Photo: methodshop. Heavy D. Birthday: May 24, The group maintained a sizable audience in the United States through most of the s. Mark Wahlberg. Birthday: June 5, Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg born June 5, is an American actor, producer, restaurateur and former rapper. He is also known by his former stage name Marky Mark from his career with the group Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch, with whom he released the albums Music for the People and You Gotta Believe Wahlberg transitioned from music to acting, with his screen debut in Renaissance Man and his first starring role in Fear He received critical praise for his performance as porn actor Dirk Diggler in Boogie Nights.
In the early s, he ventured into big budget action-oriented movies, such as The Perfect Storm , Planet of the Apes , and The Italian Trippie Redd. Birthday: June 18, White is best known for his songs "Dark Knight Dummo" featuring Travis Scott and "Topanga," with the former peaking at number 72 on the Billboard Hot and the latter peaking at number In July , White announced his debut album would be titled Life's a Trip.
The album was released August 10, , and debuted at number four on the Billboard Album Chart selling 72, album-equivalent units. White earned his highest Billboard charting in November with the mixtape, A Love Letter to You 3, debuting at number three. On August 9, , he MC Ren. Birthday: June 16, He is the founder and owner of the record label Villain. His moniker is derived from the middle letters in his first name Lorenzo. MC Ren began his solo career signed as a solo artist to Eazy-E's Ruthless in early , while still attending high school.
By the end of , after having written almost half of Eazy-Duz-It, he was included in N. After the group disbanded in , he stayed with Ruthless, before leaving the label in Vic Mensa. Birthday: June 6, Victor Kwesi Mensah born June 6, , better known by his stage name Vic Mensa, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter and record producer from Chicago, Illinois. Mensa was a member of the group Kids These Days, which broke up in May , after which he released his debut solo mixtape Innanetape.
He is currently signed to Roc Nation. Mensa is also a founder of the hip-hop collective Savemoney which includes frequent collaborator Chance the Rapper. He also is the founder of the SavemoneySavelife foundation, which combats American racism and funds three programs in Chicago centered on health and the arts.
Darryl McDaniels. If you got it, flaunt it. Do you think this sign has the best rapper lineup? Let us know in the comments below. Autumn Simon is a music and cultural journalist based in Los Angeles, Ca.
She graduated from the University of La Verne, where she studied journalism and social media marketing. Her interest includes finding hidden gems in LA, discovering new artists, and attending live concerts and festivals. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Tupac Shakur. June About that two sides thing, the defining quality of the Gemini. In one of his last interviews, Tupac Shakur is quoted as saying : "All of us as human beings have a dominant and a quiet side.
I happen to be a Gemini, and I am young and I'm black and I'm from the hood, so it's just, you got all these different facets. In a way, Lamar embodies the same two-sided qualities of his biggest inspiration, often switching from brash and outspoken themes to conscious remarks in the space of a single bar. The two-sided quality of the Gemini goes beyond contrasting thoughts and into alter-egos, too.
Think about the famous Geminis and the varying iterations of themselves: Kung Fu Kenny, the fact Bob Dylan is, in many ways, an alter ego of Robert Allen Zimmerman or the many different sides to Kanye West.
Then there's Prince, a man who had no less than eight alter egos one of which was simply called Gemini, represented in the liner notes for his appearance on the Batman soundtrack, of all things. Looking at these alternate personas through the lens of the star sign, it's as though highly creative Geminis are comfortable fragmenting themselves into parts, dispensing them as and when certain emotions take them over.
Of course, being a Gemini isn't the sole reason these musicians are creative and progressive. Talent comes into it. You can't simply be born in late May and be imbued with a wild sense of creativity. But if you're thinking of popping out a superstar baby anytime soon, it would be wise to make sure they're born somewhere near May and June. But the most famous Gemini do embody the respective traits of their sign — and it's arguable these traits have contributed to the stamp their work has had on culture and their respective careers.
Where would Kanye West be if he didn't run with his spirit and start rapping over his own beats, going on to release albums like s and Heartbreak and Yeezus? Or Andre and his world of genre-bending ATL rap? Though my feet are firmly planted in the camp that believes there's more to life than simply farting through existence, it's understandable many aren't convinced by astrology.
Horoscopes — mostly written by spiritualised fashion bloggers or kooky stay-at-home magazine columnists — are often little more than counterfeit guides to life. Although they can be helpful in coaxing readers into being mindful and aware of the present which is great! Embedded in their backbone however are the 12 signs of the zodiac — like the Gemini — and their meaning, which feels a little more authentic, bound in millennia of philosophical teachings and planetary observation.
Like enlarged skulls and the complex cognitive behaviour that takes place within them, the zodiac has been around almost as long as humans. Originating in the Babylonian era BC; or a very long fucking time ago , the 12 signs of the zodiac are ingrained in the culture of all the history class MVPs: the chiton-wearing, democratic ancient Greeks; the pyramid-building Egyptians; the straight-line-of-a-road-carving Romans — they all followed a form of the zodiac that has changed little to this day, looking to it as a form of interpretational analysis.
And these cultures aren't alone: the ancient Hindus created a zodiac that also features the same 12 signs. Again: is this a coincidence? Or did these civilisations, of whom much of modern life is predicated, know more about the world than we do? It's certainly likely they were more in tune with its inner-workings, having discovered some far-out theories and inventions in between all the star-gazing.
As an Aquarius with an Ascendent sign in Capricorn and a Moon sign in Gemini, I am — as designated by the stars — open-minded, want to explain things, am comfortably aligned with spiritual practices and would like to use them to make the world a better place or at least one that makes more sense.
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