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Friday, December 16, 2011

Being a New Hip Hop Artist from North America and UK

By Farah Fan


Given his most recent, and albeit, extraordinary mixtape drop "So Far Gone," new hip hop artist Drake has experienced himself under the wing of hip hop's biggest star, Weezy, and has received the co-sign from several legends and current hip hop studs. For a guy who began on Degrassi, the look and the appeal had been there. He put in a rap style and some great lyrical skill to virtually complete his threat. Is it fair to say that he has the potential to be, not only the biggest selling Canadian Hip Hop Artist, but simply, the highest Canadian hip hop artist of all time.

Drake is not only hip hop's biggest star at his disposal, but music's largest star. Whether he decides to ride the coat-tails of Weezy's achievements is up to Drake, but it seems like he currently has a good enough buzz going with him under Interscope without even making an album. With over 80,000 mixtape downloads of So Far Gone, you'll find it very hard to say that any of the above mentioned Canadian artists, let alone a performer of any area code, could pull that off. Bear in mind when he put out two joints alongside Little Brother; he was rarely an afterthought in spite of his large amount of potential and talent.

Drake seems to have been as noisy as ever without ever creating any noise. Canada is packed with talent, and if you have noticed, a website has been hard at work promoting some hip hop from "America Junior," as Homer Simpson calls it. The little of it all is that if and when Drake actually does release an album, you can probably expect BET's countless countdown lists to feature him, for all the ladies to go nuts, and for all the alpha male hip hop heads to offer him his daps. He's got a ton of appeal and will certainly produce amongst even the slightest hip hop followers, just like his apparent partner in crime, Weezy, has.

Jamie Marsh is a south based UK commercial R&B artist. He is currently working on his new EP which will be released at the start of 2012 followed by his dbut album at the end of 2012 after he has toured with it. There are lots of big plans for the future career of Jamie Marsh. Jamie Marsh is a solo hip-hop musician from Newport, isle of Wight. Jamie was part of the J&R project that helped spark success for him and his fellow artist, working together to create their own independent sound.

Actively playing numerous shows in the south of England and a handful of emits to follow that up, the pair had decided to go their own separate ways and ever since new hip hop artist Jamie has worked on his solo career. Since going solo Jamie fuses together all kinds of genres that inspire him such as, dance, R&B and all variants of hip-hop. Breaking away from the stereotypical "gangsta" image that is included with hip-hop Jamie has worked hard on making and producing his own songs and acquiring a few different singers to team up with him, to produce his very own distinctive style and connection with music.




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