GET SOME feat. Garcia, MAYDAY & Wolf + Lamb November 20, 2010

This week GET SOME brings you two of Miami’s finest Hip Hop acts, Garcia and MAYDAY in the patio. Upstairs Wolf + Lamb is doing an awesome showcase. Downstairs, Hottpants and ASHROCK are going to keep you moving.

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GARCIA

To read Miami native Garcia's musical resume, you would think hes had a major label deal for years. His 2004 debut album Anti-Social was voted one of the best to come out of Miami by the Miami New Times, he has shared stages with the likes of Outkast, DMX, Busta Rhymes, Sean Paul, Mobb Deep and Capone-N-Noriega, toured in New York, Atlanta, Orlando and Tampa as well as his Miami hometown and done album guest features too numerous to mention. Garcia has even directed a couple of music videos, one of which was nominated for an award. In fact, were it not for his current title of most played unsigned MC on Miami radio, you would think that the recording industrys current lust for Latin hip-hop would have all but sealed the fate of this Cuban powerhouse.

With influences like Public Enemy, Nas, NWA and many dancehall artists to set his sites by, Garcia began rapping at the age of 14, mostly as a joke and to get girls, he remembers. By the age of 16 he had already had his first single pressed up and manufactured. When he found that his teen years were headed down the all-too-familiar road of legal entanglements, Garcia began to throw himself into music and turn those experiences into a grimy, no-holds- barred lyrical assault. His determination paid off and the video to his debut 12 single None of Dem was aired on Mun2s show The Roof and made it to their top 5 countdown.

Garcia's buzz as a hungry, unstoppable MC convinced Miami's Mixtape King DJ EFN (Crazy Hood Productions) to take him under his wing and it was this partnership that produced the much-acclaimed Anti-Social. Garcia certainly seems destined for the right deal he is shopping for. In 2005 alone, Garcia was featured in Urb Magazines Next 100, and was crowned Miami's Best Local Rapper/Hip-Hop Group by the Miami New Times weekly newspaper. Even MTV has slated him as the next one to watch coming out of Miami - being the only unsigned artist to get featured on their "My Block - Miami" episode. He was even featured on the TLC TV show "Miami Ink" and UPN in South Florida tapped Garcia to be the face and voice of their urban marketing. This game is 90% business and 10% talent. He tells us. I have all the talent in the world. I just need to get my business on point at this stage. Artists such as Pitbull and Jacki-O have brought the national spotlight to the Miami region recently, and with critical attributes from local and national media such as thoughtful, uncompromising and complex and noteworthy, Garcia is sure to soak up his share of that shine. Garcia EPK

MAYDAY!

Believe the hype, with a murderous live show and recent gems featuring Cee-lo Green (#1 charting Gnarls Barkley), Devin the Dude, Killa Kela (Europe’s #1 beat boxer) and DJ Craze (6x World Battle Champion, Kanye West DJ) ¡MAYDAY! is fast moving into the popular consciousness. Shortly after their rise on the scene in 2006, URB magazine placed ¡MAYDAY! in their next 20 artists to watch and MTV chose them as one of 2006 Freshmen Five artists. They have been on the road touring the US since, performing to packed houses with a spectrum of artists ranging from Daft Punk to The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus to Method Man and Redman. They fit right in, but their sound is different. It’s live, hard-hitting, future brand of music posted up somewhere between rock and a hard place, strangely familiar, yet brand new.

After premiering their video for “Groundhog Day” on youtube.com, the video achieved a site record breaking 2 million plus views in less than two days. Media giants such as the New York Times, ABC World News Tonight, NBC 6 Evening News and Inside Edition, were the first among many to cover this breakout story. Later that year “Groundhog Day” was featured on HBO’s hit series Entourage. This snowballed into more recent placements, “Watching Me” was featured on NBA Street Homecourt 2007, and “On 2 Somth’n” was recently chosen for ABC’s 2009 season of the popular show “Lincoln Heights”.

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