[mb-users] Prince Ital Joe and Mark Mark - United

[Chris B]

2008/2/27 Alexander Kiel <alexanderkiel at gmx.net>:
> Kuno Woudt wrote:
>  > On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 04:06:42PM +0100, Alexander Kiel wrote:
>  >
>  >> Hi List,
>  >>
>  >> can please someone vote my release add though?
>  >>
>  >> http://musicbrainz.org/release/fa362c25-aa77-448f-af27-23f0190160c3.html
>  >>
>  >> Its based on the CD I have here and submitted as Disc ID.
>  >>
>  >> The problem (or odd thing) why I writing this here is, that I found
>  >> another entry of this release under Prince Ital Joe:
>  >>
>  >> http://musicbrainz.org/release/8f523e30-42c8-43b7-a73a-1ac537d3a98b.html
>  >>
>  >> I don't found it before my release add, because I only looked under
>  >> Prince Ital Joe & Marky Mark. For all what I know I'm right to file it
>  >> under Prince Ital Joe & Marky Mark as United and not under Prince Ital
>  >> Joe as United (feat. Marky Mark). It was a collaboration of both
>  >> equally. Look at the covers at Discogs.
>  >>
>  >
>  > All the covers at discogs have
>  >
>  >   Prince Ital Joe feat. Marky Mark
>  >
>  > So the existing entry seems fine.
>  >
>  > -- kuno / warp.
>  >
>  Hmmm. The question is: Is Prince Ital Joe & Mark Mark a group with two
>  members or are all the release under Prince Ital Joe only  featuring
>  Marky Mark? I would vote for the first.
>
>  In fact I did not add the artist Prince Ital Joe & Mark Mark. dechief
>  did this [1] in 2007.
>
>  Discogs has a artist page of both [2].

nope, discogs have an ANV for "Prince Ital Joe & Marky Mark", which is
analogous to our concept of 'aliases'.

>  So I'm open for all possibilities. But for me they are like a group who
>  had releases over a long time together. Thats not a short term project
>  where one features into.

but it's not an equal collaboration, otherwise it would always (or at
least, mostly) be billed as "Prince Ital Joe & Marky Mark" whereas
here one artist is getting *featured*, so this comes under
FeaturingArtistStyle