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American rapper

Musical artist

Attrell Stephen Cordes Jr. (May 15, 1970 – June 17, 2016), also known by the stage name Prince Be, was an American rapper, musician, singer and record producer. Cordes was the lead vocalist of the hip hop group P.M. Dawn, which he formed in 1988 with his brother, Jarrett Cordes, also known by DJ Minutemix. Cordes, as the frontman and lyricist for P.M. Dawn, became known for blending rap with singing, as well as ethereal beats and aspects of mysticism and crypto-Christianimagery, to his songs. In 2016, The New York Times called both Cordes and P.M. Dawn "both underappreciated and quietly influential."

Early life

Cordes was born to Janice Carr and Attrell Cordes Sr. in Jersey City, New Jersey, on May 15, 1970. His father died of pneumonia when he and his younger brother, Jarrett were young. His mother later married George Brown, a drummer for Kool & the Gang, who became their stepfather.

Career

Cordes, known on stage as Prince Be, formed P.M. Dawn with his younger brother, Jarrett Cordes, a.k.a. DJ Minutemix, in Jersey City in 1988. The duo created their first demo using $600 that Attrell Cordes had earned while working at a home

Attrel “Prince Be” Cordes, founding member of the chart-topping hip-hop duo P.M. Dawn, died Friday in a New Jersey hospital following a battle with renal kidney disease. He was 46. A representative for the group confirmed Cordes’ death to People.

“Prince Be Rest In Peace forever more, Pain from Diabetes can’t harm you anymore,” Cordes’ cousin and P.M. Dawn member Doc G wrote on the group’s Facebook page following Cordes’ death. “My Heart is at Peace B-Cuz U suffered so long, Tell Grandma I said Hi & Stay Blisstatic & Strong.”

Formed by brothers Attrel and Jarrett “DJ Minutemix” Cordes in their native Jersey City, New Jersey in 1988, P.M. Dawn became only the third hip-hop act ever – and first black rappers – to top the Billboard Hot 100 in 1991 with their single “Set Adrift on Memory Bliss,” which revolved around a sample of Spandau Ballet’s “True.” The band’s critically acclaimed 1991 debut LP, Of the Heart, of the Soul and of the Cross: The Utopian Experience, achieved gold status, as did its well-received follow-up, 1993’s The Bliss Album…?.

P.M. Dawn once again climbed to the upper reaches of the Hot 100 again – Number Three – with their ballad “I’d Die Without You,” which gained popularity after first appearing on the 1992 soundtrack for the Eddie Murphy film Boomerang. The track later featured on The Bliss Album…? alongside “Looking Through Patient Eyes,” another Top 10 hit and a cover of the Beatles’ “Norwegian Wood (The Bird Has Flown).”

The Cordes brothers released two more albums in the Nineties, 1995’s Jesus Wept and 1998’s Dearest Christian, I’m So Very Sorry for Bringing You Here. Love, Dad, neither of which attained the

This year continues to take its awful toll on the music world.

Attrell Cordes, better known as Prince Be from the '90s R&B  duo P.M. Dawn, died Friday at 46 from kidney disease, his rep confirmed to People.

Cordes and his brother Jarrett, who went by the stage name DJ Minutemix, started P.M. Dawn in high school.

But when they tried to get signed, record labels rejected them because they were either too much like fellow laid-back rappers De La Soul or not hardcore enough to fit in with the gangster rap scene exploding on the West Coast thanks to N.W.A.

P.M. Dawn's sound, a mix of what would later be called trip-hop and R&B eventually attracted interest across the Atlantic in Great Britain, where they were signed by Gee Street Records, which brought them to London to record their debut record, the positively-reviewed Of the Heart, of the Soul and of the Cross: The Utopian Experience. But the label soon went bankrupt and the band's contract was picked up by Island Records, which eventually released the album. It spawned a worldwide hit, Set Adrift on Memory Bliss, a laid-back track laid over a sample of Spandau Ballet's True.

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Their sophomore album, 1993's The Bliss Album...?, yielded the single I'd Die Without You, which was featured in the soundtrack to the 1992 Eddie Murphy movie Boomerang. 

As he's done with other fallen hip-hop stars, Hamilton star Lin-Manuel Miranda, paid tribute to Prince Be on Twitter, quoting the first line of that song.

"Is it my turn to wish you were lying here?" (is) one of the best opening lyrics ever," he proclaimed. "RIP Prince Be. (Thanks) for expanding the sound of hip-hop," adding, "It's all I can do not to retweet the whole thing."

The band's Facebook page bore a post from another bandmate, Doc G., which read,  "Prince Be Rest In Peace Forever More/ Pain from diabetes can't harm you anymore/ My Heart is at Pea

American hip hop group

P.M. Dawn is an American hip hop and R&B act that formed in 1988 by the brothers Attrell Cordes (known by his stage name Prince Be, sometimes credited as Prince Be the Nocturnal) and Jarrett Cordes (known as Eternal or DJ Minutemix) in Jersey City, New Jersey. They earned significant crossover success in the early 1990s with music that merged hip hop, older soul, and more pop-oriented urban R&B.

P.M. Dawn recorded their debut single, "Ode to a Forgetful Mind", in 1988. Their first album, Of the Heart, of the Soul and of the Cross: The Utopian Experience, was released in 1991 to critical acclaim, and was an immediate commercial success driven by its single "Set Adrift on Memory Bliss". Their 1993 follow-up, The Bliss Album...? (Vibrations of Love and Anger and the Ponderance of Life and Existence), featuring the hit singles "I'd Die Without You" and "Looking Through Patient Eyes", was also praised by critics. P.M. Dawn continued to receive strong reviews with their subsequent albums, Jesus Wept (1995) and Dearest Christian, I'm So Very Sorry for Bringing You Here. Love, Dad (1998), despite their poor sales.

In 2005, Prince Be’s health issues due to complications from diabetes, led to his cousin Doc. G taking ownership of P.M. Dawn and Eternal’s departure from the group. In 2016, Prince Be died from kidney disease. Doc G. continues to perform as P.M. Dawn, without involvement of the Cordes brothers.

Early history

Attrell Cordes began DJing parties and composing songs in ninth grade. Cordes, known by his stage name Prince Be, and his younger brother, Jarrett Cordes, known as DJ Minutemix, formed P.M. Dawn in 1988. The group's first demo tape was created using $600 that Prince Be had earned through his job as a night security guard at a homeless shelter.

They first approached Tommy Boy Records, the rap music subsidiary of Warner Brothers, with their de