Glasses Malone

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Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Beach cruiser
  US 200 09/17/2011 (1 week)
Singles
When the Sun Comes Up (with Heidi Anne , T-Pain , Lil Wayne & Rick Ross )
  DE 76 05/04/2012 (2 weeks)

Glasses Malone (* 10. December 1978 as Charles Phillip Ivory Penniman ) is an American rapper from Los Angeles , California .

Career

Glasses Malone grew up in the Watts and Compton neighborhoods of Los Angeles. His entire family was deeply involved in the illegal drug trade - for example, his mother was sentenced to 25 years in prison - and he was a member of the Crips youth gang . However, Malone then decided to leave the criminal machinations behind and devote himself to music.

Initially he was related to The Games Label The Black Wall Street Records . But when he then two albums, The Crack Mixtape (2003) and White Lightning (2005), published that sold together in five-digit number and included some local sellers in the area of Los Angeles, he solved so that a bidding war various major labels from run by Def Jam , Atlantic Records , Aftermath Entertainment, and Sony BMG Music Entertainment . At the end of 2005, the rapper signed a $ 1.7 million distribution deal for his Imprint Blu division at Sony. However, he fell victim to restructuring at Sony the next year, during which, among other things, the entire department for urban music was dissolved, so that he was released from his contract in 2007 without publication. A short time later he signed a new contract, this time in collaboration with Cash Money Records and its imprint Hoo-Bangin ' by Mack 10 .

As a result of the collaboration, the single Certified was finally released with Akon , which was to be the harbinger of his album Beach Cruiser and with which he gained national attention for the first time in the USA. The single made it to number 85 on the Hot R & B / Hip-Hop Songs chart of Billboard magazine . Nevertheless, the album was postponed a few times and a few more singles followed.

It wasn't until 2011 that Glasses Malone's debut came out, finishing last on the Billboard 200 for a week . The next year he achieved another chart success when he was featured on Heidi Anne's piece When the Sun Comes Up alongside T-Pain , Lil Wayne and Rick Ross and thus reached position 76 in the German charts .

Nevertheless, it wasn't until 2015 that his next long player was released. # GH2: Life Ain't Nuthin 'But remained well behind the sales of the first release and did not make it into any charts.

Discography

Albums

  • 2011: Beach Cruiser
  • 2015: # GH2: Life Ain′t Nuthin ′ But

Compilations

  • 2008: Glasses Malone presents Monster′s Ink.

Mix tapes

  • 2003: The Crack Mixtape

Singles

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Charts US
  2. ^ Official German charts
personal data
SURNAME Glasses Malone
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Penniman, Charles Phillip Ivory (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American rapper
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1978