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Percy Robert Miller (innate April 29, 1967), better known as Master P, was born & raised in the Calliope housing projects, New Orleans, Louisiana. He attended a University of Houston on a basketball scholarship. Raised by his grandparents along using his quaternion sib, he finally moved to Richmond, CA with his mother in 1990. It was there in which he utilized the $10,000 prevent from either an inheritance to open There is no Limit Record Store, which finally became his record label, No Limit Records in 1994.

Up to now, Master P has dozen multi-atomic number 78, tenner platinum, & 13 gold albums. Fortune & Forbes stand used him on "The 40 Richest Under 40" & a "Top List of Highest Paid Entertainers," severally. Master P has enjoyed globe-renown profits as the hip-hop creative person, a successful actor, director, producer, & jock.

Music

Master P's debut album was A Ghetto Is Trying to Put to death Us; & was followed by 99 Slipway to Die, Ice Cream Human, Ghetto Dope & 1998's Da Go Don. When an abortive attempt to play pro NBA basketball he returned to music with Exclusively God May Judge Us, followed by Ghetto Postage & 2001's Gameface, which was a number one release from either The New No Limit Records/Universal Records.

For his tenth solo album, Master P freed the double-Video placed, Skillful Side, Badness Side inside March 2004. Within June 2005, Ghetto Bill (A Better Hustler In The Stake) Vol One, Master P's Eleventh solo Video come within at #1 on the Billboard Top Independent Album's Chart around its number 1 week of release.

Sports

Master P has competed using a Fort Wayne Fury of the Continental Basketball Association, the NBA's New Orleans Hornets, Toronto Raptors and the Sacramento Kings summer league.

Inside 1999, Master P manufactured a select few appearances for World Championship Wrestling with Konnan and Rey Misterio Jr.

Other interests

Master P hwhen financed, produced & appeared within many of his have film too as more large-budget films including Hollywood Homicide as the creator of the cabaret & inside Dark Blue with Kurt Russell.

Discography

1991 "Get Away Clean" 1992 "Mama's Bad Boy" 1994 "The Ghettos Tryin to Kill Me!" 1995 "99 Ways to Die" 1996 "Ice Cream Man" #26 US 1997 "Ghetto D" #1 US 1998 "MP Da Last Don" #1 US 1999 "Only God Can Judge Me" #2 US 2000 "Ghetto Postage" #26 US 2001 "Game Face" #53 US 2004 "Good Side, Bad Side" #11 US 2005 "Ghetto Bill (The Best Hustler In The Game) Vol. 1" #39 U.s.a. & #1 on Billboard Independent Album Charts US

Hit singles

1997 "I Miss My Homies" #25 US 1998 "Goodbye to My Homies" #27 US 1998 "I Got the Hook Up" #16 US 1998 "Make Em Say Ugh" #16 US

Metacritic: Ghetto Postage
Links to several reviews of the album.

RollingStone.com: Master P.
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MTV: Master P
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VH1: Master P
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