Name	Pimp Juice
Cover	Nelly - Pimp Juice CD cover.jpg
Artist	Nelly
From album	Nellyville
Released	April 1, 2003
Format	CD single
Genre	Rap, R&B;
Length	4:52
Label	Universal Records
Writer	Nelly
Producer	Nelly
Last single	"Work It"(2003)
This single	"Pimp Juice"(2003)
Next single	"Shake Ya Tailfeather"(2003)

"Pimp Juice" is a single by the rapper Nelly, released in 2003, from the 2002 album Nellyville. This song did not achieve the commercial success of his hits "Hot in Herre", "Dilemma", and "Air Force Ones", but was still bigger than "Work It"; it topped out at #58 on the Billboard Hot 100. In the song it is stated that women only want him for his "pimp juice", which he needs to let loose. Despite contrary beliefs, the pimp juice is actually a car.Position |- |align="left"|U.S. Billboard Hot 100 |align="center"|58 |- |align="left"|U.S. Billboard Hot R&B;/Hip-Hop Songs |align="center"|27 |- |align="left"|U.S. Billboard Hot Rap Tracks |align="center"|11 |- |}

References

See also

Pimp Juice (drink)

Nelly

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Name	Ronald Isley
Background	solo_singer
Born	May 21, 1941Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Genre	Rhythm and blues, doo-wop, funk, soul, rock, smooth soul, quiet storm, contemporary R&B;
Years active	1954–present
Url	Isley Brothers homepage
Associated acts	The Isley BrothersSnoop DoggAngela WinbushR. Kelly
Label	RCA, Scepter, Tamla-Motown, T-Neck/Epic, DreamWorks, Def Soul/Island Def Jam

Ronald Isley (; born May 21, 1941 in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States) is an American singer and is known as the lead singer and founding member of the family music group The Isley Brothers.

Biography

Career

Ronald Isley was born the third of six brothers (O'Kelly Isley, Jr., Rudolph Isley, Ronald, Vernon Isley, Ernie Isley, Marvin Isley) to Sallye Bernice (Bell) and O'Kelly Isley, Sr. Ronald, like many of his siblings, began his career in the church. He began singing at the age of three, winning a $25 war bond for singing at a spiritual contest at the Union Baptist Church. By the age of seven, Ronald was singing onstage at venues such as the Regal Theater in Chicago, alongside Dinah Washington and a few other notables.

By his early teens, he was singing regularly with his brothers in church tours. In 1957, sixteen-year-old Ronald and his two elder brothers Kelly, 19 and Rudy, 18, moved to New York recording doo-wop for local labels before landing a major deal with RCA Records in 1959, where the trio wrote and released their anthemic "Shout". For much of the Isley Brothers' duration, Ron Isley would remain the group's consistent member of the group as well as the lead vocalist for most of the group's tenure with sporadic lead shares with his older brothers. In 1969, Ron and his brothers reformed T-Neck Records in a need to produce themselves without the control of record labels, forming the label shortly after ending a brief departure with Motown. In 1973, the group's style and sound drastically changed following the release of the 3 + 3 album where brothers Ernie Isley and Marvin Isley and in-law Chris Jasper permanently enter the brothers' lineup, writing the music and lyrics to the group's new sound. The younger brothers had been providing instrumental help for the brothers since the late 1960s.

After Kelly Isley's death in 1986 and Rudy Isley's exit to fulfill a dream of ministry in 1989, Ronald has carried on with the Isley Brothers name either as a solo artist or with accompanying help from the group's younger brothers, much more prominently, Ernie Isley. In 1990, Isley scored a top ten duet with Rod Stewart with a cover of his brothers' hit, "This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak for You)" and in 2003, Ronald recorded a solo album, Here I Am: Bacharach Meets Isley, with Burt Bacharach. In addition, Ron Isley became a sought-after hook singer for hip-hop acts such as R. Kelly, Warren G., 2Pac and UGK.

Ronald released his first solo album Mr. I on November 30, 2010. The album includes the first single "No More". It debuted at #50 on The Billboard 200 selling 22,243 copies. It was his first solo album to crack that chart.

In 2010, Isley received a "Legend Award", surveying Isley Brother music written largely by the younger brothers, at the Soul Train Music Awards.

Personal life

In 1993, Isley married producer/composer/singer Angela Winbush in Los Angeles California. They quietly divorced in early 2002. He has older children with various women, including daughter Tawanna. In September 2005 Isley made headlines by marrying background singer, Kandy Johnson (of the duo JS/Johnson Sisters); Johnson was 28 and Isley 63. Their son Ron Jr was born in January 2007. In 2004, while in London, Isley suffered a mild stroke, which halted an Isley Brothers tour there. In 2007, it was reported Isley had kidney problems and lived with a pacemaker.

Tax Evasion

Isley was charged with and convicted of tax evasion charges. The Hollywood Reporter reports Isley was sentenced to 37 months in prison, instead of the maximum sentence, which would have sent Isley to jail for 26 years. Isley's sentence was affirmed by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Isley was imprisoned at the Federal Correctional Institution at Terre Haute, Indiana, and was scheduled for release on April 13, 2010. He was moved to a half-way house in St. Louis, Missouri following an early departure that October. After his sentence was completed, Isley was released from a federal half-way house on April 13, 2010.

Isley is listed as one of California's most delinquent taxpayers, with a $303,411.43 debt from a lien filed on October 22, 2002.

References

External links

Ronald Isley biography

http://www.islanddefjam.com/artist/home.aspx?artistID=7376

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