Artist: Ali Vegas
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
DJ
Year: 2004
Tracks: 4
When South Jamaica, Queens, knocker Ali Vegas entered the New York rap fit in the late '90s, he was tagged as the following breed of poignant and contemplative rap artists to follow in the footsteps of that borough's of import MCs, like Kool G Rap, Nas, and Mobb Deep. Nonetheless, during the 2000s the hoopla and his potentiality blastoff for hip-hop stardom succumbed to record label woes, delaying the release of his first base prescribed record album. Vegas was first signed to Columbia through hitmaking production duet Poke & Tone and their Trackmasters embossment, but was dropped formerly Trackmasters at sea the distribution deal in the early 2000s. The Queens knocker then gestural to ex-Sony president Tommy Motolla's fledgeling Casablanca Records; however, the label became inactive for some time afterwards its star signee, Lindsay Lohan, was affected over to Motown by parent company Universal in 2006. In 'tween record deals, Vegas was a regular on the New York mixtape circuit with assorted street releases and singles, which were sometimes intended as lead up songs to his major-label debut, like "The AV Theme," a Kanye West production sample the SpongeBob SquarePants paper. To avoid more diligence redness magnetic tape, he founded his possess Council Recordings, but finally wound up connexion NBA player Lamar Odom's Rich Soil Entertainment in 2006 as its flagship artist. After all the troubles and tribulations, he prepped his self-titled, solo debut for a 2008 release.
