Erick Sermon

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Erick Sermon (left, 2013)
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
No pressure
  US 16 11/06/1993 (6 weeks)
Double or Nothing
  US 35 01/25/1995 (4 weeks)
Def Squad Presents Erick Onasis
  US 53 07/15/2000 (7 weeks)
Music
  US 33 11/17/2001 (5 weeks)
React
  US 72 December 07, 2002 (4 weeks)
Chilltown, New York
  CH 94 07/04/2004 (2 weeks)
  US 61 07/10/2004 (2 weeks)
Singles
Stay real
  US 92 10/02/1993 (10 weeks)
Bomdigi
  US 84 10/28/1995 (6 weeks)
Music (feat. Marvin Gaye )
  UK 36 10/06/2001 (2 weeks)
  US 22nd 06/02/2001 (20 weeks)
React (feat. Redman)
  UK 14th 01/11/2003 (5 weeks)
  US 36 October 19, 2002 (16 weeks)
Love Iz
  UK 72 04/19/2003 (1 week)

Erick Sermon (born November 25, 1968 in New York City ; also Erick Onassis or The Green Eyed Bandit ) is an American rapper and producer from Suffolk County , Long Island , Downstate New York .

biography

In the late 1980s, Sermon became known with the hip hop group EPMD (Erick & Parrish Makin Dollars). After four albums together, he recorded his first solo album, No Pressure , in 1993 and was able to seamlessly build on their mutual success. The album reached the top 20 of the US album charts and with Stay Real he had a dance and number 1 rap singles hit. The second solo album, Double or Nothing, repeated the success in 1995 and finally made him an established solo artist. He was also repeatedly active as a producer and remixer for other well-known artists such as Das EFX, En Vogue, Blackstreet and Shaquille O'Neal.

Despite the solo success, he reunited with Parrish Smith in 1997 and released two more EPMD albums before the duo broke up again after disputes in the late 1990s.

At the time, Erick Sermon had already founded the Trio Def Squad together with two other hip-hop greats, Redman and Keith Murray . Although they only released two albums together, they continued to work together afterwards.

After the second Def Squad album, Sermon went to J Records, where his most successful solo album to date, Music , was released in 2001 . With the title song, in which older recordings by Marvin Gaye had been mixed in, he reached number 22 on the Billboard charts and was also successful in Great Britain for the first time. The title React , a collaboration with Redman that appeared a year later with the album of the same name, but which did not sell as well as hoped, was similarly successful . Therefore J Records, who had expected much more after the great success of the Def Squad, canceled the contract in 2003 and the next album Chilltown, New York was released on Motown Records.

Since then, Erick Sermon has postponed his solo activities and has worked in numerous collaborations, including with the Def Squad, and as a producer. In 2008 EPMD released another album together.

In 2013, Sermon made a guest appearance on Sido's feature song 30-11-80 on the album of the same name.

Discography

Albums

  • 1993: No Pressure
  • 1995: Double or Nothing
  • 2000: Def Squad Presents Erick Onasis
  • 2001: Music
  • 2002: React
  • 2004: Chilltown, New York

Singles

  • 1993: Hittin 'Switches
  • 1993: Stay Real
  • 1995: Bomdigi
  • 1996: Welcome
  • 2001: I'm Hot
  • 2001: Music ( feat.Marvin Gaye )
  • 2002: React (feat. Redman )
  • 2003: Love Iz

swell

  1. ↑ Chart discography Switzerland
  2. ↑ Hit Singles: Dave McAleer, Andy Gregory, Matthew White: The Virgin Book of British Hit Singles. Volume 2. Virgin Books, London 2010, ISBN 978-0-7535-2245-5 .
  3. ↑ US singles: Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-2006. Billboard Books, Menomonee Falls WI 2007, ISBN 978-0-7535-2245-5 . / US albums: Joel Whitburn : The Billboard Albums. 6th edition. Record Research, Menomonee Falls WI 2006, ISBN 0-89820-166-7 .

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personal data
SURNAME Sermon, Erick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Onasis, Erick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American rapper and producer
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH New York , USA