Person
- Born
- 1969-06-14
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Film & TV
Acting · Compton, California, United States
Lorenzo Jerald Patterson (born June 16, 1969), better know by his stage name MC Ren, is a rapper from Compton, California. He was a member of the pioneering gangsta rap group N.W.A from their inception in the mid 1980s to their disbandment in the early '90s, after which he went on to a solo career.
Known for
- Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell — Self (archive footage)2021
- The Defiant Ones — Self2017
- NWA & Eazy-E: The Kings of Compton2016
- Yo! The Story of ‘Yo! MTV Raps’ — Self2012
- Vanilla Ice Archive — Self (archive footage)2012
- The Up in Smoke Tour — Self2000
- The Hip Hop Years — Self1999
- N.W.A. - EfiL4zaggiN — Self1992
- Yo! MTV Raps — Self1988
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 163,247
- Total plays
- 1,046,925
Tags
Gangsta RapWest Coast RapHip-Hoprapwest coast
MC Ren (born Lorenzo Patterson, June 14, 1969, Los Angeles (Compton), California) joined up with the groundbreaking gangsta rap group N.W.A as he finished his senior year at Dominguez High School in Compton. By contributing hard-hitting vocals on the Straight Outta Compton (1989) album, Ren soon found himself a much more valuable member of the group after Ice Cube departed in 1989. After becoming the first hardcore rap group to gain mainstream success <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/MC+Ren">
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition
· 2016 · cited 165,047x
- Clinical features of patients infected with 2019 novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China
· 2020 · cited 36,425x
- Faster R-CNN: Towards Real-Time Object Detection with Region Proposal Networks
· 2017 · cited 33,015x
- A pneumonia outbreak associated with a new coronavirus of probable bat origin
· 2020 · cited 17,260x
- Delving Deep into Rectifiers: Surpassing Human-Level Performance on ImageNet Classification
· 2015 · cited 12,918x
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Key dates
- Born
- 14 June 1969
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Compton
- Occupation
- singer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Religion
- Sunni Islam
- Field of work
- music
- Genre
- G-funk
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1969 births20th-century African-American male actors20th-century American male actors20th-century American male rappers20th-century American rappers21st-century American rappersAfrican-American male rappersAfrican-American songwritersAfrican-American Sunni MuslimsAmerican male film actorsAmerican male songwritersConverts to Sunni Islam