Dijon Thames Shariff (July 17, 1991), better known by his stage name
Mann, is an American hip-hop/rap artist from West LA, California,
signed to J.R. Rotem's Beluga Heights Records.
After Mann recorded "Jerkin'" the song was eventually
showed to Steve Lobel. Steve Lobel, at the time part of Sean
Kingston's
management team, showed it to Sean's producer J. R. Rotem. J. R.
was inspired by the song and proceeded to remake the track for Mann
in his studio, Beluga Heights.
"Jerkin'" was met with positive criticism but JR had another
song that he had made with Sean Kingston called “Ghetto Girl” and
he asked Mann to take the track. "I didn’t know what was
going on," said Mann. "All I knew was that these men got
my music and were making moves, so I said im'ma just roll with it".
With the song finished Beluga Heights presented Mann to Epic and
he was signed within 2 months to a singles deal. Eventually, Mann
left Epic, but he continued creating music. Mann is currently working
on his debut album Mann's World which is set to be released in 2011.
Of the album, Mann states "this album is going to be a mixture
between Chronic, 2001 and Graduation, I want nothing less than perfection".
Mann's breakout single "Buzzin'" is based on producer
J.R. Rotem's chopped 'n' screwed sample of the 1986 Nu Shooz transatlantic
pop/soul smash "I Can't Wait"[1] and Ohio Players 1973
single Funky Worm. Rapper 50 Cent is also on the official remix of
the track. Within one week the remix video garnered over 3.5 million
views. The song climbed into the Top 20 on Rhythmic stations across
the nation and Top 10 in Los Angeles, Miami, Phoenix, Denver and
more. Mann recently made a future hit entitled: Bruiser with Big
sue and Mc rider, the video was filmed on the ryelands estate and
the westgate council estate morecambe. Mann Performed with Iyaz on
October 9th, on an episode of So Random.
[edit] Discography
[edit] Studio albums
Album Title Album details Chart positions
US UK
Mann's World
Released: July 22, 2011 [2]
Format: CD, digital download
Label: Beluga Heights Records, Island Def Jam
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[edit] Mixtapes
TEAMMANN (2010)
West LA Diaries Vol. 1: Vintage Cuts (2010)
West LA Diaries Vol. 2: Near Life Experience (2010)
Tell a Friend 2 Tell a Friend (Hosted by DJ Ill Will & Fingazz) (2011)
West LA Diaries Vol. 3: Birthday Philosophy (2011)
Bruiser Vol. 1: Mann ft Big sue and MC Rider (2011)
[edit] Singles
List of singles, with selected chart positions, showing year released
and album name Title Year Peak chart positions Album
AUS
[3] IRE
[4] SCO
[5] UK
[6] US
[7] US R&B
[8] US Rap
[9]
"
Ghetto Girl"
(featuring Sean Kingston) 2008 — — — — — — — Non-album
single
"
Text"
(featuring Jason Derülo) 2010 — — — — — — — Mann's
World
"
Buzzin' (Remix)"
(featuring 50 Cent) 61 70 13 6 61 70 13
"
The Mack"
(featuring Snoop Dogg and Iyaz) 2011 — — — 28 — — 68
Music Sounds Better With You
(with Big Time Rush (band)