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Fredwreck

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “record producer from los angeles”. Today it says “palestinian-american record producer”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Musical artist Farid Karam Nassar (born June 23, 1972), better known as”. It now reads “Musical artist Farid Karam Nassar , better known by his stage name”.
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Musical artist Farid Karam Nassar , better known by his stage name Fredwreck , (born 1972) is a Grammy Award winning American hip-hop recording artist, DJ, and record producer. He got his big break when he became a producer for Dr. Dre 's newly founded record label Aftermath Entertainment , and then went on to work with Snoop Dogg 's record label Dogghouse Records (now Doggystyle Records ) and became a known producer on Tha Dogg Pound -affiliated material. During this time he also was a producer for Snoop Dogg's track: Riders on the Storm ft. He has produced tracks from Kurupt 's Tha Streetz Iz a Mutha and most of his next release, Space Boogie: Smoke Oddessey ; both released during the period the rapper had left Death Row Records . He has also produced for other hip-hop and pop artists such as Eminem , Britney Spears , Ice Cube , Westside Connection , Lil' Kim , Hilary Duff , Xzibit , The Game , Nate Dogg , Everlast , Cypress Hill , 50 Cent , Mobb Deep , as well as non-US acts such as Dizzee Rascal , Tamer Hosny , Qusai Kheder and Karl Wolf . Hip Hop around the World: An Encyclopedia [2 volumes] .

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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “record producer from los angeles”. Today it says “palestinian-american record producer”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Musical artist Farid Karam Nassar (born June 23, 1972), better known as”. It now reads “Musical artist Farid Karam Nassar , better known by his stage name”. Read the current article and compare.
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record producer from los angeles

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palestinian-american record producer

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