He's made a habit of rapping on his artists' records in the hopes that this will jump-start their careers - and it does draw immediate attention - but that's just a shortcut. He'll need to do real artist development to ensure these guys have actual long-lasting careers.
"Erik Parker" (born 1968) is a New York based artist. He has had solo exhibitions at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Connecticut; the De Appel in Amsterdam; the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas; Colette in Paris; Honor Fraser in Los Angeles; and Galleri Faurschou in Copenhagen, Denmark.
More Erik Parker on Wikipedia.I don't see the tributes stopping. It's like with Marvin Gaye. People keep bringing him back, to keep him alive.
He didn't come across as a thug or as someone looking for trouble. He was a nice, articulate and charming guy. ... Local scenes in rap can be really fragmented but this may cause people to band together.
A lot of hip-hop fans resented them for being the token hip-hop group that was representing hip-hop culture to the mainstream. It wasn't their fault; they're just an accessible, easy-going group that started making really good pop music and was celebrated by everybody after they added Fergie. But there was a lot of resentment and hate.
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