Incubus (band)

They toured worldwide in 2004 with Ben Kweller, The Vines, The Music and Sparta amongst others to promote their new album. 2004- R.U.L.E. Gold (as of 01/04/05). Also released in 2004 was the single "Megalomaniac" with a bonus song "Monuments and Melodies". 2003- Blood In My Eye Gold. One song left off the album, the 26-minute long instrumental entitled "The Odyssey" featured on the Halo 2 soundtrack. 2002- Last Temptation- Platinum. Other singles were "Talk Shows on Mute" and "Agoraphobia". 2001- Pain Is Love- 3X Platinum.

The first single off of ACLOTM was "Megalomaniac", which raised controversy when it was said to be an attack on the Bush administration and was banned from daytime view on MTV, despite the band saying that it was not an attack on a particular person, rather a comment on some people's negative attitudes. 2000- Rule 3:36- 3X Platinum. It combined the experimental leanings of S.C.I.E.N.C.E. and Fungus Amongus with the melodic rock of Make Yourself and Morning View. 1999- Venni Vetti Vecci- Platinum. Their newest album, A Crow Left of the Murder, released in 2004 was a new turn for the band. Ja Rule has co-starred in a number of action movies such as Half Past Dead, The Fast and the Furious, Scary Movie 3, and Assault on Precinct 13. Over a year after creation, the foundation has raised under $400,000, giving to organisations such as the International Red Cross, the Painted Turtle, Operation Smile and the Surfrider Foundation. and Tupac Shakur, though most in the rap community, including Lil' Mo and several others of the aforementioned victims of Ja Rule's bashing, have expressed hope that all rappers could learn a lesson from what happened to Biggie and Tupac and stop serious feuds before someone ends up hurt.

The Make Yourself Foundation does not accept cash donations from fans. It remains to be seen whether this 'dispute' will elevate to the level of Notorious B.I.G. Incubus also releases a CD series of "bootlegs" which feature recordings of live appearances and exlusive material, which directly benefit the charity. Dre and Eminem were gay lovers; suggested Dre's newest female protege, Truth Hurts, might be a transsexual; and even claimed that Eminem's young daughter would end up a prostitute. Funds are gathered solely from ticket sales, merchandise, events, online auctions and album proceeds. He referred to Lil' Mo as an ungrateful bitch who had never had a hit single without his help; alluded that Dr. The Make Yourself Foundation was started by the founding members of the band in 2003 as a non-profit organization which donates to causes the band deems worthy. Dre, Lil' Mo, Truth Hurts, and Eminem's 6-year-old daughter, Hailie Jade, along with 50 Cent on a single track.

Also on the main stage were The Donnas, Jurassic 5, A Perfect Circle, Queens of the Stone Age, Audioslave, and Jane's Addiction. The feud eventually escalated to such a level that Ja Rule mocked Eminem, Dr. In 2003, the new Incubus played at the newly-revived Lollapalooza concert. Initiated by 50 Cent's labelling Ja Rule, among others, a "fake" gangster, or a "wanksta", because of their pop sensibilities, the two rappers exchanged insults and disses in a series of singles and underground mixtapes. He seems to have impressed because he was announced as the replacement for newly departed bassist Alex Katunich. In 2003, it was this very dichotomy which started a rap war between Ja Rule and fellow MC 50 Cent. The band later said this was his 'audition'. "Always On Time" with Ashanti, "Put It On Me" with Lil' Mo, and "Between Me And You" with Christina Milian are just three examples of such songs, which have married his thuggish image with more sensitive, relationship-minded topics.

Added to the line-up of the Time Lapse Consortium was Ben Kenney on the bass, from the band The Roots. Despite culling a gangster image, Ja Rule's biggest hits have, to date, been hip-hop inspired ballads, all of which have contained at least one female singer on the chorus. A bootleg was released of the show at the Roxy in Los Angelas. in 2001. He also asked for help from Suzi Katayama, who had worked on Morning View, to arrange the orchestra. This led Mo to leave Murder Inc. However, despite his intention of a solo project, he ended up enlisting all the remaining members of the band, except Chris Kilmore. With Ashanti's career on the rise, Mo felt that Ja and Irv Gotti were ignoring her and focussing unfair amounts of time and money on Ashanti.

He wrote the music himself and it came out as a jazz/funk mix. Lil' Mo, Ja Rule's former friend, had a falling out with Ja shortly after they released the "I Cry" music video together, in 2001. During the break, guitarist Mike Einziger set up the Time Lapse Consortium. He gathered together a group of musicians to perform a select number of shows. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. This new info was not released to the general public and the band took a break from Incubus to deal with the news and to take a breather from the constant pressure of writing music. It peaked at No. Dirk Lance), decided to leave the group. It debuted at #1 in the UK Singles Chart, giving him his biggest single of his career there (even though at the same time it broke the record of the lowest selling #1 debut single ever).

After the tour, bassist Alex Katunich(a.k.a. Kelly and Ashanti. Incubus was allowed to design a Civic given away in a drawing. The first single from this album, "Wonderful", has been released, and features R. In April 2002, the band hit the road again, this time as the headline band for Honda's Civic Tour with Hoobastank. On November 9, 2004, Ja Rule released his next album entitled "R.U.L.E." The album features several guest appearances (such as Jadakiss, Fat Joe, Trick Daddy and many more). Coupled with this, the band were now selling out big arenas and became a household name in the industry.1 (http://enjoyincubus.com/bio.html). The song's video, which was dark and simple and featured a bulked-up Ja Rule, contrasted deeply to the colorful, happier scenes in videos such as "Always On Time" and "Mesmerize".

The success of Morning View and "Wish You Were Here" marked the band as a truely popular, mainstream rock band, reaching #2 in the billboards, with Morning View reaching #2 in the album charts, selling 440,000 copies in its first week. Arguably his grittiest single yet, it seemed intended to challenge 50 Cent's comments about him. The other singles from the album were "Nice To Know You", "Warning" and "Are You In" and a radio single, "Circles". Ja Rule returned in November of 2003 with the new single "Clap Back", on the album Blood In My Eye. In interviews, the band all appeared very positive about their latest release; as Brandon Boyd puts it, "we all moved into a magnificent, Malibu mansion, set up our gear in the living room with a view of the ocean, and began creating what would be our most free-flowing work to date." The band also released a DVD after this album, featuring a live performance at the Morning View Mansion, footage of the band in the mansion, a photo gallery and the cut and un-cut versions of Wish You Were Here. The female vocalist who sang the chorus of "Murder Reigns" was not credited as a "featured" artist, though she appeared in its music video. The house was located on a street named "Morning View"; hence the name. The song also had received criticism for its sampling of Toto's "Africa", something that had just recently been done on another rapper's most recent album.

The sound of the record is generally seen as a reflection of that environment, as opposed to the basement where S.C.I.E.N.C.E. was recorded. MTV and other music video channels only played the video with the censored title of "The Reign", and with the word "murder" removed from the chorus' lyrics. The album was a much more mellow record as opposed to the hard sounds on Make Yourself and S.C.I.E.N.C.E., thus coming into criticism from veteran fans but still retained such rockers as Have You Ever and Under My Umbrella. The album's final single, "Murder Reigns" also failed to become a huge hit, especially at pop radio, most likely due to the controversial song title. This album was recorded in a mansion on the Pacific coast of California. In late 2002 and early 2003, as Ja Rule ruled mainstream radio with "Mesmerize", another single of his, which featured Ashanti and Nas, "The Pledge", was released to radio, but failed to gain pop support. Morning View was released on October 23, 2001. "Mesmerze" featured Ashanti on vocals and was another smash pop and urban radio hit--and an enormous MTV and VH1 video hit--for the duo.

It was replaced with footage from the band in the Morning View Mansion where the album was recorded. The second single from The Last Temptation, "Mesmerize", followed the pattern used in "Always On Time", hoping to repeat its success; it worked. Originally the video showed the band running from a group of screaming girls, forcing them to jump off a bridge into a river. Thus far, Rule seems to have changed his mind. "Wish You Were Here", the first single from the group's next album, Morning View was released on August 21, 2001, and reached number two in the US. At the end of September the video for "Wish You Were Here" was released, after being re-cut in order to make it more "viewable" in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11th. Around the time of The Last Temptation's release, Ja Rule started saying that it would likely be either his last or second-to-last album, after which he would concentrate solely on other aspects of his life, such as his acting career and the managing of Murder Inc. The "Drive" video was nominated for an MTV Video Music Award in the category Best Group Video, but the award went to *NSYNC. Brown's attempted return to mainstream music with the single did not succeed.

The band also played in Australia and Japan, before touring with Hoobastank in the United States. Despite "Thug Lovin'"'s being the first single from Ja's fourth album, The Last Temptation and Brown's "comeback" appearance on the song, it was relatively unsuccessful compared to many of Ja's previous singles. 2001 was a busy year for the band, when Incubus went on the road with Hundred Reasons in the summer and played the Area One Festival before their Make Yourself went Double Platinum, selling two million copies. Ja then featured Brown, Murder Inc.'s newest artist, in his next single "Thug Lovin'" in the fall of 2002, as he had done previously with Baltimore, Lil' Mo, and Ashanti when they were the newcomers. Fungus Amongus was re-released on November 7th, 2000, as a response to demand for the independently released album. did shortly sign Bobby Brown. During the year 2000, Incubus toured with Queen Adreena, 311, Deftones and Taproot and played Ozzfest again. Following all this, Murder Inc.

Later the DVD, When Incubus Attacks Volume 2 was also released, featuring live footage, music videos and various backstage footage. There was even talk that Michael Jackson had enlisted the help of Irv Gotti and Ja Rule and was in the process of signing a contract with Murder Inc. In the first week of its release (August 22nd, 2000), When Incubus Attacks Volume 1 sold almost 40,000 copies, and reached number 41 on the US Billboard Album Charts. at the time. After playing the Ozzfest tour again, a six song EP, When Incubus Attacks Volume 1, was released. Some dismissed the claims as rumors, since it seemed that everybody in the industry wanted to be affiliated with Ja and Murder Inc. The next single, "Drive," did one better, reaching #1 and giving the band a new, mainstream following. and was preparing to released a long-awaited comeback album.

It reached #2 in the Billboard Charts. Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston had cameos in the video and speculation soon arose that one or both of them had been signed to Murder Inc. "Stellar" was the second single released from Make Yourself, and the video was played on MTV and TRL. The "Down 4 U" video was a hit at MTV in the summer of 2002 because of its beach setting and its party theme. The single reached #3 in the Billboard Music Charts. The remix of "Down Ass Chick", called "Down 4 U", fared slightly better at mainstream radio, thanks once again to a chorus sung by Ashanti, in addition to raps from Baltimore, Rule, and Vita. "Pardon Me" was released as a single and -- as MTV began playing the video -- the band began to gain a mainstream following. The song heralded the return of Charli Baltimore--who was a "featured" rapper on the track--to the music industry after a five year absence.

Immediately they went out on tour again, this time with Primus. In spring of 2002, the third single from Pain Is Love, "Down Ass Chick", was far less successful at pop radio than its two predecessors had been. The album was a much more mainstream rock album than the experimental S.C.I.E.N.C.E.. "Rainy Dayz" became yet another successful song in which a female vocalist's singing complimented Rule's own unique style of rapping. After touring with Black Sabbath, Incubus began recording Make Yourself, which was released on October 26, 1999. Blige invited Ja Rule to record a song with her, called "Rainy Dayz", which was added to a 2002 rerelease of her most recent album, 2001's No More Drama. A live recording of the song "New Skin" appeared on the Family Values compilation CD. Looking to capitalize on the same type of strategy, Mary J.

The band then continued to tour, playing in Europe and America with the likes of Sugar Ray, Hoobastank, 311, Far, One Minute Silence, Cold, Limp Bizkit, (hed) p.e., Snot, Soulfly, System of a Down, Korn, Papa Roach, as well as playing the Warped Tour for three dates, the Ozzfest and the Family Values tour in the summer and fall of 1998. The only exception to this was American VH1 which played the original pop versions of the music videos rather than the hip-hop versions. In February 1998, DJ Lyfe was asked to leave because of trouble within the band and Chris Kilmore was brought in to fill the vacant position. Both remixes featured vocals and rap verses from Ja Rule and both far outperformed the song's original versions, in mainstream radio, urban radio, and music video channels, in America and Europe alike. "A Certain Shade Of Green" was the only single from the album and didn't make a dent in the singles charts. In early 2002, the formula was repeated with Lopez' next single, "Ain't It Funny". S.C.I.E.N.C.E. was released on September 9, 1997. The "Murder Remix" of "I'm Real" contained vocals by both Lopez and Rule and went on to become one of 2001's biggest hits.

Incubus collaborated with DJ Greyboy to produce the song "Familiar" for the Spawn movie soundtrack in 1997. Lopez had enlisted the help of Ja Rule and Irv Gotti in the production of an urban remix for her unsuccessful, pop-sounding song "I'm Real". Many songs from Fungus Amongus were rereleased on Enjoy Incubus, but were touched up. Ja's popularity in the hip-hop industry was cemented even further in the summer of 2001, thanks to a hugely popular duet with Jennifer Lopez. Enjoy Incubus was released on Immortal Records on January 7 of that year, exactly two years after the band's second demo. Christina Aguilera, NSYNC, Britney Spears, Destiny's Child, Jennifer Lopez, and Gaye's own daughter, Nona, among others, sang the original lyrics to Gaye's song. Between that release and their 1997 major label debut EP, Enjoy Incubus, the band acquired DJ Lyfe, who introduced hip-hop sounds to the band's already diverse mix of music. He, along with Nelly, Eve, and Fred Durst, added their own original rap lyrics about the disease to the song.

On November 1, 1995, Fungus Amongus was released on the band's own label,Stopuglynailfungus Music on Chillum. Ja Rule had a memorable part in the song. On January 7, 1995, the demo tape Incubus was released, featuring songs that would later appear on their first album, Fungus Amongus, and their EP, Enjoy Incubus. The song went on to become associated with the terrorist attacks and the subsequent war in Afghanistan more so than with AIDS. However, in December, the song was rereleased as planned, with several new versions/remixes of both the song and the video, in order to benefit AIDS charities as originally planned. One song of interest from this demo was "Bathe In My Snot", which harnessed much of the band's newly created energy. After 9/11, however, the song was rush-released to radio and to MTV; its video having been hastily thrown together "home-movie" clips from the very recent studio recording of the song. For the next few years, Incubus continued to play live and write music, which cumulated in their first demo recording released in 1994, titled Closet Cultivation. It was to be released in December.

In 1991, after adopting the name Incubus, the band began playing at parties in their neighborhood. Just days before the tragedy of September 11th, around the same time that "Livin' It Up" was breaking big, the American supergroup lineup known as the "All Star Tribute" was recording a cover of Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On", in order to raise international AIDS awareness as well as money to combat the disease. At this time they began writing their own music. The song and video were also notable because they provided MTV viewers and listeners of mainstream radio the first introduction to singer Ashanti, who was the featured singer on the single's chorus. They asked their friend, Brandon Boyd to join and he became the vocalist. The followup single and video, "Always On Time", was released in December of that same year and was even bigger than "Livin' It Up", becoming Ja Rule's biggest pop radio hit to that point. They mostly played Metallica and Megadeth covers and were able to get a few gigs at friend's parties. The song, which featured guest vocals by R&B singer Case, went on to become another smash hit for the rapper thanks in part to its familiar sample of Stevie Wonder's "Do I Do".

Jose Pasillas, Alex Katunich, Mike Einziger began jamming together while at Calabasas High School in 1990. In the fall of 2001, after "I Cry" had run its course, Ja Rule released "Livin' It Up", the first single from his third album, Pain Is Love. "Incubus" is latin for "nightmare." Mike says that the name was chosen because it sounded silly; Brandon holds that it was chosen because they were teenagers and the definition had the word "sex" in it. The album's third single, "I Cry", also featured singing from Lil' Mo, but the song failed to blow up as the two prior singles had, even despite getting respectable video play on MTV2. After a few failed choices, Mike looked in a thesaurus and chose "Incubus" almost at random. In late 2000, Rule released his second album, Rule 3:36, which spawned the huge hits "Between Me And You", featuring young newcomer Christina Milian on vocals, and "Put It On Me", featuring his label-mates Vita and Lil' Mo. The band needed to think of a name hours before their first show. He later started his own record label, with friend Irv Gotti, called Murder Inc.

Dirk Lance) (bass). The same year, he released the "How Many Wanna" single off of a movie soundtrack. Former members of the band include DJ Lyfe (turntables) and Alex Katunich (a.k.a. It spawned the singles "Holla Holla" and "Daddy's Little Baby", which only achieved minor success compared to his later singles. Incubus is an eclectic rock band, that consists of five men from Calabasas, California: Brandon Boyd (vocals and percussion), Mike Einziger (guitar), Ben Kenney (bass), Jose Pasillas (drums) and DJ Kilmore (turntables). After his auspicious start on "Can I Get A...", Ja wasted little time preparing and releasing his debut album, Venni, Vetti, Vicci, in 1999. There is also a demon called an incubus.. Jeffery Atkins (born February 29, 1976, Hollis, Queens, New York City), better known as Ja Rule, is a rapper who made his name on several tracks of recordings by his mentor Jay-Z, the most notable of which was the smash 1998/1999 hit "Can I Get A...".

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Fat Joe & Jadakiss) #44 US. 2004 "New York" (feat. Kelly and Ashanti) #5 US, #1 UK. R.

2004 "Wonderful" (feat. 2003 "Clap Back" #44 US, #9 UK (double A-side with Reigns in the UK). Ashanti) #2 US, #12 UK. 2002 "Mesmerize" (feat.

Bobby Brown) #42 US, #15 UK. 2002 "Thug Lovin'" (feat. Case - re-release) #5 UK. 2002 "Livin' It Up" (feat.

2002 "Down 4 U" (Irv Gotti presents The INC featuring Ja Rule, Ashanti, Charli Baltimore and Vita) #6 US, #4 UK. Charli "Chuck" Baltimore) #21 US. 2002 "Down Ass Chick" (feat. Ja Rule) #12 US, #17 UK.

Blige feat. 2002 "Rainy Dayz" (Mary J. Ja Rule and Caddillac Tah) #1 US, #4 UK. 2001 "Ain't It Funny (Murder Remix)" (Jennifer Lopez feat.

Ashanti) #1 US, #6 UK. 2001 "Always On Time" (feat. Ja Rule) #27 US, #6 UK. 2001 "What's Going On" (All Star Tribute feat.

Case) #6 US, #27 UK. 2001 "Livin' It Up" (feat. Ja Rule) #1 US, #4 UK. 2001 "I'm Real (Murder Remix)" (Jennifer Lopez feat.

Lil' Mo) #40 US. 2001 "I Cry" (feat. Lil' Mo and Vita) #8 US. 2001 "Put It On Me" (feat.

Christina Milian) #30 US, #26 UK. 2001 "Between Me And You" (feat. Amil and Ja Rule) #27 US, #24 UK. 1998 "Can I Get A..." (Jay-Z feat.