Introducing J Snyder...

Now, just a few days ago at a Jack in The Box in L.A. I was chilling in my car waiting on my order of food that seems to take an eternity as it always does. So, while I was waiting in my car, I popped in a new cd I just got the other day. I turned up the volume on Track 4 and listened...

The music was sample-based, tight with lyrics on point and I don't cosign many. It was so tight that the guy that drove off in front of me with his wrong order and came back to window had to take notice.

The guy asked "Who is that, man?"

I'm like, "J Snyder!"

He replied, "I don't know him. But, hey...where is he from?"

I replied "Fayetteville, North Carolina."

He said, "I don't know where that is but I like the music."

And that's what it is. I didn't know him. He didn't know me. He didn't ask what snares was used or what programs he used to fatten up his bass lines. All that guy knew was that what he was hearing was dope. And I wished that more people would do the same.

Fayetteville, North Carolina's own J Snyder is one in million emcees that seem to permeate this so-called game called Hip Hop. But what I see in this youngsta is quite simply determination.

Many people are throwing the towel in for the count while on the underground level dwells some of the most truthful, heartfelt music I have heard in a very long time. J Snyder is just one of the people that makes me happy that he is one of my comrades/brothers in this fickle music world. You can hear his hunger in his rhymes and production. What you can also appreciate is that even I as an emcee had to give props to my little homey...he made me take notice and I love that.

So, here it stands...the subject of my Jack in The Box props here for download- J Snyder's Versatilities Gift.....got to www.myspace.com/jsnizzy. Holla.

Brothaz Of Tha' Struggle Press Release

Since the beginning of rap, the chemistry of 2 emcees together has resulted in some of hip hop’s classic masterpieces. Albums like Eightball & MJG’s “Coming Out Hard”, UGK’s “Ridin’ Dirty” and Outkast “Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik” proved that Southern emcees can indeed create powerful music with lyrics to match.

2Deep, a group hailing from the streets of Memphis is another duo on the verge of the doing the same. Cousins by blood and emcees by name, L’Daialogue DiCaprio and High Ruler King Cane got their start at Trezevant High School. Between classes, rap music became the escape from the harsh realities of the Frayser neighborhood they stayed in North Memphis. During lunch periods and talent shows, they could be found rapping with a fierce intensity and calculated precision that could only be described as mesmerizing by whoever was fortunate enough to hear their ciphers.

Eventually, the poetry they reserved for lunchroom ciphers made there way into L’Daialogue’s home studio. After years of peddling TDK tapes and cds exclusively in their neighborhood and beyond, they decided to take their music to another level.

Their debut release, Brothaz of tha’ Struggle, is one that has just as much symbolic currency as street style that shows an internal struggle that is greater than just the city of Memphis. Stemming from the title, this duo ties soulful production with lyrics of conscious relevance and urban intensity. The first single, “The City of Playaz and Macs” gives an indication of a special dichotomy of street reality when their lyrics connects the symbolism from the landmarks of the Memphis-Arkansas bridge and the Pyramid located on the Mississippi River. With the single’s xylophone-laced rhythm and rolling bass line, 2 Deep will leave an impression that varies from many others in rap today. They definitely plan to obtain greatness through their struggle and they hope to achieve a deeper level of consciousness through their poetry.