If you were raised on the Golden Era of rap, The 45 King was a seminal beat master.
He passed on to the great club in the sky on 10/19/23
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/19/a...king-dead.html
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If you were raised on the Golden Era of rap, The 45 King was a seminal beat master.
He passed on to the great club in the sky on 10/19/23
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/19/a...king-dead.html
This is perhaps his best known jammy:
And he was bugged out enough to hear the street in Annie, too:
He was also one of the prime beat makers for the original incarnation of The Flavor Unit (Queen Latifah, Lakim Shabazz, Apache).
RIP to the 900 number!
I feel like an idiot for not knowing he crafted “Stan”…
(I always thought he disappeared—seems he had some addiction problems—after his run with The Flavor Unit and all the cool beats he did for Tuff City. Had no idea he produced that Jay-Z banger or this Eminem hit).
The 900 Number will always be the Ed Lover dance theme song for me.