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I get the best new MySpace Layouts at LayoutStreet.com ! I get the best new MySpace Layouts at LayoutStreet.com !New Orleans rising star Doodie knows his city streets like no one else. From living on them as a homeless teen to combing every corner of the New Orleans with his music, this determined ghetto youth knew no boundaries in his grassroots campaign for regional recognition. Embodying both the natural talents to make us move our feet along with the necessary drive that warrants longevity, Doodie crafted his career like a strategic game of chess- carefully calculating each move two and three steps ahead.After starting his own independent label, 8WB entertainment, and capturing the Southeast with one of the summer’s hottest down South singles, “pop it off,” Doodies’ undeniable buzz caught the citys’ attention rapidly putting him in major demand by the listeners. Now carefully plotting his next plan of action, he awaits the release of his independent label debut, “YOUNG N RESTLESS.”“I didn’t need anybody’s record label ’cause I can sign myself and get my own record label,” says the 24-year-old Doodie. “I never wanted to work under somebody, and get me hot or in the studio so I did it myself.”A hustler to his heart, Doodie was instructed on the game of life rugged downtown New Orleans. Born into an unstable household, Doodie and younger sisters were constantly uprooted from living in one relative’s home to the other.His mothe later movet out of state to North Carolina and doodie stayed in New Orleans alone knowing he had a muzic career which he had in vision. While most children his age were enjoying their carefree teenage years, Doodie went from living with his aunt to his grandmother to crashing on friends’ couches to sleeping on the floors of crack houses.By his sophomore year in high school, Doodie later that year partnered with some neighborhood friend to start their own label, Powreline records. Together the trio released several mixtapes which spreaded throughout Louisiana giving the ( night ridaz) a demand That they always needed . Later doodie realized how much he was recognized by listeners beyond his city, he later became motivated in his solo project and started putting together singles and radio songs immedialtly.“I was doing talent searches around town—going here and there performing the song, passing out CDs in hoods, taking over the streets like a movement,” Doodie remembers. “You can’t help but like it. It was hard at first ’cause didn’t everybody know me. When I started making my statement, I had them.”Realizing that he was more of an employee of the label than an actual business partner, he parted ways with his former colleagues and went on to form 8WB ent. After assembling a team of street promoters, consultants and producers, Doodie and his network lit up the city with his mix tape, “For Example.”“I was like, ‘If they can do it, I can do it’,” Doodie explains of his decision to head his own label. “I got a whole lotta stuff that I want the world to know— motivation, inspiration, struggle, ways to avoid all of that. ’Cause I done shook it.”Now with his newfound recording contract, his message will be spread to the masses. On the breakthrough single, “Im Different,” he adequately expresses his tireless New Orleans struggle and releases all his pain on this one track, making it relative to whoever listened, Doodie knows his city streets like no one else. From living on them as a homeless teen to combing every corner of the city with his music, this determined ghetto youth knew no boundaries in his grassroots campaign for regional recognition. Embodying both the natural talents to make us move our feet along with the necessary drive that warrants longevity, Doodie’s crafting his career like a strategic game of chess- carefully calculating each move two and three steps ahead.Even without a major label behind him, he still plans for his message to spread to the masses. On the breakthrough single, “POP IT OFF,” he adequately relates to almost all club goers atop up-tempo, club-ready production and unorthodox drums. Layering words of wisdom over an energetic beat accented by deep tuba chords and rolling snares, he spits with conviction on the inspirational, “IM DIFFERENT.”He rhymes: “Im wicha, cause that’s the everage nigga heart beat/but don’t everybody listen when their heart speak/call me the pain medacine for your symptoms/ I could probaly relate to any shit that you slipped in/I was taught to play every female from a distance/you wanted pain muzik I than filled your prescription’’.And offering keys to success ,” Doodies’ independent debut, “YOUNG AND RESTLESS,” will be less than a trunk rattling collection of hot beats and tight rhymes. Consider the album a handbook for self-determination.“I classify myself as something that the game needs right now. I’m the dope of the industry,” says Doodie. “My music is relative to all lifestyles. I’m not a gangsta rapper. It’ll get gangsta, but I got something to talk about. Real music is missing—like how Pac did it.”p