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Barter 6
Barter 6 (also Barter VI) is Young Thug's April 17, 2015 mixtape on 300 Entertainment/Atlantic, originally titled Carter 6 until Lil Wayne's legal threats forced a Bloods-affiliated rename; guests include Birdman, T.I., and Boosie Badazz.
Barthélémy Attisso
Barthélémy Attisso (1945–2021) was a Togolese guitarist and lawyer who co-founded Senegal's Orchestra Baobab in 1970, blending Cuban son with jazz guitar, and died in Lomé in 2021.
Bartolomeo Cristofori
Bartolomeo Cristofori was an Italian harpsichord maker at the Medici court in Florence, credited around 1700 with inventing the piano by replacing plucked strings with hammers.
Bas (rapper)
Bas (Abbas Hamad, born 1987) is a Paris-born, Queens-raised Sudanese-American rapper on J. Cole's Dreamville label, known for Last Winter, Too High to Riot, Milky Way, "Tribe," and Sudan activism.
Bas Mooy
Bas Mooy, born in Rotterdam in 1976, is a Dutch techno producer and DJ active since 1999, known for a dark, industrial sound and for founding the Rotterdam label Mord.
Based on a True Story (Will Smith album)
Based on a True Story, Will Smith's fifth studio album (28 March 2025, SLANG), his first since 2005's Lost and Found; first 'season' of a planned trilogy, 14 tracks, guests include DJ Jazzy Jeff and Big Sean; Metacritic 41, missed the Billboard 200.
Basement Jaxx
Basement Jaxx, the English house duo of Felix Buxton and Simon Ratcliffe, formed in London in 1994. Known for Remedy, Rooty, Kish Kash (first Best Electronic/Dance Album Grammy), Brit Awards, and Glastonbury 2005.
Bashar Al Shatty
Bashar Al Shatty, also known as Bashar Al Shatti (بشار الشطي), is a Kuwaiti pop singer who finished second in the first Star Academy Arab World in 2004.
Bashy
Bashy, performance name of Ashley Thomas (born 1985), is a British grime and UK rap artist from London known for "Black Boys", the 2009 album Catch Me If You Can, acting roles, and the 2024 comeback album Being Poor Is Expensive.
Basia
Basia (Barbara Stanisława Trzetrzelewska, born 1954, Jaworzno, Poland) is a Polish jazz-pop singer, ex-Matt Bianco vocalist, whose Time and Tide and London Warsaw New York went US platinum; distinct from Basia Bulat.
Basick
Basick (베이식; born Lee Cheol-joo, 1986) is a South Korean rapper who won the Mnet rap competition Show Me the Money 4 in 2015, defeating Song Mino, then signed with RBW.
Basil Poledouris
Basil Konstantine Poledouris (1945–2006), Greek-American Hollywood film composer of 80+ scores; known for Conan the Barbarian, RoboCop, Lonesome Dove (Emmy 1989), The Hunt for Red October, and Starship Troopers.
Basket Case (song)
Basket Case, 1994 Green Day song from Dookie, second single, written by Billie Joe Armstrong about panic attacks; UK peak 55 then 7 on reissue, US Modern Rock #1, over 1.66 billion Spotify streams.
Basketmouth
Basketmouth, born Bright Okpocha, is a Nigerian comedian and actor who became one of Nigeria's foremost stand-up comedians and later released the albums Yabasi, Horoscopes, and Uburu.
Bass
Bass: the double bass (upright bass, contrabass), the largest, lowest-pitched bowed orchestral string tuned in fourths, and the related electric bass guitar defined by Fender's 1951 Precision Bass.
Bass (voice type)
Bass (voice type): the lowest common male singing voice, typically E2–E4, below baritone and tenor. Subtypes include basso profondo, basso cantante, bass-baritone, and Russian oktavists; known for Sarastro, Osmin, and Wotan roles.
Bass Brothers
Bass Brothers: Detroit production duo Jeff and Mark Bass, aka F.B.T. Productions (Funky Bass Team), who discovered and signed Eminem, produced The Slim Shady LP through 8 Mile, won an Oscar and Grammy for "Lose Yourself," and founded Web Entertainment and F.B.T. Studios in Ferndale, Michigan.
Bass Canyon
Bass Canyon is an annual three-day bass music festival at the Gorge Amphitheatre in George, Washington, founded, curated, and headlined by dubstep producer Excision since 2018.
Bass clarinet
Bass clarinet (Bassklarinette, clarinetto basso): single-reed woodwind an octave below the B-flat clarinet, about 132 cm long. First built in bassoon form by Grenser (1793); modern straight form by Adolphe Sax (1838); orchestral debut in Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots.
Bass drum
Bass drum (grosse caisse, gran cassa): a large low-pitched cylindrical drum with one or two heads, used in orchestras, military and marching bands, and drum kits, where the kick drum is played by foot pedal; entered the orchestra via Gluck in 1761 from Janissary music.
Bass guitar
Bass guitar: low-pitched stringed instrument, usually four strings, played horizontally with pickups and amplification. Invented in solidbody form by Paul Tutmarc in the 1930s; commercialized by the Fender Precision Bass of 1951.
Bass house
Bass house is a subgenre of house music fusing four-on-the-floor grooves with distorted bass music low-end, at 124 to 128 BPM, with Jauz, AC Slater, and Tchami among its central figures.
Bass Modulators
Bass Modulators is a Dutch hardstyle act founded in 2007 by Rick Buijtenhek and Roland Evers, known for a euphoric sound and festival sets at Defqon.1 and Qlimax.
Bass-D
Bass-D (Eugenio Dorwart, 1973–2026) was a Dutch hardcore DJ and producer who won the 1992 Dutch DJ Championship, formed the duo Bass-D & King Matthew, and co-founded Masters of Hardcore.
Basscon Wasteland
Basscon Wasteland, known since 2026 as the Wasteland Festival, is an annual hard dance festival presented by Insomniac's Basscon brand at the NOS Events Center in San Bernardino, California.
Bassekou Kouyaté
Bassekou Kouyaté, born 1966 in the Ségou region of Mali, is a ngoni player and bandleader who leads the amplified ngoni quartet Ngoni Ba.
Basshunter
Basshunter, real name Jonas Erik Altberg, is a Swedish singer, producer, and DJ whose 2008 single "Now You're Gone" spent five weeks at number one on the UK chart.
Bassivity Digital
Bassivity Digital, also known as Bassivity Music, is a Belgrade-based hip-hop and urban music label, described as the largest urban music platform in the Balkans.
Bassline
Bassline, also called bassline house or Niche, is a UK garage sub-genre that emerged in Yorkshire and the Midlands in the early 2000s, known for heavy bass.
Bassnectar
Bassnectar, the stage name of Lorin Ashton, is an American DJ and electronic music producer from Santa Cruz, California, known for a bass-heavy blend of dubstep, breakbeat, and drum 'n' bass.