# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bad-news-brown
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:26:27.057Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bad-news-brown"
name: "Bad News Brown"
slug: "bad-news-brown"
description: "Paul Frappier, better known by his stage name Bad News Brown, was a Canadian entertainer, musician, and hip hop MC of Haitian origin. He was known for pairing the sound of his chief instrument, the harmonica, with hip-hop beats and rhymes. Frappier started out busking in Montreal in streets and subway stations. He later toured and opened for many well-known hip hop acts or as background musician. He also appeared as an impromptu host in Music for a Blue Train, the 2003 documentary about busker musicians in the Montreal Metro subway train system. In 2004, he signed a management deal with E-Stunt Entertainment Group. In 2009, he established his own record label, Trilateral Entertainment Inc., and released his debut album Born 2 Sin. Brown was found murdered in an alley near the Lachine Canal in Montreal on February 11, 2011. The feature film BumRush, featuring Brown in a leading role, premiered posthumously on April 1, 2011."
tagline: "Canadian hip hop singer/rapper (1977–2011)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/BAD_NEWS_NAKED_EYE.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1977-05-08"
deathDate: "2011-02-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.54
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.640788000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.badnewsbrown.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/402266"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B3_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "باد نيوس برون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_News_Brown_(musician)"
    title: "Bad News Brown (musician)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_News_Brown_(musicien)"
    title: "Bad News Brown (musicien)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_News_Brown"
    title: "Bad News Brown"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_News_Brown"
    title: "Bad News Brown"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_News_Brown"
    title: "Bad News Brown"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/13964a93-db8b-4616-a290-de229bb264d5"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q664366"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump