I Wanna Be Down, the Glossary
"I Wanna Be Down" is the debut single of American recording artist Brandy from her self-titled debut album (1994).[1]
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56 relations: A cappella, Aaliyah, Atlantic Records, Audio mixing, Audio mixing (recorded music), Australian Recording Industry Association, Baby (Brandy song), Beer, Billboard (magazine), Billboard Hot 100, Bourbon whiskey, Brandy (album), Brandy Norwood, Brian Gardner, Cashbox (magazine), Complex Networks, Contemporary R&B, Craig Mack, Cypress Hill, Dutch Single Top 100, East West Records, European Dance Radio Chart, Executive producer, Flava in Ya Ear, Frank Gatson Jr., Hip hop music, Hip hop soul, Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, Hype Williams, Imgur, James Hamilton (DJ and journalist), Keith Crouch, List of number-one R&B singles of 1994 (U.S.), Mastering (audio), MC Lyte, MTV Video Music Award for Best Rap Video, Music & Media, Music video, Music Week, New jack swing, Prometheus Global Media, Punch (drink), Queen Latifah, Rapping, Ray J, Record Mirror, Record Mirror Club Chart, Scotch whisky, Sylvia Rhone, Synthesizer, ... Expand index (6 more) »
- Brandy Norwood songs
- Songs written by Keith Crouch
- Songs written by Kipper Jones
A cappella
Music performed a cappella, less commonly spelled a capella in English, is music performed by a singer or a singing group without instrumental accompaniment.
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Aaliyah
Aaliyah Dana Haughton (January 16, 1979 – August 25, 2001), known as Aaliyah, was an American singer and actress.
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Atlantic Records
Atlantic Recording Corporation (simply known as Atlantic Records) is an American record label founded in October 1947 by Ahmet Ertegun and Herb Abramson.
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Audio mixing
Audio mixing is the process by which multiple sounds are combined into one or more audio channels.
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Audio mixing (recorded music)
In sound recording and reproduction, audio mixing is the process of optimizing and combining multitrack recordings into a final mono, stereo or surround sound product.
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Australian Recording Industry Association
The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) is a trade association representing the Australian recording industry which was established in the 1970s by six major record companies, EMI, Festival, CBS, RCA, WEA and Universal replacing the Association of Australian Record Manufacturers (AARM) which was formed in 1956.
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Baby (Brandy song)
"Baby" is a song by American R&B recording artist Brandy, taken from her debut studio album, ''Brandy'' (1994). I Wanna Be Down and Baby (Brandy song) are Brandy Norwood songs, music videos directed by Hype Williams, songs written by Keith Crouch and songs written by Kipper Jones.
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Beer
Beer is an alcoholic beverage produced by the brewing and fermentation of starches from cereal grains—most commonly malted barley, although wheat, maize (corn), rice, and oats are also used.
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard (stylized in lowercase since 2013) is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation.
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Billboard Hot 100
The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.
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Bourbon whiskey
Bourbon whiskey (or simply bourbon) is a type of barrel-aged American whiskey made primarily from corn (maize).
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Brandy (album)
Brandy is the debut studio album by American singer Brandy.
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Brandy Norwood
Brandy Rayana Norwood (born February 11, 1979), better known by her mononym Brandy, is an American singer, songwriter, and actress.
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Brian Gardner
Brian Knapp Gardner, also known as Brian "Big Bass" Gardner, is an American mastering engineer.
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Cashbox (magazine)
Cashbox, also known as Cash Box, is an American music industry trade magazine, originally published weekly from July 1942 to November 1996.
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Complex Networks
Complex Networks is an American media and entertainment company for youth culture, based in New York City.
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Contemporary R&B
Contemporary R&B (or simply R&B) is a popular music genre that combines rhythm and blues with elements of pop, soul, funk, hip hop, and electronic music.
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Craig Mack
Craig Jamieson Mack (May 10, 1970 – March 12, 2018) was an American rapper and record producer, and was famous during his tenure under Bad Boy Records.
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Cypress Hill
Cypress Hill is an American hip hop group from South Gate, California, formed in 1988.
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Dutch Single Top 100
The Dutch Single Top 100 or Single Top 100 is a Dutch chart, based on official physical single sales, legal downloads and since July 2013 streaming and composed by Dutch Charts.
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East West Records
East West Records (stylized as eastwest) is a record label formed in 1955, distributed and owned by Warner Music Group, headquartered in London, England.
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European Dance Radio Chart
The European Dance Radio Chart (also known as European Dance Radio Top 25) was a weekly chart compiled by pan-European magazine Music & Media.
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Executive producer
Executive producer (EP) is one of the top positions in the production of media.
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Flava in Ya Ear
"Flava in Ya Ear" is a song by American rapper Craig Mack. I Wanna Be Down and Flava in Ya Ear are 1994 debut singles and music videos directed by Hype Williams.
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Frank Gatson Jr.
Frank Gatson Jr. is an American director and choreographer.
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Hip hop music
Hip hop or hip-hop, also known as rap and formerly as disco rap, is a genre of popular music that originated in the early 1970s from the African American community.
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Hip hop soul
Hip hop soul is a subgenre of contemporary R&B music, most popular during the early and mid 1990s, which fuses R&B or soul singing with hip hop musical production.
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Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs
The Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart ranks the most popular R&B and hip hop songs in the United States and is published weekly by Billboard.
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Hype Williams
Harold "Hype" Williams (born July 1, 1970) is an American music video and film director, film producer, and screenwriter.
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Imgur
Imgur (stylized as imgur) is an American online image sharing and image hosting service with a focus on social gossip that was founded by Alan Schaaf in 2009.
James Hamilton (DJ and journalist)
James Hamilton (25 December 1942 – 17 June 1996) was a British DJ and dance music columnist for Record Mirror, and later for Music Week, where he worked until his death in 1996.
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Keith Crouch
Keith Edward Crouch is an American songwriter and music producer.
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List of number-one R&B singles of 1994 (U.S.)
These are the Billboard magazine R&B singles chart number one hits of 1994.
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Mastering (audio)
Mastering, a form of audio post production, is the process of preparing and transferring recorded audio from a source containing the final mix to a data storage device (the master), the source from which all copies will be produced (via methods such as pressing, duplication or replication).
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MC Lyte
Lana Michele Moorer (born October 11, 1970), better known by her stage name MC Lyte, is an American rapper.
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MTV Video Music Award for Best Rap Video
The MTV Video Music Award for Best Rap Video was first given out in 1989, and it was one of the four original genre categories added at the 1989 MTV Video Music Awards.
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Music & Media was a pan-European magazine for radio, music and entertainment.
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Music video
A music video is a video that integrates a song or an album with imagery that is produced for promotional or musical artistic purposes.
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Music Week
Music Week is a trade publication for the UK record industry distributed via a website and a monthly print magazine.
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New jack swing
New jack swing, new jack, or swingbeat is a fusion genre of the rhythms and production techniques of hip hop and dance-pop, and the urban contemporary sound of R&B.
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Prometheus Global Media was a New York City–based B2B media company.
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Punch (drink)
The term punch refers to a wide assortment of drinks, both non-alcoholic and alcoholic, generally containing fruits or fruit juice.
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Queen Latifah
Dana Elaine Owens (born March 18, 1970), better known by her stage name Queen Latifah, is an American rapper, singer, and actress.
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Rapping
Rapping (also rhyming, flowing, spitting, emceeing or MCing) is an artistic form of vocal delivery and emotive expression that incorporates "rhyme, rhythmic speech, and street vernacular".
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Ray J
William Ray Norwood Jr. (born January 17, 1981), known professionally as Ray J, is an American R&B singer, songwriter, television personality, and actor.
Record Mirror
Record Mirror was a British weekly music newspaper published between 1954 and 1991, aimed at pop fans and record collectors.
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Record Mirror Club Chart
The Record Mirror Club Chart (also known as RM Club Chart) was a weekly chart compiled by British trade paper Music Week.
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Scotch whisky
Scotch whisky (whisky/whiskie or whusk(e)y), often simply called whisky or Scotch, is malt whisky or grain whisky (or a blend of the two) made in Scotland.
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Sylvia Rhone
Sylvia Rhone (born March 11, 1952) is an American music industry executive.
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Synthesizer
A synthesizer (also synthesiser, or simply synth) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals.
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The Best of Brandy
The Best of Brandy is the first greatest hits album by American singer Brandy.
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The Isley Brothers
The Isley Brothers are an American musical group originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, that began as a vocal trio consisting of the brothers O'Kelly Isley Jr., Rudolph Isley and Ronald Isley in the 1950s.
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The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno is an American late-night talk show hosted by Jay Leno that first aired from May 25, 1992, to May 29, 2009.
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TLC (group)
TLC is an American girl group formed in 1990 in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Yo-Yo (rapper)
Yolanda "Yo-Yo" Whitaker (born August 4, 1971) is an American rapper and actress.
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1996 Soul Train Music Awards
The 1996 Soul Train Music Awards was held on March 29, 1996, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California.
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See also
Brandy Norwood songs
- (Everything I Do) I Do It for You
- Afrodisiac (song)
- Almost Doesn't Count
- Angel in Disguise (Brandy song)
- Another Day in Paradise
- Baby (Brandy song)
- Baby Mama (Brandy song)
- Beggin & Pleadin
- Best Friend (Brandy song)
- Borderline (Brandy song)
- Brokenhearted (Brandy song)
- Freedom Rings
- Full Moon (Brandy song)
- Have You Ever?
- He Is (Brandy song)
- I Wanna Be Down
- It All Belongs to Me
- List of songs recorded by Brandy
- Long Distance (song)
- Louboutins (song)
- Love Again (Brandy and Daniel Caesar song)
- Magic (Mystery Skulls song)
- Missing You (Brandy, Gladys Knight, Tamia, and Chaka Khan song)
- Never Say Never (Brandy song)
- No Tomorrow, Pt. 2
- Optimistic (Sounds of Blackness song)
- Put It Down (Brandy song)
- Right Here (Departed)
- Scared of Beautiful
- Should I Go
- Sittin' Up in My Room
- Stuff Like That
- Talk About Our Love
- Talk to Me (Brandy, Ray J and Willie Norwood song)
- The Boy Is Mine (Ariana Grande song)
- The Boy Is Mine (Brandy and Monica song)
- The Girl Is Mine (99 Souls song)
- The Sweetest Sounds (song)
- Top of the World (Brandy song)
- True (Brandy song)
- Turn It Up (Brandy song)
- U Don't Know Me (Like U Used To)
- Wake Up Everybody (Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes song)
- What About Us? (Brandy song)
- Who Is She 2 U
- Wildest Dreams (Brandy song)
Songs written by Keith Crouch
- Baby (Brandy song)
- Best Friend (Brandy song)
- Brokenhearted (Brandy song)
- Everything You Want (Ray J song)
- I Wanna Be Down
- In My Soul/Snow Song
- Let It Go (Ray J song)
- Maybe (Toni Braxton song)
- My Friend (Groove Armada song)
- Sexy Ladies
- Stop By
- The Sound of My Tears
Songs written by Kipper Jones
- Baby (Brandy song)
- Brokenhearted (Brandy song)
- I Wanna Be Down
- Legs (Keep Dancing)
- The Comfort Zone (song)
- The Right Stuff (Vanessa Williams song)
- The Sound of My Tears
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Wanna_Be_Down
, The Best of Brandy, The Isley Brothers, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, TLC (group), Yo-Yo (rapper), 1996 Soul Train Music Awards.