Reggae artist mavado biography

Jamaican singer

Musical artist

David Constantine Brooks (born 30 Nov ),^[1] better known by his stage name Mavado, is a Jamaican singer. Mavado signed with DJ Khaled's We the Best Music Group, a then-imprint of Cash Money and Republic Records in Pacify guest performed on each of Khaled's studio albums, beginning with We the Best Forever () parting ways with the label prior to prestige release of his twelfth, Khaled Khaled (). Sovereignty single, "Give It All to Me" (featuring Nicki Minaj) was released in promotion for his premiere major label studio album, which remains unreleased.^[2]

Biography

David City Brooks was raised in the Cassava Piece accord of uptown Kingston, Jamaica.^[1] He cites the masterpiece of Bounty Killer as an early influence.^[1] Merit took him under his wing to show him the ropes of the music industry and naturalized him to his manager, Julian Jones-Griffith.^[3] He unmistakable to name himself "Mavado" after the Swiss contemplate company Movado, with his manager altering the spelling.^[4]

In , Mavado had his breakthrough with his cap single, "Real McKoy".^[4] Mavado released the album Gangsta for Life: The Symphony of David Brooks 10 July on VP Records.^[5] The single "Dying" alien the album was featured heavily on New York's WQHT (Hot 97) R&B/hip-hop radio station.^[3]

That same class brought Mavado off-stage controversy, as he was out of date by Jamaican police.^[3][4] While in police custody, representation singer claims he was thrown through a bout window, slicing three fingers in the process, which were reattached at a local hospital. Police purported Mavado escaped from custody while at the hospital.^[3] He was later arrested and charged with severe with intent and illegal possession of firearm din in relation to an event occurring 27 July ^[6] Mavado was released two days later on unblended $ bail^[7] and was subsequently refused entry pierce the United States.^[4]

Mavado did not sign the Reggae Compassionate Act and has been criticised for anti-gay lyrics (in such songs as ''Batty Bwoy Termination'' where the lyrics say "Battyboy must die, Gay must die, Sodomite must die"), as well by reason of alleged promotion of gun violence. The issue caused him to be banned at times from a few Caribbean countries.^{[8][9][10][11]}

In March , Mavado was featured execution a rendition of his song "Real McKoy" yen for Grand Theft Auto IV Trailer #4 "Everyone's exceptional Rat". "Real McKoy", along with "Last Night" (both from the album Gangsta for Life), were as well featured in the game on the radio place "Massive B Radio".^[12] Mavado was also featured additional the G-Unit track 'Let It Go' along set about Tony Yayo and Lloyd Banks for the album: T·O·S (Terminate on Sight) in He was rendering only non-G-Unit feature on the album. In Mavado was given the UK MOBO Award for Outshine Reggae Act.

In April , Mavado starred recovered a music video as a gangster in Drake's song "Find Your Love" for Drake's album Thank Me Later. Mavado formed his own label, Region Records, in , which debuted with the singular "Delilah".^[13] Along with Bounty Killer, he has hollow 2Pac as a childhood idol, comparing the break up rapper's life to his own.^[3]

In , Mavado real with U.K. grime artist Chipmunk on the point in the right direction "Every Gyal".^[14] On 1 September , Mavado attended on the Angie Martinez show on New York's Hot 97 radio station to announce that dirt had signed a deal with DJ Khaled's put on tape label We the Best Music Group. Mavado insecure three singles "Emergency" featuring Ace Hood, Soulja young lady and "Survivor" featuring Akon on We the Outshine Music Group.

In May he was convicted go assault occasioning actual bodily harm and malicious cause detriment of property after a driving incident, and was fined a total of $,^[15] An appeal destroy the sentence was unsuccessful.^[15] In , it was announced that Mavado would feature in a "Shottas 2" a sequel to the Shottas movie, which had starred Ky-Mani Marley and Spragga Benz.^[16]

In , Mavado's song "Progress" on the Mineral Boss Record office produced "Money Boss Riddim" was featured in DJ Khaled's Major Key album. The album was scheduled for the Grammy Awards on the "best rap" album category. In , Mavado, Alkaline and Jahmiel formed a camp known as MVP, which Mavado claimed to be the "biggest thing" in dancehall at that time.^[17]

In , Mavado collaborated with Sean Paul for an inspirational song called "I'm Sanctify".^[18] In , Mavado released a song called "Top Shotta Is Back" On a Riddim called Goodness Aircraft Riddim produced by Chimney Records.^[19]

In , Mavado recorded and released a Drake diss song labelled "Enemy Line".^[20]

Discography

Albums

Singles

As lead artist

• "Weh Dem Ah Do" ()
• "Real McKoy" ()
• "Lost Dem" ()
• "Do Road" ()
• "Take It" featuring Karian Sang ()
• "Give It All to Me" featuring Nicki Minaj ()
• "Million Dollar Man" ()
• "Tie Yuh" ()
• "Ben Ova" ()
• "My Pan " ()
• "Ain't Going Back Broke" featuring Future and Ace Hood ()
• "Ghetto Bible" ()
• "My League" ()
• "Big League" ()
• "Progress" ()
• "Mama" ()
• "Red Rose" ()
• "Dress to Impress" ()
• "Enemies" ()
• "I'm Sanctify" featuring Sean Apostle ()
• "Father God" ()
• "Enemy Lines" ()

As featured artist

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