Knight Bachelor
The insignia of a Knight Bachelor devised in 1926
Awarded by the Queen of the United Kingdom
Awarded for	At the monarch's pleasure
Status	Currently constituted
Sovereign	HM The Queen
Grades (w/ post-nominals)	Knight
Established	11th century
Precedence
Next (higher)	Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Next (lower)	Lower level judges, et al.
Ribbon for a Knight Bachelor

The rank of Knight Bachelor (Kt.) is a part of the British honours system. It is the most basic rank of a man who has been knighted by the monarch but not as a member of one of the organised Orders of Chivalry. Knights Bachelor are the most ancient sort of British knight (the rank existed during the 13th century reign of King Henry III), but Knights Bachelor rank below knights of the various orders. There is no female counterpart; women deserving an honour of this rank are appointed Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) instead.

Criteria[link]

It is generally awarded for public service; amongst its recipients are all male judges of the High Court of England and Wales. It is possible to be a Knight Bachelor and a junior member of an order of chivalry without being a knight of that order; this situation has become rather common, especially among those recognised for achievements in entertainment. For instance, Sir Elton John, Sir Bruce Forsyth, Sir Tom Stoppard and Sir Christopher Lee are Commanders of the Order of the British Empire (CBE), Sir Patrick Stewart is an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE), and Sir Paul McCartney is a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE). None of them would be entitled to the honorific "Sir" by virtue of their Order of the British Empire honours. However, all are also Knights Bachelor and thus each may preface their name with that title.

Honorifics and post-nominals[link]

Like other knights, Knights Bachelor are styled "Sir". Since they are not knights of any order of chivalry, there is no post-nominal associated with the award.^[1] However, when the style "Sir" is awkward or incomplete due to a subsequent appointment, recipients may sometimes use the word "Knight" or "Kt" (note the lowercase 't', which distinguishes it from "KT", the post-nominals of a Knight of the Thistle) after their name in formal documents to signify that they have the additional honour. This style is often adopted by Knights Bachelor who are also peers, baronets or knights of the various statutory orders (e.g. Sir William Boulton, Bt., Kt.).^[2][3]

Insignia[link]

Until 1926 Knights Bachelor had no insignia which they could wear, but in that year King George V issued a Warrant authorising the wearing of a badge on all appropriate occasions. The Knights Bachelor badge may be worn on all such occasions upon the left side of the coat or outer garment of those upon whom the degree of Knight Bachelor has been conferred. Measuring 2³⁄₈ inches in length and 1³⁄₈ inches in width, it is described in heraldic terms as follows:

Upon an oval medallion of vermilion, enclosed by a scroll a cross-hilted sword belted and sheathed, pommel upwards, between two spurs, rowels upwards, the whole set about with the sword belt, all gilt.

In 1974, Queen Elizabeth II issued a further warrant authorising the wearing on appropriate occasions of a neck badge, slightly smaller in size, and in miniature. In 1988 a new certificate of authentication, a knight's only personal documentation, was designed by the College of Arms.

Imperial Society of Knights Bachelor[link]

The Imperial Society of Knights Bachelor was founded for the maintenance and consolidation of the Dignity of Knights Bachelor in 1908, and obtained official recognition from the Sovereign in 1912. The Society keeps records of all Knights Bachelor, in their interest.

See also[link]

• Bachelor
• Knight banneret
• Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood
• British honours system: Knighthood

Notes[link]

References[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Knight Bachelor

• Insignia of knights bachelor - Website of the Imperial Society of Knights Bachelor
• The UK Honours System- Website UK Government
• Debrett's

Sir David Chipperfield
Born	(1953-12-18) 18 December 1953 (age 58) London, England
Nationality	British
Awards	RIBA Stirling Prize, Royal Gold Medal, Andrea Palladio Prize, Tessenow Gold Medal
Work
Practice	David Chipperfield Architects
Buildings	River and Rowing Museum, Henley-on-Thames
Projects	America's Cup Building, Valencia, Spain

Sir David Alan Chipperfield CBE, RA, RDI, RIBA (born 18 December 1953) is a British architect, born in London. He has offices in London, Berlin and Milan, and a representative office in Shanghai. Uncompromisingly modernist in outlook, his practice is driven by a consistent philosophical approach, rather than a 'house style'.^{[citation needed]}

Career[link]

Chipperfield studied Architecture at Kingston Polytechnic, graduating in 1976 along with the Architectural Association in London. He worked at the practices of Douglas Stephen, Richard Rogers and Norman Foster, and in 1984 established his own practice, David Chipperfield Architects. The practice — which has offices in London, Berlin, Milan and Shanghai^[1] — has over 250 staff from 15 countries, working on a variety of projects in Europe, the United States and China.

Work[link]

The River and Rowing Museum in Henley-on-Thames.

Housing building in Madrid (Spain), 2005.

Chipperfield first made his reputation in Japan in the 1980s.^[2] Among his early projects in England that revealed his rigorous and elemental approach to design included a shop for Issey Miyake on London's Sloane Street in 1983, and a house for the fashion photographer Nick Knight.^[3] Later, Chipperfield designed the award-winning River and Rowing Museum^[4] in Henley-on-Thames using green oak cladding, concrete and glass. Chipperfield was the only British architect to be shortlisted for the commission to design Tate Modern.

Since then, Chipperfield has moved on to become one of the commanding figures in the design of cultural and civic buildings across Europe and in the United States.^[3] Chipperfield was the architect for the reconstruction of the destroyed Neues Museum in Berlin, which reopened in October 2009. In addition to the Neues Museum, which Chipperfield began working on in the mid-1990s during an initial competition phase, the architect is also designing the master plan for Berlin's entire Museum Island, a Unesco World Heritage site, made up of five museums. A new entrance building, which will act as an addition to the complex, has also been designed by Chipperfield and is expected to be completed in 2013.^[1]

Since the 2000s, he has worked extensively in the United States, where in 2005, he completed the Figge Art Museum in Davenport, Iowa, as well as the Central Public Library in Des Moines, Iowa, commissioned in 2001. Current projects include the Anchorage Museum Expansion in Anchorage, Alaska and four lake side villas at Bom Sucesso Design Resort, Portugal.

In 2009, the architect caused controversy for imposing restrictions of photographs in one of its buildings, the Des Moines Public Library.^[5]

Chipperfield has taught architecture in Europe and the United States, and has lectured extensively on the work of the practice, including as Professor of Architecture at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Stuttgart from 1995 to 2001.^[6] In addition Chipperfield held the Mies van der Rohe Chair at the Escola Tècnica, in Barcelona, Spain, and the Norman R. Foster Professorship of Architectural Design at the Yale School of Architecture. He is a visiting professor at the University of the Arts London (formerly London Institute). He has been on the Board of Trustees of The Architecture Foundation.

Early in his career, Chipperfiled established (in collaboration with Wilfried Wang and Ricky Burdett) an architectural gallery called 9H, named after the hardest kind of pencil, which was created to bring wider attention to what were then obscure European firms, such as Herzog and de Meuron, Álvaro Siza, Rafael Moneo, Luigi Snozzi, and Mario Botta.^[2] In 2000, Chipperfield was one of the architects to represent Britain at the Venice Biennale of Architecture. The first British architect in this position, he is to curate the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale.^[7]

Recognition[link]

In 1999, David Chipperfield was awarded the Tessenow Gold Medal, what was followed by a comprehensive exhibition of his work together with the work of the Tessenow Stipendiat and Spanish architect Andrés Jaque, held in the Hellerau Festspielhaus. In 2004 he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to architecture, and was made Honorary Member of the Florence Academy of Art and Design in 2003. In 2009 he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.^[6] He was knighted in the 2010 New Year Honours for services to architecture in the UK and Germany.^[4][8] He was awarded the Wolf Prize in Arts in 2010 and the Royal Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 2011.^[9] Awarded .

"Form Matters," an exhibition looking back over Chipperfield's career, was mounted by London's Design Museum in 2009. His Tonale range of ceramics for Alessi received the Compassod’Oro in 2011, and the Piana folding chair has recently been acquired for the permanent collection at MoMA.^[6]

Selected works[link]

• River and Rowing Museum, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, UK (1989–1997)
• Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa, USA (1999–2005)
• Museum of Modern Literature, Marbach, Germany (2002–2006)
• America's Cup Building, Valencia, Spain (2005–2006)
• Liangzhu Culture Museum, Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China (2007)
• Turner Contemporary, Margate, Kent, UK (2011)
• The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, UK (2011)

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: David Chipperfield

• David Chipperfield Architects
• Gallery: David Chipperfield Projects
• Chipperfield Shore Villas on Dellis Cay
• House in Corrubedo (Galicia) (with drawings)
• Article (07/2006), The Guardian
• Interview (07/2007), The Daily Telegraph
• Bom Sucesso Design Resort — Óbidos, Portugal
• Central Library — Des Moines, Iowa
• Exhibition at The Design Museum, London SE1, 0ctober 2009 – January 2010

Kenneth Branagh
Branagh in July 2009
Born	Kenneth Charles Branagh (1960-12-10) 10 December 1960 (age 51) Belfast, Northern Ireland
Occupation	Actor, film director
Years active	1981–present
Spouse	Emma Thompson (1989–95; divorced) Lindsay Brunnock (2003–present)

Kenneth Charles Branagh (/ˈbrænə/ BRAN-ə; born 10 December 1960) is an actor and film director from Northern Ireland. He is best known for directing and starring in several film adaptations of William Shakespeare's plays including Henry V (1989) (for which he was nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Actor and Best Director), Much Ado About Nothing (1993), Othello, Hamlet (1996) (for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay), Love's Labour's Lost (2000), and As You Like It (2006).

He has also starred in numerous other films and television series including Fortunes of War (1987), Wild Wild West (1999), The Road to El Dorado (2000), Conspiracy (TV) (2001), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), Warm Springs (TV) (2005), Valkyrie (2008), Wallander (TV series) (2008–present), and My Week with Marilyn (2011) as Laurence Olivier (Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor); and directed such notable films as Dead Again (1991) (also starring), Swan Song (1992) (Academy Award nominated for Best Live Action Short Film), Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994) (also starring), The Magic Flute (2006), Sleuth (2007), and the blockbuster action film Thor (2011).

Branagh has been nominated for five Academy Awards and five Golden Globe Awards, and has won an Emmy Award and three BAFTA Awards.

Early life[link]

Branagh, the middle of three children, was born and brought up in Belfast, the son of working-class Protestant parents Frances (née Harper) and William Branagh, a plumber and joiner who ran a company that specialised in fitting partitions and suspended ceilings.^[1] At the age of nine, he relocated with his family to Reading, Berkshire to escape the Troubles.^[2][3] He was educated at Grove Primary School,^[4] Whiteknights Primary School, then Meadway School, Tilehurst,^[5][6] where he appeared in school productions such as Toad of Toad Hall"^[7] and Oh, What a Lovely War!.^[8] At school, he acquired an English accent to avoid bullying. On his identity today he has said, "I feel Irish. I don't think you can take Belfast out of the boy," and he attributes his "love of words" to his Irish heritage.^[9][10] He is known to have attended the (Amateur) Reading Cine & Video Society (now called Reading Film & Video Makers)^[11] as a member.

Branagh went on to train at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.^[12]

Career[link]

Stage work[link]

Branagh achieved some early measure of success in his native Northern Ireland for his role as the title character in the BBC's Play for Today^[13] trilogy known as the Billy Plays (1982–84), written by Graham Reid and set in Belfast.

He received acclaim in the UK for his stage performances, first winning the 1982 SWET Award for Best Newcomer, for his role as Judd in Julian Mitchell's Another Country, immediately after leaving RADA. Branagh was part of the 'new wave’ of actors to emerge from the Academy. Others included Jonathan Pryce, Juliet Stevenson, Alan Rickman, Anton Lesser, Bruce Payne and Fiona Shaw. In 1984 he appeared in the Royal Shakespeare Company production of Henry V, directed by Adrian Noble. The production played to full houses, especially at the Barbican in London. It was this production that he adapted for the film version of the play in 1989. He and David Parfitt founded the Renaissance Theatre Company in 1987, following success with several productions on the London 'Fringe', including Branagh's full-scale production of Romeo and Juliet at the Lyric Studio, co-starring with Samantha Bond. The first major Renaissance production was Branagh's Christmas 1987 staging of Twelfth Night at Riverside Studios in Hammersmith, starring Richard Briers as Malvolio and Frances Barber as Viola, and with an original score by actor, musician and composer Patrick Doyle, who two years later was to compose the music for Branagh's film adaptation of Henry V. This Twelfth Night was later adapted for television.

Branagh became a major presence in the media and on the British stage when Renaissance collaborated with Birmingham Rep for a 1988 touring season of three Shakespeare plays under the umbrella title of Renaissance Shakespeare on the Road, which also played a repertory season at the Phoenix Theatre in London. It featured directorial debuts for Judi Dench with Much Ado About Nothing (starring Branagh and Emma Thompson as Benedick and Beatrice), Geraldine McEwan with As You Like It, and Derek Jacobi directing Branagh in the title role in Hamlet, with Sophie Thompson as Ophelia. Critic Milton Shulman of the London Evening Standard wrote: "On the positive side Branagh has the vitality of Olivier, the passion of Gielgud, the assurance of Guinness, to mention but three famous actors who have essayed the role. On the negative side, he has not got the magnetism of Olivier, nor the mellifluous voice quality of Gielgud nor the intelligence of Guinness."^[14]

A year later in 1989 Branagh co-starred with Emma Thompson in the Renaissance revival of Look Back in Anger. Judi Dench directed both the theatre and television productions, presented first in Belfast then at the London Coliseum and Lyric Theatre.

In 2002, Branagh starred at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield as Richard III. In 2003 he starred in the Royal National Theatre's production of David Mamet's Edmond. Branagh directed The Play What I Wrote in England in 2001^[15] and directed a Broadway production in 2003.^[16][17] From September to November 2008, Branagh appeared at Wyndham's Theatre as the title character in the Donmar West End revival of Anton Chekhov's Ivanov in a new version by Tom Stoppard. His performance was lauded as the "performance of the year" by several critics.^[18] It won him the Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Best Male Performance but did not get him a Laurence Olivier Award nomination, to the surprise of critics.^[19]

Branagh in April 2011

Film work[link]

Branagh is known for his film adaptations of William Shakespeare, beginning with Henry V (1989), followed by Much Ado About Nothing (1993), Othello (1995), Hamlet (1996), Love's Labour's Lost (2000) and As You Like It (2006). As You Like It premiered in theatres in Europe, but was sent directly to television in the U.S., where it aired on HBO in August 2007.

Notable non-Shakespeare films in which Branagh has appeared include Dead Again (1991) and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994), both of which he also directed, Wild Wild West (1999), Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002) and Valkyrie (2008). He starred as Gilderoy Lockhart in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002). He also played the Minister, Dormandy, (a parody of PMG Tony Benn) in the film The Boat That Rocked (2009).

From 1989 to 1996, Branagh mostly directed his own films, but the commercial and critical failure of Love's Labour's Lost ended his directorial career for a time. In 2006, the same year that Branagh's film version of As You Like It was released, he also directed a film version of Mozart's opera The Magic Flute. Branagh has also directed the thriller Sleuth (2007), a remake of the 1972 film. At a film promotion for Valkyrie in 2008, Branagh confirmed that he would be directing Thor, a film based on the Marvel superhero.^[20] Thor, Branagh's return to big-budget directing, released on 6 May 2011.^[21] In 2011, Branagh portrayed Sir Laurence Olivier in My Week with Marilyn.

Television[link]

Branagh has also been involved in several made-for-TV films. Among his most acclaimed portrayals is that of US President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the film Warm Springs (2005), for which he received an Emmy Award nomination. Though the film received 16 Emmy nominations, winning five (including Best Made-For-Television Film), Branagh did not win the award for his portrayal. He did, though, receive an Emmy for his portrayal of SS leader Reinhard Heydrich in the TV film Conspiracy (2001), a depiction of the Wannsee Conference, where Nazi officials decided on the Final Solution. In 2002 Branagh starred in the two-part television movie Shackleton, a dramatization of the 1914 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition's battle for survival, for which he was nominated for a BAFTA award and an Emmy.^[22] Branagh also narrated the BBC documentaries Walking With Dinosaurs, World War 1 in Colour, Walking With Beasts and Walking With Monsters, and the BBC miniseries Great Composers.

Branagh is the star of the Wallander television series, adaptations of Henning Mankell's best-selling Wallander crime novels. Branagh plays the eponymous Inspector Kurt Wallander and also serves as the executive producer of the series. The first three films were broadcast on BBC One in November and December 2008.^[23] Branagh won the award for best actor at the 35th Broadcasting Press Guild Television and Radio Awards (2009). It was his first major television award win in the UK.^[24] He received his first BAFTA TV on 26 April 2009 for the British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Series.^[25] For his performance in the episode One Step Behind, he was nominated in the Outstanding Actor, Miniseries or Movie category of the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards.^[26] The role also gained him a nomination for Best Actor at the 2009 Crime Thriller Awards.^[27] The second season of three episodes were filmed in 2009 and aired in January 2010 on the BBC and October/November 2010 on PBS in the US. Plans have been announced for a third season of six episodes—the last three Mankell novels, as well as three original Wallander stories.

Radio[link]

Branagh has also played the title role in BBC radio broadcasts of Hamlet and Cyrano de Bergerac,and the role of Edmund in King Lear.

Other work[link]

Branagh has narrated several audio books, such as The Magician's Nephew by C. S. Lewis.^[28]

Branagh in July 2009 at the Roma Fiction Fest, where he was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award

Personal life[link]

Branagh was married from 20 August 1989 until 1995 to actress Emma Thompson, with whom he starred in Fortunes of War among other projects. After their divorce, he was in a well-publicised relationship for several years with actress Helena Bonham Carter, whom he directed and starred with in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. In 2003, he married film art director Lindsay Brunnock,^[29] to whom he was introduced by Bonham Carter in 1997.^[30]

He is a lifelong supporter of Belfast football team Linfield, as well as Tottenham Hotspur and Rangers.^[31]

He speaks Italian.^{[citation needed]}

Honours[link]

Branagh has been nominated for five Academy Awards, the first man to be nominated for five different categories. His first two nominations were for Henry V (one each for directing and acting). He also received similar BAFTA Award nominations for his film work, winning one for his direction. His first BAFTA TV award came in April 2009, for Best Drama Series (Wallander). Branagh's two other Academy Award nominations were for the 1992 film short subject Swan Song and for his work on the screenplay of Hamlet in 1996. His most recent is for his portrayal of Lord Laurence Olivier in My Week With Marilyn. Branagh has co-starred several times with actress Emma Thompson, to whom he was married from 1989 to 1995. They appeared together in Look Back in Anger, Henry V, Much Ado About Nothing, Dead Again, and Peter's Friends. More recently, they both appeared in The Boat That Rocked, though with no shared scenes.

He is Honorary President of NICVA (the Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action). He received an honorary Doctorate in Literature from Queen's University of Belfast in 1990. He is also a patron for the charity Over The Wall.^[32]

In 1994, Branagh declined an appointment as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).^[33]

Branagh was the youngest actor to receive the Golden Quill (also known as the Gielgud Award) in 2000.

Alongside Roberto Benigni, he is one of only two non-American actors to be nominated for Oscars for acting, writing, and directing, and one of nine actors to have achieved this honour. The other seven are Orson Welles, Woody Allen, Warren Beatty, Clint Eastwood, George Clooney, John Huston and John Cassavetes.

On 10 July 2009, Branagh was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the RomaFictionFest.^[34]

Filmography[link]

Actor[link]

Director[link]

Narrator[link]

• Anne Frank Remembered (Documentary) (1995)
• Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood (Six-part TV special) (1996)
• Great Composers (TV mini-series) (1997)
• Cold War (CNN TV series) (1998)
• The Making of Walking with Dinosaurs (UK version) (TV series) (1999)
• Walking with Dinosaurs (UK version) (TV series) (1999)
• The Science of Walking with Beasts (Australia) (Two-part TV special) (2001)
• The Ballad of Big Al (UK version) (TV special) (2001)
• Walking with Beasts (UK version) (TV series) (2001)
• The Tramp and the Dictator (Documentary) (2002)
• Walking with Monsters: Life Before Dinosaurs (TV series) (2005)
• Goebbels-Experiment, Das (Documentary) (2005)
• IMAX: Galapagos (Documentary)
• World War 1 in Colour (Documentary) (2005)

Awards and nominations[link]

Discography and audiobooks[link]

• Shakespeare's Richard III (complete) for Naxos Audiobooks
• In the Ravine & Other Short Stories by Anton Chekhov (unabridged) for Naxos Audiobooks
• Felix Mendelssohn's incidental music for A Midsummer Night's Dream (speaker) live recording for Sony Classical, conducted by Claudio Abbado
• The Diary of Samuel Pepys 1660–1669 (abridged) for Hodder Headline Audio Classics
• The Magician's Nephew by C.S Lewis for Harper Books
• Shakespeare's "Sonnet 30" for the 2002 compilation album, When Love Speaks (EMI Classics)
• Mary Shelley's Frankenstein [Abridged]
• Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness for Audible.com.

Further reading[link]

• Kenneth Branagh (1990 [1989]) Beginning, London: Chatto and Windus, ISBN 0-7011-3388-0; New York: W W Norton & Co, ISBN 0-393-02862-3
• Ian Shuttleworth (1994) Ken & Em, London: Headline. ISBN 0-7472-4718-8
• Mark White (2005) Kenneth Branagh, London: Faber and Faber. ISBN 0-571-22068-1
• Theatre Record and its annual Indexes

See also[link]

• Breathnach

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Kenneth Branagh

• Kenneth Branagh at the Internet Movie Database
• Biography on Tiscali film section
• Kenneth Branagh interview from Premiere (1996)
• Branagh Collection at Queen's University, Belfast
• Branagh's Wallander - Website relating to the BBC's English-language Wallander starring Kenneth Branagh

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Ill Bill
Ill Bill, also known as Billy Crystal
Background information
Birth name	William Braunstein
Born	(1972-07-14) July 14, 1972 (age 39)
Origin	Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Genres	Hip hop
Occupations	Rapper Producer Label CEO
Years active	1991–present
Labels	Uncle Howie Psycho+Logical
Associated acts	Non Phixion La Coka Nostra Circle of Tyrants Secret Society Injustice Necro DJ Muggs Jedi Mind Tricks
Website	www.illbill.com www.unclehowie.com

William Braunstein, better known as Ill Bill, is a Jewish American Rapper and record producer from Brooklyn, New York. Having gained notoriety in the underground hip hop group Non Phixion, Ill Bill is known for his hardcore lyrics and as the producer, founder and CEO of Uncle Howie Records. His brother Ron is also a rapper and producer, known as Necro.^[1]

Biography[link]

Ill Bill was the main voice behind the now disbanded Non Phixion, and is currently involved with La Coka Nostra, along with Slaine, Danny Boy and DJ Lethal of House of Pain & Limp Bizkit fame. In 2004 he released his debut solo album What's Wrong with Bill? and has since released various solo mixtapes and collaborations in anticipation for his second solo record and the upcoming La Coka Nostra album.

NYC 1998

On September 16, 2008, he released his second album on Uncle Howie Records, entitled The Hour of Reprisal. The album includes appearances from Necro, Tech N9ne, B-Real of Cypress Hill, Everlast, Bad Brains, Max Cavalera of Soulfly, Vinnie Paz of Jedi Mind Tricks, Howard Jones of Killswitch Engage, Immortal Technique and Raekwon of Wu-Tang Clan. It also features production by DJ Muggs, T-Ray, DJ Lethal, Necro, DJ Premier and Ill Bill himself.

He released an album with Vinnie Paz as the Heavy Metal Kings. Ill Bill was supposed to release a collaboration album with rapper Crooked I and production team Blue Sky Black Death, but the project was cancelled.

During Spring 2008, Ill Bill joined Tech N9ne and Paul Wall on a nationwide tour. "The Hour of Reprisal" was released on September 16, 2008 by Uncle Howie Records and Fat Beats.

In an October 31, 2010 interview on Conspiracy Worldwide Radio, Ill Bill discussed his relationship with his brother Necro and his range of albums expected in 2011 including La Coka Nostra, The Pill album with Sean Price and his Heavy Metal Kings album with Vinnie Paz set to release April 5, 2011.^[2]

[edit] What's Wrong with Bill?

What's Wrong with Bill? is Ill Bill's debut studio album, released on March 2, 2004 by Psycho+Logical-Records. The album spawned one single, "The Anatomy of a School Shooting", and a music video for "Chasing the Dragon". This album never charted.^[3]

Discography[link]

• 2001: The Early Years: Rare Demos '91-'94
• 2002: The Future Is Now (with Non Phixion)
• 2003: ILL BILL Is The Future
• 2003: Street Villains (with Necro)
• 2003: Howie Made Me Do It
• 2004: The Green CD/DVD (with Non Phixion)
• 2004: What's Wrong with Bill?
• 2005: Street Villains 2 (with Necro)
• 2005: Circle Of Tyrants (with Necro, Goretex & Mr. Hyde)
• 2006: ILL BILL Is The Future Vol. 2
• 2007: Black Metal
• 2008: The Hour of Reprisal
• 2009: A Brand You Can Trust (with La Coka Nostra)
• 2010: Kill Devil Hills (with DJ Muggs)
• 2011: Heavy Metal Kings (with Vinnie Paz)
• 2011: Howie Made Me Do It 2
• 2012: Masters Of The Dark Arts (with La Coka Nostra)
• 2012: The Grimy Awards ^[4]
• 2012: Heavy Metal Kings vs. DJ Muggs ^[4]
• TBA: The Pill (with Sean Price) ^[5]
• TBA: Heavy Metal Kings 2

Collaborations[link]

• Sha-key feat. Ill Bill "Doompasaga"(produced by Ill Bill) off the LP "A Head Nadda's Journey To Adidi Skizm" (1994 Imago Recording Company)
• Necro feat. Ill Bill & Goretex "I Need Drugs" LP (2001 Psycho+Logical)
• O.D. feat. Ill Bill & Goretex of Non Phixion "2004" 12" (1999 Audio Research)
• Company Flow feat. Ill Bill of Non Phixion "Simian Drugs" 12" (2000 Def Jux)
• Necro feat. Ill Bill "The Most Sadistic" 12" (2000 Psycho+Logical)
• Necro feat. Ill Bill & Goretex "Gory Days" LP (2001 Psycho+Logical)
• Troy Dunnit feat. Ill Bill "Let's Go" 12" (2001 Audio Research)
• Non Phixion (Ill Bill, Goretex, Sabac Red & DJ Eclipse) "The Future Is Now" LP (2002 Uncle Howie)
• El-P feat. Ill Bill "Fantastic Damage" LP (2002 Def Jux)
• The Beatnuts feat. Ill Bill, Problemz - "Yae Yo" 12" (2002 Landspeed)
• Jedi Mind Tricks feat. Ill Bill, Sabac Red - "The Wolf" 12" (2003 Babygrande)
• Dj JS-1 feat. Ill Bill, Licence to ill- "Ground Original" LP (2003 Yosumi / M3)
• Non Phixion (Ill Bill, Goretex, Sabac Red & DJ Eclipse) "The Green CD/DVD" (2004 Uncle Howie)
• Circle Of Tyrants (Necro, Ill Bill, Goretex & Mr. Hyde) "The Circle Of Tyrants" LP (2005 Psycho+Logical)
• Necro and Ill Bill "Street Villains Vol. 2" (2005 Psycho+Logical)
• Ill Bill feat. Raekwon - "Enemy" (2006) (White Label)
• Ill Bill feat. Raekwon - "Thousands To M's" (2006) (White Label)
• MC Lars feat. Ill Bill - "The Dialogue" (extraído del álbum de MC Lars "The Graduate" 2006)
• Jedi Mind Tricks feat. Ill Bill - "Heavy Metal Kings" (2006 Babygrande Records)
• La Coka Nostra (Danny Boy, Ill Bill, Everlast, Slaine, Big Left, Kaves & DJ Lethal) LP (Próximamente)
• Ill Bill Feat Slaine & Reef The Lost Cause "Bangmatic Remix" (Mass Movementz The Album, 2009)
• Clementino feat. Ill Bill - "Hannibal rapper" (2011 Relief Records)

References[link]

External links[link]

• www.illbill.com