Drew Shula was born in Belfast, Maine and currently resides in Beverly Hills, California. He is the first commercially viable white rapper to emerge from an affluent background. Shula graduated from architecture school and began emceeing in 2006. In 2008 he released his demo, "The 90210 Tape," the entirety of which was self-recorded in his bedroom in Beverly Hills. Shula currently operates underground (beneath Mulholland Drive), releasing music straight to the Internet and feeding a growing buzz. He is the great-nephew of NFL Hall of Fame coach Don Shula.
Shula's original inclination was to become a writer, but he became obsessed with the intermingling of word play and energy in rap music and shifted his dream of writing the next great American novel, to recording the next classic hip-hop album. Growing up in Maine, before ever hearing a rap song, Shula used to freestyle to himself while riding his bike. A classically trained musician, Drew played in his high school's concert and jazz bands and went on to attend the University of Notre Dame.
Influenced as much by literary greats like Hemingway and Kerouac as hip-hop kingpins like Andre 3000 and Pharrell, Shula's music is mainstream, radio ready rap, with an intelligent and counter cultural undercurrent. The Drew Shula brand at once embraces the American dream and derides financial success as soulless and unjust. This inherent contradiction coupled with Shula's outsider status as an affluent, White kid doing what is traditionally Black music, creates a complex menagerie from which the rapper rhymes with emotive and creative abandon.
The most prominent theme of "The 90210 Tape" is the dark side of the American dream. Having worked for an NGO in West Africa, Shula is aware of the great social inequalities of the world. While Americans get fat off fast food, half the world's population can barely afford to keep food in their bellies. So while the beats are bangin' and the melodies keep your head on nod, this is message music with a purpose.
Redefining what it means to be a conscious artist, Shula's "25 For Life" pledge, promises to give one quarter of his earnings from rap to charity through his entire career.
Uncle Don with Jay-Z in '07 Super Bowl commercial.... Yessuh, we're really related.
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drew! holy belated comment batman!.. sorry about that.
Im glad my music reminds you of home, that is awesome. And your music is badass, im grooving right now. Good luck with your tunes as well, and have a lovely weekend :)
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Hey Shula...Beverly Hills??? Wow...what exactly you do over there. What's new and exciting in your life. Doesn't seem like we've been outta school for 8 years.
Hey Drew you had mentioned you were going to go see my parents this weekend or last weekend dont know if you did but just wanted to let you know that they are going to close @3 this sat 6/7 :) didnt want you waste a trip
hey thanks man :] yea ive been working hard, umm after graduation im going to C.O.D the community college in the dessert. and since im in the band carnage impaled we are getting more and more well known so hopefully go somewhere with that. otherwise ima be studying buisness and music in college.
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