No ID

No ID , real name Ernest Dion Wilson was born on 28. June 1971 in Chicago , Illinois , is an American hip-hop - producer .

biography

Ernest Wilson comes from Chicago , where house music originated. Accordingly, he also began to make music in this genre. However, influenced by artists such as NWA , Run-DMC , the Geto Boys and LL Cool J , he soon switched to hip-hop and began rapping . At school he also met Common , with whom he soon worked.

Wilson was on his first three albums , Can I Borrow a Dollar? , Resurrection and One Day It'll All Make Sense , mainly as a producer . Among other things, he was responsible for the background music for the song I Used to Love HER , on which Common ostensibly described a love relationship, but also traced the development of hip-hop from its origins to gangsta rap . The piece, on which Wilson George Bensons sampled The Changing World and thus made it very jazz- heavy, is considered an outstanding song by Resurrection .

With One Day It'll All Make Sense from 1997, the common career of Common and Wilson ended for the time being, who in the meantime appeared under the stage name No ID , which on the one hand is a palindrome of his middle name Dion and on the other hand has the literal meaning "no identity". Under this alias he released his own album, Accept Your Own & Be Yourself (The Black Album) . It remained largely unsuccessful, however, and was only able to position itself at number 94 on the genre-specific "Top R & B / Hip-Hop Albums" chart by Billboard magazine . No ID's lyrical abilities as a rapper were rated significantly lower than his soft, jazzy productions.

Then the young Kanye West presented to No ID and learned from him for a short time. West later mentioned him as an early mentor in the song Big Brother, which is mainly dedicated to Jay-Z . After West soon became better known as No ID, he brought him to his label GOOD Music . No ID was therefore regularly featured as a producer on albums by well-known rap musicians from 2003 onwards. His discography includes works by DMX , G Unit , Method Man , Ghostface Killah , Bow Wow , Jay-Z, Drake and Rick Ross . He also rarely worked in contemporary R&B , for example for Jamie Foxx , Johntá Austin , John Legend and Janet Jackson . For his contribution to Run This Town , he was in the 52nd ceremony of the Grammy Awards with the award for Best Rap Song excellent.

In 2011 No ID left GOOD Music and became A&R Vice President of Def Jam Recordings . In the course of this he founded his own label ARTium Recordings as an imprint of Def Jam and thus also of the Universal Music Group . In the same year he also teamed up again with Common and produced the latter's full album The Dreamer / The Believer . In addition to his continued production activities for various artists, he was also responsible for Jhené Aiko's EP Sail Out and Big Sean's long-player Hall of Fame in his new position as A&R manager in 2013 .

In 2017 he produced Jay Z's album 4:44 completely.

Discography

album

• 1997: Accept Your Own & Be Yourself (The Black Album)

Web links

• No ID at laut.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ No ID - Artist. www.grammy.com, accessed on January 7, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Allmusic : Resurrection - Common | Songs, reviews, credits
3. ^ Billboard : No ID - Chart history
4. ↑ Allmusic: Accept Your Own & Be Yourself (The Black Album) - No ID | Songs, reviews, credits
5. ↑ Insanul Ahmed: Interview: No ID Talks Def Jam, Kanye West, & How He Affected "Watch The Throne". (No longer available online.) Complex UK, February 6, 2012, archived from the original on June 2, 2016 ; accessed on June 2, 2016 . 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.  
6. ↑ ^{a b} Allmusic: No ID | Credits
7. ↑ GRAMMY.com: Past Winners Search for "Ernest Wilson"
8. ↑ Grammy Award-winning Hip Hop producer No ID appointed Vice President of A&R for Def Jam Recordings. Universal Music Group , August 30, 2011, accessed January 7, 2018 . 
9. ^ Andy Kellman: 4:44 - Jay-Z. AllMusic Review. Allmusic, accessed on July 7, 2017 .