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Plus: Akon talks about his latest signing, Ya Boy, in Mixtape Daily. By Shaheem Reid, with additional reporting by Rahman Dukes Alley Boy Photo: Atlantic This Week’s Main Pick Street King : Alley Boy, DJ Holiday and the Empire Holding It Down For : Zone Six in Atlanta Mixtape : Definition of F— Sh– Real Spit : “2010 is a new year,” DJ Holiday said. “I had to go get somebody more gutter, more street. I had to go to Zone Six. Have I ever let you down?” Alley Boy gets the prize for wildest mixtape title this year (see above). The rapper said he wants to keep street rap in the spotlight. “I put that title on the mixtape because I wanted something to stand out,” Alley said. (Mission accomplished.) “Just to be different. The topics I went in on, it’s a lot of things people would call negative. My whole image, it seems it’s so negative. I went there with it. I feel that those words definitely represent my attitude. It’s so watered down in Atlanta right now. I wanted to let folks know I’m a force to be reckoned with. I wanted a strong concept and strong title.” He also has a story behind his MC name: “I’m from Zone Six. Edgewood’s finest,” he said. “The way I came up in these hallways, these cuts, these alleys, it just fit me.” Alley has a slew of guest spots holding it down for the A as well. “I wanted to go in with my boy [Young] Dro,” he said. “We got a song called ‘Tall.’ Yung L.A., we had some controversy goin’ on. I wanted to show I reach out. I’m about the A. Princess from Crime Mob is on there. She goes stupid hard.” Waka Flocka Flame is also on the mixtape, as is Gucci Mane, who called in from jail on an interlude. Joints to Check For