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Malpractice (Redman album)
2001 studio album by Redman
Malpractice is the fifth studio album by rapper Redman.[12] The album was ultimately released on May 22, 2001. It reached number four on US Billboard 200 and was certified gold by the RIAA on July 21, 2001. To date, the album has sold 683,000 copies.[13] It boasted two singles: "Let's Get Dirty (I Can't Get in da Club)" and "Smash Sumthin'".
Background
[edit]The album experienced delays before its release. Originally scheduled to be released on December 12, 2000 (as found in the booklet for Ja Rule's Rule 3:36 album), the album was then delayed to April 17, 2001 (his 31st birthday). The album was ultimately released in May 2001.
Commercial performance
[edit]Malpractice debuted at number four on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 148,000 copies in its first week, becoming Redman's first US top ten album as a solo act and marks his highest first-week sales.[14] On June 21,
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The 100 Best East Coast Hip-Hop Songs of All Time
HIP-HOP WAS BORN IN the Bronx in the summer of 1973. To celebrate the music’s 50th anniversary, “Rolling Stone” will be publishing a series of features, historical pieces, op-eds, and lists throughout this year.
In the early days of hip-hop, no one really talked about the East Coast. That’s because there wasn’t any other coast to compare it to. Hip-hop was born in the Bronx, and though rap’s other regions percolated throughout the Eighties, nearly every major hip-hop artist in the music’s first decade came out of New York — from old-school pioneers like Kurtis Blow and Funky fyra +1 More to street-rap progenitors like Run-D.M.C. and LL Cool J, and sonic and political agitators like De La Soul and Public Enemy. When the West Coast scene threatened that hegemony in the early Nineties, the Notorious B.I.G., Jay-Z, Wu-Tang Clan, and other hard-edged, lyrically brilliant titans helped swing the pendulum back. After Southern rap rose
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Craig Mack (born September 3, 1971 in North Trenton, New Jersey, USA) is an African-American rapper/hip hop musician, notable for being the first artist to debut on Puff Daddy's Bad Boy Entertainment record label. Although his first single was released beneath the name MC EZ in 1988, he is best known for his 1994 hit record "Flava In Ya Ear". The star-studded posse-cut remix of that single was the breakout appearance of the label's most popular artist, The Notorious B.I.G. He currently resides in Long Island, New York.
Recording history
Mack, then known as MC EZ, and partner Troup, debuted as teenagers in 1988, releasing the single "Just Rhymin'" b/w "Get Retarded" on Fresh Records. By the early 1990s, Mack began working as a roadie for fellow Long Island-natives EPMD. While touring with the duo, Mack met Sean Combs, who, at the time, was an A&R for Uptown/MCA Records. Combs enlisted Mack to appear on a remix to the Mary J. Blige track "You Don't Have to Worry" in 1992, gi