Tragedy Khadafi

Percy Chapman, (born August 13 1971) known by his stage name Tragedy Khadafi, is an American hip hop artist. Khadafi hails from the Queensbridge housing projects in Queens, New York, which has hailed other hip hop artists such as Nas, Cormega, Mobb Deep, Capone-N-Noreaga, and many others. His name is a reference to dictator Muammar al-Gaddafi, also known as Omar Khadafi.

Career

He began his career as a junior member of the Juice Crew alongside artists such as Big Daddy Kane, Kool G Rap, and MC Shan. For Khadafi's debut album, he worked again with Queensbridge influential producer Marley Marl and went under the alias Intelligent Hoodlum. His self-titled debut, Intelligent Hoodlum, released in 1990, was full of political commentary and heady messages in tracks such as "Arrest The President" and "Black & Proud." He returned in 1993, releasing his second album, Tragedy: Saga of a Hoodlum, which would be his last album under that moniker. Khadafi continued to record throughout the remainder of the 1990s, most notably on Capone-N-Noreaga's debut album, The War Report, in which he actually appears more on the album than official group member Capone. Khadafi then severed ties with the group. Khadafi's third album, Against All Odds, was scheduled to drop in 1999, but conflict with his label stifled the release. Against All Odds was released in 2001. "Against All Odds" was also the first appearance of the lyrical supernova HeadRush Napoleon, who continued to work with Tragedy on future recordings. This was followed by Still Reportin'... in 2003. In 2005, he released Thug Matrix independently, and his group album with the Black Market Militia. Khadafi's latest releases, Blood Ballads and Thug Matrix 2 were both released in 2006. He also created a documentary known as QB Story, a film about his life and his struggles, growing up in Queensbridge, his joining the Juice Crew, the numerous times he was incarcerated, and the toll a hard life as a poor African American child growing up without a father and mother addicted to crack cocaine are all included in this video. Immersed in well-suited beats and melodies that accent the tone of the situations described, he was trying to articulate the lesson he learned through experience as a disadvantaged child. Political perceptions are also expressed as he implied that he is a skeptic about 9/11 and the veracity of the federal statements regarding the issue. On December 27, 2007, Tragedy was sentenced to 4 years in jail for a drug bust in New York. He is scheduled to be released on January 21, 2011 as reported on Fake Shore Drive. For information on contacting Trag to show your support: www.fakeshoredrive.blogspot.com/2007/12/tragedy-khadafi-gone-til-november-2011.html

Discography

External links

• Classic Tragedy Khadafi Interview (www.ukbestkept.com)