Super DJ Clark Kent (born Rodolfo Franklin) is a hip hop DJ, record producer and music executive. His crew of DJs is called "The Supermen", and his DJ moniker is derived from the name of Superman's alter ego. Hip hop music is a style of music which came into existence in the United States during the mid-1970s, and became a large part of modern pop culture during the 1980s. ... DJ or dj may stand for Disc jockey, dinner jacket The DeadJournal website, or Djibouti. ... In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes. ... Superman is a fictional character and comic book superhero , originally created by American writer Jerry Siegel and Canadian artist Joe Shuster and published by DC Comics. ...

The biggest hit he produced was "Loverboy" by Mariah Carey, which peaked at #2 in the US on Billboard's Hot 100 chart. He also produced tracks for artists such as Lil Kim, Notorious B.I.G., Canibus, Lil' Vicious, Mona Lisa and Rakim as well as groups such as The Future Sound and Original Flavor which included a then little known rapper called Jay-Z. Loverboy is a song written and produced by American singer Mariah Carey for her tenth album, Glitter. ... Mariah Carey (born March 27, 1970) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, music video director and actress. ... Lil Kim on the cover of her album Notorious Kim Kimberly Ann Jones, professionally known as Lil Kim (also called The Queen Bee, The Lieutenant, and The Queen Bitch such as the QB of all bitches) is a United States rapper who was born in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood... Christopher Wallace (May 21, 1972 - March 9, 1997), also known as Biggie Smalls (after a stylish gangster in the 1975 comedy, Lets Do it Again), but best known as The Notorious B.I.G. (Business Instead of Game). ... Germaine Williams (born December 9, 1974), better known as Canibus and also as Can-I-Bus and Rip the Jacker, is a Jamaican-born American MC and rapper. ... Rakim (full name Rakim Allah, born William Michael Griffin Jr. ... // One of raps middle school crews headed by Ski, an MC/producer, Original Flavor dropped their inauspicious debut This Is How It Is in 1992. ... Jay-Z (aka the Jigga, HOV and Hova, born Shawn Carter on December 4, 1970 in Brooklyn, New York) is an African American rapper/hip hop artist and record label executive; one of the most popular and successful rappers of the late 1990s and early 2000s. ...

This would lead to further collaborations between the two, as Franklin would go on to produce three tracks on Jay-Z's critically acclaimed debut album, Reasonable Doubt. The tracks were: "Brooklyn's Finest", which featured Notorious B.I.G., "Coming of Age" and "Cashmere Thoughts." On his (then) retirement album The Black Album, Jay-Z alludes to Clark Kent's role in helping him break into the industry, in the last song on the album (ironically titled "My 1st Song"). He states: "Clark Kent, that was good lookin out, nigga." Reasonable doubt redirects here. ... The name Black Album has been given to several albums, either officially or by fans to refer to a self-titled album. ...

Franklin accidentally overheard the then unknown rapper Moses Michael Leviy (AKA Jamal Barrow BKA Shyne) rhyming in a barbershop, who, noting the young MC's vocal similarity to Notorious B.I.G., steered him towards Combs and Bad Boy. Moses Michael Leviy (born Jamal Barrow on November 8, 1978), best known as Shyne, is a Belizean-American rapper. ...

He is also the cousin of recording artist Foxy Brown. Inga Marchand (born September 6, 1979, in Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York), better known as Foxy Brown, is an American rapper of Afro-Trinidadian and Indo-Trinidadian descent [1] known for her solo work as well as numerous collaborations and a brief stint as part of hip-hop musicgroup The...

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