Southside

Southside or South Side may refer to:

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Finding Forever

Finding Forever is the seventh studio album by Common, released on July 31, 2007 on GOOD Music and Geffen Records. Like Common's previous album, Be (2005), Finding Forever is primarily produced by Kanye West. The album debuted at the number one on the Billboard 200, selling 155,000 units in the first week, becoming Common's first chart-topper. Selling over 500,000 units in the US, it has been certified Gold. Finding Forever was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rap Album, losing to Kanye West's Graduation at the 50th Grammy Awards

Conception

Background

Common explains that "Finding Forever really means to find a place in music where you can exist forever. Music can be forever if you make it from the heart, if you make it from the soul and it’s good. And I look at music like Bob Marley's or Marvin Gaye's or Stevie Wonder's or A Tribe Called Quest's, that's forever music. And I’m continuing on the quest to make forever music."

Common also says: "And now with the death of J Dilla and other things, you start thinking about forever lasting for real through music [...] Jay Dee will last forever through his music and hopefully generations down the line will know about Common through his music. And it's also saying: I been doing this for a nice period of time, so I'm trying to find the place where I can keep existing in the game and make music I love."

Southside (record producer)

Joshua Howard Luellen (born February 2, 1989), professionally known as Southside, or by his stage name Young Sizzle, is an American rapper, songwriter, and record producer. He gained recognition in the hip hop industry for producing songs by several Southern hip hop artists. Southside produced the majority of Waka Flocka Flame's albums Triple F Life: Friends, Fans & Family and Ferrari Boyz. In 2010, Southside and his fellow 1017 label-mate Lex Luger, established their production group 808 Mafia, where Southside currently is at the helm of the group. The basis for his stage name came from the place from where Luellen grew up, Southside, Atlanta.

Musical career

Southside grew up in the Southside region of Atlanta, Georgia. Growing up, he was an accomplished baseball player and excelled in numerous baseball position but eventually gave up the sport after suffering a head concussion when a ball was thrown toward his head. He started making beats when he was 14 years old, when he got his first computer. It was around his mid teenage years that Southside decided to start take music production as a serious career path. He was later discovered by then unknown rapper Waka Flocka Flame when he was 17 and through Waka's network, Gucci Mane eventually signed him to his label 1017 Brick Squad Records. At Bricksquad Records, Luellen met Lex Luger, who was another producer for Waka Flocka, and the two started working together to lay the production groundwork for Waka Flocka's debut album.

Goddamn

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Goddamn (EP)

Goddamn is the second EP released by You Am I in May 1992. The EP was You Am I's first release with bassist Andy Kent who was previously a mixer for the band. It was You Am I's last release on Timberyard Records as they were then signed to Ra Records, a sub-branch of rooArt Records.

Track listing

All songs: Rogers/You Am I

Tracks 6 - 9 were previously available on You Am I's Snake Tide EP which was first released on vinyl in 1991. On these tracks Nik Tischler plays bass guitar.

Personnel