You can call him Show Money, Show "Me The" Money, Money Rolls or just plain old "Money"!!!! (As the hood likes to address him). The 20 year old rapper, also juggling hats as a producer and engineer explains "I'm just like any other nigga, I got the same story as every other nigga that grew up in the hood. I came up under the same hardships, wrestling with the same demons as these other niggas out here giving it up. The thing that makes me different though is my drive. If I want it, I go get it. I don't let anything detour me from what I want to do no matter who says what. You can't tell me nothing once I got my mind made up. Im hard headed that way, and its a good thing I am cause if I would have listened to them hatin ass niggas out there I would have ended up fucked up. Even my family thought i was buggin tryin to make a career out this music shit. They kept telling me leave this shit alone and get a real job. I kept with it though, now look where I’m at." And just where is he? Well, aside from dropping his first mixtape
with the co-signing of one of the most respected pioneers in the game, Busta Rhymes. Featuring on songs with "The Game" or on songs with his cousin "Gravy", Shooting scenes for his slots on HEAT DVD, Real Talk or Chips DVD and Shooting cameos in videos such as Busta Rhymes' "Dont Touch Me" and "I Got Bass" or Gym Class Heroes "Peace Sign". You can catch him behind the boards recording for major artists like Rick Ross, T.I., Akon, Missy Elliot, Mike Jones, Q-Tip, Nicole Schrezinger, T-Pain, and most notably Busta Rhymes with whom he spent the last 2 years traveling the world with while working on making a name for himself. Born and Raised in Bedstuy Brooklyn, Lafayette Gardens to be exact, he had alot to talk about and so did his counterparts. Money first started rapping around the hood with his right hand G-Stro aka Coca Cola Strolla "aka 4-5-6, suck my dick, you heard" (Money throws in laughing) forming the Get Guap Gang, which has picked up a "band wagon of dick riders" as Show refers to them aside from countless other official members and fans. Being a chief recording engineer for a small studio in Chinatown Manhattan gave him unlimited access to the mic. "Working as the main engineer I had a set of keys to the studio, so when I had downtime I was recording my shit. I would call the goons up, They'd come lay they shit down and we’d be in that shit allllllll night long recording shit, gettin' bent the fuck up. We'd go back to the hood the next afternoon and play our shit outside.” He laughs, “that shit was the best feeling I ever got in my life. I’m hearing my shit blasting through the whole hood and niggas is really fucking wit me. That gotta be one of the best experiences of my life. It felt like we was really on, lmao." After linking up with Busa Bus, underground rapper, recently turned actor, "Gravy", started getting wind of his cousins movements. "Yea we linked up and started talkin, he heard bout me and Busta and the lil buzz I was gettin in my hood, one thing led to another and I ended up on that "Goonberg Goes To Africa Mixtape" and a few other of his joints", recalls Money. "I started engineering for Gravy too. Once his verse was done I would call the regular engineer for that studio in to record my shit. I made sure I went in on everything, I was determined to make niggas ask ‘who's that nigga’." And thats exactly what Busta Rhymes did. Coincidentally enough the "Goonberg Goes To Africa" mixtape ended up in Busta's hands. "I never told Bus I rapped in the beginning, I never been the type to ask for help, I could be a real stubborn nigga at times. I felt like.... Iont know what I felt, my pride was in the way iI wanted to get shit poppin myself, if he found out I rap then that was that but I wasn’t stressin it." Says Money, "Bus did know Gravy was my cousin though, I don’t know if thats the reason why he got the mixtape or what. But one day I was in the studio wit Bus and he was like 'I got your cousin mixtape', I don't remember his exact words but somehow we got into the features on the mixtape and he was talkin bout how ill this nigga 'Show Money' sounded lmao, I just started rollin and I looked at him and said you know thats me right? lol. He just looked at me and said 'get the fuck outta here', asking me what I mean thats me and all that for like a hour, asking me why I never said nothing. Then he said 'fuck that you going to be apart of this flipmode movement'. It was a wrap after that I was in there recording him and me everyday, just going at it”, smiles Money. Since then he's
crossed paths with countless artists, been on countless mixtapes and is starting to get his spins on the radio most notably DJ Kay Slays "Drama Hour" on Hot 97. He's working with a handful of fresh new producers and some well known on his next mixtape and his debut album self titled "Show Me The Money". As he'll tell you himself he's just getting started. "Yea man, I ain't nowhere near where I want to be, all this did was just give me hope, it let me know I can do this shit, you know what I mean? I aint signed to a label yet, them checks ain’t comin in yet nigga. The engineering shit is whats keeping me paid but I’m falling back from that to really focus on my rap career, I got a few other things goin on to hold me down financially." He laughs as he winks his eye. Imma get it though, my plans is to just work on this album Me and Bus gonna throw it out to these labels and wait for them to jump at it. They fuckin love me, just give me a minute, imma be in there, make room niggaz!!!! Flipmode I$ The $quad, Get Guap I$ The Gang!!!!!!!!!
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