Marley Marl

Marley Marl
Born: Sep 30, 1962 in Queens, NY
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Genre: Rap
Styles: Hip-Hop, Old-School Rap, Golden Age, Pop-Rap, East Coast Rap
Biography: One of hip-hop's first (and finest) superproducers, Marley Marl was an early innovator in the art of sampling, developing new techniques that resulted in some of the sharpest beats and hooks in rap's Golden Age. As the founder of Cold Chillin' Records, Marl assembled a roster filled with some of the ...Read full biography
In Control, Vol. 1
Released: 1988
Label: P Vine
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In Control, Vol. 1 is a greatest-hits package (of a sort) featuring singles Marley Marl produced for his stable of artists on the Cold Chillin' label. Mostly though, the album serves to show exactly how ...Read full review
In Control, Vol. 2
Released: 1991
Label: Cold Chillin'
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By the time of the release of Marley Marl's In Control, Vol. 2, three years after the release of volume one, hip-hop had changed paths. In 1988, Marley Marl's repertoire of drum loops and James Brown samples ...Read full review
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