name	Stones Throw Records
parent	Independent
founded	1996
founder	Chris Manak
distributor	Caroline Distribution
country	United States
location	Los Angeles, United States
url	Official website }}

Stones Throw Records is an independent hip hop record label based in Los Angeles, California. It was started in 1996 by DJ/Producer Peanut Butter Wolf in part to release the music he made with Charizma who was killed at the age of 20.

Stones Throw is home to Madlib and many of his projects: Madvillain, Jaylib, Yesterdays New Quintet, Quasimoto, and Lootpack. Other notable artists on the roster include Anika, Dimlite, Dam-Funk, Mayer Hawthorne, Guilty Simpson, Strong Arm Steady, Gary Wilson, MF Doom, J Dilla , Aloe Blacc, J Rocc, Arabian Prince, The Stepkids, CX KiDTRONiK, Baron Zen, Koushik and James Pants. J Dilla's final album during his lifetime, ''Donuts'', was released by Stones Throw in February 2006. They also released a solo album by the progressive rock guitarist Omar Rodríguez-López called Old Money.

Sister Labels

Now-Again Records

One Handed Music

External links

Official website

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Name	MF DOOM
Background	solo_singer
Alias	DOOM, King Geedorah, Metal Face, Metal Fingers, Viktor Vaughn, Zev Love X
Born	January 09, 1971 London, United Kingdom
Born as	Daniel Dumile
Origin	Manhattan, New York City, New York, U.S.
Genre	East Coast hip hop
Instrument	Vocals, sampler, synthesizer, drum machine, Pro Tools
Occupation	Rapper, hip hop producer
Associated acts	Danger Doom, Madlib, Ghostface Killah, Method Man, Omer Saar, J Dilla, KMD, Madvillain, MF Grimm, Count Bass D, Talib Kweli, Aesop Rock, Mos Def, RZA
Years active	1988–19931997–present
Label	Elektra (1988–1993)Sub Verse (1997–2003)Fondle 'Em (1997–2001)Metal Face (1997–present) Big Dada (2003–present)Naturesounds (2003–present) Rhymesayers (2003–present)Stones Throw (2004–present)Lex (2005–present)
Website	Official website }}

Daniel Dumile (pronounced ) is a hip hop artist who has taken on several stage names in his career, most notably MF DOOM, where the "MF" stands for Metal Fist, Metal Fingers, or Metal Face. He has appeared in several collaborative projects such as Danger Doom (with Danger Mouse) and Madvillain (with Madlib).

History

Early years with KMD

Dumile was born on January 9, 1971, in London, England, the son of a Trinidadian mother and Zimbabwean father. He then moved with his family to New York and was raised in the city of Long Beach, New York on Long Island.

As Zev Love X, he formed the group KMD in 1988 with his younger brother DJ Subroc and another MC called Rodan. When Rodan left the group, Zev found another MC to replace Rodan named Onyx the Birthstone Kid. A&R; rep Dante Ross learned of KMD through the hip hop group 3rd Bass, and signed the group to Elektra Records.

Dumile and KMD's recorded debut came on 3rd Bass's song "The Gas Face" from ''The Cactus Album'', followed in 1991 with KMD's album ''Mr. Hood'', which became a minor hit through its singles "Peachfuzz", "Who Me?" and heavy video play on cable TV's ''Yo! MTV Raps'' and ''Rap City''.

Subroc was struck and killed by a car in 1993 while attempting to cross a Long Island expressway before the release of a second KMD album, titled ''Black Bastards''. The group was subsequently dropped from Elektra Records that same week. Before the release of the album, it was shelved due to controversy over its cover art, which featured a cartoon of a stereotypical pickaninny or sambo character being hanged from the gallows.

With the loss of his brother, Dumile retreated from the hip hop scene from 1994 to 1997. He testifies to disillusionment and depression, living "damn near homeless, walking the streets of Manhattan, sleeping on benches." In the late 1990s, he left New York City and settled in Atlanta. According to interviews with Dumile, he was also "recovering from his wounds" and swearing revenge "against the industry that so badly deformed him." ''Black Bastards'' had become bootlegged at the time, leading to Doom's rise in the underground hip hop scene.

Birth of MF Doom

In 1997, Dumile began freestyling incognito at open-mic events at the Nuyorican Poets Café in Manhattan, obscuring his face by putting a stocking over his head. He meanwhile had taken on a new identity, MF Doom, patterned after and wearing a mask similar to that of Marvel Comics super-villain Doctor Doom, who is depicted rapping on the cover of the 1999 album ''Operation: Doomsday''. He wears this mask while performing and isn't photographed without it, except for very short glimpses in videos such as Viktor Vaughn's "Mr. Clean", "?", and in earlier photos with KMD. MF Doom's mask has undergone at least one design revision since its adoption (it is now an altered version of the mask worn by the character Maximus Decimus Meridius in the film ''Gladiator'').

Early career

Dumile released three singles on "Bobbito" García's Fondle 'Em Records, "Dead Bent", and "Greenbacks" (1997), and "The M.I.C." (1998). In 1999 Fondle 'Em released MF Doom's first full-length LP, ''Operation: Doomsday,'' which included these singles and their b-sides, and additional tracks. Dumile had used the spelling variant "M.F. DOOM" for the singles releases, but thereafter changed this to "MF DOOM".

Among the collaborators on these tracks were fellow members of the Monsta Island Czars collective (The M.I.C.), for which each artist took on the persona of a monster from the Godzilla mythos. Dumile went by the alias "King Ghidorah" (a three-headed golden dragon "space monster"), and some of his appearances on the LP are as, and are credited to this persona, instead of that of MF Doom. Dumile would revisit this character later under various name-spellings.

Guest appearances, production, and instrumental work

In the years intervening before his next full-length solo release, and continually since, Dumile has appeared on several tracks on other artists' LPs and remixes, contributed one-off tracks to compilations, and done various guest production work.

In 2002, he appeared on the Sound-Ink's Colapsus collection,on a very hard to find track titled "Monday Nite at Fluid" featuring Kurious with production by King Honey, who also produced some tracks for Dumile's album ''Vaudeville Villain''. Doom also made an appearance in "November Has Come", a track on Gorillaz's 2005 album ''Demon Days'', which reached #6 on the Billboard 200.

With few exceptions Dumile produces the instrumentation tracks for his solo releases.

Beginning in 2001, under the "Metal Fingers" moniker, Dumile began releasing his ''Special Herbs'' instrumentals series. Many of these beats can be heard as the instrumentation tracks throughout his body of work. A separate website catalogs for which tracks each instrumental has been used.

Ongoing career

In 2003, Dumile released the King Geedorah album ''Take Me to Your Leader''. Geedorah is credited as producer, but only appears as an MC on four tracks. The majority of vocal tracks feature guest MCs, and the album features several instrumental montages of sampled vocals from old movies and TV shows—a technique employed on most of Dumile's albums. Both ''Venomous Villain'' and ''Take Me to Your Leader'' feature appearances by MF Doom.

Also in 2003, Dumile released the LP ''Vaudeville Villain'' under the moniker Viktor Vaughn (another play on Doctor Doom, whose "real name" is ''Victor von'' Doom). In 2004 he released a follow-up LP, ''Venomous Villain'' (also called ''VV2'').

And, in 2004, the second MF Doom album ''MM.. Food'' was released by the Minnesota-based label Rhymesayers Entertainment.

Mainstream recognition

Doom's first commercial breakthrough came in 2004, with the album ''Madvillainy'', created with producer Madlib under the group name Madvillain. Released by Stones Throw Records, the album was a critical and commercial success. MF Doom was seen by mainstream audiences for the first time as Madvillain received publicity and acclaim in publications such as ''Rolling Stone'', ''The Washington Post'', ''The New York Times'', ''The New Yorker'', and ''Spin''. A video for "All Caps" and a four-date U.S. tour followed the release of ''Madvillainy''. Additional videos for "Rhinestone Cowboy" and "Accordion", both directed by Andrew Gura, were released on the DVDs ''Stones Throw 101'' and ''Stones Throw 102: In Living the True Gods'', respectively.

Though still an independent artist, MF Doom took a bigger step towards the mainstream in 2005 with ''The Mouse and the Mask'', a collaboration with producer DJ Danger Mouse under the group name Danger Doom. The album, released on October 11, 2005 by Epitaph, was done in collaboration with Cartoon Network's ''Adult Swim'' and featured voice-actors and characters from its programs (mostly Aqua Teen Hunger Force). Danger Doom reached #41 on the Billboard 200. In 2006 Doom hosted the Adult Swim Christmas special and he could be seen in between shows, usually talking about what was up next, and making jokes.

2006–2009

MF Doom produced tracks for both of Ghostface Killah's 2006 albums ''Fishscale'' and ''More Fish'', and the two are currently at work on a collaboration album titled ''Swift & Changeable''. So far only one track has been released from the album, "Angels", which appeared on a ''Nature Sounds'' compilation in late 2006, and later re-released in a different fashion on Doom's 2009 album ''Born Like This''. Doom has also revealed plans for a second Madvillain album with producer Madlib, with one song, "Monkey Suite", first appearing on the Adult Swim/Stones Throw Records album ''Chrome Children'', later it appeared on ''Madvillainy 2 - The Madlib Remix''. Other potential projects mentioned by Doom include new albums from Danger Doom, KMD, as well as further albums under both his Viktor Vaughn and King Geedorah aliases. However, many such Doom projects have been rumored in recent years without materializing.

Despite no new Doom releases in 2006, Kidrobot and Stones Throw released an 8" tall Madvillain toy available to coincide with the release of the ''Chrome Children'' CD/DVD (hosted by Peanut Butter Wolf) which featured a DVD performance of Madvillain and several other Stones Throw artists. Doom also continued to work with ''Adult Swim'' doing voice-over work as Sherman the Giraffe on ''Perfect Hair Forever'', being the voice for ''The Boondocks'' ads and previews and hosting their Christmas Eve 2006 programming.

In late January 2009, Lex records confirmed Doom's new album title to be ''Born Like This'', and that the "MF" would be dropped from his name, now just "DOOM". The album was released worldwide on March 24, 2009. As a teaser, the track "Ballskin" was posted on Doom's Myspace page on January 13, 2009. Snippets of the entire album were made available for streaming on Doom's Myspace on the album's release date. The title for the album was inspired by the poem "Dinosauria, We" by 1970s and 1980s poet Charles Bukowski. Doom samples a performance of the poem by Bukowski on the track "Cellz". Previously, Doom used a Bukowski sample for a vocal interlude on 2004's "All Outta Ale. "Thom Yorke of Radiohead remixed the track "Gazillion Ear" which is available as an iTunes-only bonus track. June 26, 2009 Kurious released ''II'' which featured Doom on the song "Benetton".

Upcoming projects

On May 26, 2010, the second single for the next Madvillain album "Paper Mill" was released through Adult Swim. ''Expektoration'', a live Doom album, was released on September 14, 2010 through Gold Dust Media. In mid 2010, Doom released the mix-tape "DOOM!", a collection of greatest hits, B-sides and rareties, including the theme for the video game ''Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars'' featuring Ghostface Killah, and Biochemical Equation, featuring the RZA.

On July 27, 2011 Doom and Ghostface Killah released the track "Victory Laps" from their long awaited collaboration project ''Swift & Changeable'' on the Nature Sounds label.

DOOM has been chosen by Portishead to perform at the ATP I'll Be Your Mirror festival that they will curate in July 2011 at London's Alexandra Palace.

Live show controversy

Dumile has become infamous for allegedly sending imposters posing as himself to his live shows. Fans attribute this to his supervillain persona. Doom has countered such accusations by claiming that he lost weight and thus looked different.

Discography

1991: ''Mr. Hood'' (as Zev Love X with KMD)

1993: ''Black Bastards'' (as Zev Love X with KMD)

1999: ''Operation: Doomsday''

2000: ''MF EP'' (with MF Grimm)

2003: ''Escape from Monsta Island!'' (as King Geedorah with Monsta Island Czars)

2003: ''Take Me to Your Leader'' (as King Geedorah)

2003: ''Vaudeville Villain'' (as Viktor Vaughn)

2004: ''Madvillainy'' (with Madvillain)

2004: ''Venomous Villain'' (as Viktor Vaughn)

2004: ''Mm.. Food''

2005: ''The Mouse and the Mask'' (with DangerDoom)

2006: ''Occult Hymn'' (with DangerDoom)

2009: ''Born Like This'' (as DOOM)

References

External links

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name	Arabian Prince
background	solo_singer
birth name	Mik Lezan
alias	Professor X
born	June 17, 1962Compton, California
origin	Inglewood, California
genre	Electro, Electro Hop, Hip-Hop, Gangster Rap
occupation	rapper, disc jockey
years active	1983  – present
label	Ruthless Records Macola RecordsOrpheus RecordsDa Bozak RecordsClone Records Stones Throw Records
associated acts	N.W.A, Egyptian Lover, Bobby Jimmy & the Critters
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Arabian Prince is the stage name of Mik Lezan (born June 17, 1962), a rapper and hip hop producer, best known for being an original member of the rap group, N.W.A.

Biography

He started working with Bobby Jimmy & the Critters in 1984. He also produced the hit single and album for JJ Fad, "Supersonic."

He was a founding member of N.W.A. but when fellow member Ice Cube came back from the Phoenix Institute of Technology in 1988 he found himself to be surplus to the band — Eazy-E, Ice Cube and MC Ren were the main performers, DJ Yella was the turntablist and Dr. Dre was the main producer.

After leaving N.W.A., Arabian Prince began his solo career. His first solo album ''Brother Arab'' was released in 1989, although it sold poorly.

Arabian Prince continued his solo career and released his fourth album ''Where's My Bytches'' in 1993, which was his last album of the 1990s.

He recently started releasing music again with his Professor X project on the Dutch label Clone records. In 2007, he performed as a DJ on the 2K Sports Holiday Bounce Tour with artists from the Stones Throw label. In 2008, Stones Throw released a compilation of his electro-rap material from the 1980s. One of his songs was included on the 2007 video game ''College Hoops 2K8''.

Discography

Solo

''Brother Arab'' (1989) Orpheus Records

''Situation Hot'' (1990) Macola Records

''Tha Underworld Followed'' (1992)

''Where's My Bytches'' (1993) Da Bozak Records.

''Professor X'' (2007/2008) Clone Records

''Innovative Life: The Anthology'' (2008) Stones Throw Records

With N.W.A

''Panic Zone'' (1987)

''N.W.A and the Posse'' (1987)

''Straight Outta Compton'' (1988)

References

External links

August 2008 Interview with L.A. Record

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Name	Steve Arrington
Background	solo_singer
Birth name	Steven Ralph Arrington
Birth date	March 05, 1956
Origin	Dayton, Ohio, United States
Occupation	Singer, songwriter, drummer, producer, engineer, minister
Genre	Funk, soul, R&B;, gospel, pop
Years active	1979-902009-present
Label	Stones Throw, Atlantic, Manhattan, God Factor Records
Associated acts	Slave, Steve Arrington's Hall of Fame
Website	godfactorrecords.com }}

Steve Arrington (born Steven Ralph Arrington, March 5, 1956), is an American singer, songwriter, drummer, record producer, engineer and minister, who grew up in Dayton, Ohio.

Biography

Arrington played in various local bands before joining and touring with The Murphy's, a lounge band out of Toledo, Ohio, in 1975. Approximately a year later, Arrington relocated from Ohio to San Francisco, California where he learned Latin percussion and drumming as well as played with Coke Escovedo and Pete Escovedo and Sheila E.

He joined the funk group Slave (founded 1975) on their third LP called, ''The Concept'' in 1978 originally to play percussion, then later becoming the drummer and a backing vocalist. Eventually Arrington took over the lead vocals on the hit singles "Just a Touch of Love", "Watching You" (which has been sampled by Snoop Dog) and "Wait for Me".

Arrington left Slave in 1982, forming Steve Arrington's Hall of Fame, and had hit singles such as "Weak At The Knees" (which was sampled by Jay-Z, Jermaine Dupri, N.W.A, and others), and "Nobody Can Be You But You".

His most successful album was his 1985 solo work, ''Dancin' in the Key of Life'', whose title track became a Top Ten R&B; hit. The single also spent three weeks at number two on the dance charts. Another single from the album, "Feel So Real" reached #6 in the UK Singles Chart in May that year. He was nominated for the NAACP Image Award for Best Male Artist of 1986.

In 1984, Arrington experienced a religious conversion, later becoming a minister and, in 1990, he left pop music until his re-emergence in October 2009, when he released the R&B;, Funk, spiritual album ''Pure Thang''.

In September 2010, Stones Throw Records announced that Arrington was working with producer Dâm-Funk on a new album, by making "I Be Trippin" available for listening. In February, Arrington did an interview with The Revivalist and told them his new album, "Love, Peace and Funky Beatz was due out late summer early fall 2011.

Discography

Solo albums

2009: ''Pure Thang'' - (God Factor Records)

1987: ''Stone Love'' (Manhattan)

1987: ''The Jammin' National Anthem'' (Atlantic)

1985: ''Dancin' In The Key Of Life'' (Atlantic)

1984: ''Steve Arrington's Hall Of Fame: Positive Power'' (Atlantic)

1983: ''Steve Arrington's Hall Of Fame, Vol.1'' (Atlantic)

Solo singles

2011: "Goin Hard" maxi-single (Stones Throw Records)

1990: "No Reason" (RCA)

1988: "Lost and Found (You Can Find Me Present)" (Nubian)

1986: "Homeboy" (Atlantic)

1985: "She Just Don't Know" (Atlantic)

1985: "Turn Up The Love" (Atlantic)

1985: "Dancin' in the Key of Life" (Atlantic)

1985: "Feel So Real" (Atlantic)

1984: "Mellow as a Cello" (Atlantic)

1983: "Nobody Can Be You" (Atlantic)

1983: "Way Out" (Atlantic)

1983: "You Meet My Approval" (Atlantic)

1983: "Weak at the Knees" (Atlantic)

1980: "Summertime Lovin'" / "Special Effects From Mars" (Salsoul)

Compilation albums

2006: ''Slave: The Definitive Collection" -

2003: ''Party Lights'' - Rhino / Atlantic - Rhino - Atlantic

1994: ''Stellar Fungk : The Best Of Slave Featuring Steve Arrington'' - Atlantic Rhino Entertainment Company

Albums with Steve Arrington's Hall of Fame

1984: ''Positive Power'' (Atlantic)

1983: ''I'' (Atlantic)

Singles with Steve Arrington's Hall of Fame

1984: "Hump to the Bump" (Atlantic)

1984: "15 Rounds" (Atlantic)

1983: "Weak at the Knees" (Atlantic)

1983: "Nobody Can Be You" (Atlantic)

1982: "Pocket Full of Air" (Konglather)

1982: "Way Out" (Konglather)

Albums with Slave

1981: ''Showtime'' (Cotillion)

1980: ''Stone Jam'' (Cotillion)

1979: ''Just a Touch of Love'' (Cotillion)

1978: ''The Concept'' (Cotillion)

References

External links

Godfactorrecords.com

Stones Throw Records

Myspace.com

Cdbaby.com

Soul Bible - Feel so good

Steve Arrington @ Discogs

Steve Arrington's Hall Of Fame @ Discogs

Official Site of Wayne "Buddy" Hankerson (bass-player for Steve Arrington's Hall Of Fame)

Steve Arrington 2011 Interview on Soulinterviews.com

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Dâm-Funk (born Damon G. Riddick) is an American Modern Funk singer, DJ and producer from Pasadena, California. In 2009 he debuted his five LPs of new material, which were edited and released on two discs as ''Toeachizown'' late in the year on Stones Throw Records. In 2010 he compiled recordings from his younger days (1988-1992) into ''Adolescent Funk''.

Discography

''Rhythm Trax Vol. 4'' (Stones Throw, 2008)

''Toeachizown'' (Stones Throw, 2009)

''Adolescent Funk'' (Stones Throw, 2010)

References

[ Review], Allmusic

Review, Dusted Magazine

Review, Pitchfork Media

Review, Prefix Magazine

Review, XLR8R

Concert Review, ''New York Times''

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