Born This Day: Herb Alpert; Al Goodman (The Moments); Shawty Lo; Tony YaYo; Tamar Davis; Jay Rock (Black Hippy) | Albums Released This Day: Kriss Kross - "Totally Krossed Out" (1992); Montell Jordan - "Let's Ride" (1998); Gang Starr - "Moment of Truth" (1988); Vivian Green - "Vivian" (2005) | Visit Achickwitbeatz.com for your instrumental needs & dope stuff for lovers of music & hip hop culture.

Born This Day: MC Hammer; Tracy Chapman; Norah Jones & More | Albums Released This Day: Onyx - "Bacdafucup" (1993); Janet Jackson -"Damita Jo" (2004); Lil' Flip - "U Gotta Feel Me" (2004) | Visit Achickwitbeatz.com for your instrumental needs & dope stuff for lovers of music & hip hop culture.

Born This Day: Pearl Bailey; Lil Keke | Albums Released This Day: DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - "He's the DJ, I'm the Rapper" (1988); Beanie Sigel - "The B. Coming" (2005); Will Smith - "Lost and Found" (2005); 112 - "Pleasure & Pain" (2005); The Game - "West Coast Resurrection" (2005) | Visit Achickwitbeatz.com for your instrumental needs & dope stuff for music lovers.

Born This Day: Salt (Salt-N-Pepa); Mr. Cheeks (Lost Boyz); J-Kwon & More | Albums Released This Day: En Vogue - "Funky Divas" (1992); Soul for Real - "Candy Rain" (1995);  Big L - "Lifestylez ov da Poor & Dangerous" (1995); Ol' Dirty Bastard - "Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version" (1995); Common - "Like Water for Chocolate" (2000); Drag-On - "Opposite of H2O" (2000); Sean Paul -"Stage One" (2000) | Visit Achickwitbeatz.com for your instrumental needs & dope stuff for music lovers.

Born This Day: Sarah Vaughan (Jazz Vocalist); Mariah Carey; Skee-Lo & More | Albums Released This Day: Run-D.M.C. - "Run-D.M.C." (1984); Jody Watley - "Larger than Life" (1989); Above the Law - "Livin' Like Hustlers" (1990);  India.Arie - "Acoustic Soul" (2001); Big Pun - "Endangered Species" (2001); Jadakiss - "Kiss tha Game Goodbye" (2001); KRS-One - "The Sneak Attack" (2001); 2Pac - "Until the End of Time" (2001): | Visit Achickwitbeatz.com for your instrumental needs & dope stuff for music lovers.

Born This Day: Rufus Thomas; Diana Ross; Teddy Pendergrass; Hakim Abdulsamad (The Boys) & More | Albums Released This Day: Digital Underground - "Sex Packets" (1990); "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II The Secret of the Ooze: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack" - Various Artists (1991); Busta Rhymes - "The Coming" (1996); Gorillaz - "Gorillaz" (2001); Infamous Mobb - "Special Edition" (2002) | Visit Achickwitbeatz.com for your instrumental needs & dope stuff for music lovers.

Born This Day: Aretha Franklin; Juvenile; Big Sean | Albums Released This Day: Doug E. Fresh - "The World's Greatest Entertainer" (1988);  Ray J - "Everything You Want" (1997); The Notorious B.I.G. - "Life After Death" (1997); Warren G - "Take a Look Over Your Shoulder" (1997); Hot Boys - "Let 'Em Burn" (2003); Linkin Park - "Meteora" (2003);  702 - "Star" (2003); Guilty Simpson - "Ode to the Ghetto" (2008) | Visit Achickwitbeatz.com for your instrumental needs & dope stuff for music lovers.

Born This Day: Maseo (De La Soul); Nivea & More | Albums Released This Day: The Rolling Stones - "Dirty Work" (1986); Van Halen - "5150" (1986); Arrested Development - "3 Years, 5 Months & 2 Days in the Life Of..." (1992); Chi-Ali - "The Fabulous Chi-Ali" (1992); Cappadonna - "The Pillage" (1998); Brian McKnight - "U-Turn" (2003) | Visit Achickwitbeatz.com for your instrumental needs & dope stuff for music lovers.

Born This Day: Chaka Khan; Louisiana Red; Mike Will & More | Albums Released This Day:  P.M. Dawn - "The Bliss Album…? (Vibrations of Love and Anger and the Ponderance of Life and Existence)" (1993); Ice-T - "Home Invasion" (1993); Aretha Franklin - "A Rose Is Still a Rose" (1998);
N.W.A. - "The N.W.A Legacy, Vol. 1: 1988–1998" (1999); BLACKstreet - "Finally" (1999); "Foolish soundtrack" - Various Artists (1999); Silk - "Tonight" (1999); Usher - "Confessions" (2004); N.E.R.D. - "Fly or Die" (2004); Master P - "Good Side, Bad Side" (2004); Carl Thomas - "Let's Talk About It" (2004); Madvillain - "Madvillainy" (2004); Cypress Hill - "Till Death Do Us Part" (2004) | Visit Achickwitbeatz.com for your instrumental needs & dope stuff for music lovers.

Born This Day: Fred Anderson (Jazz Musician); George Benson (Jazz Musician); Stephanie Mills; Beverly Knight  | Albums Released This Day: "Above the Rim: The Soundtrack" - Various Artists (1994); Brand New Heavies - "Brother Sister" (1994); Main Source - "F__k What You Think" (1994);  Vanilla Ice - "Mind Blowin" (1994); M.I.A. - "Arular" (2005); Tweet - "It's Me Again" (2005);  C-Murder - "The Truest Shit I Ever Said" (2005) | Visit Achickwitbeatz.com for your instrumental needs & dope stuff for music lovers.