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About me: C-MURDER When the world turned its back on C-Murder, it was only giving him ammunition to fuel a monstrous comeback. That’s because the platinum rapper -- who rose to international prominence in the late 1990s as a part of his brother Master P’s monumentally successful No Limit Records -- was sentenced to life in prison for a 2002 murder he said he did not commit, an assertion that gained credence when C-Murder’s conviction was thrown out in 2006. Now, awaiting a new trial, the man born Corey Miller returns with his first studio album in five years, Screamin’ 4 Vengeance, a forceful artistic statement that allows him to voice his displeasure with an unjust legal system and deliver the type of bone-crushing rap that became his signature with the release of his debut platinum selling album, 1998’s grisly Life Or Death. “I’ve been through so much and, at the same time, I’ve never had a chance to express myself,” C explains. “So, I feel like I’m getting revenge on the whole world that was against me with this record. Certain people in the state of Louisiana are against me -- in the court system and the DAs, as well as all the haters that feel like I did it just because I was on the news and was found guilty.” C-Murder blasts his critics and his detractors on the super-charged lead single, “Posted On Tha Block.” Produced by promising newcomers JSTO and Patience, the song thumps with adrenaline-raising keyboards and a screwed chorus as C-Murder gives an overview of his mind state as he announces his return to stardom. “A lot of people want to know what’s going on with me and what my personal feelings are as far as what I’ve been through the last five years,” he says. “I expressed it in that song. The public’s getting a basic picture of what I’ve been through, how I feel and what’s going on in my mind from that song.” Despite the obstacles he has overcome in the last few years, C-Murder hasn’t lost his creative edge. This steadfast ruggedness is on full display on the sinister “Murder Man Dance.” The gruff tune contains the classic ingredients that make up a classic C-Murder track: gritty lyrics accented with controlled vocal fury and a grimy beat that is as intimidating as it is catchy. “It’s what everybody expects from me,” C says of the hardcore song. “My fans don’t want me to come out here and change, and talk about flowers and roses. They want to hear the real gritty stuff where they can go in the club to it and bump in their ride. They want me to keep it gangster, not let the opposition take me under and change me. I’m still doing what I want to do.” Elsewhere, C-Murder teams with Philadelphia’s Gillie Da Kid on “Welcome To My World,” where the two rappers detail how similar ghetto experiences can be. C-Murder and Pimp C unite on “Can’t Stop Me.” Here, the two Southern artists detail their unwillingness to bend when faced with crooked law enforcement and their tactics. “They did everything in their power to stop me, legal and illegal,” C says. “They didn’t want me to get my music out to my fans and to the world. They tried to make an example out of me in the wrong way. After everything, I still came back. I’m unstoppable.” For many former inmates, their release dates are understandably special. On the celebratory “Now That Your Back,” which features R&B siren LeToya, C-Murder details his excitement and objectives now that he’s a free man. “I wanted to have a song like that because it’s talking about me getting out of jail and now that I’m back, what I’ve got going on with myself,” he reasons. “That song will reach a lot of people. You’ve got females who are at home alone because their dude, their dad or their brother is locked up. You’ve got dudes that are locked up now and they’re really going to relate to this song because it’s going to express what they’re going through right now.” C-Murder knows how to relate to the people because he’s been doing it for more than a decade. As a member of the No Limit movement, which also included Master P, Snoop Dogg, Silkk the Shocker, Mystikal, and TRU, C-Murder helped make Southern rappers respected for the music, as well as their business minds. Thanks in large part to his string of platinum and gold solo albums, as well as his role in the multi-platinum group TRU and his own successful TRU Records, C-Murder established himself in the late 1990s as a musical powerhouse who made danceable gangster rap music that was authentic and extremely powerful. Among his many hits, C-Murder’s smash “Down 4 My N’s,” culled from 2000’s Trapped In Crime, was a muscular tribute to his fellow soldiers holding it down in ghettos across America. That song, as uncompromising and brutal as it was, was a perfect manifestation of C-Murder’s artistic authenticity. “I don’t feel like I’ve got to make this song for this person or that person,” he says. “From day one, I just went in there and did what I wanted to do.” Even when faced with incarceration, C-Murder found a way to make it productive. While his legal drama unfolded, C-Murder took his love for reading to the next level by writing his first novel, Death Around The Corner. He found that writing the gripping story of Daquan, who has to react to a string of personal tragedies, was similar to writing lyrics. “You get to express yourself and tell your story how you want it to be read,” he says. “But you also get express a lot more because you’re dealing with pages.” Fortunately, C-Murder has always been able to express himself to the fullest in his menacing recordings. It’s a trend that continues on the searing Screamin’ 4 Vengeance. “I just wanted to have a complete album and make sure that every song is different and that I’m saying what I want to say,” he says. “I put the puzzle together.”

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Birthday:January 2

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