New Orleans, Louisiana emcee Dee-1 recently won a mentoring session with Hip Hop and fashion mogul Russell Simmons, according to NOLA.com. The former school-teacher was selected by the Def Jam Records co-founder as a MySpace artist of note. Users of the social networking site were asked to vote on the most deserving artist to win time with Simmons. Dee-1 came in first.
There is no word when the session will happen. HipHopDX will keep you updated.
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I’m happy to see this guy finally get some cred. Dude is sick on the mic and is actually original for a change.
I second that…the industry needs change RIGHT NOW. Hopefully he stays true to his words whenever he gets his deal but I think everybody knows how the ‘decisions makers’ do it.
idt he gon change on the strength of him being a teacher. How he gon teach & expect kids to get right if he doing the same thing he telling them not to.
MAN YALL BETTER GET ON THE BANWAGON..
@Jpipe..
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Russel Simmons is going get real with him as soon as he’s done smiling and shaking hands and gettin the butterflies out..
If i know him he gone say it straight up: Listen, I like your style, i had a chance to listen to your latest work, your hot and gaining momentum, but your not getting the targeted media audience, you are going to have to change your flow, your character, your style, your lyric’s and water it down a bit to get the cash flow in.. This is business, it’s how it work, once you get your money, then go back to your own style..
Now Russell is a real ass nigga he might just tell him: FUK THE INDUSTRY! AND DO YOU! and DO IT WHILE YOUR STILL HOT! BECAUSE YOU ARE ONLY TEMPORARY UNTIL THE NEXT HOT THING STEP ON SCENE!.. that means less mixtapes, no more Myspace submission, if you consider yourself a real elite artist you going to have to leave amature shit alone, STAY OFF MYSPACE! let your fan’s create myspace Fan-pages.. Stay off Facebook, let a staff member respond to those, stay off twitter, let your marketing team handle that, stay off Youtube, let your marketing staff handle that.
You get your ass in the studio and put out something Album quality and test the market with it.. Virally spread yourself out there with leaks and let the industry find you.
people still use myspace?
Fuck Dude Los shoulda won…. dude weak
DEE-1 the future of HIPHOP
Chris Brown with dreds
I guess they heard you, now take advantage of this peak into the industry and use it to carve your destiny into it.
I believe in you and you know you got the backing of the Entire South Louisiana with you, especially N.O! I voted 35 times and i had got everybody on my facebook to do it hopefully startin a chain voting..
We don’t have too many folks from the south spitin “REAL” shyt other than Jay Elect and sometimes Curren$y.. so please don’t waste this one opportunity bruh.. you and Jay Elect are NOLA’s Hero’s.. Wayne failed us, P Failed us, and everybody else gave us a negative image.. Don’t let the industry change you!
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Congrats, we watching you homey.
Waaannhhh Nigga!!!! Yes! Koolest nigga ya’ll will ever meet if you meet up with him, humble as fuck and don’t even know he a star yet.
fucking chris brown got dread locks now???