Blu

Person · Open Library

Works

26

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1983-04-15

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

403,560

Total plays

6,902,964

Johnson Barnes (born April 15, 1983 in Inglewood, California), better known by the stage name Blu, is an American rapper and producer. In 2007, he released his debut album, "Below the Heavens", which was produced entirely by Exile, one half of Emanon. Since then he has collaborated with Mainframe under the name Johnson&Jonson, and with Ta'Raach under the name C.R.A.C. Knuckles. He has also released several solo albums, most notably "HerFavoriteColo(u)r" (2009), "j e s u s" (2011) and "No York!"

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Sampling signals with finite rate of innovation

   · 2002 · cited 871x

2. Interpolation revisited [medical images application]

   · 2000 · cited 700x

3. Low-bond axisymmetric drop shape analysis for surface tension and contact angle measurements of sessile drops

   · 2010 · cited 650x

4. A New SURE Approach to Image Denoising: Interscale Orthonormal Wavelet Thresholding

   · 2007 · cited 490x

5. Real-time terahertz imaging with a single-pixel detector

   · 2020 · cited 454x

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Quotes

• “Be a star out your gang & aim above the clouds, and if you miss, you at least be amongst your own crowd.”
• “Hell is a fallacy, and heaven is a fantasy created by man.”
• “You came here with nothing, and your leaving' with nothing. So retreat from this world of deceitfulness.”
• “I was told you either stand or you fall, as long as you know when you walk you holding' hands with a god. That alone can turn the dark to a walk in the park.”
• “I only talk from my heart so open yours when you listening”
• “Hell is what you choose to call the present. That's why you're going through it, I just choose to call it stressing”

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Wikidata facts

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Blu getting interviewed in Atlanta.jpg

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