Magoo (rapper)

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For the cartoon character, see Mr. Magoo.

Magoo (born Melvin Barcliff on July 12, 1973 in Norfolk, Virginia) is an African-American rapper who is best known as one-half of the hip-pop duo Timbaland & Magoo with record producer Tim "Timbaland" Mosley. Like Timbaland, Magoo got his start in the music industry as a member of DeVante Swing's Swing Mob when mutual friend Missy Elliott got DeVante to sign the both of them when he signed Elliott's group Sista.

1 Biography
2 Timbaland & Magoo Discography

[edit] Biography

Timbaland & Magoo left Swing Mob after 1995 and became a performing duo in their own right. Signing with Blackground Records (home of Aaliyah, one of Timbaland's main collaborators), Timbaland & Magoo went on to release a number of albums, which were not as successful as the singles that anchored them. Singles such as "Up Jumps the Boogie [Remix]", "Clock Strikes [Remix]" (which samples the Knight Rider theme), "Here We Come" (which samples the 1960s Spider-Man theme), "Drop", "All Y'all", and "Cop That Disc" have all proved successful, while the albums that they appeared on have generally underperformed. Their first LP "Welcome To Our World" sold over 1 Million copies.

Magoo is distinguished by his unusual, yet natural, high-pitched voice, which many hip-hop fans say sounds similar to famous gangsta rappers' Eazy-E of NWA, Q-Tip of A Tribe Called Quest or Lil Wayne of Cash Money Fame.

[edit] Timbaland & Magoo Discography

[edit] Albums

1997: Welcome to Our World platinum selling album
1998: Tim's Bio: Life From Tha Bassment (billed as a Timbaland solo album, but actually a compilation of various artists' songs produced by Timbaland)
2001: Indecent Proposal
2003: Under Construction, Part II (part one is a 2002 album by Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott)