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Freddie Gibbs’ ‘Tailor-Made Flow’ Makes Him A ‘Hottest Breakthrough MCs Of 2010’ Candidate

Posted on July 7, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Fans decide our ‘Hottest Breakthrough MC of 2010′ — vote now! The winner will be revealed on July 25. By Shaheem Reid Freddie Gibbs Photo: MTV News “Hottest Breakthrough MCs of 2010” Candidate: Freddie Gibbs Of course Freddie Gibbs wants to get a little paper, but he’s still giving away whole bodies of work for free. His fans should be familiar with his mixtapes Miseducation of Freddie Gibbs, Midwestgangstaboxframecadillacmuzik and The Labels Tryin to Kill Me, and the buzz around those projects have him in the running for “Hottest Breakthrough MC of 2010.” He introduced us all to his forceful baritone and Midwest flow. In the next couple of weeks, he’ll drop his Str8 Killa, No Filla Mixtape (July 29) and the Str8 Killa EP (August 3). “I been giving my fans the music with the Miseducation of Freddie Gibbs and Midwestgangstaboxframecadillacmuzik. I had so many projects with nothing for sale,” the Gary, Indiana, MC said of the EP; he did note that the EP will have several records the mixtape doesn’t, such as “Oil Money” with Bun B, Chuck English, Chip the Ripper and Dan Aurbach. “I just wanted to throw something in stores that people who ain’t on the Net can grab,” he said. “Really, you’re getting 25, 30 songs for $8. Get the mixtape first and try it before you buy it. If you wanna support, you can support.” Gibbs’ first release from Str8 Killa is “National Anthem.” ” ‘National Anthem,’ all I was really doing was documenting my personal struggle, the things I’ve been dealing with,” he said. “The struggle, that rebellion is a theme that everybody can relate to. I used my tailor-made flow.” Gibbs said the follow-up record is called “Face Down”: “Straight gangster sh– for the clubs and the streets.” “The whole process, man, it was just me taking my time doing what I wanted to do musically,” he added about the tape. “Getting creative, making my sh– sound more like an album than a mixtape. I look at dudes like 50 Cent. His mixtapes was sh– that sounded like records. Even if he was rapping on other people’s beats, he made them his own. I studied him, and I put my own flavor and came with the Str8 Killa. It’s going to jump me off like Trap or Die did for Jeezy. ” Str8 Killa is gonna blow your mind, he added. “The world kinda got A.D.D. right now. You gotta keep fresh material. With me putting out a body of work, it works in my favor. I want people to fall in love with me as an artist. I don’t want one song to be bigger than Freddie Gibbs. People get attached to one song with dudes, then when they done, they throw them out the window. I want the people to really fall in love with me. That’s why I put out good, structured bodies of work.” Freddie and 19 other up-and-coming MCs are in the running to become MTV News’ “Hottest Breakthrough MC of 2010” — and the winner will be decided by you! Cast your vote for the “Hottest Breakthrough MC of 2010” right here . The top five will be revealed beginning July 19, and the winner will be announced on the “Sucker Free Summit” July 25! Related Videos Hottest Breakthrough MCs of 2010

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Jay Electronica Forges His Own Path As ‘Hottest Breakthrough MCs Of 2010’ Candidate

Posted on July 6, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Fans decide our ‘Hottest Breakthrough MC of 2010’ — vote now! The winner will be revealed on July 25. By Jayson Rodriguez Jay Electronica Photo: Tim Mosenfelder/ Getty Images “Hottest Breakthrough MCs of 2010” Candidate: Jay Electronica Jay Electronica isn’t like most other artists, let alone rappers. The New Orleans MC marches to his own self-produced beat. Whether it’s live-tweeting the birth of his and Erykah Badu’s child or practically disrobing in concert to give his fans as much of himself as possible, he’s among the most unique stars to come along in some time. With the release of “Exhibit C” last year and “The Ghost of Christopher Wallace” earlier this year, Jay Elect’s buzz has never been bigger. But unlike most wordsmiths, he is in no rush to capitalize on the attention from fans and the music industry alike; he already has a scarce discography, with his best-known work being the mixtape Act 1: Eternal Sunshine (The Pledge). “For the past few years, I been working on my own pace,” he told MTV News. “And not necessarily out of stubbornness, just out of — I been doing this for so long and trying to accomplish the thing for so long, that I finally found being my own self and working on my own time and being the most natural is the thing that yields the most results for me. Of course, I’d like to be able to tell you, ‘[My debut is] coming next week, two weeks from now,’ because we have projects. Me and Just Blaze have gangs of songs. Me and Nas speak on a regular basis; we’re working on music together. There’s a lot of things going on. But I don’t necessary have a calendar marked when things are coming, because I just kind of want to let it keep going the way it’s going, which has led me to this point.” Jay Electronica has the attention of Diddy, who rode shotgun on the rapper’s “The Ghost of Christopher Wallace,” and, of course, Just Blaze, who will helm the majority of Act III, his official debut. In addition to working on his solo effort, Jay Elect has his hand in more projects than President Obama. According to the nomadic rapper, projects with Nas , Lupe Fiasco and Mos Def are on the way. Whenever he gets around to his own material, though, the plan is to put out a sequel to his well-received mixtape — he rapped over music looped from the film “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” on the set — and then his debut, which will be the third part of the trilogy. “It’s still Act II. It’s coming,” he promised. ” Act III , the official album, which ‘Exhibit A’ and ‘Exhibit C’ are a part of [as well as] ‘Dear Moleskin.’ You know, it’s coming real soon.” Jay and 19 other up-and-coming MCs are in the running to become MTV News’ “Hottest Breakthrough MC of 2010” — and the winner will be decided by you! Cast your vote for the “Hottest Breakthrough MC of 2010” right here . The top five will be revealed beginning July 19, and the winner will be announced on the “Sucker Free Summit” July 25! Related Videos Hottest Breakthrough MCs of 2010

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Nipsey Hussle Reps L.A. New Class As ‘Hottest Breakthrough MCs Of 2010’ Candidate

Posted on June 24, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Fans decide our ‘Hottest Breakthrough MC of 2010’ — vote now! The winner will be revealed on July 25. By Shaheem Reid Nipsey Hussle Photo: Cinematic “Hottest Breakthrough MC of 2010” Candidate: Nipsey Hussle Yeah, he’s living up to his name. Nipsey Hussle is hustling, building his brand across the board. He has a deal for his own shoe with Pony, just finished a film with Vivica A. Fox and another one with Ving Rhames, he opened a clothing store in his native Los Angeles, appears on the new “Def Jam Rapstar” video game, has a tour coming and still has more mixtapes and a debut album on deck for October. “My album, it ain’t got no wrinkles in it,” Nip said recently in New York about his debut, South Central State of Mind. “From the sonic quality of it, every verse, every hook, to the features, to the production. Ain’t no excuses for the album.” Nipsey’s candidacy for “Hottest Breakthrough MC of 2010” comes from his grind in the streets. Last year, he dropped a trilogy of mixtapes called Bullets Ain’t Got No Names, which introduced him and immediately captivated fans. His work in the ‘hood garnered him co-signs by the likes of Snoop Dogg and the Game, both of whom he toured with. Drake also appeared on the potent Hussle underground smash “Killer.” The momentum has made Nip one of the leaders of the new wave of West Coast MCs, also including Fashawn and Jay Rock. “Nipsey, he brings the real to the table,” said Rock, who will be teaming up with Nip for a duet mixtape called Red and Blue Make Green. “He brings that struggle. He’s telling you his story. Nipsey is bringing a story as a whole package, as well as he’s bringing real music. Reality rap.” “You gonna be hard-pressed to come to L.A. and not hear a car playing Jay Rock music, playing Nipsey Hussle right now,” Nip said. “It’s gonna be almost impossible. They say it starts in your backyard. I feel we putting forth that legwork. We really took our city without the traditional outlet, the Dr. Dre, the Snoop Dogg, the Death Row. That’s not to take anything from them, but we wasn’t really waiting. We kinda like stood on our own foundation of hard work. That’s the brand that the new breed of West Coast artists gonna bring to the table. Self-made. Off the top!” Besides the authenticity of his music, Nip’s appeal lies in his laid-back delivery. You look at him or hear his music and you see your homie from around the way. Nip knows that all the love in the streets is eventually going to have to translate in his official releases. He just dropped the single “Feelin’ Myself (I’m So Fresh)” with Lloyd and has South Central State of Mind in cook-up mode right now. J.R. Rotem, Scott Storch, Houston’s Mr. Lee, Grammy winners Play-N-Skillz, Terrence Martin and Nip’s live band, 1500 or Nothin’, produced on the album thus far. Trey Songz and Sean Kingston are among the guest performers. “Regardless of people’s opinion about it, the dominant culture in L.A. is gang-banging,” Nipsey, a Crip, said about “Blue Laces,” a song from his LP. “Us being young dudes in our 20s, we not the cause of that. We was born into this culture. We reacted to it from the perspective of survival. I feel like that record, ‘Blue Laces,’ speaks on the realness of that culture. We not the cause of this. This is what led us into that mentality.” Nip said South Central State of Mind speaks to young Angelinos. “I’m kinda revolving around that concept on a lot of records on that album,” he said. “On the state of mind in growing up in L.A. Whether you from Compton, Watts, Long Beach, the east side, west side, it’s a state of mind that’s way more powerful than an individual. I might feel a certain way personally, but this is what it is. “I might feel like one of my dudes is a Blood, one of my dudes is from Hoover. So me, personally, this is my homeboy and I got love for him,” he added. “But I’m from the 60s, and it’s a politic that goes with that. I just feel like I revolved around that concept, the cause of this mind state. I want to impact the culture with the project and raise the consciousness of the people that’s being affected by this. And bring a human element to what this is about and stop people from looking at us like we just mindless killers and we glorifying this type of life. We really striving for change from within. We ain’t gonna go Hollywood with it and get a record deal and start blasting where we come from, but at the same time, we do wanna see change. It’s a lot of general concepts that revolve around that theme.” Nipsey and 19 other up-and-coming MCs are in the running to become MTV News’ “Hottest Breakthrough MC of 2010” — and the winner will be decided by you! Cast your vote for the “Hottest Breakthrough MC of 2010” right here . The top five will be revealed beginning July 19, and the winner will be announced on the “Sucker Free Summit” July 25! Related Videos Hottest Breakthrough MCs of 2010

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Will Roscoe Dash’s Party Anthems Earn Him ‘Hottest Breakthrough MC Of 2010’ Title?

Posted on June 23, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Fans decide our ‘Hottest Breakthrough MC of 2010′ — vote now! The winner will be revealed July 25. By Shaheem Reid Roscoe Dash Photo: MTV News “Hottest Breakthrough MC of 2010” Candidate: Roscoe Dash Over the weekend at Atlanta’s Birthday Bash , Roscoe Dash performed in front of 20,000 hometown fans. The crowd at Philips Arena is one of the realest you can perform for; if they’re not feeling you, your time onstage could seem like an eternity. But backstage before his set, Dash was on straight chill mode. “This my first [Birthday Bash]. I’m finnin’ to put on for my city,” he said, looking at everyone from behind a pair of shades. “I try not to think about it too much so I won’t get nervous. I’m just gonna go in here and give it my all, give them a good show.” Dash had every right to be confident, because his song “All the Way Turnt Up” is not just one of the most popular songs in the city, but in all of hip-hop. The record by itself could have qualified Dash to be a candidate for “Hottest Breakthrough MC of 2010.” “Turnt Up” built instant excitement in the clubs with an undeniable bass-laden track and lyrics tailor-made to sing along to, not to mention Roscoe’s off-key but melodic sing-songy flow. “Its amazing, man,” Roscoe said of his success. “I’ve been doing music my whole life. So for me to find a way to finally get my foot in the door, and give these people me as a person, rather than just an artist, I’m enjoying it.” “Turnt Up” was so popular, Soulja Boy agreed to appear on the album version of the record, while lauded MCs such as Ludacris and Lupe Fiasco freestyled on the track. In the past few weeks, Dash has evaded the tag of one-hit wonder with another certified banger, “Show Out.” The second single from Dash’s Ready Set Go! debut (due July 20) basically follows the same formula as “Turnt Up,” and the results are similar too. Cam’ron and Rick Ross have already made unofficial remixes, while DJs have made it a favorite in clubs and on radio. “I just go in,” Dash said about setting up a string of party anthems. “I just do me. I never wake up and go to the studio and say, ‘I’mma make an album song or a mixtape song.’ I just go in and just do me.” But breaking through requires more than just a couple of hits. You have to have a deeper impact when it’s all said and done. Roscoe said he already knows what he has to do to cause an earthquake in the game. “Hard work and dedication, same thing that got me here,” he assessed. “I gotta keep doing it, man, and not let it break me down. This industry has its ups and down. It’ll take a toll on you. It’s about moving forward.” Roscoe and 19 other up-and-coming MCs are in the running to become MTV News’ “Hottest Breakthrough MC of 2010” — and the winner will be decided by you! Cast your vote for the “Hottest Breakthrough MC of 2010” right here! The top five will be revealed beginning July 19, and the winner will be announced on the “Sucker Free Summit” July 25!