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MBX Systems is a privately held designer and manufacturer of server appliance and embedded systems hardware. The company builds the hardware platforms that independent software vendors (ISVs) can use to deliver their software as an appliance. Its headquarters are in Wauconda, Illinois.

History

The company that has become MBX Systems was started in April, 1995 by Tom Crowley under the name Drive Express. Its business at that time was selling hard drives to consumers through mail order ads in computer enthusiast magazines. This business quickly expanded to components besides hard drives, and in October 1995 the name of the company was changed to “Drive and Motherboard Express” to reflect this expanded lineup of products.

In 1996 the name was shortened to simply “Motherboard Express.” By this time the company was selling products that encompassed the entire PC. As the World Wide Web gained popularity as a buying and selling vehicle, Motherboard Express began selling its entire catalog online. The company also found itself in the business building custom “white box” computer hardware for customers on-demand. This business included both PCs for personal use and server hardware.

In the year 2000, MBX built its first server appliances. In March of that year an ISV customer requested MBX’s assistance on a white box project that involved building the hardware for a new line of server appliances it wanted to offer.

Today, MBX has divested itself of the consumer component supply business and is focused solely on designing, building, and providing support for server appliances. The company is a pure OEM supplier and does not market any products under its own name or brand. The company is certified to ISO 9001:2008 for its quality management systems.

Services provided by the company are listed on its website in four areas:

Design, which includes product development, branding, and marketing

Production, from manufacturing to inventory management of components

Deployment, which includes stocking to inventory management of finished goods

Support for the hardware or hardware and software on deployed units

Awards

In 2011, MBX CEO Tom Crowley was named the Executive of the Year/Computer Hardware in the Stevie Awards' 2011 American Business Awards.

In 2010, MBX was selected as finalist in the Network Products Guide "Hot Technologies Companies" Awards, based on the "4P" selection criteria - namely, Products, People, Performance, and Potential.

In 2009, MBX was a Most Innovated Company finalists in the American Business Awards, also known as The Stevie Awards.

In 2008, MBX was Manufacturer of the Year runner up for the START-IT Awards. The award recognizes manufacturing companies that illustrate excellence in their market and their contribution to the overall well-being of the economy and the manufacturing industry.

In 2006, the company was named a finalist in the Most Innovative Company – Up to 100 Employees in the American Business Awards Stevie Awards competition.

Key people

Tom Crowley, CEO and President

Len Petty, CFO

Justin Formella, CIO

Jill Bellak, COO

Chris Schmidt, Director of Sales and Marketing

Chris Tucker, Business Development Manager

Jeff Luckett, Engineering Manager

Carl Nothnagel, Manufacturing Manager

Dan Carrasco, Global Distribution and Export Manager

Kevin French, Manager of Support Services

Ray Winkel, Supply Chain Manager

Notes

Further reading

Ezilon (description of MBX Systems from Ezilon Web site)

InformationWeek Five Questions

Crowley, Tom MBX Systems "Aha! What your refrigerator can tell you about selling software", Enterprise Open Source Magazine, July 14, 2006

External links

MBX Systems Web site

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Grant Morrison (born 31 January 1960) is a Scottish comic book writer and playwright. He is known for his nonlinear narratives and counter-cultural leanings, as well as his successful runs on titles like ''Animal Man'', ''Doom Patrol'', ''JLA'', ''The Invisibles'', ''New X-Men'', ''Fantastic Four'', ''All-Star Superman'', and Batman.

Early life

Grant Morrison was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1960. His first published works were ''Gideon Stargrave'' strips for ''Near Myths'' in 1978 (when he was about 17), one of the first British alternative comics. His work appeared in four of the five issues of ''Near Myths'' and he was suitably encouraged to find more comic work. This included a weekly comic strip ''Captain Clyde'', an unemployed superhero based in Glasgow, for ''The Govan Press'', a local newspaper, plus various issues of DC Thomson's ''Starblazer'', a science fiction version of that company's ''Commando'' title.

Career

1980s

Morrison spent much of the early 1980s touring and recording with his band ''The Mixers'', writing the occasional ''Starblazer'' for D. C. Thompson and contributing to various UK indie titles. In 1982 he submitted a proposal involving the Justice League of America and Jack Kirby's New Gods entitled ''Second Coming'' to DC Comics, but it was not commissioned. After writing ''The Liberators'' for Dez Skinn's ''Warrior'' in 1985, he started work for Marvel UK the following year. There he wrote a number of comic strips for ''Doctor Who Magazine'', his final one a collaboration with a then-teenage Bryan Hitch, as well as a run on the Zoids strip in ''Spider-Man and Zoids''. 1986 also saw publication of Morrison's first of several two- or three-page ''Future Shocks'' for ''2000AD''.

Morrison's first continuing serial began in ''2000AD'' in 1987, when he and Steve Yeowell created ''Zenith'', an early example of deconstructing the superhero genre.

Morrison's work on ''Zenith'' brought him to the attention of DC Comics, who asked him to pitch for them. They accepted his proposals for ''Animal Man'', a little-known character from DC's past whose most notable recent appearance was a cameo in the ''Crisis on Infinite Earths'' limited series, and for a 48-page Batman one-shot that would eventually become ''Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth''.

''Animal Man'' placed Morrison at the head of the so-called "Brit Wave" invasion of American comics, along with such writers as Neil Gaiman, Peter Milligan, Jamie Delano and Alan Moore (who had launched the 'invasion' with his work on ''Swamp Thing'').

After impressing with ''Animal Man'', Morrison was asked to take over ''Doom Patrol'', starting his uniquely surreal take on the superhero genre with issue #19 in 1989. Previously, a formulaic superhero title, Morrison's ''Doom Patrol'' introduced more surreal elements, introducing concepts such as dadaism into his first several issues.

DC published ''Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth'' in 1989 as a 128 page graphic novel. Painted by Dave McKean, ''Arkham Asylum'' featured uses of symbolic writing not common in comics at the time. (The story was to have included a transvestite Joker, an element toned down by DC.) The book went on to become one of the best selling graphic novels of all time. During the late 80s, Morrison also wrote various other titles for DC, most notably ''Gothic'' in issues 6-10 of the Batman title ''Legends of the Dark Knight''.

Whilst working for DC in America, Morrison kept contributing to British indie titles, most notably writing ''St. Swithin's Day'' for Trident Comics. ''St. Swithin's Day'''s anti-Margaret Thatcher themes proved controversial, provoking a small tabloid press fury and a complaint from Conservative MP Teddy Taylor.

The controversy continued with the publication of ''The New Adventures of Hitler'' in Scottish music and lifestyle magazine ''Cut'' in 1989, due to its use of Adolf Hitler as its lead character. The strip was unfinished when ''Cut'' folded, and was later reprinted and completed in Fleetway's ''2000AD'' spin-off title ''Crisis''.

1990s

The early 1990s saw Morrison revamping Kid Eternity for DC with artist Duncan Fegredo, and Dan Dare, with artist Rian Hughes. Morrison coloured Dare's bright future with Thatcherism in Fleetway's ''Revolver''.

In 1991 Morrison wrote ''Bible John-A Forensic Meditation'' for Fleetway's ''Crisis'', drawn by fellow member of 'The Mixers' Daniel Vallely, and based on an analysis of possible motivations for the crimes of the serial killer Bible John. Covering similar themes to Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell's ''From Hell'', the story was highly experimental in terms of story and art, with Vallely and Morrison claiming to have used a Ouija board to write the script and Vallely using a series of collages rather than conventional panels to tell the story. Morrison used the term "Forensic Meditation" to refer his mixture of scientific and magical techniques to tell the story. Vallely allegedly destroyed his art work upon the story's completion and left the comic industry. ''Bible John'' has not been reprinted.

In 1993 Morrison, fellow Glaswegian comic writer Mark Millar and John Smith were asked to reinvigorate ''2000 AD'' for an eight-week run called "The Summer Offensive". Morrison wrote Judge Dredd and Really and Truly, and co-wrote the highly controversial ''Big Dave'' with Millar.

DC Comics launched its Vertigo imprint in 1993, publishing several of Morrison's creator-owned projects, such as the steampunk mini-series ''Sebastian O'' and the graphic novel ''The Mystery Play''. 1995 saw the release of ''Kill Your Boyfriend'', with artist Philip Bond, originally published as a ''Vertigo Voices'' one-shot. In 1996 Morrison wrote ''Flex Mentallo'', a ''Doom Patrol'' spin-off with art by Frank Quitely, and also returned briefly to DC Universe superheroics with the critically acclaimed but short-lived ''Aztek'', co-written with Mark Millar.

In 1996, Morrison was given the ''Justice League of America'' to revamp as ''JLA'', a comic book that gathered the 'Big Seven' superheroes of the DC universe into one team. This run was hugely popular and returned the title back to best-selling status. It was also influential in creating the type of "widescreen" superhero action later seen in titles such as Warren Ellis and Bryan Hitch's ''The Authority''. Morrison wrote several issues of ''The Flash'' with Mark Millar, as well as DC's crossover event of 1998, the four-issue mini-series ''DC One Million'', in addition to plotting many of the multiple crossovers.

With the three volumes of the creator-owned ''The Invisibles'', Morrison would start his largest and possibly most important work. ''The Invisibles'' combined political, pop- and sub-cultural references. Tapping into pre-millennial tension, the work was influenced by the writings of Robert Anton Wilson, Aleister Crowley and William Burroughs and Morrison's practice of chaos magic. At DisinfoCon in 1999, Morrison said that much of the content in ''The Invisibles'' was information given to him by aliens that abducted him in Kathmandu, who told him to spread this information to the world via a comic book. He later clarified that the experience he labeled as the "Alien Abduction Experience in Kathmandu" had nothing to do with aliens or abduction, but that there was an experience that he had in Kathmandu that ''The Invisibles'' is an attempt to explain. The title was not a huge commercial hit to start with. (Morrison actually asked his readers to participate in a "wankathon" while concentrating on a magical symbol, or sigil, in an effort to boost sales). The first issues were critically acclaimed, but many readers found the second arc in issues 5-8 too confusing or lacking in action. When the title was relaunched with volume two, the characters relocated to America and the style became intentionally more "American", featuring more action while still maintaining Morrison's ideas and themes. Volume three appeared with issue numbers counting down, signaling an intention to conclude the series with the turn of the new millennium in 2000. However, due to the title shipping late, its final issue did not ship until April 2000. The entire series has been collected by Vertigo as a series of seven trade paperbacks.

2000s

In 2000, Morrison's graphic novel ''JLA: Earth 2'' was released with art by Frank Quitely. It was Morrison's last mainstream work for DC for a while, as he moved to Marvel Comics to take over the writing of the main X-Men title, renamed ''New X-Men'' for his run, with Quitely providing much of the art. Again, Morrison's revamping of a major superhero team proved to be a critical and commercial success, with the title jumping to the #1 sales and established Morrison as the kind of creator whose name on a title would guarantee sales. His penultimate arc "Planet X" depicted the villain Magneto infiltrating and defeating the X-Men in the guise of new character Xorn and developing an addiction to the power-enhancing drug "Kick". This has since been retconned by other writers to portray Morrison's Xorn as a separate character distinct from Magneto.

In 2002, Morrison launched his next creator-owned project at Vertigo: ''The Filth'', drawn by Chris Weston and Gary Erskine, a 13-part mini-series, said by Warren Ellis to be heavily influenced by Chris Morris's ''Blue Jam'' radio series.

While at Marvel, Morrison also wrote the six-part ''Marvel Boy'' series, and ''Fantastic Four: 1234'', his take on another major superhero team. Morrison helped challenge Marvel's reputation for being closed to new ideas, but after finishing his ''New X-Men'', he returned to DC Comics to work on several titles and help revamp the DC Universe.

In 2004, Vertigo published three Morrison mini-series. ''Seaguy'', ''We3'' and ''Vimanarama'' involving, respectively, a picaresque hero in a post-utopian world that does not need him; cyber-enhanced pets running from their captors in what Morrison calls his "western manga"; and ancient Hindu/Pakistani myths translated into Jack Kirby-style adventures. ''We3'' came in for particular praise for its bold storytelling techniques and artwork by Frank Quitely. Morrison also returned to the JLA with the first story in a new anthology series, ''JLA Classified'', tales set within the JLA mythos by various creative teams.

In 2005, DC Comics started publishing what was dubbed the first ever "megaseries". The Grant Morrison-scripted ''Seven Soldiers'' features both new characters and reimagined obscure DC characters: The Manhattan Guardian, Mister Miracle, Klarion the Witch Boy, Bulleteer, Frankenstein, Zatanna and Shining Knight. The maxi-series consists of seven interlinked four-issue mini-series with two "bookend" volumes — 30 issues in all.

Dan DiDio (current editorial vice president of DC Comics) was impressed with Morrison's ideas for revitalizing many of DC's redundant characters. Giving him the unofficial title of "revamp guy", DiDio asked him to assist in sorting out the DC Universe in the wake of the ''Infinite Crisis''. Morrison was also one of the writers on ''52'', a year long weekly comic book series that started in May 2006 and concluded in May 2007.

Starting in November 2005, DC published ''All-Star Superman'', a twelve-issue story arc by Morrison and Frank Quitely. Not so much a revamp or reboot of Superman, the series presents an out-of-continuity "iconic" Superman for new readers. ''All-Star Superman'' won the Eisner Award for Best New Series in 2006, the Best Continuing Series Eisner Award in 2007 and several Eagle Awards in the UK. It also won 3 Harvey Awards in 2008 and the Eisner Award for Best Continuing Series in 2009.

In the same year, Morrison and Quitely worked on pop star Robbie Williams' album ''Intensive Care'', providing intricate Tarot card designs for the packaging and cover of the CD.

In 2006 Morrison was voted as the #2 favorite comic book writer of all time by Comic Book Resources, beating Neil Gaiman at #3 (Alan Moore was #1). That same year, Morrison began writing ''Batman'' for DC with issue #655. He also masterminded the relaunch of ''The Authority'' and ''Wildcats'', with the art of Gene Ha and Jim Lee respectively, for DC's Wildstorm imprint. ''WildC.A.T.S.'' went on hiatus after one issue, ''The Authority'' was discontinued after two. The scheduling of ''The Authority'' conflicted with ''52'' and Morrison was unhappy with the reviews: "I said fuck it.". It eventually concluded without Morrison's involvement in Keith Giffen's ''The Authority: The Lost Year''.

At the 2007 San Diego Comic-Con, DC Comics announced that Morrison would write ''Final Crisis'', a seven issue mini-series slated to appear in 2008 with J. G. Jones handling the art. Morrison also announced that 2008 would see publication of the follow-up to 2004's ''Seaguy'' called ''Seaguy 2: The Slaves of Mickey Eye'', the second part of a planned three part series.

At the 2008 New York Comic-Con, Morrison announced he would be working with Virgin Comics to produce "webisodes" (short animated stories) based on the Mahābhārata; it would not be a direct translation but, "Like the Beatles took Indian music and tried to make psychedelic sounds... I'm trying to convert Indian storytelling to a western style for people raised on movies, comics, and video games."

2010s

At San Diego Comic Con 2010 it was announced that Grant Morrison would be leaving ''Batman and Robin'' with #16 and launching a new series entitled ''Batman Incorporated'' with artist Yanick Paquette; a more team-oriented Batman book inspired by the ''Batman: The Brave and the Bold'' animated series.

Morrison's latest creator-owned work, an eight issue Vertigo series titled ''Joe the Barbarian'', launched in January 2010 with artist Sean Murphy. Originally a six issue series, Morrison felt that the story would benefit from an extra two issues. The titular Joe is a diabetic young boy who begins to hallucinate a fantasy world populated with his toys and other fantasy characters when he stops taking his medication.

Following the closure of Virgin Comics, Dynamite Entertainment and Liquid Comics announced a partnership to publish a hardcover of illustrated scripts of Grant Morrison's Mahābhārata-based, animated project ''18 Days'' with illustrations by artist Mukesh Singh, that was released in August 2010.

He is the subject of a feature-length documentary titled ''Grant Morrison: Talking with Gods''. The documentary features extensive interviews with Morrison as well as a number of comic artists, editors and professionals he has worked closely with. ''Talking with Gods'' is being co-produced by Respect Films and Sequart Research & Literacy Organization, and was released in 2010 at the San Diego Comic Con.

Morrison was featured in My Chemical Romance's music video ''"Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)"'' from their 2010 album ''Danger Days: True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys'' as the concept's villain Korse. He reprised the role of his character in the ''"SING"'' music video.

Morrison will be completing the first 'season' of ''Batman Inc'' with issue #10, before returning in 2012 to complete the story with an additional 12 issues. He will be teaming with artist Chris Burnham for the relaunch.

In June 2011, as part of DC Comics' massive revamp of their entire superhero line, Morrison was announced as the writer on the new ''Action Comics'' #1, teaming with artist Rags Morales, marking Morrison's return to the Superman character after the ''All Star Superman''.

Morrison's next major comic book project will be ''Multiversity'', a metaseries of eight one-shots set in some of the 52 worlds in the DC Multiverse.

In July 2011, Morrison's analysis of superheroes, ''Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Superhero'', was published by Random House Spiegel & Grau in the United States and Jonathan Cape in the UK.

He has pitched a science fiction television series entitled ''Bonnyroad'' to the BBC with director Paul McGuigan and Stephen Fry, which is currently in development.

Morrison is writing a film to be directed by Adam Egypt Mortimer called ''Sinatoro'', to be released in 2012.

Appearances as a comics character

Grant Morrison first appeared as a comics character with a cameo in ''Animal Man'' #14. He made a full appearance at the end of issue #25, and spent most of #26 in a lengthy conversation with the comic's title character on the impact of 'realism' on comic books. He is killed off in ''Suicide Squad'' #58.

Morrison would later be counted among the Seven Unknown Men of Slaughter Swamp, the body of "reality engineers" seen throughout the ''Seven Soldiers'' miniseries event, all of whom look exactly like him. During the series, one of these - referred to as the "Eighth of Seven" - went rogue, consolidating magical power for himself, releasing the Sheeda warrior-race on their Twenty-First Century ancestors, and becoming the silver-age character Zor, "The Terrible Time Tailor", a figure who looks exactly like Morrison but also wears a magician's outfit and sporting dark hair and a self-described 'magnificent beard'. This Zor was introduced in the original Spectre adventures in ''More Fun Comics'' #55 before he was re-invented in "Seven Soldiers." Zor is defeated by Zatanna and captured by his fellow Time Tailors who 'judge' him. Morrison himself, bearing a DC Comics-logo tie clip then becomes the narrator of the final chapter, treating the readers as if they were Zor themselves. Zor is eventually dressed to resemble a pedophiliac miser named Cyrus Gold, killed by an angry mob (in DC history, after being killed by the mob Cyrus Gold's body falls into the swamp, and he is reborn as the Golden Age villain Solomon Grundy - see Solomon Grundy (comics)).

He has also appeared in an issue of ''Simpsons Comics'', where he is seen fighting with Mark Millar over the title of "Writer of ''X-Men''".

In the notes to the Absolute Edition of ''DC: The New Frontier'', writer Darwyn Cooke mentioned that this version of Captain Cold was visually based upon Morrison.

It has also been suggested by Comics Bulletin's Thom Young that the near-future Batman depicted in ''Batman'' #666 is based on Morrison: "Oddly, the shaved-headed Batman in the trench coat looks a bit like Grant Morrison and he has a cat named Alfred. In other words, it looks like Morrison (who is known to love cats) made himself Batman in this story. Of course, in Animal Man, Morrison appeared as himself as the teller of tales of Animal Man's life; in ''Seven Soldiers'', the tailors who tell the tales of the universe looked like Morrison; and now he seems to be the Batman of the not-too-distant future." However, Morrison has stated that the decision to base the appearance of the future Batman on him was that of artist Andy Kubert: "I had written him as having a buzz cut, I think, but Andy drew him bald. I think a lot of people just assumed that I stuck myself into a comic again, but that was never intended."

Screenwriting and playwriting

Morrison has become more involved in screenwriting and has written numerous scripts and treatments.

His screenplays include ''Sleepless Knights'' for DreamWorks and ''WE3'' for New Line (both in development with Don Murphy producing, John Stevenson is attached as Director for ''WE3''). Most recently he wrote the adaptation of the video game ''Area 51'' home console game for Paramount (in development with CFP Productions producing).

Morrison provided outline story and script work for two video games (''Predator: Concrete Jungle'' and ''Battlestar Galactica'') both by Vivendi Universal, though the finished products often did not contain all his contributions.

He has also been a successful playwright, with two plays written for and performed by Oxygen House at the Edinburgh Fringe. The first was ''Red King Rising'' in 1989, about the (partly fictional) relationship between Lewis Carroll and Alice Liddell and the second in 1990, ''Depravity'' about Aleister Crowley. Both plays were critically acclaimed and won between them a ''Fringe First Award'', the ''Independent Theatre Award'' for 1989 and the ''Evening Standard Award for New Drama''. A film adaptation of ''Red King Rising'' is in discussion. Both plays were included in his collection of prose, ''Lovely Biscuits'' released in 1999.

Bibliography

Notes

References

Callahan, Timothy (2007) Grant Morrison: The Early Years. Masters of the Medium. Sequart Research & Literacy Organization. ISBN 9780615212159

Meaney, Patrick (2010) Grant Morrison: Talking with Gods. Documentary film.

Morrison, Grant (2003) "Pop magic!" in ''Book of Lies'', pp. 16–25 ISBN 0-9713942-7-X

Disinformation: The Complete Series Disc 2: DisinfoCon. (1999) Speech by Grant Morrison. Distr. Ryko Distribution.

Meaney, Patrick (2009) Our Sentence is Up: Seeing the Invisibles. Sequart.com. ISBN 9780578032337

2000 AD profile

Blazing Through the Secrecy, about uncredited authors on ''Starblazer''

External links

The Story of Zero - Morrison's ambient, erotic prose for Cook and Brattell's Skin Two feature

Extended look at Morrison's work by Timothy Callahan on Sequart

Video of Morrison speaking at DisinfoCon

Video of Grant's performance at Steven Cook's 2002 Alternity show

Alternity - Morrison performed this spoken word piece at Steven Cook's first solo exhibition in London, (May 2002)

Grant Morrison on Cracked.com

Deep Space Transmissions, Fansite with bibliography, interview collection, annotations, proposals, and lists of unpublished works

Review of Supergods at comicbookgrrrl.com

Interviews

The Grant Morrison Interview Archive

Archive of interviews from 1976 to 1997

PopImage interview, February 2001

Punching Holes Through Time, Sequential Tart, August 2002

Barbelith interview, September 2, 2002

Catching up with Professor M: Talking with Grant Morrison, Comic Book Resources, August 2, 2003

PopImage interview, 2004

Comixfan interview, May 18, 2004

Grant Morrison's big-time return to the DCU, Newsarama, August 7, 2004

Suicide Girls interview, March 4, 2005

Three-part interview on: ''Final Crisis'', ''Batman'' and ''All-Star Superman'', Newsarama, February–March 2008

All Star Grant Morrison I: Final Crisis, II: Batman and III: Superman, Comic Book Resources, April 15–17, 2008

Grant Morrison Talks Comics, Magic, Life, and Death, ''Publishers Weekly'', August 12, 2008

Killing Batman And The DC Universe, IGN, August 26, 2008

Klaehn, Jeffery. Grant Morrison, Batman and the Superhero Genre, ''Publisher Weekly'', January 13, 2009

Alex Ness Interviews Grant Morrison, ComicNews.info,Moviemotion, Ghaneli, January 20, 2009

Klaehn, Jeffery. Grant Morrison, Final Crisis and the Superhero Genre, ''Publishers Weekly'', January 20, 2009

Interview with Grant Morrison at comicbookgrrrl.com, July 18, 2011

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Birth name	Naitia Jessica Kirkland
Birth date	October 04, 1989
Origin	New York City, New York, U.S.
Genre	Hip hop, R&B;
Occupation	Rapper, singer, songwriter, musician
Years-active	2007–present
Label	Jive
Background	solo_singer }}

Niatia Jessica Kirkland (born October 4, 1989) professionally known as Lil Mama, is an American rapper, singer-songwriter, musician, and dancer.

Early life

Lil Mama was born in Harlem in 1989. She was raised in Brooklyn, New York where she attended Edward R. Murrow High School. In 2006, Kirkland signed a recording contract with Jive Records. Her mother Tara died on December 15, 2007 following a four-year battle with breast cancer. Kirkland faced personal and financial struggles at an early age. As one of eight brothers and sisters, she started to express herself artistically through poetry and dance.

2006-2008

Lil Mama released her first album, VYP (Voice of the Young People), on April 29, 2008. The album spawned four singles: "Lip Gloss", "G-Slide (Tour Bus)", "Shawty Get Loose" and "L.I.F.E." The album sold 19,000 copies in the first week, debuting at number 25 on the Billboard 200.

2009 VMA Incident

On September 13, 2009, at the MTV Video Music Awards, Lil Mama came onstage during Jay-Z and Alicia Keys's performance of "Empire State of Mind". While Jay-Z was ending his final verse, Lil Mama came from her seat in the crowd onto the stage and started bobbing her head to the beat. Jay-Z was surprised but continued to perform. Jay-Z patted Lil Mama on the leg to fall back and threw in a quick joke, saying, "You T-Paining right now," a reference to a similar incident at Summer Jam two months earlier when T-Pain jumped onstage with Jay-Z at Summer Jam during his performance of "D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)". Lil Mama ignored Jay-Z's gesture and, at the end of the performance, Lil Mama came to the front and posed alongside Jay-Z and Keys.

2011-Present

Since the release of her first album, Lil Mama has been in the studio working on new music. She released the singles "Dough Boy" featuring Mishon, "On & On & On", and "NYNYLALA" featuring Snoop Dogg, all of which failed to chart. Lil Mama has stated that she doesn't know if she's going to release another album yet, she's just taking it step by step.

Other ventures

''America's Best Dance Crew''

Lil Mama is a judge on the dance contest show ''America's Best Dance Crew''.

''America's Next Top Model''

Lil Mama appeared in Cycle 13 of ''America's Next Top Model'' with Benny Ninja.

Discography

Studio albums

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Singles

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Other Appearances

"Girlfriend (Dr. Luke Remix)" by Avril Lavigne off the Limited Edition of her 2007 album, "The Best Damn Thing", as well as some editions of Lil Mama's debut.

"Umbrella (Remix)" by Rihanna. It was not featured on any album, however the original version of the song without Lil Mama is on Rihanna's 2007 album, "Good Girl Gone Bad".

"Just Fine" by Mary J. Blige. It was not featured on any album, but the original version without Lil Mama is on Mary J. Blige's 2007 album, "Growing Pains".

"Beautiful Girls (Remix)" by Sean Kingston. It was not featured on any album, however the original version of the song without Lil Mama is on Sean Kingston's 2007 self-titled album.

"Gimme More (Remix)" by Britney Spears. It was not featured on any album, however the original version of the song without Lil Mama is on Britney Spears' 2007 album, "Blackout".

"Amazed" by Vanessa Hudgens off her 2008 album, "Identified".

"Block Party" by Lisa Lopes off of her 2009 posthumous album, "Eye Legacy".

"Video Chat", "Big Boy Rims" and "Cupid" by College Boyys off of their 2010 debut album, "Spring Break".

"Sexiest" a song by Colombian singer "Yahaira" and featured by her.

Awards and nominations

BET Awards

*2009, Best female Hip-Hop Artist (Nominated)

*2008, Best female Hip-Hop Artist (Nominated)

MTV Video Music Awards

*2007, Monster Single of the Year: "Lip Gloss" (Nominated)

Teen Choice Awards

*2008, Choice Rap/Hip-Hop Track: "Shawty Get Loose" (Winner)

*2008, Choice TV Personality: Randy Jackson's America's Best Dance Crew (Nominated)

*2007, Choice Rap Artist (Nominated)

*2007, Choice Summer Song: "Lip Gloss" (Winner)

*2007, Choice Music Hookup: "Shawty Get Loose" (Nominated)

MTV Asia Awards

*2008, Best Hook-up: "Girlfriend" - featured by Avril Lavigne (Nominated)

References

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Coordinates	29°25′″N98°30′″N
name	T-Pain
birth name	Faheem Rasheed Najm
born	September 30, 1985 Tallahassee, Florida, U.S.
genre	R&B;, hip hop
occupation	Singer-songwriter, rapper, record producer, dancer, actor
instrument	Keyboard, vocals
years active	2000–present
label	Konvict MuzikJiveNappy BoyYoung Money Entertainment
associated acts	Akon, Tay Dizm, DJ Khaled, Lil Wayne, Pitbull, Kanye West, Young Cash, Travis McCoy
website	}}

Faheem Rasheed Najm (born September 30, 1985), better known by his stage name T-Pain, is an American singer-songwriter, rapper, record producer, and actor. He began his career as a rapper in the group Nappy Headz. In 2005, he became a singer and released his debut album ''Rappa Ternt Sanga''. Throughout his career as a singer, T-Pain has extensively used the Auto-Tune pitch correction effect. Pain is currently signed with Young Money Entertainment but will leave Konvict Muzik after the release of ''RevolveR''.

Since the release of his debut album, T-Pain has produced numerous hits of his own and for other rappers and R&B; singers. In 2008, he won a Grammy with rapper Kanye West for the single "Good Life". In 2010, he won another Grammy with Jamie Foxx for the single "Blame It". T-Pain is also the founder of the record label Nappy Boy Entertainment, established in 2005.

Early life

Najm was born in Tallahassee, Florida on September 30, 1985. His stage name is short for "Tallahassee Pain" and was chosen because of the hardships he experienced while living there. He is a Muslim. At age ten, Najm turned his bedroom into a music studio, using a keyboard, a beat machine and a four-track recorder.

Career

2004–2006: Early career and ''Rappa Ternt Sanga''

T-Pain joined the rap group Nappy Headz in 2004 and later recorded "I'm Fucked Up", a cover version of Akon's single "Locked Up". Akon heard the song and immediately signed T-Pain to Konvict Muzik, his label. After being discovered, T-Pain began singing instead of rapping. T-Pain subsequently recorded and released his debut album, ''Rappa Ternt Sanga'', on December 6, 2005. The album reached number thirty-three on the Billboard 200, and has since been certified Gold by the RIAA, for reaching sales of 500,000 units.

The album was preceded by the lead single, "I'm Sprung", which was released in August 2005 and reached number eight on the Billboard Hot 100 and number nine on the Hot R&B;/Hip-Hop Songs chart. The second single, "I'm N Luv (Wit a Stripper)", featuring Mike Jones, was released in December 2005 and reached number five on the Hot 100 and number ten on the Hot R&B;/Hip-Hop Songs chart. Talking with Hustler Magazine T-Pain said the inspiration behind "I'm N Luv (Wit a Stripper)" was "I took a friend of mine in Florida to a strip club. It was his first time. So I got ahold of one of the girls and gave her some money and told her to stay on him. And he fell in love with her! The next day we went to the studio, and I wrote the song." The third and final single from the album, "Studio Luv", was released in October 2006 but failed to chart.

2007–2008: ''Epiphany''

In mid-2006, T-Pain began work on his second album, now with the Zomba Label Group as well as Konvict Muzik and Jive Records.

T-Pain's second album ''Epiphany'', was released on June 5, 2007. The album sold 171,000 records in its first week, reaching number one on the Billboard 200. The record has since sold 819,000 records in the United States.

The album was preceded by the lead single "Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin')" featuring Yung Joc in February 2007. The single reached number one on both the Hot 100 and Hot R&B;/Hip-Hop Songs chart, becoming his first single to top charts. The album's second single, "Bartender", featuring Akon was released in June 2007 and reached number five on the Hot 100 and number nine on the Hot R&B;/Hip-Hop Songs chart. The third and final single from the album, "Church", was released in October 2007 but failed to chart in the United States.

Speaking in May 2007 to noted UK R&B; writer Pete Lewis, of the award-winning Blues & Soul about his reason for naming his second album 'Epiphany', T-Pain stated: "One of the two dictionary meanings of epiphany is 'a sudden moment of insight or revelation'. And to me the title 'Epiphany' signifies the moment I realized that, to make the best music I can, I needed to just go in the studio and be myself, and not concentrate so hard on following other people's formulas."

While promoting his second album, T-Pain made guest appearances on multiple songs by other artists. T-Pain was featured on "I'm a Flirt" (remix) by R. Kelly with T.I., "Outta My System" by Bow Wow, "Baby Don't Go" by Fabolous, "I'm So Hood" by DJ Khaled with many other rappers, "Shawty" by Plies, "Kiss Kiss" by Chris Brown, "Low" by Flo Rida, and "Good Life" by Kanye West. In two weeks in late 2007, T-Pain was featured on four top ten singles on the Billboard Hot 100 chart

"Good Life" with Kanye West later won the BET Award for Best Collaboration and was nominated in several other categories. In 2008, the single won a Grammy Award for Best Rap Song.

2007–2009: ''Thr33 Ringz''

In 2007, T-Pain began work on his third album with Rocco Valdes, Akon and Lil Wayne. The album was also his first under his Nappy Boy Entertainment.

T-Pain's third studio album, ''Thr33 Ringz'', was released on November 11, 2008. The album sold 168,000 records in its first week, reaching number four on the Billboard 200. A mixtape, ''Pr33 Ringz'', was released in early 2008 before the album.

The album was preceded by three singles. Its lead single, "Can't Believe It", featuring Lil Wayne, was released in July 2008. The single reached number seven on the Hot 100 and number two on the Hot R&B;/Hip-Hop Songs chart. The album's second single, "Chopped 'N' Skrewed", featuring Ludacris, was released in September 2008. The single reached number twenty-seven on the Hot 100 and number three on the Hot R&B;/Hip-Hop Songs chart. The third and final single from the album, "Freeze", featuring Chris Brown, was released in October 2008 and reached number thirty-eight on the Hot 100 and number thirty-nine on the Hot R&B;/Hip-Hop Songs chart. Guest appearances on ''Thr33 Ringz'' included T.I., Lil Wayne, Ludacris, DJ Khaled, Ciara, Chris Brown and Kanye West among others. ''Pr33 Ringz'' was the introduction mixtape for the album. In 2008, T-Pain continued to appear on numerous rap singles, such as "She Got It" by 2 Pistols, "Go Girl" by Ciara, "The Boss" by Rick Ross, "Cash Flow" by Ace Hood, "Shawty Get Loose" by Lil Mama, "One More Drink" by Ludacris, and "Go Hard" by DJ Khaled with Kanye West. T-Pain and Ludacris collaborated to perform "Chopped 'N' Skrewed" and "One More Drink" on American late-night television programs ''Jimmy Kimmel Live'' on ABC in November 2008 and on NBC's ''Saturday Night Live'' in the same month. T-Pain appeared again on ''SNL'' in February 2009 (on the episode hosted by Bradley Cooper with musical guest TV on the Radio) in the ''SNL'' Digital Short. T-Pain also supported the album in 2009 with his ''Thr33 Ringz Tour'', which included sold out shows across North America. T-Pain and rapper Lil Wayne formed the duo T-Wayne in 2008. The duo released a self-titled mixtape in late 2008; it charted on the Billboard 200 in January 2009. Their debut album was going to be released in 2009, but never was.

2009–present: ''RevolveR''

In May 2009, T-Pain made an appearance on a live-action episode of ''Aqua Teen Hunger Force'' as Frylock, where he made his debut as an actor. He collaborated with country-pop singer Taylor Swift for the CMT Music Awards, and performed "Thug Story", a parody of Swift's hit single "Love Story". In an interview with MTV, T-Pain announced that he would release his fourth studio album in November 2009 and that its title was ''UBER''. He stated that although he originally wanted to release the album in the summer of 2010, his label had pushed the release forward. Regardless of these announcements, the album wasn't released in 2009. An iPhone application called "I Am T-Pain" features an auto tuner, allowing fans to record and modify their own voice to accompany an instrumental collection of T-Pain's music. It was released in September 2009. In July 2009, T-Pain endorsed the 2009 T-Pain Killa Cam-Pain, a grassroots effort to help him become elected as president of Florida State University.

In November 2009, T-Pain released the first single from his fourth studio album, "Take Your Shirt Off". The single only managed to reach number eighty on the Hot 100, and was later dubbed a promotional single. Later, in February 2010, he released the official lead single from his fourth studio album, "Reverse Cowgirl", featuring Young Jeezy. He later release an updated version of the song excluding Young Jeezy's verse and adding a new bridge. The single reached number seventy-five on the Hot 100 and number sixty-four on the Hot R&B;/Hip-Hop Songs chart, becoming a mild hit. The single has since been dubbed a promotional single. T-Pain was later featured on the "We Are the World 25 for Haiti" single in February 2010, which reached number two on the Hot 100. In the fall of 2009, T-Pain began work with Cartoon Network's Adult Swim to produce and star in a television animated musical special based on Freaknik. Freaknik: The Musical aired on March 7, 2010.

In June 2010, T-Pain confirmed that his fourth studio album ''RevolveR'' has been completed and mastered, but that it will not be released until album sales increase. He elaborated upon this in August 2010, stating that the album probably wouldn't be released until 2011. T-Pain's first feature film, ''Lottery Ticket'', was released on August 20, 2010. In October 2010, T-Pain release his third promotional single, Rap Song. The song charted poorly, peaking at 89 on the Hot 100.

T-Pain released a Nappy Boy mixtape called ''T-Pain Presents: Nappy Boy All Stars Vol.1'' which contained Nappy Boy remixes to "Every Girl", "All The Way Turnt Up" and "Forever". Later he announced a mixtape for his album ''rEVOLVEr'' called ''prEVOLVEr''. the mixtape released three songs, the first being "Hoes & Ladies" which featured Lil Wayne and Field Mob's Smoke. The other two songs released were contest songs. The contest songs where meant for anyone willing to get on the track and who ever lays down the best verse will feature on the track and the actual album. The first contest song was called "Motivated" which was a rap song and the second song was an R&B; song for the singer, called "Merry Christmas." B. Martin of Albany, NY won the competition and will be featured on the mixtape. "T-Mixes" were made, which are T-Pain's remixes to some 2010 hit songs. The released remixes were "No Hands", "Black & Yellow", "Loving You No More", "Make It Rain" and "Like a G6". Two out of the five T-Mixes were made into the official remixes. They were "Black & Yellow" by Wiz Khalifa and featured him with Snoop Dogg & Juicy J. The other T-Mix that was made into an official remix was "Loving You No More" by Dirty Money, which originally featured Drake, but the remix features T-Pain and rapper Gucci Mane.

T-Pain was featured on the hit single "All I Do Is Win" by DJ Khaled, along with the remix. He featured on Wisin & Yandel's single "Imaginate" & Bun B's single "Trillionaire." In the last two quarters of 2010, he was featured on hit singles like Pitbull's "Hey Baby (Drop It To The Floor)" and Nelly's "Move That Body." He was also featured on another single by Wisin & Yandel along with rapper 50 Cent called "No Dejemos Que Se Apague." The last two single's T-Pain were featured on in 2010 were the official Remixes to Black & Yellow by rapper Wiz Khalifa & Loving You No More.

T-Pain was featured on the first single by DJ Khaled called "Welcome To My Hood" off his new album ''We the Best Forever''. The song featured him along with Rick Ross, Plies, & Lil Wayne. He is also expected to be featured on albums such as Drake's ''Take Care,'' Lil Wayne's ''Tha Carter IV,'' Tech N9ne's ''All 6s and 7s'', and many more. A new toy called "iAm T-Pain Microphone" will make its way to stores everywhere in 2011, at the price of $39.99. T-Pain is featured on a single called Electroman which is by house artist Benny Benassi. In January, JRandall released a single, "Can't Sleep", featuring T-Pain. On March 22, 2011 the next single off ''RevolveR'' will be released titled "Best Love Song" and features American singer Chris Brown. On his Twitter he stated that he would release his prEVOLVEr mixtape when he gets 500,000 followers and release his album rEVOLVEr when he gets 1,000,000 followers.

Musical style

He has called his style of music "Hard & B". T-Pain uses Auto-Tune, a pitch-correcting audio processor, for his vocals. Music critic Andy Kellman compared T-Pain's singing style to that of Cher in her 1998 hit "Believe", in which Cher used voice enhancements. In response to Jay-Z's single "D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)", T-Pain stated that he would still use the method. T-Pain's use of Auto-Tune has been cited as an influence on other urban artists' works, including Snoop Dogg's single "Sexual Eruption", Lil Wayne's single "Lollipop", and Kanye West's album ''808s & Heartbreak''. In November 2008, T-Pain demanded credit from other artists who used Auto-Tune.

Personal life

Family

T-Pain has been married to Amber since 2003. His song "I'm Sprung" is dedicated to her. They have three children: daughter Lyriq and sons Muziq and Kaydnz Kodah (born May 2009).

Legal issues

thumb|Mug shot of T-Pain taken in November 2007. He had two incidents of legal problems in 2007:

When he refused to cut his set short at Radio One's Spring Fest Concert in Miami on the evening of April 28, 2007, police presence escalated backstage. He became agitated after concert officials stopped his performance of "Buy You a Drink". Police chased T-Pain and his entourage out of the premises and detained them.

After a June 2007 concert of T-Pain's, Tallahassee police issued a warrant for his arrest over a suspended driver's license. T-Pain turned himself into the Leon County Jail on November 2, 2007.

Golf cart accident

On March 27, 2009, T-Pain was involved in a golf cart accident, the same day he was due for a music video shoot for Lil' Kim's Download song. He suffered cuts, bruises, and four missing teeth and had emergency dental work done. He returned to performing on March 29, 2009. The accident was later referenced in the music video of Glasses Malone's song "Sun Come Up" (which also featured T-Pain).

Discography

''Rappa Ternt Sanga'' (2005)

''Epiphany'' (2007)

''Thr33 Ringz'' (2008)

''RevolveR'' (2011)

Mixtape

''Pr33 Ringz'' (2008)

''PrEVOLVEr'' (2011)

Soundtracks

''Freaknik: The Musical Soundtrack'' (2010)

Filmography

''Freaknik: The Musical'' (2010)

''Lottery Ticket'' (2010)

Awards and nominations

American Music Awards

2007, Favorite Male Artist [Nominated].

BET Awards

*2009, Best Male R&B; Artist (Nominated)

*2009, Best Collaboration ("Blame It") with Jamie Foxx (Won)

*2009, Viewer's Choice ("Can't Believe It") with Lil Wayne (Nominated)

2008, Best Collaboration ("Kiss Kiss") with Chris Brown (Nominated)

2008, Best Collaboration ("Low") with Flo Rida (Nominated)

2008, Viewer's Choice ("Kiss Kiss") with Chris Brown (Nominated)

2008, Best Collaboration ("Good Life") with Kanye West (Won)

2008, Video of the Year ("Good Life") with Kanye West (Nominated)

BET Hip Hop Awards

*2009. Producer of the Year (Nominated)

*2008, Best Ringtone ("Low") with Flo Rida (Nominated)

*2008, Best Hip-Hop Video ("Good Life") with Kanye West (Won)

*2008, Best Hip-Hop Collabo ("Low") with Flo Rida (Nominated)

*2008, Best Hip-Hop Collabo ("Good Life") with Kanye West (Nominated)

*2008, Track of the Year ("Good Life") with Kanye West (Nominated)

BMI Urban Awards

* Song Writer Of The Year (Won)

* Producer Of The Year shared with J.R. Rotem & Kanye West (Won)

Grammy Awards

*2010, Best Rap/Sung Collaboration ("I'm on a Boat") with The Lonely Island [Nominated]

*2010, Best R&B; Performance by a Duo or a Group ("Blame It") with Jamie Foxx [Won]

*2010, Best R&B; Song ("Blame It") with Jamie Foxx [Nominated]

*2010, Best Contemporary Album ''Thr33 Ringz'' [Nominated]

*2009, Best Rap/Sung Collaboration ("Got Money") with Lil Wayne (Nominated)

*2009, Best Rap/Sung Collaboration ("Low") with Flo Rida (Nominated)

*2009, Best Rap Song ("Low") with Flo Rida (Nominated)

*2008, Best R&B; Performance by a Duo or Group ("Bartender") with Akon (Nominated)

*2008, Best Rap/Sung Rap Song ("Good Life") With Kanye West (Nominated)

*2008, Best Rap/Sung Collaboration ("Kiss Kiss") with Chris Brown (Nominated)

2008, Best Rap Song ("Good Life") with Kanye West (Won)

Ozone Music Awards

*2008, TJ's DJ's Hustler of the Year (Nominated)

*2008, Club Banger of the Year ("I'm So Hood") with DJ Khaled, Trick Daddy, Rick Ross, & Plies (Nominated)

*2008, Club Banger of the Year ("Low") with Flo Rida (Nominated)

*2008, Best Rap/R&B; Collaboration ("She Got It") with 2 Pistols & Tay Dizm (Nominated)

*2008, Best R&B; Artist (Nominated)

*2008, Best TJ's DJ's Tastemaker Award (Won)

*2007, Best Male R&B; Artist (Won)

*2007, Best Rap/R&B; Collaboration ("Shawty") with Plies (Won)

*2007: Best Rap/R&B; Collaboration ("Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin')") with Yung Joc (Nominated)

*2006, Best Rap/R&B; Collaboration ("I'm N Luv (Wit a Stripper) (Remix)" with Twista, Pimp C, Paul Wall, R. Kelly, MJG, and Too Short) (Won)

MTV Video Music Award

*2008, Best Hip-Hop Video ("Low") with Flo Rida (Nominated)

*2008, Best Male Video ("Low") with Flo Rida (Nominated)

*2007, Monster Single of the Year ("Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin)"), featuring Yung Joc (Nominated)

People's Choice Awards

*2008, Favorite Hip-Hop Song, "Low" with Flo Rida [Won]

*2008, Favorite Hip-Hop Song, "Good Life" with Kanye West [Nominated]

Teen Choice Awards

*2008, Choice Hook-Up: Flo Rida Featuring T-Pain, "Low" (Nominated)

*2008, Choice Music: R&B; Artist – T-Pain (Nominated)

*2008, Choice Music: Rap/Hip-Hop Track – Lil Mama featuring Chris Brown and T-Pain, "Shawty Get Loose" (Won)

Vibe Awards

*2007, Best R&B; Artist (Nominated)

*2007, Best Collaboration ("Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin)") with Yung Joc (Nominated)

*2007, Song of the Year ("Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin)") with Yung Joc (Won)

References

External links

Official website

Nappy Boy Records

Strip Club Etiquette: T'Pain's Guide Hustler Magazine

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