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  Willie D - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Willie D (born William James Dennis November 1, 1966, Houston, Texas, USA) is an American rapper who originally gained fame as one of the Geto Boys, a controversial group known for explicit violent and sexual lyrical content.
Shortly before joining the Geto Boys in 1989, Willie D released his first album, Controversy, an album filled with misogynistic themes that targeted racism in America.
In 2004 Willie D moved his family to Baku, Azerbaijan to pursue real-estate interests.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Willie_D   (308 words)

  
 Blues Clubs Worldwide. Musicians. Sweet Willie D
He was also a choir director for a local group known as "The Voices of Deliverance." In 1975, Willie formed an Inter-demonstrational Gospel Choir in his high school (where he was senior at the time) which is still active today.
Willie didn't begin singing the blues until about 7 years ago, where by chance he met Brad Faucher (guitarist for Nicole Nelson) who introduced him to the blues.
Time and opportunity have made a lot of changes for Willie, and Sweet Willie D And The Continental Walk was founded in 2000.
www.blues-clubs-worldwide.com /musicians/sweet.htm   (165 words)

  
 Willie D
Originally a member of Houston horror-rappers the Geto Boys, Willie D (born William Dennis) released his first solo album, Controversy, in 1989.
Willie parted ways with the Geto Boys in 1992, but shock tactics of his former group are in full force on "F--- Rodney King" from his second album, I'm Goin out Lika Soldier.
Despite near-universal disregard for his talents, Willie D returned with yet another album in 2003, Unbreakable.
www.findthefun.com /bands/b01/b0018602.htm   (147 words)

  
 Willie D :: Loved by Few, Hated By Many :: Rap-A-Lot Records
D unintentionally hit the nail on the head - there are very "few" people who love him simply because his style hasn't generated that many fans.
Willie D is at his best when he gets animated, when he yells and shouts, when he basically doesn't try to flow at all.
D starts to get close to sounding like the old days on "If I Was White" when he starts calling out names (he busts caps at Denzel Washington and Cuba Gooding Jr.) but conceptually the idea is still kind of weak.
www.rapreviews.com /archive/2000_10_lovedbyfew.html   (586 words)

  
 djmixed.com forum: Willie D: Found - Part 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Willie D: I'm really not going to let the cat out the bag, but the one thing I could say about the new album is that I'm very satisfied with it.
Willie D: You know, I can't really be mad at dudes who are like, "I'm not going to cross that line, I'm not going to go there," because they don't have the option of going underground and being successful like we do.
Willie D: I'm gonna tell you why: When you got a motherfucker running around chopping people's heads off and shooting innocent citizens in the head, at some point something got to be done.
www.djmixed.com /djmixed/forums/ubb/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=18&t=007013   (1838 words)

  
 Willie D: Loved By Few, Hated By Many - PopMatters Music Review
While Willie D spends four tracks explaining, in a seemingly sincere way, how society has led his people to murder one another, he spends most of the album talking about how much he loves doing just that, murdering anyone who looks at him funny.
Willie D speaks with his guns, likes that the younger "killaz" look up to him as a role model, and has no time for women unless they're down on their knees.
But Willie D relishes his role as a "killa" so much that when he tries to be some kind of social critic or attentive journalist, it's completely laughable, and his rhymes throughout the album are so unimaginative that they are equally laughable.
www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/w/willied-loved.shtml   (549 words)

  
 Geto Boys - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Geto Boys are a gangsta rap group from Houston, Texas, consisting of Scarface, Willie D and Bushwick Bill.
All three members began solo careers, but Willie D. was the only one who actually left the group.
Willie D. returned for 1996's The Resurrection and 1998's Da Good, Da Bad and Da Ugly.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Geto_Boys   (580 words)

  
 Willie Rushton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William George Rushton, commonly known as Willie Rushton (August 18, 1937–December 11, 1996) was a British cartoonist, satirist, comedian, actor and performer.
Rushton was a co-founder of Private Eye with his Shrewsbury School peers Christopher Booker, Paul Foot and Richard Ingrams, originally acting as the magazine's layout artist.
He is honoured by a blue plaque at Mornington Crescent tube station, a reference to his skill at the game Mornington Crescent on I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Willie_Rushton   (378 words)

  
 Geto Boy brings gangsta edge to talk radio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
With the radio show, Willie D is shedding some of the dangerous image and refashioning himself as a calm and collected talk-show host.
He worried about Willie D going over the edge and breaking out into the four-letter words that dominate his rap lyrics and that would violate the rules of the Federal Communications Commission.
Willie D explains the two sides of his persona this way: Rap is entertainment.
www.chron.com /content/chronicle/features/96/12/02/willie.html   (1537 words)

  
 The Willie D
The "Willie Dee" created havoc from the time she was commissioned in July, 1943 until her unusual, and perhaps, charmed demise in June 1945.
Half a century ago, the "willie Dee," as the William D. Porter was nicknamed, accidentally fired a live torpedo at the battleship IOWA during a practice exercise on November 14, 1943.
She was generally greeted by, "Don't shoot, we're Republicans." and the drew of the Willie Dee had become used to the ribbing.
www.ussiowa.org /general/html/willie_d.htm   (1976 words)

  
 Willie D :: Controversy :: Rap-A-Lot Records
Enter Willie D, a rapper who is most known for being the shouting and hollering third of the classic Geto Boys line-up, alongside Bushwick Bill and Scarface.
Willie D was a loud talker himself, true, but he had something to say.
What Willie D practices in apart from hitting the nail on the head with rhymes like these, is trying to write each verse about a certain topic.
www.rapreviews.com /archive/BTTL_controversy.html   (1143 words)

  
 Willie D: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more ||| Music.com
Originally a member of Houston horror-rappers the Geto Boys, Willie D [+] (born William Dennis) released his first solo album, Controversy [+], in 1989.
A Geto Boys [+] reunion in 1996 titled The Resurrection [+] resuscitated the career of the group, but Willie D [+] wasn't heard from again until 2000 with Loved by Few, Hated by Many [+] -- which may have referred to the disproportionate slant against Willie among rap fans.
Despite near-universal disregard for his talents, Willie D [+] returned with yet another album in 2003, Unbreakable [+].
www.music.com /person/willie_d/1   (286 words)

  
 Blind Willie Johnson
Her response was to throw lye into 7 year old Willie Johnson's face to deliberately blind him.
Willie taught himself to play the guitar and accompanied himself using a pocketknife for a slide to mimic his voice.
Although some blues singers tussled with the pull between the blues and religious music, Blind Willie came down firmly on the side of the religious -- in a way.
www.bigroadblues.com /features/blindwillie.shtml   (296 words)

  
 BILL'S PAGE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Willie D grew up in New Jersey and started playing drums when he was 9 years of age, 2 years later he switched to Bass Guitar.
When Willie D turned 15 he moved to the Orlando area and teamed up with some local musicians to form “The American Road”, this bunch of hacks actually won a talent show.
Willie D started playing the bar circuit in Central Florida at age 17 with various well remembered bands, such as, Crushed Ice, Free Flyte and Bad Dog.
www.the-resonators.com /BILL_BIO.htm   (283 words)

  
 Sea Stories submitted by Class of 1963
Fifty years ago today, the Willie D, as the Porter was nicknamed, accidentally fired a live torpedo at the battleship Iowa.
The Willie D merely had a scraped anchor, but her career of mayhem and mishaps had begun.
By this time, the greeting "Don't Shoot, We're Republicans" was commonplace and the crew of the Willie D had become used to the ribbing.
www.usna63.org /tradition/sea_stories/Destroyer.html   (1623 words)

  
 Cinema Audio Society
Willie D. Burton, C.A.S. The Cinema Audio Society's Board of Directors is pleased to announce that Production Sound Mixer, Willie D. Burton, C.A.S. will receive the Career Achievement Award at the upcoming 41st Annual C.A.S. Awards Banquet, to be held on Saturday, February 19th, 2005 in the Crystal Ballroom of the Biltmore Hotel.
Willie's Academy nominated films are; "The Buddy Holly Story", 1978; "Altered States", 1980; "War Games", 1983; "The Shawshank Redemption", 1994; and "The Green Mile", 1999.
Willie is currently working on "XXX: State of the Union" for release in 2005.
www.cinemaaudiosociety.org /html/cas2005honor.html   (267 words)

  
 Willie D's show to be syndicated nationally   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
D is not happy about the station's decision.
D, who also founded the Geto Boys rap group, is looking for new studio facilities in Houston.
Expanding his program to five nights a week will be a big change, D said, even though the Geto Boys don't do many live shows.
www.chron.com /content/chronicle/features/97/10/15/willie-d.0-3.html   (381 words)

  
 DVD Verdict Review - Willie Dynamite
While in Willie Dynamite, Orman threw competing pimps out of his tricked-out Caddie and explained the economics of prostitution to ungrateful call girls, he can now be seen every morning as the genial Gordon, teaching basic math to a six-foot tall bird, and promoting the virtues of cleanliness to trashcan-dwelling Muppets.
A staunch capitalist at heart, Willie rules his stable with a fist of iron: "Every ten minutes another one comes off the assembly line" he tells them, and instructs his girls to study nudie magazines to "sell the fantasy" to lonely conventioneers and Shriners.
The sole track of note is Martha Reeves's rendition of the opening title song, "Willie D.," which kicks the film in style as a group of Willie's girls sashay through a hotel lobby crammed with bug-eyed, sweaty businessmen already reaching for their wallets.
www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/williedynamite.php   (1185 words)

  
 AllHipHop.com : Features
Willie: I’m really not going to let the cat out the bag, but the one thing I could say about the new album is that I’m very satisfied with it.
Willie: S**t, I'll fight anybody…I’ll fight a motherf***ing first grader if he step out of line (Laughs) But the Bushwick thing was a business move and I thought it was a good idea.
Willie D: I’ma tell you why: When you got motherf***er running around chopping people heads off and shooting innocent citizens in the head, at some point something got to be done.
www.allhiphop.com /features?ID=910   (1910 words)

  
 Willie Dynamite (1974)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Yet when Willie comes out of the apartment building to see his car being towed, all of the scars are gone.
Roscoe Orman is Willie D, a sad sack of a pimp who embodies the Godfather of WWF(E)'s saying "Pimpin' ain't easy".
Willie's pimping clothes are, in a word, Dynamite (especially this one hilarious huge hat he wears at one point).
www.imdb.com /title/tt0072409   (393 words)

  
 New Georgia Encyclopedia: Blind Willie McTell (1898-1959)
Thus he was Blind Willie for Vocalion, Georgia Bill for OKeh, Red Hot Willie Glaze for Bluebird, Blind Sammie for Columbia, Barrel House Sammy for Atlantic, and Pig 'n' Whistle Red for Regal Records.
In 1981 Blind Willie McTell was inducted into the Blues Foundation's Blues Hall of Fame.
Two years later, folksinger Bob Dylan paid homage to McTell in his song "Blind Willie McTell": "And I know no one can sing the blues / Like Blind Willie McTell." In 1990 McTell was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame.
www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-875   (935 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
He was (D) gone and we thought we’d lost him but he (G) grew his hair and he moved to Austin, and (D) all of the people smiled, they came to hear him sing from miles.
(D) Like the time he passed out in his own bedroom and his wife sewed him up the sheets (A) and beat him with a broom and he forgave her.
He loves (D) all the people no matter their races, hell he (G) even had a hit country song with Julio Iglesias and (D) that ain’t easy to do.
www.roughstock.com /cowpie/cowpie-songs/a/allan_gary/what_would_willie_do.crd   (630 words)

  
 Willie D   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
'''Willie D''' (born November 1, 1966, Houston, Texas, USA) is an American rapper who originally gained fame as one of the Geto Boys, a controversial group known for explicit violent and sexual lyrical content.
Willie D didn't leave the group until 1992 but released his well-received debut solo album Controversy in 1989.
This was followed by a series of critically panned albums and a brief Geto Boys reunion.
willie-d.area51.ipupdater.com   (87 words)

  
 AllHipHop.com : Features
Willie D., who was one of the lead rappers in the Geto Boys, is a man that exemplifies the word bold, because he fearlessly said whatever he wanted, regardless of the repercussions.
Willie hated the Klan, as most of us do, but he also had disdain for those in the community posing as dons.
While he was on the cutting edge of political rap, Willie D was not one to appreciate women that hacked too much off the top.
www.allhiphop.com /features/?ID=845   (1089 words)

  
 Geto Boys-Biography
This forced him to start the group anew inviting Bushwick Bill, Scarface (then called Ackshen) and Willie D to the fray.
By 1993 each member had started solo careers and they released a third album with Willie D being substituted by Big Mike.
Almost six years later the Bill, Scarface and Willie D return for their last album together titled, 'The Foundation'.
www.rapraider.com /getoboy.html   (190 words)

  
 Untitled
Willie parked the old limousine near the public walkway where he and Barnabas had first met Christine, the walkway that ran directly around the circumference of the Collins estate on the high palisade above, to a point just before the multitude of jagged boulders under Widows' Hill.
Willie glanced at her in anguish, but was still rolling around with Jeremy, who now tried to bite HIM.
Willie felt he wouldn't have the right to befriend the boy he'd helped to raise until VICKI made her peace with her fiance.
lorrainestheplaza.0catch.com /darklacey5.htm   (21535 words)

  
 HoustonSoReal: Interview with Willie D - Geto Boys
So even though Willie D hasn’t made all the money that he could have made and hasn’t gotten an ounce of the recognition that I deserve – they always seem to write me out of the history books.
WILLIE D is great and should be kept up with.
I feel WIllie D on this shit, why, cause niggas forget what hip hop is, the news of the streets.
houstonsoreal.blogspot.com /2005/01/interview-with-willie-d-geto-boys.html   (4758 words)

  
 The Crusade.net Messageboards -> Willie D On How To Do A Proper Interview
Willie D On How To Do A Proper Interview, Actually he goes off...
Willie D of the Geto Boys wants to show you how to do a proper interview on a proper radio station.
Willie d soundd like he was on defends side right when Matt stated 40,000 was sold.....
www.thecrusade.net /forums/index.php?act=ST&f=3&t=8249   (306 words)

  
 Willie D : I'm Goin' Out Lika Soldier - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
Willie D : I'm Goin' Out Lika Soldier
Like his former group, the Geto Boys' material, Soldier is a mixed proposition, one that stunningly articulates the visceral realities of a disenfranchised existence only to juxtapose it with more no-brain, "dick-ho-bitch" posturing.
Still, to place too much of the focus on that song -- as wrongheaded as it is -- would be doing Willie D. a disservice.
www.artistdirect.com /store/artist/album/0,,186694,00.html   (258 words)

  
 CD Baby: SWEET WILLIE 'D': Nippin' & Nappin' - from allrecordlabels
Sweet Willie D and his groups play throughut New England as well as other states.
Nippin and Nappin is the second effort put forth by Sweet Willie D. On this CD he wanted to portray the influences of early Soul and Jazz.
Look for Sweet Willie D to begin making some tours across the country as well as overseas.
www.cdbaby.com /cd/sweetwillied2/from/allrecordlabels   (225 words)

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