Person · Open Library
- Born
- 12 December 1925
- Died
- 24 July 2000
- Works
- 66
Top works
- Darʹhā va dīvār-i buzurg-i Chīn
- خروس زری, پیرهن پری
- Ḥāfiẓ-i Shīrāz / bi-rivāyat-i Aḥmad Shamlū
- Āydā, dirakht va khanjar va khāṭirah
- Havāy-i tāzih
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 24,613
- Total plays
- 177,032
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Hip-Hopraphip hop90swest coast
Released when Ahmad was only 18, "Back in the Day" hit 26 on the U.S. pop charts and 19 on the U.S. R&B charts on the strength of its hook - a sample of the Teddy Pendergrass song "Love TKO" - and Ahmad's quirky vocal style, reminiscent of Fatlip of The Pharcyde fame. It was the major single off his first and only album to date, 'Ahmad'. A remix of "Back in the Day" is featured on the soundtrack to The Wood, a 1999 motion picture. A second album was recorded for Revolution Records, a sub-label
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 19,953x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,326x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,795x
- Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019
· 2020 · cited 9,734x
- The mutational constraint spectrum quantified from variation in 141,456 humans
· 2020 · cited 8,884x
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- Ahmad (rapper).jpg
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- date of birth
- 1976-10-12
- start of work period
- 1993-00-00
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1975 births20th-century African-American musicians20th-century American male musicians20th-century American male rappers20th-century American rappers21st-century African-American male rappers21st-century African-American rappers21st-century American male rappers21st-century American rappersAfrican-American songwritersAmerican male songwritersGiant Records (Warner) artistsLiving peopleRappers from Los AngelesSongwriters from CaliforniaWest Coast hip-hop musicians