Paula Perry

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Paula Perry (* 1971 ) is an American rapper from Brooklyn , New York .

life and work

Paula Perry grew up in Fort Greene in Brooklyn, an area that at that time mainly consisted of prefabricated buildings with social housing (so-called projects ). She was discovered by rapper Uneek, who also came from Brooklyn, and who introduced her to Masta Ace . With Masta Ace, Perry then recorded a song called Kick It On The One in 1992 , which was intended for Masta Ace's second solo album, Shelf Life . However, since Masta Ace fell out with his label Cold Chillin ', this album was no longer released. The songs that had already been completed were only released on two EPs years later. The song recorded with Paula Perry is on the first of these two discs, on Shelf Life Vol. 1 , a 2013 released and limited to 300 copies pressed on Chopped Herring Records.

After separating from Cold Chillin ', Masta Ace founded the Masta Ace Incorporated Crew (Masta Ace, INC.) And moved with this group to the Delicious Vinyl label. Paula Perry was also included in the crew. The album SlaughtaHouse was released together in 1993 . On the occasion of the tenth birthday of the TV music program Video Music Box , which started in 1983 , Paula Perry and Masta Ace were able to perform their song Who You Jackin from the SlaughtaHouse album live. After Perry had canceled an early tour of the group because she initially preferred her own professional career to an insecure music career, she then toured regularly with Masta Ace, INC. According to her own statement, she only received money from the record label for these tour appearances, but not for her participation in the albums.

Two years later, in 1995, the crew's second album called Sittin 'On Chrome was released. This made it to number 19 on the Billboard Top R&B / Rap Album Charts and stayed in the Billboard Top 200 for months .

In 1996 Paula Perry released her first 12 ″ Maxi as a solo artist under the title Paula's Jam (on Loose Cannon Records, an imprint of PolyGram Records that existed from 1994 to 1996, whose most famous artist was Buju Banton ). The song received some outstanding reviews in the music press. One review said:

"If we were judging female MCs these days on verbal skills instead of punany poetry, then Lil 'Kim and Foxy Brown would revert to their given names and serve 24-year-old Brooklynite Paula Perry fluted glasses of Cristal."

"If you were to judge rappers by their verbal abilities and not by their sexualized gutter language, Lil 'Kim and Foxy Brown would have to end their careers (" reassume their real names ") and 24-year-old Paula Perry from Brooklyn champagne (" Cristal "is a champagne brand) in crystal glasses. "

- Charles Aaron : in the music magazine Spin , February 1997 issue, p. 92

This was followed in 1998 by the song Down To Die For This (on the Motown label ) as well as collaborations with the Lost Boyz ( The BQE ) and other rappers (Nicki D, Paula Perry, Rah Digga , Heather B. , Precious P & Bahamadia - Six pack ).

With the single Extra, Extra !!, produced by DJ Premier and recorded in the D&D studios in New York. should (also in 1998 on Motown) in the style of a special edition of the fictional newspaper Fort Greene Chronicles on their already completed and in the starting blocks standing album entitled Tales From Fort Knox (the title is a reference to her birthplace Fort Greene, Brooklyn) be pointed out. The song was played internationally on the radio and was also featured in the German music press:

“Refined by the golden producer hands of DJ Premiers, this track from Paula Perry's debut album [...] inspires from the first second. The ingenious mixture of hypnotic minimal beats, a gripping funk groove and a voice that one would like to hear a few more stories from is captivating. "

- Norbert Schiegl : in the music magazine JUICE , issue 5-1998, p. 82

The said album, however, was never released, allegedly because the label (Mad Sounds Recordings, a sub-label of Motown specializing in hip-hop that existed in the 1990s ) used the funds intended for publication and promotion for an album by Queen instead Latifah ( Order In The Court ) used. Most of the promo CDs of the 17-song album were destroyed by the label, although there had already been reviews in music magazines. Allegedly today there are only less than ten copies, so that individual promo CDs of the album are traded at the highest prices on the Internet. In addition to the individual tracks released up to then, the album contained productions by Easy Mo Bee , Clark Kent and Domingo. Kelly Price and Perry's mentor, Masta Ace, and Que 45, with whom she has a son, appeared as guests. Masta Ace also produced four songs on the album under the pseudonym Ase One.

Two years later, Y'All Chickens Make Me Laugh, another 12 ″ by the artist appeared under her real name (this time on the Fully-Blown Recordings label), which was also played internationally on the radio. A last solo release available on physical sound carrier was 12 ″ I'm So Ghetto / Watch Ya Head (in 2003 via Familliar Faces Records) under the pseudonym “The God Mommie” . Since then, Paula Perry has only emerged through mixtapes published on the Internet ( Paula Perry The Godmommy , 2009, and Take Another Shot At It , 2012) and through short videos that she herself directed.

Although Paula Perry had made a name for herself in the hip-hop underground with her early songs (both Paula's Jam and Extra, Extra !! were underground hits and made it into the hot R&B singles on the Billboard charts), she disappeared for several years as a musician from the scene without having made the commercial breakthrough as a solo artist.

After she appeared again in 2009 and 2012 with mixtapes published on the Internet, a video for her new single Shut the Fuck up was released on YouTube in October 2018 , which is also available on the streaming services Spotify , Apple Music and Napster appeared.

Discography

Albums

  • 1993: SlaughtaHouse (on the Delicious Vinyl label, as part of Masta Ace, INC.)
  • 1995: Sittin 'On Chrome (on the Delicious Vinyl label, as part of Masta Ace, INC.)
  • 1998: Tales From Fort Knox (solo album on the label Mad Sounds Recordings (Motown), unreleased)
  • 2009: Paula Perry The Godmommy (Internet mixtape)
  • 2012: Take Another Shot At It (Internet mixtape)

Singles

  • 1996: Paula's Jam
  • 1998: The BQE (with the group The Lost Boyz )
  • 1998: Six-Pack (with Nicki D, Rah Digga , Heather B. , Precious P & Bahamadia )
  • 1998: Extra, extra !!
  • 1998: Down To Die For This
  • 2000: Y'All Chickens Make Me Laugh
  • 2003: I'm So Ghetto / Watch Ya Head (as The God Mommie)
  • 2018: Shut the Fuck up (Famous Records)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://wernervonwallenrod.blogspot.de/2013/12/keep-your-head-up-paula-perry-interview.html
  2. ↑ http://wernervonwallenrod.blogspot.de/2013/12/keep-your-head-up-paula-perry-interview.html
  3. ↑ https://www.discogs.com/de/Paula-Perry-Tales-From-Fort-Knox/release/6572891
  4. ↑ http://www.ugrap.de/reviews/album-reviews/paula-perry-tales-from-fort-knox/
  5. ↑ https://www.discogs.com/de/artist/1062210-The-God-Mommie
  6. ↑ http://www.datpiff.com/PAULA-PERRY-Paula-Perry-The-Godmommy-mixtape.48043.html
  7. ↑ http://www.datpiff.com/P-PERRY-Take-Another-SHot-At-It-Mixtape.361410.html
personal data
SURNAME Perry, Paula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American rapper
DATE OF BIRTH 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York , United States