Sean Price

Sean Price (2013)

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Jesus Price Supastar   US 196 02/17/2007 (1 week) Mic Tyson   US 59 11/17/2012 (1 week) Imperius Rex   US 192 08/26/2017 (1 week)

Sean Price (born March 17, 1972 in Brooklyn , New York , † August 8, 2015 ) was an American rapper. He was one half of the rap crew Heltah Skeltah , along with rapper Rock aka The Rockness Monstah , and part of the supergroups Boot Camp Clik and Random Ax . He was under contract with the New York independent label Duck Down Records .

Career

In the 1990s, Sean Price made public appearances for the first time with the Fab 5 Crew . However, he only achieved greater fame with the rapper rock formation Heltah Skeltah and their first joint album Nocturnal (1996), which sold 250,000 times. But the subsequent album Magnum Force (1998) flopped and the group fell silent. Price sporadically released individual new songs as part of the Boot Camp Clikk. The first major release as a solo artist was the mixtape Donkey Sean Jr. , which was released in 2004 and of which he claims to have sold 60,000 copies worldwide. He released his first solo album Monkey Barz in 2005. With this album he tried to consciously establish himself as an independent artist and end the commercial unsuccessfulness which, according to himself, led him to sell drugs to support his family which he addressed in the song Brokest Rapper You Know on his first solo album. The album was received very positively and was named album of the month for July by the German hip-hop magazine Juice .

In the time between his two solo albums he gave numerous concerts and worked with many other rap musicians, in Germany with rappers D-Flame and Abroo, among others . In January 2007 the second solo album Jesus Price Superstar followed and the mixtape Master P that same year . He never lost sight of his longtime partner Rock during the production of his solo albums. In 2005 the two recorded songs together again, including for the two solo albums by Sean Price. In 2008 the two released DIRT (Da Incredible Rap Team), the first joint Heltah Skeltah album in 10 years, during which they also gave concerts together again.

Sean Price met the Detroit rapper and the Detroit-born musician Black Milk through an offer to cooperate with Guilty Simpson's solo album Ode to the Ghetto . The three worked together so well that they agreed to release an album together. In 2009 the three released their first song called Monster Babies as Random Ax . However, the album kept shifting and was not released until three years after the announcement in 2011.

While the supergroup's album shifted, Sean Price continued to work on his solo projects. In 2009 he released the mixtape Kimbo Price , which was to serve as the prelude for his third studio album Mic Tyson . Originally announced for 2009, the release of this album has been postponed again and again and it was finally released in October 2012.

At the end of 2013, Sean Price released the EP Land of The Crooks with the Australian producer M Phazes . This includes five titles with features by Billy Danze ( MOP ), Maffew Ragazino, DJ Babu , Roc Marciano, DJ Devastate and Guilty Simpson .

On August 8, 2015, Price was found lifeless in his Brooklyn apartment, the cause of death is still unclear. He left behind his wife and children.

On the second anniversary of his death, the album Imperius Rex was released posthumously and placed in the back of the Billboard 200 .

Discography

• 1996 Nocturnal (as Heltah Skeltah with Rock)
• 1998 Magnum Force (as Heltah Skeltah with Rock)
• 2004 Donkey Sean Jr.
• 2005 Monkey Barz
• 2007 Jesus Price Supastar
• 2007 Master P: Official Mixtape
• 2008 DIRT (Da Incredible Rap Team) (as Heltah Skeltah with Rock)
• 2009 Kimbo Price
• 2011 Random Ax (as Random Ax with Guilty Simpson and Black Milk)
• 2012 Mic Tyson
• 2013 Land Of The Crooks (EP, together with Australian producer M-Phazes)
• 2015 Songs in the Key of Price
• 2017 Imperius Rex

Individual evidence

1. ^ Sean Price Chart History. Billboard , accessed November 25, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Sean Price, Of Heltah Skeltah, Dead At 43 ( Memento of the original from August 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 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. 
3. ↑ Sean Price - Music Biography, Credits and Discography. allmusic.com, accessed July 11, 2012 . 
4. ↑ Sean Price - biography. laut.de, accessed on July 11, 2012 . 
5. ↑ Sean Price. duckdown.com, accessed July 11, 2012 . 
6. ↑ Heltah Skeltah. Respecognize Our Shit! (Interview). (No longer available online.) Rap.de, August 26, 2006, formerly in the original ; Retrieved July 11, 2012 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
7. ↑ Sean Price - biography. laut.de, accessed on July 11, 2012 . 
8. ↑ Heltah Skeltah. Respecognize Our Shit! (Interview). (No longer available online.) Rap.de, August 26, 2006, formerly in the original ; Retrieved July 11, 2012 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
9. ↑ July issue of Juice (2005)
10. ↑ Sean Price - biography. laut.de, accessed on July 10, 2012 . 
11. ↑ Abroo - Abroo stands for 'between love and hate'. rap.de, September 5, 2006, accessed July 10, 2012 . 
12. ↑ D-Flame: Past, Present and Future. (Interview). (No longer available online.) Rap.de, March 11, 2006, formerly in the original ; Retrieved July 10, 2012 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
13. ↑ Sean Price. duckdown.com, accessed July 10, 2012 . 
14. ↑ Heltah Skeltah - biography. laut.de, accessed on July 11, 2012 . 
15. ↑ Random Ax. From Brownsville to Detroit (interview). hhv.de, August 27, 2011, accessed November 25, 2017 . 
16. ↑ Sean Price - biography. laut.de, accessed on July 11, 2012 . 
17. ↑ Mic Tyson. allmusic.com, accessed November 25, 2017 . 
18. ↑ Land Of The Crooks. www.2dopeboyz.com, accessed April 17, 2014 . 
19. ↑ Sean Price found dead in his apartment. gala.de, accessed on August 9, 2015 . 
20. ↑ US rapper Sean Price died at the age of 43. welt.de, accessed on August 10, 2015 . 
21. ↑ Sean Price Duck Down Music's fundraiser. crowdrise.com, accessed August 9, 2015 . 
22. ^ Paul Simpson: Imperius Rex - Sean Price. Songs, reviews, credits. AllMusic , accessed November 25, 2017 .