The same year, Polite signed his first solo record deal under basketball player Magic Johnson’s MJM label Musical career Many of the artists on its roster were let go, including N-Toon. Later that year, MCA Records crossed over into its parent company, Geffen Records. Although two singles were released, “Ready” and “Shoulda Been My Girl”, their debut album Toon Time proved to be a disappointment. Irby immediately joined Polite to the pre-teen urban pop quartet N-Toon, alongside younger brother “Chuckie.” The group won Nickelodeon’s cancelled show Double Dare 2000 against No Authority, and the group was signed to DreamWorks Records. He was discovered at the age of 10, while rehearsing for a show at school, by singer Joyce Irby. At the age of eight, Polite began doing musical theatre at Avondale Elementary, a Performing Arts school. He has been a resident of Atlanta, GA since the age of 2. was born Januin New Orleans, Louisiana on January 3, 1986. 2011: Be the One (feat.Lloyd Polite Jr.2008: Girls Around the World (feat.Lil Wayne).2008: How We Do It (Around My Way) ( feat.Ludacris ).(Year, title, album, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) Top ranking, total weeks, award Chart placements Chart placements One of these songs, called Pusha (featuring Juelz Santana ), produced by the Runners, was promoted by Lloyd on Twitter in August 2009. In an interview, Lloyd said that he would learn from the mistakes of The Inc's label bosses and treat his own artists better.Īfter the label change, Lloyd took the initiative to record songs for another album. According to their own account, there were too many disagreements between Lloyd and Irv Gotti on a business level. Also under The Inc 'it was not possible for him to develop freely, which he is now striving for. As a reason for this decision, he cited that there was too little support from the label. In 2009 Lloyd left The Inc´ label and founded Young Goldie Music. Irv Gotti saw this decision as a diss, Lloyd, however, described this reaction in an interview as unnecessary. Lloyd said that this track didn't fit the mood of the record, which is why it became a bonus song for the mixtape. One of the songs entitled "A Day in the Life" was produced by Irv Gotti.
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Since some songs had been produced that were not selected for the album, Lloyd decided to offer a mixtape called "Lessons in Love 2.0" as a free download from his Myspace page. But neither the singles with Ludacris and Lil Wayne nor the album itself could keep up the success of the predecessor, even if the top 10 of the album charts were reached again. This time it only took a little more than a year until the third album Lessons in Love. The second album Street Love was released in 2007 and entered the album charts at number two. In the following years Lloyd worked with many other well-known artists such as Ja Rule and Young Jeezy, his single You with Lil Wayne was very successful, which became a top 10 hit in the USA and also made it into the UK charts. The following debut album of the same name even made it to number eleven on the Billboard Hot 200. It was an immediate success and reached number 24 on the official US charts. and recorded the single Southside with Ashanti. On the recommendation of LA Reid, he was finally signed by Murder Inc. But he was unlucky again, the label was dissolved before it was released and he had to look for a new label again. But shortly afterwards the band broke up and Lloyd was looking for success as a solo singer.Īfter it didn't work out at MJM, he got a contract with MCA and the first single Hey Young Girl was already planned. At the age of ten he was discovered for a band called N-Toon, with whom he released two singles and in 2000 the album Toon Time. Lloyd Polite lost his father at the age of two and therefore grew up in Atlanta with his mother and sister.