Domino - Money Is Everything - 1994

Shawn Antione Ivy, known as Domino, is an American rapper born in 1972 in St. Louis, Missouri, and raised in Long Beach, California. Being a Crip himself, he auditioned for the Bloods Crips project in the early is the first rapper, in order of appearance, in the title track Bangin’ on Wax on the album of the same name. His debut album, Domino, spawned two major hits in the United States,including the Top 10 hit “Getto Jam“, which reached #7 on the Billboard Hot 100. Several further albums were released, and Domino continued to score hits on the RB charts into the 2000s. In 1996, Domino appeared on the Red Hot Organization’s compilation CD, America is Dying Slowly, alongside Biz Markie, Wu-Tang Clan, and Fat Joe, among many other prominent hip hop artists. The CD, meant to raise awareness of the AIDS epidemic among African American men, was heralded as “a masterpiece“ by the Source magazine. While his debut album was critically well received, Domino was said to hav