Skee-Lo
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| Skee-Lo | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Antoine Roundtree |
| Born | March 5, 1973 (age 35) Chicago, Illinois |
| Origin | Los Angeles, California |
| Genre(s) | Hip Hop |
| Occupation(s) | Rapper |
| Instrument(s) | Rapping |
| Years active | 1992 – Present |
| Label(s) | Volcano The Orchard Scotti Bros. |
| Associated acts | Youngstown |
Skee-Lo (born Antoine Roundtree March 5, 1973) is a rapper who was moderately popular in the mid-1990s. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up in Riverside, California.[1] Skee-Lo's single, "Top Of The Stairs", was featured in the ending credits as well as the soundtrack to the 1995 motion picture Money Train starring Wesley Snipes, Woody Harrelson, and Jennifer Lopez. He had a hit single in the same year with "I Wish", which reached #13 in the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.
Skee-Lo also recorded a cover of the Schoolhouse Rock! song "The Tale of Mr. Morton", which taught sentence structure (subject, verb, predicate). The song appears on the compilation album, Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks.[2]
He also co-wrote "I'll Be Your Everything" by boy band Youngstown. The song is featured on the Inspector Gadget soundtrack.
Skee-Lo's "I Wish" was in the movie American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile. It played when the drunks were playing against the midgets.
"I Wish" contains a sample from the song "Spinnin'" by Bernard Wright. It was sampled by Les Rythmes Digitales for the song "[Hey You] What's That Sound?" (the sentences actually picked up from "For What It's Worth" by Buffalo Springfield) and is sampled on the 2 Many DJs album, As Heard On Radio Soulwax Pt. 2.
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[edit] Discography
[edit] Albums
- I Wish (1995)
- I Can't Stop (2000).
- Holdin' On (I Wish with additional remixes)
[edit] Singles
- "Top of the Stairs" (1995)
- "I Wish" (1995)
- "Superman" (1996)
- "At The Mall" (1999-2000)
- "Bounce Back" (1999-2000)
