About BDaMan | Bryce Foster (Twitter.com/BDaMan612)
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Do you remember these rhymes from circa 2004? “And as for y’all, don’t be havin’ no H.L.A ball! What’s a chuddar? Don’t be calling me Mr. R Studdard!” That was BDaMan’s debut rap, “Da King Anthem” off of his debut album, “All Things That Are Holy”. BDaMan spent his time writing raps in about 2003, but didn’t know what would happen because he didn’t have a mic. Christmas 2004, BDaMan got a microphone for Christmas and starting experimenting with stuff. As he was in 7th & 8th grade at Field Middle School, he wrote raps about the people that he had problems with and situations that he didn’t know how to deal with properly. In April 2005, BDaMan got a chance to rap in front of people at lunch. The response he got was good, but he’d soon learn the origin of the “fake fans”. After freestyling and rap battling occasionally, BDaMan finally started planning for his album. Although, the albums were planned in 7th and 8th grade, the albums weren’t released until his freshmen year of high school.
In 7th grade, BDaMan met Reidy (due to a situation over a girl and because they had a mutual friend) online and at that time, neither person thought they’d be talking to the other again. Months later, Reidy asked BDaMan if he had any features on his album. BDaMan said no and they formed a music partnership of sorts. BDaMan and Reidy wrote early songs such as “Bitches and Hoes”, “Impatient (remix)” & “Murderapolis”. Nothing was recorded until they discovered a way to record through the phone, since Reidy didn’t have a mic. They were able to record an early version of “Bumpin’ Somethin’ New” (behind the “Hell On Earth” beat) & many more tracks. When it came to issues with other people, it all started at Field. BDaMan had issues with the following people: Danny Osip (him and BDaMan are cool nowadays), Da Truth (him and BDaMan are also cool nowadays), King Rello (him and BDaMan are also cool nowadays), others and Reidy (plus Signature, Bill$, Ian Symons and some of Reidy’s other friends). The issues with those people ended at different times. BDaMan & Danny didn’t have any more issues after freshmen year. The beef with Da Truth, King Rello and others from Field didn’t end until Da Truth stopped dissing him. BDaMan & Reidy have had beef on two other accounts, but the second & last time ended about July 3rd of 2007. So far at South High, BDaMan has made a name for himself.
When he finally released “All Things That Are Holy” & “Barely Legal”, he took a big chance of getting himself known as a rapper at South. Nowadays, BDaMan admits that Danny Osip was a part of helping BDaMan get known as a rapper (despite that just being the motive to make jokes). The early days of rapping at South consisted of disses on Danny and disses on others around him. It also consisted of a rap battle against Chantz Erolin. BDaMan, being inexperienced against rap battling someone who was actually more known (VS. the times at Field), didn’t know what to expect. After that rap battle and a scarred loss, BDaMan wanted to quit rap, which is what sparked “The Last Round” Released in April, the album was very controversial. It took shots at Reidy, Signature, the town of Richfield and many others, which resulted in the “BDaBitch” diss from Reidy, Signature, Bill$ & Ian Symons, getting dropped from Blood Shot Records, starting a failing record label and getting nowhere. Façade, Chantz and two others gave BDaMan constructive criticism about his rapping. Façade helped BDaMan improve in the summer of 2007 plus five weird dreams that helped him see what was wrong with his personal life and his rapping. Thanks to Façade and the weird dreams, BDaMan made a style change that turned things around. Issues with Reidy, Signature, Bill$ and Ian Symons were resolved (“On The Mic” was the track that brought the connection back), successful projects were made (Coppin’ Things Round Town, Days Of The New Dawn, December Files EP & Energy, Mind & Soul) & Reidy signed him back to Blood Shot Records.
On Sunday, September 21st, 2008, BDaMan made a decision to tie in his rap name with his real name, now making him "BDaMan | Bryce Foster". This decision was made based on the decision to start up a singing career which would be parallel to his rapping career.
A week after making the decision to start singing, Blood Shot Records ended due to problems, complications and drama surrounding a show the four Minnesotan emcees were supposed to do. For the first time in almost a year, BDaMan was unsigned. This made BDaMan have second thoughts about things until he got positive reviews from peers about his CD, “Coppin’ Things Round Town 2”. After the demise of Blood Shot Records (R.I.P.), BDaMan saw the answer to what he wanted to see in a label in November 2008. This answer was Plan B Entertainment. BDaMan’s vision for Plan B Entertainment is to take it to higher lengths than Blood Shot and to make it more friendly and open to ideas from the other label mates.
With the rise of Plan B, BDaMan took a leap into the business & political side of rap by starting up a monthly hip-hop roundtable blog and has become an analyst of hip-hop music by making reviews of local and industry albums and mixtapes.
In about January of 2009, BDaMan’s friend, Danny Osip, suggested that he do a Freestyle Friday thing at South where he freestyles in the hallway. This, along with previous freestyling controversy situations, has elevated BDaMan’s fanbase at South High. Although BDaMan’s fanbase at South High continues to expand, he is realizing that the fans at South High aren’t enough.
After freestyling weekly at South High and the 2009 Talent Show (also at South High), BDaMan has started calling himself “The People’s Rapper”. BDaMan has coined this phrase for many reasons. One reason is partially in homage to former wrestler, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. Another reason is because BDaMan realizes that he socializes with his fanbase more than others do and is willing to do or say somethings that others might not do.
On the Memorial Day weekend of 2009, BDaMan made the decision to end his record label, Plan B Entertainment, due to internal conflicts and past issues left from the ending of Blood Shot. All label mates agreed, and Plan B Entertainment was done as fast as it started.
A week after the end of Plan B Entertainment, Reidy decided to retire, therefore ending 62nd Connection.
Currently, BDaMan has 6 ½ performances under his belt, 8 projects and a fanbase that continues to expand. He is unsigned and purely solo for the first time since 2007.
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Yo, BDaMan | Bryce Foster (Twitter.com/BDaMan612)... Let me start by saying thank YOU! We LOVE all our sup p ort. I just want to personally say thankyou and I appreciate any love that you have given/thought about givin/ or will give in the future. you know its ques cuz i like to do caplocks randomly lol!
I just saw the whole thing on facebook...its too funny. Bobby and Matt are complete idiots. Kevin (who I figured out was Reidy) doesn't rap anymore, so why would Bobby lash out at him? Private school kids are so immature...
I see your trying to keep the peace, good idea. Although now it looks like now everyone going at each others throats.
Alright thanks man that'd be great...i'll hook you up with a beat soon. and if you want, you can have your group feature on it too, I'm having Xclusives do the same thing.
if theres anyone else you think might be intrested in doing this mixtape, let me know cause we need more people still. -Cypher
Hey bdaman, this is Cypher...I've been rapping for awhile but I haven't took it to muspace yet. I'm a bit of a fan of you and your crews work, I was listening to you guys when you had plan b out. I don't have any of your albums yet but I like the songs on your profile...who is it, can of worms 2, ladies & gentlemen, just gettin back are all super tight.
Anyways, I was talking to signature a little bit and I'm gonna be putting together a Minnesota mixtape type thing and I was wondering if you would wanna be on it? It's basically to help Emcees get exposer...let me know man and keep up the good music
Blood Root Mother will be playing at Trocaderos in Minneapolis on Friday, June 26th. I cannot stress enough how awesome this show will be!! We're playing with three of the sweetest local rock bands: Claret, Niobium and Casanatra. If you haven't heard these guys, check them out immediately! Please come to this show!!
I recommend stopping by during happy hour for two for one drinks along with free buffet, which is delicious. We'll be hanging out at Trocs all night, so come by and chill/party with us :)
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Friday, June 26th Trocaderos 107 3rd Ave N Minneapolis, MN 18+ // $6 // 8pm
Please come out and support some great local music!! Music starts at 9:30pm, we should go on around midnight. Invite your friends, pile into a car (or a party bus), and together we will make this one of the highlights of the summer :)
yeah, i'm still in the "learning" stages. i thought i had it all figured out, bnut that really when ya fuck up. haha. but i took the songs down that was disorted. but yeah, i'm trying to get some earlier shows, but it's hard now, cuz i'm packing boxes getting ready to move. and i don't even know where i'm gonna be next week.
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