Easy Mo Bee

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Easy Mo Bee

Easy Mo Bee (* 1965 in Brooklyn , New York as Osten S. Harvey, Jr. ) is an American record producer and rapper who mixes hip-hop music with elements of other genres such as soul , jazz and doo wop .

Life

Easy Mo Bee grew up in the Brooklyn district of Bedford-Stuyvesant . The block parties held there influenced him as well as his father's extensive record collection from an early age. He started deejaying when he was twelve . In 1985 he and two friends from his neighborhood founded the group Rapping Is Fundamental, which combined hip-hop with the music genre Doo Wop and rap with singing. Through one of the members of the group he met Big Daddy Kane ; In 1989 he produced two tracks for his album It's a Big Daddy Thing for the first time. At A & M Records under contract, he published with Rappin 'Is Fundamental 1991 album The Doo Hop legacy . In the same year he took part in the production of the debut albums by GZA and RZA , both later members of the Wu-Tang Clan .

Outside of the hip-hop scene, Easy Mo Bee first gained notoriety in 1992 when he produced the last album of jazz trumpeter Miles Davis Doo Bop and only completed it after his death. Despite average reviews, the album sold over a million copies and won a 1993 Grammy Award for Best R&B Instrumental Performance . In the following years, Easy Mo Bee was mainly involved in productions by emerging artists for the record label Bad Boy Records by Sean Combs . In 1994 he produced the single Flava in Ya Ear by Craig Mack , the number 9 in the Billboard Hot 100 reached. He worked with both Tupac Shakur and The Notorious BIG : Among other things, he wrote six pieces on Ready to Die by Notorious BIG and two songs on Me Against the World by Tupac; both albums are considered classics today. In 1994 he also produced Runnin '(From tha Police), one of the few songs the two made together.

In 2000 he released the compilation Now or Never: Odyssey 2000 . It received little attention and moderate reviews; Guest appearances came from Kool G Rap , Goodie Mob , Angie Martínez , Raekwon , Busta Rhymes and Snoop Dogg , among others . On Alicia Keys ' album The Diary of Alicia Keys he produced the medley If I Was Your Woman / Walk on By in 2003 . In 2007 he worked again with RZA for the album 8 Diagrams of the Wu-Tang Clan. He was originally intended to be the composer of the music for the film Notorious BIG , which appeared in early 2009, but was ultimately not considered.

Discography

Albums

  • 1991: The Doo-Hop Legacy (as a member of Rappin 'Is Fundamental)
  • 2000: Now or Never: Odyssey 2000

Singles (as producer)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ George Cole: The Last Miles. The Music of Miles Davis, 1980-1991. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor MI 2007, ISBN 978-0-472-03260-0 , found here on Google Book Search (accessed February 14, 2014).
  2. ↑ Archive Easy Mo Bee Interview - Part One (Originally Printed In Blues & Soul 933 / Nov 2004) , January 13, 2009 (accessed November 6, 2009)
  3. ↑ All Music Guide : Review of Doo Bop (accessed November 5, 2009)
  4. ↑ All Music Guide: Review of Now or Never: Odyssey 2000 (accessed November 5, 2009)
  5. ↑ XXLmag.com : Easy Mo Bee Speaks On Being Left Out Of “Notorious” And The Infamous Diddy Black Ball ( Memento of the original from April 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , January 6, 2009 (accessed November 6, 2009) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.xxlmag.com
personal data
SURNAME Easy Mo Bee
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Harvey, East P. Junior
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American hip hop producer
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , New York , USA