Redman (rapper)

Redman (2006)

Redman (born April 17, 1970 in Newark , New Jersey ; real name Reggie Noble ) is an American rapper who became famous as an artist with Def Jam in the 1990s . He is also known for his collaboration with the Wu Tang clan member Method Man . He was nicknamed "Redman" after a snowball hit him on the cheek and it then turned red.

biography

Reggie Noble grew up in Newark , New Jersey . He studied at Montclair State College and financed his studies as a drug dealer. During this time he also tried to make a name for himself as a rapper. He publishes several mixtapes and competed in Freestyles . He got his stage name as a nickname when he was a child when a girl caught him with a snowball in his face and he blushed as a result.

Redman made his debut on the EPMD album Business as Usual with the songs Hardcore and Brothers on My Jock , after Erick Sermon , part of this influential group, spotted him freestyling in a New York club and joining their hit squad crew of aspiring MCs ( together with K-Solo and others). Then took him Def Jam contract. The first collaboration is the single Blow Your Mind . Redman's Def-Jam debut Whut? Thee album in 1992 made it into the US Top 50 and achieved gold status in the States. Then the well-known hip-hop magazine The Source named him Rap Artist of the Year for 1993.

Redman's solo career continued for the rest of the decade. Each of his albums sold at least half a million times. His musical style solidified and became a combination of a unique flashy wit and hard P-funk- influenced beats. In addition to the albums under his own name, he brought out the album El Nino in 1998 as part of the Def Squad (together with Keith Murray and Erick Sermon ) . With his label colleague Method Man he released the album Blackout! out what heralded the beginning of a long friendship and cooperation. He has also collaborated with many other artists from the hip-hop and other genres. That long list includes Gorillaz , Wyclef Jean , Snoop Dogg , Scarface , The Offspring , Christina Aguilera , D'Angelo , Me'shell Ndegeocello , Eminem , 2Pac , Jodeci , Cypress Hill , KRS One , De La Soul , Das EFX , Limp Bizkit , DMX and IAM .

In 2001 the film So High came out, in which Redman plays the lead role with Method Man . The two play two stoners trying to make ends meet at Harvard University . Method Man and Redman also appear in the Def Jam Vendetta video game series, mostly as a tag team. They also had their own television series Method & Red Show on Fox in 2004/2005 , which was canceled after a few episodes.

Redman belongs to the extended Wu-Tang-Clan environment and can be heard on their album The W as well as on the solo albums Supreme Clientele by Ghostface Killah and on Method Mans Tical . In 2002 Redman can be heard alongside Christina Aguilera on the track Dirrty , which was nominated for a Grammy . Then it becomes quiet about Redman, who is now trying himself as an actor, among others in Scary Movie 3 and Chucky's Baby .

After a long delay, the album Red Gone Wild followed on March 27, 2007, featuring features by Method Man , Snoop Dogg , and Biz Markie . Producers are Timbaland , Scott Storch , Rockwilder , Pete Rock and Erick Sermon . On May 15, 2009 Blackout 2 was a continuation of the collaboration album with Method Man. 2010 followed with Reggie his seventh solo album.

Redman appears in Raquel Reed's music video I'll Show You ; a song he recorded with her.

In 2012, the German rapper Fard recorded a freetrack with Redman called Still Hatin , for which a video was released. A year later followed a song called Like This on the album Bellum et Pax , for which a video was shot.

On November 13, 2015, Redman's last solo album, Mudface, was released via Gilla House Records.

Others

Redman is a character in the beat-em-up games Def Jam: Vendetta and Def Jam: Fight for NY .

Discography

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1992	What? Thee album	-	-	-	-	US49 gold (24 weeks)US	First published: September 22, 1992
1994	Dare Iz a Darkside	-	-	-	-	US13 gold (16 weeks)US	First published: November 22, 1994
1996	Muddy Waters	DE100 (1 week) DE	-	-	-	US12 gold (17 weeks)US	First published: December 10, 1996
1998	Doc's da name 2000	-	-	-	-	US11 platinum (24 weeks)US	First published: November 24, 1998
2001	Malpractice	DE62 (4 weeks) DE	-	CH74 (5 weeks) CH	UK57 silver (7 weeks)UK	US4th gold (16 weeks)US	First published: May 22, 2001
2007	Red Gone Wild: Thee Album	-	-	CH37 (5 weeks) CH	-	US13 (8 weeks) US	First published: March 27, 2007
2010	Reggie	-	-	-	-	US118 (1 week) US	First published: December 7, 2010
2015	Mudface	-	-	-	-	US147 (1 week) US	First published: November 20, 2015

Collab albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1998	El Niño	-	-	-	-	US2 gold (11 weeks)US	First published: June 30, 1998 with Def Squad
1999	Blackout!	DE36 (6 weeks) DE	-	-	UK45 gold (5 weeks)UK	US3 platinum (33 weeks)US	First published: September 28, 1999 with Method Man
2001	How High: The Soundtrack	DE36 (17 weeks) DE	-	CH19 (15 weeks) CH	-	US38 (33 weeks) US	First published: December 11, 2001 with Method Man
2009	Blackout! 2	DE66 (1 week) DE	-	-	UK6 (6 weeks) UK	US7 (13 weeks) US	First published: May 19, 2009 with Method Man

Mix tapes

• 2004: Ill at Will Mixtape Vol. 1
• 2005: Ill at Will Mixtape Vol. 2
• 2007: Live from the Bricks
• 2010: Pancake & Syrup
• 2013: Remixxes

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1995	Can't Wait Dare Iz a Darkside	-	-	-	-	US94 (4 weeks) US
	How High The Show - Soundtrack	-	-	-	-	US13 gold (15 weeks)US	with Method Man
	Funkorama Dare Iz a Darkside	-	-	-	-	US81 (4 weeks) US
1996	It's Like That (My Big Brother) Muddy Waters	-	-	-	-	US95 (2 weeks) US	feat. K-Solo
1997	Whateva Man Muddy Waters	-	-	-	-	US42 (15 weeks) US
1999	Since Goodness Doc’s da Name 2000	-	-	-	UK52 (2 weeks) UK	-
2001	Let's Get Dirty (I Can't Get in da Club) Malpractice	-	-	-	-	US97 (2 weeks) US	feat. DJ Kool
	Smash Sumthin ' Malpractice	-	-	CH98 (1 week) CH	UK11 (11 weeks) UK	-	feat. Adam F
	Part II How High: The Soundtrack	DE23 (11 weeks) DE	-	CH54 (9 weeks) CH	UK98 (1 week) UK	US72 (12 weeks) US	with Method Man, feat. Toni Braxton

Other singles (selection)

• 1992: Blow Your Mind
• 1993: Time 4 Sum Aksion
• 1993: Tonight's da Night
• 1994: Rockafella
• 1997: Pick It Up
• 1998: I'll Bee Dat!
• 1999: Let Da Monkey Out
• 1999: Tear It Off (with Method Man)
• 2000: YOU (with Method Man)
• 2000: Da Rockwilder (with Method Man)
• 2007: Put It Down
• 2009: A Yo (with Method Man)
• 2009: Mrs. International (with Method Man)
• 2013: Branson Branson
• 2013: Lookn fly too (with Method Man)
• 2013: Rite (with Method Man)
• 2014: Dunfiato
• 2014: Pump Ya Brakes

Singles as guest musicians

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1997	4, 3, 2, 1 Phenomenon	-	-	-	-	US75 (12 weeks) US	LL Cool J feat. Method Man , Redman, Canibus and DMX
1998	The Weekend Ride - Soundtrack	-	-	-	UK83 (1 week) UK	-	Dave Hollister feat. Redman and Erick Sermon
	Rap Scholar Generation EFX	-	-	-	UK42 (2 weeks) UK	-	The EFX feat. Redman
	Made It Back Prodigal Sista	-	-	-	UK21 (3 weeks) UK	-	Beverley Knight feat. Redman
	How Deep Is Your Love Rush Hour - Soundtrack	DE8 (17 weeks) DE	AT29 (6 weeks) AT	CH10 (15 weeks) CH	UK9 (16 weeks) UK	US3 (20 weeks) US	Dru Hill feat. Redman
1999	Left & Right Voodoo	-	-	-	-	US70 (5 weeks) US	D'Angelo feat. Method Man and Redman
2000	Oooh. Art Official Intelligence: Mosaic Thump	DE52 (7 weeks) DE	-	CH94 (1 week) CH	UK29 (2 weeks) UK	-	De La Soul feat. Redman
2002	Dirrty Stripped	DE4 (18 weeks) DE	AT5 (21 weeks) AT	CH3 gold (25 weeks)CH	UK1 platinum (10 weeks)UK	US48 (20 weeks) US	Christina Aguilera feat. Redman
	React React	-	-	-	UK14 (7 weeks) UK	US36 (16 weeks) US	Erick Sermon feat. Redman
2003	Noble Art Revoir un Printemps	-	-	CH81 (4 weeks) CH	-	-	IAM feat. Method Man and Redman

Further guest contributions (selection)

• 2012: Still Hatin ' ( feat.Fard )
• 2013: Like This (feat. Fard)

Awards for music sales

Golden record

•  Belgium
  • 2002: for the single Dirrty
•  Canada
  • 1999: for the album Doc's da Name 2000

Platinum record

•  Canada
  • 2001: for the album Blackout!

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	silver	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Belgium (BEA)	-	gold1	-	25,000	ultratop.be
Canada (MC)	-	gold1	platinum1	150,000	musiccanada.com
Switzerland (IFPI)	-	gold1	-	20,000	hitparade.ch
United States (RIAA)	-	6 × gold6th	2 × platinum2	5,000,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	silver1	gold1	platinum1	760,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	silver1	10 × gold10	4 × platinum4th

Filmography

• 1999: Colorz of Rage
• 1999: PIGS
• 2000: Boricua's Bond
• 2001: Statistic: The Movie
• 2001: So high
• 2002: Stung
• 2003: Thaddeus Fights the Power!
• 2003: Short appearance in Scary Movie 3
• 2003: Def Jam: Vendetta (video game)
• 2004: Method & Red
• 2004: Chucky's baby
• 2004: Def Jam: Fight for New York (video game)
• 2007: Def Jam: Icon (video game)

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1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} laut.de: Redman
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Redman. Artist Biography by Andy Kellman at Allmusic (English). Retrieved May 12, 2018.
3. ↑ Whut? Thee album. AllMusic Review by Steve Hue at Allmusic . Retrieved May 12, 2018.
4. ↑ Raquel Reed - "I'll Show You" feat. Redman ( Memento of December 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ Fard in the Clixoom short talk. “That's how I got to know Redman” (video). Rap update, March 3, 2013, accessed May 12, 2018 . 
6. ↑ Fard feat Redman Like this. In: YouTube. Fard, February 19, 2013, accessed May 12, 2018 . 
7. ↑ Alexander Austel: Redman: Mudface. Is he still rapping? Yeah damn it Retrieved March 12, 2018 . 
8. ↑ ^{a b c d} Chart positions: DE AT CH UK US

Web links

Commons : Redman  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Redman recordings in the catalog of the German National Library
• Official website
• Redman at laut.de
• Redman at Discogs (English)
• Redman in the Internet Movie Database (English)