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Aaron Dontez Yates (born November 8, 1971), better known by his stage name Tech N9ne (pronounced "Tech Nine"), is an American rapper from Kansas City, Missouri. In 1999, Yates and Travis O'Guin founded the record label Strange Music. Throughout his career, Yates has sold over one million albums and has had his music featured in film, television, and video games. In 2009, he won the Left Field Woodie award at the mtvU Woodie Awards.
His stage name originated from the TEC-9 semi-automatic handgun, given to him by rapper Black Walt due to his fast rhyming style. Yates later applied a deeper meaning to the name, claiming that it stands for the complete technique of rhyme, with 'tech' meaning technique and 'nine' representing the number of completion.
Aaron Dontez Yates was born on November 8, 1971 in Kansas City, Missouri. He began rapping at a very early age, and would rap the letters of his name in order to remember how to spell it. He never met his father, and his mother suffered from epilepsy and lupus when he was a child, which emotionally affected him and inspired him to "search for God." He would wander around abandoned buildings with his best friend, Brian Dennis, hoping to catch a ghost on film. In 2003, Dennis was shot and killed by his girlfriend's ex-boyfriend, which further inspired Yates' search for a higher power, as well as giving him the drive to vent his frustrations in his music.
Slimm Calhoun is a rapper from College Park, Georgia who was signed to OutKast's label, Aquemini Records in the late 1990s. Calhoun released his first album, The Skinny, on April 10, 2001 (2001-04-10).
Actors: Kevin P. Farley (actor), John Farley (actor), Sam Reinis (miscellaneous crew), Ed Gale (actor), Kate Linder (actress), Ryan Wade Howard (actor), Ryan Wade Howard (miscellaneous crew), Bob Joyce (editor), Mara New (actress), Stanley Longstreet (miscellaneous crew), Mara New (actress), Michael Silberman (miscellaneous crew), Mikey Post (actor), Penka Kouneva (composer), Gloria Kisel (producer),
Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Family,Actors: James Day (producer), James Day (director), James Day (writer), Tomaso Albinoni (composer), Tom Schimmels (editor), David Kumpe (actor), Tomoe Imamura (actress), Ryan Higgins (actor), Mark Amaral (actor),
Genres: Short, Sport,Actors: Amy Irving (actress), Graham Greene (actor), Christopher McDonald (actor), Bob Weinstein (producer), Theodore Bikel (actor), Donald Sutherland (actor), Harvey Weinstein (producer), Julie Hansen (miscellaneous crew), Ferdy Mayne (actor), Rider Strong (actor), Dieter Geissler (producer), Hummie Mann (composer), Don Collier (actor), Patricia Tallman (actress), Sharyn L. Ross (editor),
Plot: Twenty two years earlier, Karen helped convict her father, Frank, for the murder of her mother. With his new freedom, thanks to parole, Frank returns home to seek revenge. Having always pleaded his innocence, Frank soon works his way back into Karen's life.
Keywords: chase, desert, incest, independent-film, murder, revengeActors: Ken Metcalfe (actor), Ruben Ramos (actor), Archie Adamos (actor), Jaime Fabregas (composer), Romy Diaz (actor), Vernon Wells (actor), Cirio H. Santiago (director), Edgardo Vinarao (editor), Frederick Bailey (actor), Rick Dean (actor), Brad Johnson (actor), Eric Hahn (actor), Eric Hahn (miscellaneous crew), Jeff Griffith (actor), Christopher R. Santiago (producer),
Plot: Lt. Vance Calhoun takes on a dangerous rescue mission of American P.O.W.s in the treacherous Darloc Valley in Vietnam. His only chance to escape is with the help of five young, fearless soldiers on motorcycles.
Keywords: action-hero, ak-47, ambush, attack, b-movie, bar-brawl, bar-fight, battle, battlefield, beatingActors: Tony Barry (actor), Kris McQuade (actress), James M. Vernon (producer), Gary Day (actor), Rod Mullinar (actor), Gerard Maguire (actor), Stephen Leeder (actor), Gosia Dobrowolska (actress), Grahame Jennings (producer), Frank Shields (director), Frank Shields (writer), Frank Shields (producer), David Clendenning (actor), Jose Element (actor), Tony Bellette (actor),
Genres: Action, Drama, Thriller,Actors: Ralph Volkie (actor), Ralph Volkie (miscellaneous crew), John Wayne (actor), 'Chema' Hernandez (miscellaneous crew), Ben Johnson (actor), Wayne Fitzgerald (miscellaneous crew), Ricardo Montalban (actor), Ann-Margret (actress), John Wayne (producer), Rod Taylor (actor), Burt Kennedy (writer), Dominic Frontiere (composer), Burt Kennedy (director), Marshall J. Wolins (miscellaneous crew), Christopher George (actor),
Genres: Western,Actors: Herbie Hancock (composer), Byron Morrow (actor), Jerry Whittington (miscellaneous crew), Michael Kahn (editor), Johnny Williams (actor), Paul Butler (actor), James Mitchell (actor), Ivan Dixon (producer), Ivan Dixon (director), J.A. Preston (actor), Paula Kelly (actress), R.J. Louis (miscellaneous crew), Don Blakely (actor), Joseph Mascolo (actor), Lawrence Cook (actor),
Plot: In order to improve his standing with Black voters, a White Senator starts a campaign for the CIA to recruit Black agents. However, all are graded on a curve and doomed to fail, save for a soft-spoken veteran named Dan Freeman. After grueling training in guerrilla warfare, clandestine operations and unarmed combat, he is assigned a meager job as the CIA's token Black employee. After five years of racist and stereotyped treatment by his superiors, he quietly resigns to return to his native Chicago to work for a social services agency...by day. By night, he trains a street gang to be the vanguard in an upcoming race war, using all that the CIA has taught him...
Keywords: african-american, based-on-novel, black-power, blaxploitation, chicago-illinois, cia, civil-unrest, civil-war, ghetto, inner-cityActors: Ossie Davis (director), Ossie Davis (writer), Anna Hill Johnstone (costume designer), John Anderson (actor), Redd Foxx (actor), Redd Foxx (actor), Eugene Roche (actor), Melba Moore (actress), Lou Jacobi (actor), Albert Hall (actor), Raymond St. Jacques (actor), Vernee Watson-Johnson (actress), Cleavon Little (actor), Samuel Goldwyn Jr. (producer), Walter Scott (actor),
Plot: Gravedigger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson are two black cops with a reputation for breaking the odd head. Both are annoyed at the success of the Reverend Deke O'Mailey who is selling trips back to Africa to the poor on the installment plan. When his truck is hijacked and a bale of cotton stuffed with money is lost in the chase, Harlem is turned upside down by Gravedigger and Coffin Ed, the Reverend, and the hijackers. Much of the humor is urban black, which was unusual in 1970.
Keywords: african-american, based-on-novel, black-cop, black-militant, blaxploitation, chase, cotton, detective, four-word-title, lootActors: Frank Latimore (actor), Alex Nicol (actor), Alex Nicol (director), Alex Nicol (producer), Paul Frees (actor), Richard Bull (actor), Sidney Clute (actor), Gérard Herter (actor), Barry Cahill (actor), Tarcisio Fusco (composer), Manuel del Campo (editor), Allan Lurie (writer), Allan Lurie (writer), Frank Gregory (actor), Frank Gregory (writer),
Plot: When an American attack on the German-held town of San Corrado results in the Germans being forced out of the town, they don't have time to take along a top Italian partisan leader they have captured and imprisoned. Fearing that the Americans will turn the man loose to organize more partisan attacks on their forces, the Germans send one of their top agents to infiltrate the town, posing as an American soldier cut off from his unit, and assign him to re-capture the partisan leader and bring him back for interrogation--or, if that's not possible, to kill him.
Keywords: grappa, independent-film, knife-in-back, knife-in-stomach, nazis, sniper, spy, turtle, world-war-twoActors: Chuck Hamilton (actor), John Harmon (actor), Nat Carr (actor), Cliff Clark (actor), Eddy Chandler (actor), Creighton Hale (actor), Steve Darrell (actor), Joe Devlin (actor), Donald Douglas (actor), Eddie Foy Jr. (actor), John Gallaudet (actor), Gus Glassmire (actor), Sol Gorss (actor), Eddie Graham (actor), John Harron (actor),
Plot: Fugitive Lee Leslie is wanted by three groups; the police, the gangsters who fear his testimony in court and the insurance company that carries a $1,000,000 policy on him and is anxious to protect its interests by seeing that Leslie stays alive. The company assigns Dan Miller to find Leslie. A night club singer, Ruby Patterson the beneficiary of his will, tips the gangsters as to his whereabouts. He escapes but the gang kidnaps his sister Janet and his mother. His plan to surrender to the police now depends on being able to rescue them first.
Keywords: deception, detective, frame-up, fugitive, gangster, gunfire, hideout, impersonation, insurance-investigator, kidnapping