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Sean Price

Person · male · United States · Brooklyn · born 1972 · died 2015 · recording since 2001

American rapper (1972–2015)

East Coast hip-hop hardcore hip-hop hip-hop

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Also known as Ruck · S. Price · Sean P · Sean Prince · 숀 프라이스

Debut: 2001
Recording span: 14 years
Release groups: 29
Timeline events: 13
Wiki language versions: 17

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Timeline

13 events▣ Album 10◦ Birth 1★ Debut release 1† Death 1

1970s
1. 17 March 1972 · Birth
  Born 1972-03-17
  source: wikidata
2000s
1. 2001 · Debut release
  Debut release: Retaliation / Retaliation (remix) / Blood Runs Cold
  First documented Single in the MusicBrainz discography.
  source: musicbrainz
2. 31 May 2005 · Album
  Album: Monkey Barz
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
3. 30 January 2007 · Album
  Album: Jesus Price Supastar
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
4. 24 July 2007 · Album
  Album: Master P
  Album (Mixtape/Street)
  source: musicbrainz
5. 27 October 2009 · Album
  Album: Kimbo Price: The Prelude to Mic Tyson
  Album (Mixtape/Street)
  source: musicbrainz
2010s
1. 30 October 2012 · Album
  Album: Mic Tyson
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
2. 8 August 2015 · Death
  Died 2015
  source: wikidata
3. 21 August 2015 · Album
  Album: Songs in the Key of Price
  Album (Mixtape/Street)
  source: musicbrainz
4. 8 August 2017 · Album
  Album: Imperius Rex
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
5. 8 February 2019 · Album
  Album: 86 Witness
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
6. 20 December 2019 · Album
  Album: Price of Fame
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
2020s
1. 18 April 2025 · Album
  Album: A Widows Cry
  Album
  source: musicbrainz

Biography

English biography430 words · 5 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1378315775

Biography

Sean Duval Price (March 17, 1972 – August 8, 2015) was an American rapper and member of the hip-hop collective Boot Camp Clik. He was one half of the duo Heltah Skeltah, performing under the name Ruck, along with partner Rock.

Early life and education

Growing up in the borough of Brooklyn, Price was a member of the Decepticons in high school.

Career

A member of the underground hip-hop collective Boot Camp Clik, Price first appeared on Smif-N-Wessun's 1995 album Dah Shinin'. He would soon resurface in 1996 as one half of the critically acclaimed Brooklyn duo Heltah Skeltah, who released their debut album Nocturnal on Duck Down Records that year. Heltah Skeltah would go on to release two more albums: 1998's Magnum Force and 2008's D.I.R.T..
In the 2000s, Price established himself as a strong force in the underground hip-hop community. He was featured on Grand Theft Auto 3's GAME FM radio station in 2001. In 2005, Price released his first solo album Monkey BarzMonkey Barz31 May 2005 · Studio albumSpotify YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 16 tracks1Peep My Words2:312One Two Y'all3:323Onion Head3:014Fake Neptune3:345Heartburn4:036Shake Down3:537Mad Mann3:468Brokest Rapper You Know1:359Boom Bye Yeah3:1410I Love You (Bitch)3:2011Bye Bye3:4112Spliff n Wessun2:5813Jail Shit3:2514Monkey Barz3:1715Slap Boxing3:2916Rising to the Top5:04, to critical acclaim. He followed this in 2007 with Jesus Price Supastar and Mic Tyson in 2012.
Price was interviewed on the online series Grand Angel TV in 2008 and 2010, with Paid Dues performance footage alongside Boot Camp Clik and Dru Ha, respectively.
In 2011, Price was a judge on the Ultimate MC TV show alongside Royce da 5'9", Organik, Planet Asia, and Pharoahe Monch. Also in 2011, he formed the group Random Axe with Guilty Simpson and producer Black Milk.
He had a planned collaborative album with rapper Ill Bill in the works, called The Pill. Songs in the Key of Price, a mixtape recorded before Price's death, was released posthumously on August 21, 2015. The posthumous release of his fourth studio album, Imperius RexImperius Rex8 August 2017 · Studio albumSpotify YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 16 tracks1Imperius Rex2:302Dead or Alive2:553Definition of God3:104Ape in His Apex2:355Apartheid3:166Lord Have Mercy3:367Negus3:408Church Bells4:289The 3 Lyrical Ps3:3710Not97 Skit1:3211Refrigerator P!3:1612Prisoner4:1913Resident Evil2:5014Clans & Cliks5:3015Rap Professor2:2716Price Family1:40, followed in August 2017.
Other posthumous releases include Price's verse on fellow rapper Bruse Wane's 2016 song "Venom", which also featured Big Pun's son Chris Rivers. Dj Premier posted "Venom" on his website Premier Wuz Here, and acknowledged Price's guest appearance as "likely his last guest verse". The song was declared "an instant classic" by HIPHOPDX.

Death

On August 8, 2015, Price died at his apartment in Brooklyn at the age of 43. A statement from his label Duck Down Music confirmed his death, while adding that he died in his sleep, it also stated that his cause of death is unknown. Price had three children.

Personal life

Price was a cousin of Roc-A-Fella Records rapper Memphis Bleek and actor Michael K. Williams. He was also close friends with actor Ryan Phillippe.
Price lived in Brownsville, Brooklyn. He was a Muslim, having converted in 2009.

Discography & profile

Normalised profile

Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.

Normalised profile metrics with percentile rank
Metric	Value	Percentile
Wikipedia language versions	17	76.4th
Spotify monthly listeners	—	no data
Release groups in DB	29	90.1th
Studio albums	11	91.9th
Awards recorded	0	0th
Timeline events	13	89.7th
Recording span (years)	14	33.6th
Genres	12	97.8th

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Discography (29 release groups · 11 studio albums)

Albums · 11

Monkey Barz
2005 · studio album
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Tracklist · 16 tracks · 54:23
1Peep My Words2:31
2One Two Y'all3:32
3Onion Head3:01
4Fake Neptune3:34
5Heartburn4:03
6Shake Down3:53
7Mad Mann3:46
8Brokest Rapper You Know1:35
9Boom Bye Yeah3:14
10I Love You (Bitch)3:20
11Bye Bye3:41
12Spliff n Wessun2:58
13Jail Shit3:25
14Monkey Barz3:17
15Slap Boxing3:29
16Rising to the Top5:04
Jesus Price Supastar
2007 · studio album
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Tracklist · 16 tracks · 47:27
1Intro1:46
2Like You3:28
3P-Body3:12
4Cardiac3:48
5Stop2:29
6Violent3:34
7Da God3:04
8Oops Upside Your Head2:37
9Church3:55
10King Kong2:48
11One1:51
12You Already Know3:17
13Directors Cut1:19
14Let It Be Known3:18
15Hearing Aid3:05
16Mess You Made3:56
Master P
2007 · Mixtape/Street
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Tracklist · 18 tracks · 51:49
16 Dollar Man1:40
2M.A.S.T.E.R. P2:43
3BCCC (Frankenstein)4:40
4The Huckabuck2:17
5All I Know2:46
6One Question3:34
7Long Fifth Goodnight2:07
8Jackass Number 21:43
9Get It Together3:18
10Connect 43:27
11Knock Em Out the Box2:56
12Legbreakers3:51
13Jamaican2:45
14Fish2:12
15Good Fellaz4:08
16Rotten Apple Remix3:00
17Whats the Deal3:08
18Psycho Ward1:34
Kimbo Price: The Prelude to Mic Tyson
2009 · Mixtape/Street
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Tracklist · 23 tracks · 52:48
1Intro0:35
2Ruckdown2:15
3Gofather Part P1:54
4Goodnite!!!2:55
5Abortion2:20
6TKO2:41
7Car Thiefs1:38
8MegaSean1:25
9Boost1:30
10Bars of Death3:25
11Pork Chops & Apple Sauce1:16
12Get ya Sket Mic2:02
13Bueno Times2:17
14Hot4:43
15Street Shit1:36
16This Is Us4:51
17Weed & Hoes2:42
18Slum Shady Skit0:44
19Mamma I Want to Sing3:00
20Bullshit (Radient Jewls remix)1:54
21P's Up2:07
22Suicide Doors2:04
23Duckdown2:54
Mic Tyson
2012 · studio album
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Tracklist · 15 tracks · 41:10
1The Genesis of the Omega2:01
2Bar-Barian2:10
3Pyrex2:35
4Price & Shining Armor3:05
5Title Track2:30
6Straight Music2:10
7STFU, Part 22:58
8Hush2:36
9Solomon Grundy3:48
10Frankenberry2:21
11BBQ Sauce3:05
12Bully Rap3:46
13By the Way2:24
14Battering Bars2:53
15The Hardest Nigga Out2:48
Songs in the Key of Price
2015 · Mixtape/Street
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Tracklist · 30 tracks · 1:03:28
1Intro0:28
2Figure More2:18
3S.E.A.N.1:53
4Hot Breath1:23
5Brazil1:18
6Top Tier1:41
7Garbanzo Beans1:31
8Give 'em Hell3:02
9Psycho Killa1:30
10D.L.F.3:10
11Bobby McBarz2:39
12Breeze1:22
13Orange Box Cutter1:28
14Fei Long2:22
15Go Rambo3:29
16RNS1:16
17Planet Apes1:44
18Metal Beard2:36
19Barbituates4:34
20Dave Winfield2:21
21Kurt Rambis1:27
22Sean Shank Redemption3:21
23Infinity Gauntlet1:34
24Niggerific1:14
254 No Reason1:49
26Elmer Fudd2:05
27Enigma2:25
28Magic2:15
29Soul Perfect3:02
30El Raheim2:11
Imperius Rex
2017 · studio album
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Tracklist · 16 tracks · 51:21
1Imperius Rex2:30
2Dead or Alive2:55
3Definition of God3:10
4Ape in His Apex2:35
5Apartheid3:16
6Lord Have Mercy3:36
7Negus3:40
8Church Bells4:28
9The 3 Lyrical Ps3:37
10Not97 Skit1:32
11Refrigerator P!3:16
12Prisoner4:19
13Resident Evil2:50
14Clans & Cliks5:30
15Rap Professor2:27
16Price Family1:40
86 Witness
2019 · studio album
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Tracklist · 15 tracks
1Bear Witness
2Refrigerator P!
3Latoya Jackson
4Midnight Rounds
5P's Theme (interlude)
6John Gotti
7Think About It
8Word to Mother
9John Gotti (Philly Blunt remix)
10Refrigerator P (Peaky Blinders remix)
11Bag Of Shit
12Dump In The Gut
13Land Of The Crooks
14Murdah Type Thinkin
15Murdah Type Thinkin (Small Professor Remix)
Price of Fame
2019 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 30:46
1A Few Words From Shaun Price & Mrs. Price0:58
2Big Gun vs Lil Gun3:54
3Center Stage2:43
4Boston George2:51
5Sit Your Ass Down (skit)1:11
6Pigs2:51
7They Ain't Fucking With Us3:25
8Remember the Time2:50
9Wait for It1:39
10Peter Pop Off4:26
11Enemy of the State3:58
A Widows Cry
2025 · studio album
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Tracklist · 16 tracks · 36:13
1Words From Keisha Plum2:15
2Drama Time2:40
3Real Life3:51
4Flatlined2:48
5Interlude 10:25
6Bars3:58
7Widows Cry2:29
8Gloomy2:24
9Interlude 20:25
10Sean’s Gone2:07
11S.T.F.U.3:09
12Skully2:18
13No Love2:27
14Now Ain’t The Time2:03
15Do About It2:36
16Outro0:18
Rising To The Top
— · Mixtape/Street
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Tracklist · 14 tracks · 49:59
2M.A.S.T.E.R. P2:43
3Lenny & Squigge (Feat Curry Loo)2:36
4Straight Like That (Feat Big Black & Lil Dap)3:44
5Zepplin Fuel3:12
8Instructions2:58
10Rising To The Top5:04
11This Is Us (Feat Illanoyz)4:51
12Telemundo2:58
13Lenny & Spitty Go Off3:21
14Ruck & Agg2:15
7Aint Nobody3:02
9N.Y.C. (Feat Ike Eyes)4:23
1Above The Law (Feat Starang Wondah & Labba)4:21
6Do Not 4 Get4:31

Single · 10

Single release groups, by first release date
Year	Title	First release
2001	Retaliation / Retaliation (remix) / Blood Runs ColdSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 7 tracks A1Retaliation (dirty) A2Retaliation (instrumental) A3Retaliation (clean) A4Retaliation (remix) (instrumental) AA1Blood Runs Cold (dirty) AA2Blood Runs Cold (clean) AA3Blood Runs Cold (instrumental)	2001
2002	High Times / Bomb TreeSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 6 tracks A1High Times (Clean) A2High Times (Main) A3High Times (Instrumental) B1Bomb Tree (Clean) B2Bomb Tree (Main) B3Bomb Tree (Instrumental)	2002
2011	Fiery RedSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 1 track · 3:46 1Fiery Red3:46	2011
2011	How the Gods ChillSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 6 tracks · 19:56 A1How the Gods Chill3:33 A2How the Gods Chill (radio)3:29 A3How the Gods Chill (instrumental)3:31 B1How the Gods Chill (remix)3:09 B2How the Gods Chill (remix) (radio)3:08 B3How the Gods Chill (remix) (instrumental)3:06	29 March 2011
2013	NiggerificSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 1 track · 1:25 1Niggerific1:25	29 December 2013
2015	Blvk TarSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 1 track · 3:23 1Blvk Tar3:23	17 January 2015
2017	Refrigerator PSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 1 track · 2:49 1Refrigerator P2:49	24 November 2017
2018	Alive EPSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 2 tracks · 6:18 1Alive2:57 2Conceit Remix3:21	26 October 2018
2023	Street ChemistrySearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 1 track · 2:23 1Street Chemistry2:23	8 September 2023
2024	Don't ask whySearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 1 track · 3:19 1Don't ask why3:19	23 August 2024

Other · 2

Other release groups, by first release date
Cover	Year	Title	Notes	First release
	2001	Don't Say Shit To RuckSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 5 tracks A1Don't Say Shit To Ruck (Radio) A2Don't Say Shit To Ruck (Dirty) B1Solidify (Radio) B2Solidify (Instrumental) B3Solidify (Dirty)		2001
	2016	GorillaSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 46 tracks · 2:20:09 Disc 116 tracks · 54:11 1Peep My Words2:31 2One Two Ya'll3:31 3Onion Head3:01 4Fake Neptune3:34 5Heartburn4:02 6Shake Down3:52 7Mad Mann3:45 8Brokest Rapper Alive1:34 9Boom Bye Yeah3:13 10I Love You (Btch)3:20 11Bye Bye3:40 12Spliff N Wessun2:57 13Jail Shit3:24 14Monkey Barz3:16 15Slap Boxing3:28 16Rising To The Top (Grand Theft Auto Theme Song)5:03 Disc 215 tracks · 44:58 1Intro (Jesus Price)1:46 2Like You3:28 3P-Body3:12 4Cardiac3:48 5Violent3:34 6Da God3:04 7Oops Upside Your Head2:37 8Church3:55 9King Kong2:48 10One1:51 11You Already Know3:17 12Director's Cut1:19 13Let It Be Known3:18 14Hearing Aid3:05 15Mess You Made3:56 Disc 315 tracks · 41:00 1The Genesis Of The Omega2:00 2Bar-Barian2:09 3Pyrex2:34 4Price & Shining Armor3:04 5Title Track2:30 6Straight Music2:09 7STFU Part 22:58 8Hush2:35 9Solomon Grundy3:48 10Frankenberry2:20 11BBQ Sauce3:05 12Bully Rap3:45 13By The Way2:24 14Battering Bars2:52 15The Hardest Ni*a Out2:47	Compilation	25 November 2016

Album · 3

Album release groups, by first release date
Year	Title	Notes	First release
2004	Donkey Sean Jr. (Mixed by P.F. Cuttin)Search Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 22 tracks 1Intro 2It's Nothing (Free Style) 3It's My Time (Free Style) 4What With Rock? 560 Bar Dash 6Jail Shit 7Heltah Skeltah Triumph (Free Style) 8Don't Say Shit to Ruck 9Straight Like That 10Call the Ambulance (Free Style) 11Big Ruck (Free Style) 12Paprika (Free Style) 13Your Done 14Funeral Song 15Bounce 16Sean Price & Flood Free Style 17The Jackal 18All Time Greats 19Ain't Nobody 20Black History 21Solidify 22Outro	Compilation,Mixtape/Street	2004
2011	Grown Man RapSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 30 tracks · 1:18:05 1Gang Leader1:49 2Top Rank1:44 3Figure Four2:09 4Shut the Fuck Up2:31 5Sean Legend1:18 6Ruben Blades0:56 7Mega Sean1:24 8Boostin Mobiles1:32 9Sabado Higante1:49 10Fuck That Man Up4:12 11Laced Cheeba3:22 12Snow (remix)2:17 13Radiant Jewels2:30 14Thats Hard3:54 15Everyday on the Street0:37 16Why You Wanna Do That3:28 17Broken Safety, Part 24:05 18Hold Up2:13 19Trouble Shooters3:04 20Triple Homocide3:30 21That Feeling2:31 22How the Gods Chill2:42 23Priceless2:56 24Angel Dust3:08 25Heartburn3:17 26It’s Nothin3:57 27Crazy1:28 28Peep My Words3:36 29Voice Box2:21 30[untitled]3:45	Compilation	August 2011
2013	Highway Robbery / Land of the CrooksSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 22 tracks · 1:03:39 Disc 111 tracks · 24:54 1Take Your Power (intro)1:39 2Get That Pay (Scooby mix)2:26 3I’m the City4:22 4Blap (interlude)1:46 5It’s Nuthin3:09 6On the Run2:41 7Go2:23 8Come Get Me (outro)2:04 9Get That Pay (OG mix)2:40 10The Easiest Way (remix)1:44 11On the Run (Ran Reed's 2Dope remix) Disc 211 tracks · 38:45 1Bag of Shit2:50 2Dump in the Gut2:44 3Land of the Crooks3:38 4Murdah Type Thinkin4:34 5Murdah Type Thinkin (Small Professor remix)3:52 6Bag of Shit (instrumental)2:50 7Dump in the Gut (instrumental)2:35 8Land of the Crooks (instrumental)3:38 9Murdah Type Thinkin (instrumental)4:34 10Murdah Type Thinkin (Small Professor remix) (instrumental)3:51 11Crookapella (Beat Kit/Scratch Stems)3:39	Compilation	17 December 2013

EP · 3

EP release groups, by first release date
Year	Title	First release
2013	Land of the CrooksSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 11 tracks · 38:45 1Bag of Shit2:50 2Dump in the Gut2:44 3Land of the Crooks3:38 4Murdah Type Thinkin4:34 5Murdah Type Thinkin (Small Professor remix)3:52 6Bag of Shit (instrumental)2:50 7Dump in the Gut (instrumental)2:35 8Land of the Crooks (instrumental)3:38 9Murdah Type Thinkin (instrumental)4:34 10Murdah Type Thinkin (instrumental) (Small Professor remix)3:51 11Crookapella (Beat Kit/Scratch Stems)3:39	17 December 2013
2018	Metal DetectorsSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 8 tracks · 20:38 1On That Brownsville Shit0:20 2The Bryan Song2:30 3Sudden Impact2:50 4Fight Club2:24 5Metal Detectors2:38 6NEOSPORiN4:32 72pac by the Locker2:12 8Good Lobster3:12	16 March 2018
2023	The Royal Price ShowSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 7 tracks · 18:38 1The Royal Price Show3:03 2Orientation1:48 3B.O.B.2:31 4Drug Music3:41 5Ray Liotta2:42 6Street Chemistry2:22 7Political Science2:31	2023

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Sean Price metrics with percentile rank among published artists
Metric	Value	Percentile
Wikipedia language versions	17	76.4th
Spotify monthly listeners	—	no data
Release groups in DB	29	90.1th
Studio albums	11	91.9th
Awards recorded	0	0th
Timeline events	13	89.7th
Recording span (years)	14	33.6th
Genres	12	97.8th

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Line-up

Band line-up and band memberships with dates
Name	From	To	Role
The Fabulous Five(band)	—	present	original

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portrait—Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sean_Price_at_the_Come_Up_Show_2013.jpg
aliases/urls—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/c659f049-6d66-4b4e-b33e-f0991f287d34
discography—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/c659f049-6d66-4b4e-b33e-f0991f287d34
core—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q252516
genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q252516
seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Price
biography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Price

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