![]() | timnoakes: amped up for @MosDef tonight! Hope Slick Rick makes an appearance for "Auditorium", or these boys link about 27 minutes ago |
![]() | woodbot: if I asked you 20 years ago if Biz Markie's "Just a Friend" would be featured in 0, 1 or 2 TV ads in 2009, your answer would have been? about 36 minutes ago |
| sethchambers: Oh, SNAP! Guess what I saw? Biz Markie hawking cheap 'lectronics for Radio Shack. Funny or Sad? about 53 minutes ago |
![]() | hhcdigital: Slick Rick or the Jungle Brothers should do a cover of 'The 59th Street Bridge Song'. about 18 hours ago |
![]() | BkPrincess718: Biz Markie is on Yo Gabba Gabba I dunno who's gonna enjoy that more baby or Daddy. Ha! @tstylingonu about 1 day ago |
| By Jeff Sherman OnMilwaukee.com Staff Writer E-mail author | Author bio More articles by Jeff Sherman |
| Published Aug. 21, 2007 at 6:38 a.m. |
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The East Side had Tone Loc two weekends ago, and this weekend Milwaukee's Historic Third Ward welcomes another hip-hop pioneer, Biz Markie.
You know him and love him for his late '80s hit "Just a Friend." True fans probably know "The Vapors" and "Make the Music (with your mouth)" too, Mr. Markie, if you will, was the first rap artist to be sued for sample clearance in 1988.
Biz will appear Friday at Moct, 240 E. Pittsburgh, to DJ and host a night of old school and contemporary party tunes. We also hear the he'll stop by Moda3, 320 E. Buffalo, beginning at 5:30 p.m.
Born Marcel Hall, Biz Markie stepped onto the scene in 1985, at age fourteen as the beat box backup for Roxanne Shante of the Juice Crew. He then adopted his alias Biz, a name his mother used to call him because he was a busy body, and Markie, short for Marcel, his neighborhood nickname.
Markie, also in town to take part in the "50 Million Pound Challenge" on Saturday at Washington Park, will be joined by rapper Slick Rick, R&B singer Angie Stone, 112, Shirley Murdock and others. This weight loss initiative and 14 city tour, developed by Dr. Ian Smith, begins at noon.
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Posted by mkelover on Aug. 21, 2007 at 9:14 a.m. (report)
'The Biz' has also collaborated, and been featured on tracks, with the Beastie Boys.
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