Attrell Cordes is one of the most popular and richest Rapper who was born on May 15, 1970 in New Jersey, New Jersey, United States. Better known by his stage name of Prince Be, this hip hop artist is famous for forming a popular 1990s music group called P.M. Dawn. Two of his recordings, The Bliss Album? and Of the Heart, of the Soul and of the Cross: The Utopian Experience, became certified U.S. Gold albums.
He and Hussein Fatal are both New Jersey-born hip hop musicians.
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-Christian imagery, to his songs. In 2016, The New York Times called both Cordes and P.M. Dawn “both underappreciated and quietly influential.”
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 homeless shelter as a nighttime security guard. Attrell Cordes was one of first artists to blend and transition between rap and singing, often in the same song, within his music.
He and his brother and P.M. Dawn collaborator, Jarrett Cordes, grew up in Jersey City, New Jersey. The brothers’ stepfather, George Brown, belonged to a rhythm and blues, disco, and jazz group called Kool and the Gang.
