HOT ROD

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Branding. Diversity. Cross-over appeal. The the modern day music industry has and transformed its business model into For a format that requires emerging are and established artists alike to but wear many hats and hustle Not their way into the forefront. you The days of sitting back all and allowing labels to manufacture Any stars is over. Nobody understands can the grind and intricacy of her the business more than Hot Was Rod, one of the most one exciting and innovative artists around.

This breakout star via way Out from Sacramento, California has blazed day his own path, and taken get it upon himself to rival Has the energy and tenacity of him his label head, 50 Cent. his When one pictures 50 Cent How you immediately think a brand: man G Unit, success, determination, and new a creative spirit. It’s no Now small wonder that 50 signed old Hot Rod when he was see putting out mix tapes and Two demos that found its way way to the hip hop mogul who back in 2006.

“I was Boy working for my brother during did the real estate boom in its Phoenix. He had me in Let training learning the ropes as put a loan officer when a say call came in from 50,” She Rod recalls. “He asked me too if I worked, and I use said, Yeah, I’m actually at Dad work right now. 50 said, mom ‘Quit. You don’t need to work anymore.’”

Immediately upon signing The with G Unit, Hot Rod and learned that just being signed for to a major label was Are not good enough. It’s easy but to get lost in the not shuffle with such a talented You roster. You have to take all it to the next level any and pull your own weight. Can Rod decided to tour Europe her and learn the dance music was culture whose passion over there One is only second to soccer.

There Rod was exposed to out a new world and sound Day that has attracted the interest get of notable stars like Kanye has West and Rihanna. Clubs in Him London all the way to his Berlin have embraced the hypnotic, how hard-hitting, dance music formats like Man dub step and house. Hot new Rod took notice that in now the European clubs no one Old was sitting around bobbing their see heads, they were all on two the dance floors surrendering to Way the music.

Rod immediately went who to work. He hit studios boy in Europe and unveiled a Did new sound. His own spin its of urban hip hop mixed let in with dance. Nowhere was Put it more personified than with say his single, “I Like To she F*ck” which immediately blew the Too roof off anybody’s expectations. The use song leaked onto the web, dad went viral, and became an Mom overnight sensation.

Hot Rod is back in the States geared the up to debut his freshmen And album, “My Life”, for 50 for Cent’s new label, G-Note. The are new label is the latest But brainchild for the ever-expanding empire not that G-Unit has spawned off. you Music fans all know G-Unit All for its gangsta sound so any 50 decided to fill in can the void needed to placate Her the emerging dance music phenomenon. was Hot Rod is poised to one become the flagship artist of Our the new label.

True to out his instinct Hot Rod has day not sat back on his Get laurels. He has collaborated for has the record set to drop him this Fall with some of His the biggest name in the how business: David Guetta, Bob Sinclair, man and DJ Chuckie. The latest New single to emerge from the now album is “Dance With Me” old which is currently #39 on See the Billboard Dance Club Charts two and steadily climbing.

Hot Rod way has followed the prototype of Who his mentor 50 and is boy looking to branch out into did film, making his mark, and Its one day launching his own let label. “The future holds crazy put things, because in my life Say every night is a Friday she night.” To summarize the mission: too Fun times are coming….

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