Rappin '4-Tay

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Rappin '4-Tay (actually Anthony Forté ; born March 2, 1968 in San Francisco ) is an American rapper from San Francisco.

biography

When Rappin '4-Tay was graduating from high school , he made his first official rapper appearance on the song Don't Fight the Feelin' from Too $ hort's album Life Is ... Too $ hort . Before he could continue his career, however, he was jailed for 10 months for selling marijuana . After he was released, he founded the record label Rag Top Records with his friends Franky J and Fly in 1991 , so that he could release his debut album Rappin '4-Tay Is Back .

According to John Bush of the All Music Guide , his second album - named like his first commercially distributed recording - was particularly well received locally thanks to his hardcore style, which did not romanticize the living conditions in the ghetto . Despite the successful singles Playaz Club and I'll Be Around , the album could not achieve good chart positions nationwide. He succeeded in doing this in 1996 with his third album Off Parole . The following albums could not build on it, although he had a guest appearance on Tupac Shakur's major album All Eyez on Me on the song Only God Can Judge Me .

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Don't fight the feelin '
  US 174 09/24/1994 (7 weeks)
Off slogan
  US 38 04/06/1996 (7 weeks)
4 tha hard way
  US 169 11/08/1997 (1 week)
Singles
Playaz Club
  UK 63 09/30/1995 (2 weeks)
  US 36 09/24/1994 (21 weeks)
I'll Be Around (feat. The Spinners)
  UK 30th 06/24/1995 (4 weeks)
  US 39 03/25/1995 (16 weeks)
Ain't no playa
  US 73 03/02/1996 (11 weeks)

Albums

  • 1991: Rappin '4-Tay Is Back
  • 1994: Don't Fight the Feelin '
  • 1996: Off Parole
  • 1997: 4 tha Hard Way
  • 1998: Bigga Than Da Game
  • 1999: Introduction to Mackin '
  • 2003: Gangsta Gumbo
  • 2007: That's What You Thought
  • 2008: The World Is a Ghetto (14 mp3 files)
  • 2011: Still Standing
  • 2011: Exported Game (with Big Willie and Spike2ms)

Singles

  • 1991: Rappin '4-Tay Is Back !!!
  • 1994: Playaz Club
  • 1994: I'll Be Around (feat. The Spinners )
  • 1995: Ain't No Playa
  • 1996: A Lil 'Some'em Some'em
  • 1996: Never Talk Down
  • 1997: Brin 'the Beat Back
  • 1997: Money Makes the Man
  • 1999: Introduction to Mackin '
  • 2003: If It Wasn't 4 U

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ When Rappers Release Albums From Prison: Rappin '4-Tay on uk.complex.com, accessed July 25, 2015
  2. ↑ Chart sources albums US
  3. ↑ Chart sources Singles UK US
personal data
SURNAME Rappin '4-Tay
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Forté, Anthony (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American West Coast rapper
DATE OF BIRTH March 2nd, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH San Francisco