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Prince Be was born on May 15, , in Jersey City, New Jersey, as Attrell Cordes.
PM Dawn is an American hip hop and R&B act that formed in by the brothers Attrell Cordes (known by his stage name Prince Be)..
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Group consists of Prince Be (born Attrell Cordes, early 1970s, in Jersey City, NJ), samples, vocals; and D.J. Minutemix (born Jarrett Cordes, early 1970s, in Jersey City), turntables. Addresses: Record company-- Gee Street/Island, 825 Eighth Avenue, New York, NY 10019.
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Dawn's hefty front man Prince Be has been called everything from an ersatz hippie to a fraud," reported David Browne in Entertainment Weekly. The name-calling was prompted by P.M. Dawn's challenge to rap's limited subgenre categorization, which fomented a controversy over the legitimacy of rap that tends toward pop music and away from the hardcore, "gangsta" stance.
As early as 1989, Prince Be and his brother DJ Minutemix were using the tools of hip-hop--the standard vocal rhymes and "sampling" of bars from previously recorded songs--to make music that appealed