In recent years, hip-hop has largely drifted away from the dark imagery and explicit depictions of violence once associated with rap stars like Ice-T and Snoop Dogg. Brown, program director of WWHV-FM, a hip-hop and rhythm-and-blues station in Virginia Beach. ''Honestly, I was disappointed'' by ''More or Less,'' said Parish S.
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But the raw descriptions of violence and poverty left many of them cold. As part of the marketing strategy, Def Jam sent radio programmers a single, ''More or Less,'' ahead of the album. It contains mostly old, unreleased recordings and at least one made by telephone in calls from prison.īut since striking the deal in March, the signs have not been encouraging. Given the size of the deal, rival record label executives estimate Def Jam will have to sell about 900,000 copies for ''Godfather Buried Alive'' to break even. So when word spread last fall of other recordings made before he began serving his sentence, top music industry executives began making the trek to the Clinton Correctional Facility to woo Shyne.ĭef Jam beat out competitors, signing Shyne to a two-album deal that could pay him an estimated $6.5 million in advances. Combs declined to comment.)īut before the trial, Shyne had recorded his first album, ''Shyne,'' which has sold more than 900,000 copies since its release in 2000, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Combs betrayed him by not speaking up in his defense Mr.
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Diddy, was charged with illegal possession of a gun and bribery and acquitted at the same trial. Combs, also known to fans then as Puff Daddy and now as P. He was convicted in 2001 of assault, criminal possession of a weapon and reckless endangerment, and sentenced to 10 years in prison with no eligibility for parole until 2009. Witnesses said Shyne had fired a handgun wildly into the crowd. Combs, a melee erupted and the violence escalated into gunfire, injuring three bystanders. Combs's girlfriend at the time, Jennifer Lopez, at Club New York in Manhattan. 27, 1999, Shyne was among the entourage of Mr. Combs that led Shyne to his current residence. and was shot to death in 1997.īut it was another connection with Mr. Wallace, who was known as Notorious B.I.G. Combs's Bad Boy Records label in 1998, his tales of bloodshed and inner-city alienation eliciting comparisons to another of Mr. Shyne, 25, who grew up in Belize and Brooklyn, was signed by Mr. Listen to some of the best new recordings here.īut in some ways, the prison, in Dannemora, N.Y., is farther away than Japan, and that has cast a cloud over the future for both Shyne and Def Jam executives. Classical Music: 2021 was a year of reawakening for the art form.Jazz Albums: Even the big-statement albums this year had a feeling of intense closeness.Pop Albums: Recordings with big feelings and room for catharsis made the most powerful connections.Best Songs: A posthumous political statement and a superstar’s 10-minute redo are among the 66 best tracks of 2021.
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I've found a way to stay on top of everything.''įrom Lil Nas X to Mozart to Esperanza Spalding here is what we loved listening to this year. ''I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy. ''No one would want to be here,'' Shyne said in a telephone interview last week from the Clinton Correctional Facility. And whatever modest publicity efforts Shyne can undertake will not take place on Friday nights or Saturdays - he recently began observing the Jewish Sabbath, a nod, he says, to his great-grandmother, an Ethiopian Jew. The New York State Department of Correctional Services has started to enforce rules limiting the number of reporters who can visit. So is the customary swing through radio station studios in the biggest markets. With the performer behind bars in upstate New York, a concert tour is out of the question. But now, after signing Shyne to a multimillion-dollar-record contract to put out some of his unreleased recordings, executives at Vivendi Universal's Def Jam Recordings are finding that some of the very traits that stirred up such interest - his hardcore image and tangles with the law - may prove to be major drawbacks as they market his new album, ''Godfather Buried Alive,'' due in stores Tuesday.
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Barrow, professionally known as Shyne and a former protégé of the rap music impresario Sean Combs, was heavily courted this winter despite being just three years into a 10-year sentence for a shooting while he was with Mr. Unfortunately for them, he's serving it right now. In the calculating eyes of music industry executives, the rap artist Jamaal Barrow possesses the sort of street credibility that instantly draws fans and sells records - a prison sentence.