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<p>Biz Markie is known as an American DJ, rapper, and media personality. He is most famous for his song, “Just a Friend” which was listed on VH1’sTop 100 Greatest Hip Hop Songs of All Time.</p>

<h2>Background and Age</h2>

<p><a href="/biography/biz-markie">Marcel Theo Hall</a> was born in Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey.</p>

<h2>Career and Net Worth</h2>

<p>Biz Markie has been called the Clown Prince of Hip Hop because of his comedic take on the genre. His first album called “Goin’ Off” was released in 1988 and it attracted attention because it introduced the world to a new rap style that favored humor and featured free-style beat boxing. The album produced a single, “Make The Music With Your Mouth Biz”, as well as several underground hits including “Nobody Beats The Biz”, “Pickin’ Boogers” and “Vapors”.</p>

<p>Biz Markie’s second album, known as “The Biz Never Sleeps” was also a studio album and it was released by Warner Brothers Records on their Cold Chillin’ label. The single “Just a Friend” features Biz alternating between singing and rapping. It became his most successful single reaching number nine on the Billboard charts. In 2000, "Just A Friend" was ranked eighty-first on VH1's 100 Greatest One-Hit Wonders. Biz also released a video for the song which was directed by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_C._Martin">Lionel C. Martin</a> and highlighted the rapper’s problems with women.</p>

<p>Biz Markie’s third studio album, “I Need a Haircut” in August of 1991 turned out to be a turning point for his career. The record was produced in part by his cousin Cool V. and the track “Alone Again” created problems for Markie and the entire hip-hop industry. The album’s use of samples caused Markie to be sued by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_O'Sullivan">Gilbert O’Sullivan</a> for copyright infringement as he claimed that some samples in the song were legally his. The lawsuit resulted in the already low selling album being pulled from sale to the public. This lawsuit also set a precedent that required all hip-hop artists to get the songs they were to sample pre-approved by the copyright owner. After this, Biz Markie released an album called “All Samples Cleared” but sales of this record suffered because of the bad publicity he had received due to the lawsuit. Although Biz Markie was a significant influence on the rap culture his career was fading into obscurity.</p>

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<p>For the rest of this decade, Biz Markie did not make any songs but he did make some television appearances. Biz Markie was on “In Living Color” and performed in a Freestyle rap commercial on MTV2. During this time, Biz Markie also appeared in many songs by the Beastie Boys such as “Hello Nasty”, “Ill Communication”, “Check Your Head” and “The Sounds of Science”.</p>

<p>In 2002, Biz Markie played the role of an alien in “Men in Black II”, a film that starred <a href="/biography/tommy-lee-jones">Tommy Lee Jones</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Smith">Will Smith</a>. In 2003 Biz Markie did voice over work for the international television series “Kung Faux”. Biz also appeared in an episode of the television series “Fastlane’, in which he played himself being a nightclub DJ.</p>

<p>Biz Markie would eventually return back to the studios. In 2003 he released his fifth album, his first in ten years, entitled “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weekend_Warrior_(album)">Weekend Warrior</a>”. The album was released through Tommy Boy Records and featured <a href="/biography/dj-jazzy-jeff">DJ Jazzy Jeff</a>, <a href="/biography/sean-combs">P Diddy</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erick_Sermon">Erick Sermon</a>. Two years after this release he put out a fourteen track compilation album “Make the Music with Your, Mouth, Biz”, which was issued through the label Cold Chillin’.</p>

<h2>Relationships</h2>

<p>Biz Markie has not revealed public information about his personal and private relationships.</p>

<h2>Health</h2>

<p>Biz Markie was diagnosed with type ll diabetes and he had to lose weight. He lost the weight through diet, exercising, and cutting back on his sugar intake. During this time, Biz Markie dropped his weight from three hundred sixty five pounds to a slimmer two hundred forty pounds.</p>

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