Maino - My Life (featuring cameos by Mike Street & King Magazine's covergirl Milani Rose) Look for Mike Street @ the 2:27 mark...
Az Seen On T.V. 6: LIL WAYNE GAY LYRICS IN HIS SONG?? WHO ARE THE HOMOTHUGS IN THE INDUSTRY?? from Mike Street on Vimeo .
Az Seen On T.V. 5: Mike Street says SHE'S A SUPERFREAK!! **GIRL TWERKS ON HANDSTAND AND SPLIT ON STAGE!!** Emstate in Brooklyn!! from Mike Street on Vimeo .
Az Seen On T.V. 4: Mike Street speaks on Chris Brown hitting Rihanna " ...it look like connecticut chimpanze got her!" from Mike Street on Vimeo .
Az Seen On T.V. 3: Mike Street & Emstate @ Safe Sex Tour FEB.09 from Mike Street on Vimeo .http://vimeo.com/user1317596/videos
FROM THE COUNTRY'S GREATEST CITY COMES A YOUNG PHENOM BY THE NAME OF MIKE STREET, THEPRODUCER /RAPPER /SONGWRITER /TRENDSETTER. SOMEWHERE IN NEW YORK, LATE 06. A CROWDEDROOM, FULL OF YOUNG SPIRITS SQUEEZED IN AS SARDINES IN A CAN, PUSHED AND SHOULDER SHRUGGEDAS THEY WATCHED A VIVACIOUS PERFORMANCE PUT ON BY EMSTATE. MIKE STREET UN-ZIPS HIS FURCOAT REVEALING HIS HANSOME WATCH AND SHIRT THAT WAS NOTHING LESS THAN A GARMENT PICKEDFROM A SUPERSTAR'S HANGER. HE THROWS HIS FUR COAT INTO THE CROWED AS IF TO SAY... "I DON'TNEED THIS.", AND THEN THE 808 KICK FROM THE SONG "RED CARPET" JUMPED THROUGH THE SPEAKERS.
WITH HIS PRETTY THUG APPEAL, TREND SETTING WAS ALWAYS A FACTOR,WHETHER DRAPED IN FOREIGN FURS WITH "UMBROS" ON THE FEET, OR A ASPHALT BLACK LEATHERJACKET WITH LEATHER BIKER GLOVES (WHICH HE MAKES LOOK SO HIP HOP). HIS BARITONE VOICERECITING HIS FAVORITE WORDS TO OPEN A CONVO "WUTS MOVIN", AND YOU MIGHT GET AN "OVER &OUT" AT THE END OF THE DISCUSSION WHICH IS OFTEN SAID AT THE END OF HIS SONGS ALSO. MIKE STREET CAN BE SEEN IN THE INDEPENDENT MOVIE "TOO YOUNG", DIRECTED BY JEROME ANTHONY SCHEDULED FOR RELEASE IN 08. HE CAN ALSO BE HEARD ON ACOLLECTION OF MIXTAPES THAT HAVE FLOODED THE STREETS FROM NEW YORK CITY TO LONG ISLAND TOBUILD A GROWING BUZZ WHICH YOU CAN ASK ABOUT.SOMEWHERE IN BROOKLYN, NY...IT WAS A SPECIAL NIGHT IN '86. MAY 26TH... A PRODIGY WAS BORN.THE NEW YORK METS WERE GEARING UP TO BATTLE THROUGH A TOUGH SEASON TO WIN THE WORLDSERIES, MAYOR KOCH WAS IN OFFICE TO LATER BE SUCCEEDED BY MAYOR DINKIN. THE CITY WAS IN ADEPRESSION CHARACTERIZED BY DRUGS AND A RAPID BOOST IN THE CRIME RATE MANY DESCRIBE AS THE"CRACK EPIDEMIC". KINGS COUNTY HOSPITAL'S REGULAR NIGHT WHICH USUALLY ENCOMPASSED HANDLINGEVERYTHING FROM THE LOCAL GUNSHOT WOUND FROM AROUND THE CORNER TO THE BIRTH OF MANY FAMOUSNEW YORKERS, WOULD SPURN OUT THE BABY BOY TO BE CROWNED MICHAEL B. ARTHUR, BORN BURTONARTHUR AND SUZETTE, A LOVELY MODEL AT THE TIME. BURT WHO RUSHED THE HOSPITAL WAS BOTHEREDBY THE FACT THAT HE PREFERRED THE NAME KEVIN FOR THE LITTLE ONE, BUT HIS ARRIVAL TO THEHOSPITAL WAS A FEW SECONDS LATE, THE BABY MICHAEL WAS ESCORTED HOME TO HIS HOME ON OCEANPKWY IN A STRETCHED LIMOUSINE.
ONE OF THREE BROTHERS, MIKE WAS FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO SEE BOTH SIDES OF LIFE, FROMSTRUGGLE TO SUCCESS, WHICH IS EVIDENT IN HIS FREQUENT HONORING TO HIS FATHERS HARD WORKAND DRIVE. FROM WORKING TWO AND THREE JOBS TO MAKE ENDS MEET AND BOUNCING AROUNDTHROUGHOUT STATEN ISLAND, QUEENS AND MORE OF THE CITY AS RESIDENTS. "MY FATHER WAS...ANDSTILL IS A HUSTLER... THE ONLY DIFFERENCE IS HE WAS NEVER ON A ILLEGAL HUSTLE, HE WAS THEKINDA DUDE YOU WOULD SEE MAKIN' SIGNS ON THE LIVING ROOM FLOOR AND PUTTIN 'EM UP LATERTHAT NIGHT. THEN EARLY NEXT MORNING HE WAS PAINTIN' SOME NEW SHIT FOR THE BUSINESS AROUNDTHE CORNER. AND YOU SEE HIS BEEPER GOIN' OFF SO YOU KNOW HE GOT MORE WORK COMIN'. IREMEMBER TIMES WHERE I HAD EVERYTHING I WANTED. THEN I REMEMBERED TIMES WHERE WE ALL HADTO SLEEP ON THE SAME MATTRESS, AND MOVE IN WITH GRANDMA, BUT THROUGH ALL THAT HE WASWORKIN', WORKIN', WORKIN', SO WE WERE NEVER POOR, AND HE BEEN DOIN' IT SINCE THE AGE OF 16HE WAS ON HIS OWN SO I ALWAYS RESPECTED HIS GRIND AND I THINK I TOOK A PIECE OF THAT GRINDMENTALITY WITH ME." EXPLAINS MIKE.
SCHOOL WAS NEVER DIFFICULT FOR MIKE. BESIDES THE FACT THAT HE WAS CONSIDERED SHY DUETO HIS QUIET NATURE. HE WAS VERY ARTISTIC, AND OFTEN REPRESENTED HIS CLASS IN CREATIVECOMPETITION. HE OFTEN EXCELLED AND MADE THE HONOR ROLL, BUT MIKE ALWAYS STOOD OUT DUE TOTHE FACT THAT HIS VOICE WAS DEEPER THAN OTHER CLASSMATES. " MY SCHOOL YEARS? AHHHHHH..."HE LAUGHS, " I WAS KINDA ALWAYS BOUNCING AROUND FROM SCHOOL TO SCHOOL SO I WASALWAYS...LIKE THE NEW KID, YOU KNOW WHEN EVERYONE GETS COMFORTABLE (IN CLASS) AND HERECOMES THE NEW KID..." HE SNICKERS. THROUGHOUT HIGHSCHOOL HE HAD HIS THING WITH THE LADIES.ATTENDING FREEPORT HIGHSCHOOL, IN FREEPORT LONG ISLAND (WHICH MIKE CONSIDERS HOME SWEETHOME) THE SLIM YOUNG MAN COULD HAVE BEEN SEEN, DIPPED IN A HANGER FRESH KAREEM ABDULJABBAR THROWBACK, MATCHING A PAIR OF SUNNY YELLOW AND BARNEY PURPLE AFII'S , WITH ACRISPY, SLIGHTLY OVERSIZED MITCHELL & NESS FITTED OVERLAYING HIS DURAG (WHICH HIS MOTHEROPPOSED SO MUCH DUE TO HER STRICT TRINIDADIAN CULTURE). THE YOUNG STREET POSSESSED THEAURA OF A LEADER AND WAS OFTEN REFFERED TO AS "SHYNE" IN REFERENCE TO HIS VOICE, AND ITSLIKENESS TO THE FELLOW RAPPER. THIS IS WHERE HE WOULD MEET LABEL MATES TO WHAT WOULD BETHE RAP GROUP LATER KNOWN AS EMSTATE.
THROUGHOUT HIS MANY EXPERIENCES AND BEING OBSERVATIVE, STREET WAS ABLE TO MOLD ANDCREATE A SIGNATURE SOUND WHICH CAN BE WITNESSED IN SONGS SUCH AS HIS STREET SMASH, "FUCKYOU PAY ME", OR HIS FLASHY PERSONA HE DELIVERS OVER THE PUNCHY DRUMS OF "RED CARPET" ANDLETS NOT FORGET THE SING SONGY "SUPERSTAR" WHICH EMBODIES A REPLAYED GUITAR RIFF FROM THEBIGGIE SONG "RESPECT" ON WHICH HE FEATURED PATRA. "IM ONLY 21, BUT I HAVE SEEN MY SHARE OFEXPERIENCE AS ANY YOUNG BLACK MAN WOULD GROWING UP IN DIFFERENT AREAS OF NY. I DON'T CLAIMTO BE EXTRA TOUGH OR NONE OF THAT EXTRA SHIT RUNNIN' ROUND KILLIN', ETC, ETC, LIKE HALF OFTHESE RAPPERS DO. NOT TO MENTION I'VE DONE MY SHARE OF DIRT. BUT HALF THESE DUDES TALKINBOUT KILLIN' AND BODYIN' NIGGAZ, THEY AINT BOUT NONE OF THAT. HOW MANY TIMES YOU GON KILLA NIGGA. IT WASNT MORE THAN ABOUT 900 MURDERS IN 2005 IN NY, SO WHY IS THERE MORE THAN100,000 GANGSTER RAPPERS IN NY? THE MATH DON'T ADD UP. BE YOURSELF HOMIE. IM JUST AREGULAR DUDE WITH AN EXTRA EDGE YA READ ME..." HE LAUGHS. " RIGHT NOW MY COUSIN LOCKED UP,UPSTATE AND HE'S FACING UP TO 25 YRS IN PRISON. THAT HURTS. SO EVEN IF I DO TALK ABOUTSOME OF THESE THINGS I MAKE GOOD MUSIC AND I COME FROM MY OWN ANGLE, SO YOU WOULD NEVERHEAR ME SPEAK ABOUT SELLING CRACK, OR DOPE CUZ THAT'S NOT WHAT I DO. BUT YOU MIGHT HEAROTHER THINGS THAT REPRESENT ME, THAT I HAVE WITNESSED OR THAT I FEEL IS GOOD MUSIC."-SEAN POETICS
