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Biography
Infobox musical artist | name = Black Rob| image =| caption =| image_size =| background = solo_singer| birth_name = Robert Ross| alias =| Born = birth date and age|1968|6|8|mf=y Harlem, New York , United States|U.S. | death_date =| origin = Harlem, New York | instrument =| genre = Hip hop music|Hip hop | occupation = Rapper | years_active = 1996& ndash;present| label = Duck Down Records|Duck Down , Bad Boy | website =| notable_instruments =| associated_acts = Faith Evans , 112 (band)|112 , P Diddy , Craig Mack , Mase , G. Dep Black Rob (born Robert Ross ; June 8, 1968) is a rapper who was formerly signed to Bad Boy Records .
Music career
update|type=section|date=February 2012Black Rob began associating with the label as early as 1996, appearing on the Bad Boy remix to 112 (band)|112 's "Come See Me". He was then featured on several other Bad Boy releases including remixes to Total (band)|Total 's "What About Us" (1997) and Faith Evan 's "Love Like This" (1998), the single "24 Hours to Live" (1997) from Mase and albums by Puff Daddy & the Bad Boy Family (1997) and The Notorious B.I.G. (1999). He also made two appearances on Cru (group)|Cru 1997 album Da Dirty 30 , as well as albums by Ol Dirty Bastard , Channel Live , The Madd Rapper , Benzino , Tony Touch , and others.
These guest appearances earned him a media buzz and he kept attention with the hit single "Whoa!". Following this, the album Life Story (album)|Life Story was released in 2000 and rose above Music recording sales certification|Platinum sales. Despite subsequently appearing on releases by Sean Combs|P. Diddy and G. Dep , he was unable to follow up with another hit single and seemingly fell into obscurity. His second album, The Black Rob Report failed to perform as strongly as his debut and quickly disappeared from the Billboard 100 charts. In his earlier years Black Rob headed the street rap team which he named "Alumni". In 2005 Jemal Mosley from http://www.OffTheBlockEnt.com Off The Block Entertainment started managing Black Rob's career. In 2010 he parted from Bad Boy, and signed to independent label Duck Down Records, and is working on a new album titled Game Tested, Streets Approved due to be released July 26, 2011. http://www.sohh.com/2010/10/black_rob_ducks_down_from_bad_boy_record.html Black Rob Ducks Down From Bad Boy Records SOHH.com Black Rob also started his own independent label, Box and One with Jemal Mosley. His first artist off the label will be Ray Diamondz.
Criminal record
Ross has a history of arrests spanning from his childhood to even after his record label signing and album release. This culminated in him recently being sentenced to seven years in prison in 2006 http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp? vnu_content_id=1002276458#/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp? vnu_content_id=1002276458 Black Rob sentenced to Prison for Robbery for failing to show up to court for his sentencing (which was to be 2 – 6 years initially) in a grand larceny charge from 2004, in which he was accused of robbing more than $6,000 worth of jewelry from a hotel room. http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp? vnu_content_id=1002276458#/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp? vnu_content_id=1002276458 Bad Boy's Black Rob arrested for alleged robbery He was released from prison in May 2010 and did an interview with BET two hours later. http://nahright.com/news/2010/05/04/video-black-robs-first-post-prison-interview Black Rob's first Post-Prison Interview
Reflist Bad Boy Records Persondata | NAME = Black Rob | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = | DATE OF BIRTH = June 8, 1968 | PLACE OF BIRTH = Harlem, NY | DATE OF DEATH = | PLACE OF DEATH = DEFAULTSORT:Black Rob Category:1968 births Category:Living people Category:African American rappers Category:American burglars Category:American robbers Category:Bad Boy Records artists Category:People from Yonkers, New York Category:Rappers from New York
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