of 2008, produced the album of the same name under the name Random Ax in the summer of 2011. This work was also able to place itself in the US album charts and reached position 83.

2013 followed with No Poison No Paradise after the rather cheerful Album of the Year, a darker long player with strong influences of funk . However, this meant that Black Milk was only listed in two division charts of Billboard magazine .

Nevertheless, two more releases followed in 2014: first the EP Glitches in the Break and later the album If There's a Hell Below .

Another project finally appeared in May 2016: The Rebellion Sessions was a work consisting almost entirely of instrumentals that Black Milk had recorded together with his backing band named after Nat Turner . A few months later, the EP Sunday Outtakes followed, a compilation of five songs that were created during the recording of The Rebellion Sessions , but were not included in the album.

Discography

  • 2005: Sound of the City, Vol. 1
  • 2006: Broken Wax ( EP )
  • 2007: Popular Demand
  • 2008: Caltroit (with Bishop Lamont)
  • 2008: The Set Up (with Fat Ray)
  • 2008: Tronic
  • 2010: Album of the Year
  • 2011: Random Ax (with Guilty Simpson and Sean Price)
  • 2013: No Poison No Paradise
  • 2014: Glitches in the Break (EP)
  • 2014: If There's a Hell Below
  • 2016: The Rebellion Sessions (with Nat Turner)
  • 2016: Sunday Outtakes (EP; with Nat Turner)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Billboard : Black Milk - Chart history
  2. ^ Billboard: Random Ax - Chart history
  3. ↑ Allmusic : Black Milk | Biography & History
  4. ↑ laut.de : Black Milk (USA)
  5. ^ Allmusic: Review of Tronic
  6. ↑ Review on rapreviews.com , November 4, 2008
  7. ↑ Allmusic: No Poison No Paradise - Black Milk | Songs, reviews, credits
  8. ↑ Allmusic: The Rebellion Sessions - Black Milk, Nat Turner | Songs, reviews, credits
personal data
SURNAME Black Milk
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cross, Curtis (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American hip hop producer and rapper
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Detroit , Michigan , USA