The album was certified platinum by the RIAA, and a chopped and screwed version, screwed by OG Ron C, was released in February 2006. Comedic performer Weird Al Yankovic made a parody of the song, titled "White and Nerdy", for his own album Straight Outta Lynwood.The third single from the album was "Grown and Sexy".Īdditionally, the bonus track "Grind Time" was featured in the video game NBA Live '06. Its video also was named "Best Rap Video" in the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards. The album's lead single was "Turn It Up", featuring Lil' Flip produced by Scott Storch, followed by "Ridin'", featuring Krayzie Bone of Bone Thugs-n-Harmony "Ridin'" reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100. The album debuted and peaked at #10 on the Billboard 200 album chart in the United States. The Source magazine nominated the album for independent album of the year in 2002.Ĭhamillionaire's first major solo release The Sound of Revenge was released through Chamillitary Entertainment and Universal Records in November 2005. In 2002, Chamillionaire and Paul Wall collaborated for the album Get Ya Mind Correct, would go on to sell over 150,000 copies. Chamillionaire and Paul Wall soon started their own group, The Color Changin' Click. Soon, Chamillionaire and Paul Wall became regular staples on Houston's mixtape circuit, appeared on several of Watts's mixtapes, and became permanent members of Swishahouse. Watts, who himself was convinced to rap on the record, enjoyed the freestyle so much that he put the verses on one of his mixtapes. After proposing to do promotions for Watts's company Swishahouse, Chamillionaire and Paul Wall came to Watts's studio and convinced Watts to allow them freestyle on an intro to Watts's radio show on Houston hip-hop radio station KBXX-FM. While promoting themselves in an event, he and Paul Wall met Michael "5000" Watts, a popular mixtape DJ from northern Houston.
Before becoming a rapper he held numerous jobs, including stocking trucks and transporting blood and urine for a medical lab In a January 2006 interview with The Austin Chronicle, Chamillionaire stated that at first lived in a section of Houston zoned to Eisenhower High School and that his parents moved to the Jersey Village High School attendance zone so he could play in its more advanced basketball program.Ĭhamillionaire stated that he has been recording mixtapes as early as 1998.
He moved to Houston, Texas at the age of four. to an immigrant father from Oyo State, Nigeria and a Nigerian mother. He is a former artist on Michael 5000 Watts' Swishahouse label. In 2007, he won a Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group for his number-one single "Ridin'", a number-one hit in the United States for two weeks in 2006.
Chamillionaire is a founder and original member of The Color Changin' Click. He is also a hook writer and usually sings and harmonizes with himself (using multi-tracked vocals) on his own hooks. He stated that his aim is to prove that the South can produce quality lyricists. Hakeem Seriki (born November 28, 1979), better known by his stage name Chamillionaire (pronounced Ka-MIL-yin-air, IPA: /kəˌmɪljəˈnεər/, a portmanteau of "chameleon" and "millionaire") is an American rapper, CEO, singer and musician from Houston, Texas and the CEO of Chamillitary Entertainment.
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