Talk:Frost (rapper)

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misc edits[edit]

Ice T created gangster rap, Frost has never been credited as helping Ice T with its creation or rise in popularity.

La Raza wasn't the biggest Latin hip hop track, Mentirosa was the first platinum single by a Latin rap artist and outsold La Raza.

Cleanup[edit]

Wording in this article needs fixing, ex: "Style-wise, Frost moved from Electro Funk to a Latin-tinged kind of Gangsta rap that he's basically still into, although now often inspired by G-Funk (a more melodic kind of gangsta rap pioneered by Dr. Dre)." using "basically still into" makes it sound like someone's just saying this in everyday speech, instead of presenting any type of factual info. Zchris87v 07:44, 14 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've changed that now... Wathiik 07:44, 23 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Song[edit]

WP:Ignore All Rules is on my side. Okay I will reword this then, the article makes no mention of this song. It doesnt say what it is called.

There I was talking about the article and not the song, is that any better?

Kid[edit]

I don't want to make an edit war but to SAIEW, I think he is more known for his two first albums and "La Raza" than his albums under simply Frost. What's opinion of yours? Flesh-n-Bone 11:58, 16 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

New album and compilations[edit]

I would like to add the new album "All oldies" on gain green records 2011. Plus I would like to add "Thump rap radio - Cruzin with Frost" on 2003 with Thump Records and "Thump rap radio 2 - Hosted by Frost" on 2003 with Thump Records. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Simone1900 (talk • contribs) 09:32, 16 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Also known as[edit]

Frost is also known as Kid Frost or OG Frost or Big Frost, not as Gangsta Frost. What's your opinion? Simone1900 (talk) 09:47, 16 August 2011 (UTC)Simone1900[reply]

Missing relasese[edit]

see here: http://www.discogs.com/artist/Kid+Frost

ALL OLDIES II and OLD SCHOOL FUNK. I already added them actually---

Wathiik (talk) 12:56, 28 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Connected to a pump and dump spam email fraud from 2006[edit]

I found this wikipedia article page by browsing through the following path:

DEFCON talk about stock spams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytDamqTjPwg mentioned stock symbol GDKI that produced a $250000 estimated profit to spammers / pump-and-dump scammers
Here's an example of spam they send, from governmental spam fighting effort: https://www.sec.gov/investor/spamalot/stockspam-examples.pdf
It checks out that GDKI peaked around 2006, then crashed to zero the next year: http://www.finanzen.ch/aktien/goldmark_industries-Aktie (select MAX time range)
Goldmark Industries denied having part in it: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20060815005838/en/Goldmark-Industries-Responsible-Spam
News release that Frost signs to Goldmark Entertainment: https://allhiphop.com/2006/07/25/rapper-frost-signs-on-as-vp-of-music-for-goldmark-entertainment/ (same company apparently, though Industries was the traded entity)

Also from Google:

Similar schemes: https://www.timothysykes.com/blog/shaquille-oneals-pump-dump-is-up-nearly-100-due-to-this-320000-promotional-mailer/
Frost saying that "pump-and-dump of the music industry in 2007 [killed] the underground artist market in Houston" http://glasstire.com/2017/09/25/an-interview-with-mike-frost-on-the-evolution-of-houstons-hip-hop-album-covers/

Interesting stuff. Absolutely not implying Frost personally has any part in the scam, but he is one of the very few public figures connected to it nevertheless. This is all historical curiosa that I bumped into while browsing the internets. --Sigmundur (talk) 09:52, 13 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

EDIT: Because of BLP, I want to be absolutely clear on that the intention of my little internets snooping is not to libel, and that the connection of Frost to the pump and dump scheme is not the same thing as him playing any part in it besides maybe innocent victim of greedy stock gamblers. The company he was figure-heading went down, after all. --Sigmundur (talk) 09:59, 13 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]