MOVEMENT ON DREAMS. STAND UNDER NONE. “I think the suns comin’ out”, says 24 year old Dylan Smith. He is positive his positivity will bring him something positive. “The two things I base my life around and continue to stay passionate about are music and “the secret”. I know that thinking about what you want will bring you…..what you want. I know what I want and I know I’m going to get what I want. Once I figured that out there wasn’t much to be unhappy about. I’m not even kidding when i say….I’m always happy, and people really seem to notice that. Some literally tell me that I make them feel better just being around…there’s really not much better of a compliment than that. With my music I take that feeling and turn it into a sound. I know i could write “break up” songs, or “the worlds got me down” songs but I honestly don’t think about those things. I ONLY think happy thoughts…..and i can promise you, it works.”

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Dylan has been pursuing music at a serious level since age 14. “My first instrument was a Fender strat my dad got me for christmas when i was 9. I didn’t really know anything about music at that point so the guitar didn’t interest me much. I’m totally serious when i say this…..the band “HANSON” gets full credit for getting me into music. I grew up with an older sister, and I just remember all her friends coming over and going crazy over these dudes. Zac Hanson (the drummer) seemed to get the most girls so naturally…i chose to play drums. From that moment on, all I wanted to do was play music and tour. I played in a bunch of bands growing up (the semester, sideline heroes…) and then joined “Four Letter Lie”. We were signed by the time I was 18 and did nothing but tour. I love drums but I always wanted to interact with the crowd more. While touring I started to freestyle, I’m a funny dude so making people laugh wasn’t ever a problem. I could go on forever just rhymin about whatever was in front of me. People started tellin me to record some tracks and the rest is history.”

MOD SUN released his first CD (a full-length) titled, I’ll Buy Myself, on January 31, 2009. It featured 11 songs, all of which were original beats made by MOD SUN himself. The songs were written and recorded over a 8 month span from May to December 2008. Every song was recorded in his bedroom and produced by him and only him. He did it all by himself…hence the name of the record. “I downloaded some programs, bought a keyboard, bought a mic, and started to go at it. That was about four years ago now. Along the way i didn’t “create” my sound, I found my sound.” MOD SUN released his first free mixtape titled Let Ya Teeth Show in July 2009. It features 11 brilliant new songs including the heavily loved track, “No Girlfriend”. It’s got party-anthems, dreams-come-true songs, get high tracks, and really just captures that “the suns out!” vibe. MOD SUN recently released his second free mix tape How To Make A MOD SUN. It includes 17 new original songs and remixes. H2MAMS paints the picture of his thoughts about growing up and teaches you the steps it took to get to where he currently stands today. Very well-written with get wordplay and punchlines, but doesn’t rely on either of those to get his point across. “I care about the first 3 letters of the word ‘artist’. I take my word very seriously.”

NAKIA MARIE, THE NOW 8YR OLD PHENOM WAS BORN JANUARY 19, 2003 TO MELISSA RILEY AND NAKIA "NICK" NEAL. AT THE TENDER AGE ON THREE MONTHS SHE FIRST APPEARED IN THE PUBLIC'S EYE, WINNING FIRST PLACE IN THE "MOST BEAUTIFUL BABY" CONTEST HELD IN ROSEDALE, MN. AFTER ATTENDING KINDERGARTEN IN MARIANNA, ARKANSAS, YOUNG NAKIA MOVED BACK TO MINNESOTA, AND ATTENDED LOVEWORKS ACADEMY IN GOLDEN VALLEY, MINNESOTA, WHERE SHE WAS ADVANCED TO SECOND GRADE (SKIPPING FIRST GRADE), EXCELING IN READING AND LOVES SCIENCE AND ART. NAKIA MARIE LOVES SCHOOL AND IT SHOWS BY HER MAINTAINING A 4.0 GPA WITH STRAIGHT A'S TO THIS DAY. HENCE, THE NAME OF HER FIRST MIXTAPE STRAIGHT A STUDENT (OFFICIALLY RELEASED ON OCTOBER 22, 2011).

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NAKIA MARIE ENJOYS HELPING OTHERS, ESPECIALLY HANDS ON TYPE OF SERVICES. SHE HAS TAKEN PART IN "FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN" SEVERAL TIMES, MAKING AND DELIVERING COOKIES TO VISITING WITH A SHUT-IN SENIOR CITIZEN HOME ORGANIZED BY HER HOME CHURCH IN BLOOMINGTON, MINNESOTA. SHE HAS ALSO PERFORMED THE SAME KIND OF DEEDS FOR HER OWN GREAT-GRANDMOTHER IN NORTHERN MINNESOTA. NAKIAS HOBBIES INCLUDE READING, WATCHING MOVIES, MAKING HOME VIDEOS, PERFORMING COMEDY SKITS FOR FRIENDS AND FAMILY, PLAYING VIDEO GAMES, SWIMMING, AND OF COURSE... MAKING MUSIC. AT THE EARLY AGE OF THREE, NAKIA MARIE STARTED WORKING ON MUSIC FOR HERSELF, AND IN DECEMBER OF 2010 (@ AGE 7) WITH HELP FROM HER FATHER, WROTE HER FIRST HIT SINGLE ENTITLED "HELLO". THE OFFICIAL VIDEO ON YOU TUBE HAD WELL OVER 1,000 HITS WITHIN IN THE FIRST FEW MONTHS. SHE HAS PERFORMED THE SONG LIVE @ OVER TEN VENUES, HAS BEEN FEATURED ON A TELEVISION SHOW AND THE SONG IS NOW IN REGULAR ROTATIONON KMOJ 89.9 IN MINNEAPOLIS, MN, ALONG WITH FOUR OF HER OTHER HIT SINGLES TO DATE.

NAKIA MARIE HAS BROKEN RADIO STATION RECORDS WITH REQUESTS AND VOTES FOR HER SONGS, AND NOW HAS THE MOST SINGLES IN ROTATION AS PER ARTIST (OF ANY AGE). HER SONGS ARE NOW AVAILABLE AND IN HIGH DEMAND RECEIVING RAVE REVIEWS ON YOUTUBE, MYSPACE, FACEBOOK, TWITTER AND MANY OTHER WEBSITES. NAKIA MARIE HAS BEEN FEATURED ON THREE TELEVISION SHOWS SO FAR, AND HAS EVEN BEGUN RECORDING FOR HER OWN UP AND COOMIN TELEVISION SHOW THAT SHE NAMED "WILD WEEKENDS WITH NAKIA MARIE". YOUNG NAKIA HAS MET AND EVEN TAKEN PICTURES WITH POLITICAL REPRESENTATIVES SUCH AS MAYOR DON NESS IN MINNESOTA. HER MUSIC CONTINUES TO TAKE HER CLOSER TO THE TOP WHERE SHE WANTS TO BE, AND WILL BE AS LONG AS SHE CONTINUES TO "WISH IT DREAM IT DO IT", WHICH IS NOT ONLY THE NAME OF HER MANAGING COMPANY, BUT ALSO ONE OF MANY POSITIVE MESSAGES SHE SPREADS THROUGHOUT HER MUSIC. ALL OF NAKIA MARIE'S SONGS ARE ABOUT POSITIVITY, LISTENING, LEARNING, STAYING IN SCHOOL, HELPING OTHERS AND GROWING UP TO BE SUCCESSFUL NO MATTER WHAT STRUGGLES ONE MAY HAVE. HER OFFICIAL MIXTAPE WAS RELEASED OCTOBER 22, 2011 AND IS FOR SALE, AT SEVERAL LOCATIONS, INCLUDING DIGITAL CITY MUSIC STORE AND ALL ELECTRIC FETUS STORES STATEWIDE AND IS SOON TO BE EVERYWHERE WORLDWIDE! #TEAM NAKIA MARIE!

Mike Dreams (born as Michael Alexander Hannah on November 13, 1988) is a Minnesota-based Hip-Hop Artist & Writer. He grew up on the south side of Minneapolis, MN and began getting interested in hip hop music at an early age. As a kid, he performed in many of Minneapolis' community talent shows at local libraries, parks and churches. As he continued through his Jr. and Sr. High School years, he became a poetry writer, being published in national anthologies and gaining nominations for Amateur Poet of the Year on multiple occasions. After high school graduation, Mike Dreams began a serious career as a professional artist. Since 2007, Mike Dreams has been releasing projects and mixtapes in the Twin Cities and via online. In the spring of 2009, hip hop web magazine and blog DJBOOTH.NET ran a promotional series for Mike Dreams (then referred to as Young Son) called “Counting Sheep: Countdown To Dreamers Poetry” that led up to the release of a promotional mixtape by the same name in the summer of 2009 to promote the forthcoming release his debut album, Dreamer’s Poetry, that was presented by DJBOOTH.NET & 2DopeBoyz.Com the following year on February 8th, 2010 as a free digital download with option for purchase. The album contained various production from local, national and international producers, as well as singing talent from upcoming Minnesota artists.

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Mike Dreams works heavily in his community in the Twin Cities by devoting time, efforts and concerns to issues he feels are important, including peace building, the fight against gang and street violence, anti-misogyny (the movement against the hatred of women), education of minorities, support for immigration and immigrant rights and the advocacy for Christianity and the beliefs he was raised upon. Due to this, his music contains no expletives whatsoever. He served as the main performing act at the Midwest Regional PeaceJam International celebration ceremony for 2003 Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Shirin Ebadi of Iran in March 2007 at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN , headlined along with Twin Cities rap group Big Quarters at the 2008 PeaceJam Celebration for Archbishop Desmond Tutu in April 2008 at the North Minneapolis Service Project and headlined the Midwest Regional PeaceJam 2010 honoring 1992 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Rigoberta Mechu Tum of Guatemala. Mike Dreams is also currently on the youthrive LIVE! Concert Series across Minnesota and the Midwest at elementary, junior and senior high schools, a traveling concert tour promoting peace through hip hop with notable Twin Cities artists including Scribble Jam 2006 Beatbox Champ DJ Snuggles, Maria Isa, Dancing Dave and Hypel (Hope Youth Power & Everlasting Life). Mike Dreams and the tour have performed in various schools around Minnesota, the Red Wing Correctional Facility, the 2008 National Youth Leadership Conference and most recently, the Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America.

In May of 2010, Mike Dreams performing at SOUNDSET 2010, one of the largest Midwest Outdoor hip-hop festivals to exist, powered by the Minnesota-based indie label, Rhymesayers Entertainment., amongst other local and national acts, including Toki Wright, Dessa (of Doomtree), Wiz Khalifa, Cage and Method and Redman. Other major shows have included headlining the Hip Hop 4 Obama Fundraiser Concert in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 2007 and 2008, opening up for One Be Lo of Binary Star, opening for Eyedea and Abilities of the Rhymesayers and performing in the lineup at the 2007 Allied Media Conference in Detroit, Michigan. Aside from being a hip hop artist and performer, Mike Dreams is a journalist and writer. He’s been published in a few Minnesota publications, and currently writes for the hip hop websites Hip Hop Lives Online (HHLO.NET) & RefinedHype.Com, a sister-site of DJBOOTH.NET. Mike Dreams’ second independent album Just Waking Up was released on October 14, 2010 and presented by DJBOOTH.NET x FLUD Watches and received 1300 downloads in 2 weeks. The album is currently available on iTunes, as well as for physical purpose at Mike’s official store.

She was born in the spring of 1988 at North Memorial hospital in Robbinsdale, MN, approximately 50 paces away from the north side of Minneapolis, where she was raised and now resides. She is the last of 2 girls’ and 4 boys’, all except the eldest son are the seed of her father John Adams, but all issued from the womb of Jayne Johnson. She is a product of the cliché and tragedy that befalls many, but specifically those in the "black" community. 

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In 2010 she would make history becoming the first to graduate from college in her family with a degree of Associate of Applied Science in Recording Technology. Her hustle is uncanny, drive is relentless, swag is incomparable. This individual is familiar with the territory that failure governs. Tribulation and costly mistakes have helped forge the design that you so easily recognize. On this trek much has been achieved, but even more has been lost never to be regained. The offspring of sin, disease and violence have left her bereft of multiple close friends and relatives. Who will not be able to celebrate the arrival of an aspiring artist whose dreams are becoming reality.

Inspired by the death of her loved ones the critically acclaimed single, "Streets on Fire" off of her mix tape was written and debuted on the local radio station KMOJ. Tears fused with ink to send out a cease-fire and memorial to the families of the souls no longer present. From the concrete jungle emerged The Lioness, as ferocious as they come. A pseudonym given to her by her brother in arms because he believed that many of her characteristics were congruent with the felines. Her plans are elaborate, but she realizes that to whom much is given much is required. Faith, patience and love are a few of her loyal companions on this journey through life. YAH her ELohim knowing what her future holds may, because of her obedience give her a glimpse of it.

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Xavier Marquis (pronounced Zay-vee-air Mar-key), was born in Minneapolis, MN. Xavier’s knack for music and rhythm was evident at a young age. At the age of 9, Xavier started writing his first rhymes. In the 5th grade, at age 10, Xavier formed his first rap group that went by the name “The Little XDL” with his cousin Dom Davis aka Dearling Physique. At age 16, he purchased his first keyboard. It was that keyboard that helped Xavier hone his production skills. In 2002, Xavier was introduced to Ray Seville of Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis’ company Flyte Tyme, and immediately started producing for various artist’s. During his stint at Flyte Tyme, Xavier vigorously studied the production of Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis past work and created his own unique formula to producing hits that took his songwriting, rapping, and production skills to a new level. “The time I spent at Flyte Tyme was essential to my growth as a music producer and artist. There was so much history there. Just to know that you were recording in the same place that Michael and Janet Jackson, Mariah Carey, Boys II Men, and Usher once recorded in is breathtaking and motivating.”

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 In 2007, Xavier started his production company, Findin’ Muziq. The name Findin’ Muziq was chosen because of Xavier’s strong desire to find and create a new sound in mainstream music. In 2009, Xavier focused on his first mixtape, The X-Files Mixtape: Episode 1, which was a highly anticipated mixtape full of original songs and beats that were inspired by many different styles and genre’s of music. Xavier understands the importance of versatility, saying, “I like to give listeners’ ears a full course meal. A lot of artists are either afraid or unable to step out of the box. People get tired of the same ole’ thing all the time, so I attempt to give them a little bit of everything to fill not only their appetite, but mine as well.” The critically acclaimed mixtape was successfully released March 9, 2010. In July 2011, Xavier headlined The X-Files Mixtape: Episode 2 Release Show. Accompanied by his backing band, Xavier performed to a near-capacity crowd at 7th Street Entry (First Avenue) in Minneapolis, MN. The Mixtape featured the single “Open Letter” which was awarded the Urban Finals Grand Prize by Ourstage.com. Now, Xavier is performing and promoting his latest mixtape, Episode 2. He is also working on Happy Kids, a side project with backing-band mate and long-time friend Munqs.

Born and raised in Chicago, IL, Chris Styles came to Minnesota in 1998. He graduated from Brown College with a degree in communications/broadcasting in 2004. He began his internship for (KDWB) and (B96), but it was with 89.9 KMOJ that he was given his first break and hasn’t looked back since. He began as the Saturday Night DJ, After two years in the making, he has become one of the most respected on-air personalities in the Twin Cities.

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