Big Noyd
Template:BLP sources Template:Infobox musical artist TaJuan Akeem Perry (born August 15, 1975), better known by his stage name Big Noyd, is an American rapper. He is closely affiliated with Mobb Deep and is featured on all of their albums except Blood Money.
Career
Big Noyd's debut was his verse on "Stomp 'Em Out" from Mobb Deep's 1993 debut Juvenile Hell, but it was not until 1995, on Mobb Deep's album The Infamous, that Big Noyd attracted wider attention. He appeared on "Right Back At You", “Party Over”, & "Give Up the Goods (Just Step)". He explained later that he received his first contract, for $300,000, from Tommy Boy because of his verse on "Give Up The Goods (Just Step)".<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
His debut album Episodes Of A Hustla was released in 1996 on Tommy Boy Records. Noyd was incarcerated at the time of its release. According to Prodigy, the album sold a "disappointing 30,000 copies". In 2000, Big Noyd signed to Prodigy's record label, Infamous Records, and appeared on the songs Infamous Minded and Gun Play from Prodigy's debut studio album, H.N.I.C., which was certified Gold by the RIAA. In 2003, Big Noyd returned with his second album, Only The Strong. This album, just as his debut, had many Mobb Deep-related features. Noyd attributes the lackluster sales to Landspeed Records' (which became Traffic Entertainment Group) filing for bankruptcy in an unrelated lawsuit just as the album was being released. In 2004, Big Noyd released his third album, On the Grind, also featuring many guest-spots by Mobb Deep-related artists. The album was released independently through Monopolee Records, which Noyd helped to found and released under his full control, preventing issues that happened with Landspeed and Tommy Boy Records. He founded Noyd Inc. in 2007.
He got his rap name from a friend who thought he resembled Domino's Pizzas advertising character 'The Noid'.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Personal life
He is of Puerto Rican and African American descent. He has a daughter who still lives in Queensbridge, Queens.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Discography
| Year | Title | Chart positions | ||
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| 1996 | Episodes of a Hustla
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59 | — | — |
| 2003 | Only the Strong
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45 | 27 | 36 |
| 2005 | On the Grind
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| 2006 | The Stick Up Kid
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| 2008 | Illustrious
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— | 44 | 13 |
Street Kings
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| 2010 | Queens Chronicle
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References
External links
- Big Noyd: Infamous minded Interview NobodySmiling.com
- Big Noyd: Illustrious Interview ArtOfRhyme.com
- Big Noyd: Illustrious Interview SmokingSection.net
- 1975 births
- Living people
- African-American male rappers
- 20th-century American male rappers
- 20th-century American rappers
- American musicians of Puerto Rican descent
- Hispanic and Latino American rappers
- Five percenters
- Tommy Boy Records artists
- People from Long Island City, Queens
- Rappers from Queens, New York
- Gangsta rappers
- 21st-century American rappers
- 21st-century American male musicians
- 21st-century African-American rappers
- 20th-century African-American musicians