• "King Heroin" is an anti-drug song by James Brown, David Matthews, Manny Rosen and Charles Bobbit. Brown recorded this poem set to music at a studio in...
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    Heroin, also known as diacetylmorphine and diamorphine among other names, is a morphinan opioid substance synthesized from the dried latex of the Papaver...
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  • Heroin chic is a style popularized in early-1990s fashion and characterized by pale skin, dark circles underneath the eyes, emaciated features, androgyny...
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  • smuggle heroin out of Bangkok's Don Muang Airport. She was then transferred to a UK prison for three years, before being pardoned by the King of Thailand...
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  • Released: November 1971 "Talkin' Loud and Sayin' Nothing" Released: February 1972 "King Heroin" Released: March 1972 "There It Is" Released: May 1972...
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    James Brown (redirect from The King of Soul)
    continued to record songs of social commentary, most prominently 1972's "King Heroin" and the two-part ballad "Public Enemy", which dealt with drug addiction...
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  • It Funky" "I'm a Greedy Man" 1972 "Talkin' Loud and Sayin' Nothing" "King Heroin" "There It Is" "Honky Tonk" "Get on the Good Foot" "I Got a Bag of My...
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  • with Jive Records and recorded the album On Fire (1985). The track "King Heroin" became a moderate success. His second album, which was completed in...
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    large quantities of heroin and crack cocaine in the city. Japhet "King Japhet" Lopez, Kiele "King Forty" Lopez and Carlos "King Future" Rodriguez pleaded...
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    below are the charting singles James Brown released on the King Records subsidiary Federal and King record labels, and Smash Records . Most of the songs also...
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  • It Funky" "I'm a Greedy Man" 1972 "Talkin' Loud and Sayin' Nothing" "King Heroin" "There It Is" "Honky Tonk" "Get on the Good Foot" "I Got a Bag of My...
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  • the Action Is on ABC. In 1964, during a contract dispute between Brown and King Records head Syd Nathan, the label reissued the original 1956 performance...
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  • Funky Drummer (category King Records (United States) singles)
    Stubblefield's solo and a fade-out. "Funky Drummer" was originally released by King Records as a two-part 45 rpm single in March 1970. The difference between...
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  • It Funky" "I'm a Greedy Man" 1972 "Talkin' Loud and Sayin' Nothing" "King Heroin" "There It Is" "Honky Tonk" "Get on the Good Foot" "I Got a Bag of My...
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  • I Got You (I Feel Good) (category King Records (United States) singles)
    recorded by Brown's back-up singer Yvonne Fair and released as a single (King 5594) in 1962, with little success. In 1964, Brown recorded an early version...
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    in Grandmaster Melle Mel's 1985 single "Step Off," and Funky Four's "King Heroin" (1983). It has also been sampled by Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch's...
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  • an Irish heroin dealer, pimp, and career criminal. He became a hated figure in the 1980s and 1990s, blamed for "flooding" Dublin with heroin and creating...
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  • It's a Man's Man's Man's World (category King Records (United States) singles)
    pay her royalties. In May 1966, Record World magazine reported that Brown, King Records and Dynatone Publishing were being sued by Clamike Records for alleged...
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  • on fuzz guitar, Michael Moore (who later played on Brown's 1972 hit "King Heroin") on bass, and Jimmy Madison on drums. This group would record one album...
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  • involved in trafficking heroin from Afghanistan and Turkey, via Kosovo into US. Caught with at least $125 million in heroin, members of this Kosovan...
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    King Lear is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare. It is loosely based on the mythological Leir of Britain. King Lear, in preparation for his old age...
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  • It Funky" "I'm a Greedy Man" 1972 "Talkin' Loud and Sayin' Nothing" "King Heroin" "There It Is" "Honky Tonk" "Get on the Good Foot" "I Got a Bag of My...
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  • It Funky" "I'm a Greedy Man" 1972 "Talkin' Loud and Sayin' Nothing" "King Heroin" "There It Is" "Honky Tonk" "Get on the Good Foot" "I Got a Bag of My...
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  • changed to This Is a Revolution of the Mind, a line from James Brown's "King Heroin" (1972). Clayton-Lea found this title "would blatantly publicize the...
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  • altered for The King of Fighters games. Terry's popularity led SNK to create a female version of him for the 2018 game SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy...
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    It Funky" "I'm a Greedy Man" 1972 "Talkin' Loud and Sayin' Nothing" "King Heroin" "There It Is" "Honky Tonk" "Get on the Good Foot" "I Got a Bag of My...
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    Z-Ro (redirect from Heroin (Z-Ro's album))
    Houston" by the Houston Chronicle. In 2010 he released the album titled Heroin, which was followed by an album titled Meth in 2011 and then Angel Dust...
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  • Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine (category King Records (United States) singles)
    original 1970 recording of "Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine" on the King Records label was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. "Sex Machine" was...
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  • It Funky" "I'm a Greedy Man" 1972 "Talkin' Loud and Sayin' Nothing" "King Heroin" "There It Is" "Honky Tonk" "Get on the Good Foot" "I Got a Bag of My...
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  • Kansas City (Leiber and Stoller song) (category King Records (United States) singles)
    Angeles in 1952, during his first recording session for Federal Records, a King Records subsidiary. Federal's Ralph Bass changed the title to "K. C. Loving"...
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