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He signed with Tommy Boy/Warner Bros. Records and released his debut album, Apache Ain't Shit (1993), which peaked at number 69 on the Billboard 200 and No. 15 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. [3] Also featured on the album was the single "Gangsta Bitch", which peaked at number 67 on the Billboard Hot 100 and 11 on the Hot Rap Singles. [4]
"Apache" is a song written by Jerry Lordan and first recorded by Bert Weedon. ... it became heavily sampled in early hip hop music, including by Afrika Bambaataa, ...
"Gangsta Bitch" is the debut single released from Apache's debut album, Apache Ain't Shit. Produced by Q-Tip of A Tribe Called Quest, [2] "Gangsta Bitch" became Apache's only charting single, making it to No. 67 on the Billboard Hot 100. It contains a sample of "Love and Happiness" by Monty Alexander, originally made famous by Al Green.
The song won the first hip-hop Grammy for Best Rap Performance, but the artists boycotted the ceremony in protest of the fact that the award wouldn’t be presented during the television broadcast ...
The album peaked at number 69 on the Billboard 200 and number 15 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. One charting single was released from the album, the Q-Tip-produced hit "Gangsta Bitch", [2] which made it to No. 67 on the Billboard Hot 100, No. 49 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks and No. 11 on the Hot Rap Singles. Another single titled "Do ...
In 2008, music critic Will Hermes wrote an article on "Apache" and the Incredible Bongo Band for the New York Times [10] and had an entire documentary devoted to it called Sample This: The Birth of Hip Hop. [11] In 2018, Apache was used as the soundtrack to a fight scene in Black Lightning.
The roots of hip-hop might be firmly planted at 1520 Sedgwick Ave. in the Bronx, but its branches clearly extend into North Jersey. On Aug. 11, 1973, DJ Kool Herc tried something new while ...
"Made You Look" is the first single from Nas' 2002 album, God's Son. Built around several samples lifted from the Incredible Bongo Band's "Apache", the single was important in establishing Nas' direction following his battle with Jay-Z and the Stillmatic album in its reliance on intricate lyricism and an old-school aesthetic.