Add This To Ya Page and show Support A lot of today’s artists are afraid to step outside of the box. As a result, hip hop is suffering. Creativity, originality, and realness seem to fading away at an alarming rate. Music is becoming very repetitive. Things really need to change for the sake of hip hop. If anybody’s willing to step up to the plate it’s none other than “Wayzeâ€. Derrick Smith better known as “Wayzeâ€, is far from just another aspiring hip hop artist. He was born and raised in the chaotic streets of South Central, Los Angeles. Growing up Wayze saw a lot of his friends get caught up in gangs, drug dealing, and many other traps street life sets. Music was the only thing that kept Wayze from going down that same road. “A lot of kids end on the wrong track because they don’t have anything better to do. While other kids was out there getting into trouble I was usually listening to some music or writing some rhymesâ€. Wayze first began writing rhymes at the age of 11. “I wasn’t even serious at first. I couldn’t even count bars. Honestly I never really planned on making a career out of this. I just did it because it was something I liked to do.†It wasn’t until he was 15 that Wayze pastime turned into his dream. In the summer of 2000 Wayze began recording music for the first time on a karaoke machine in his mom’s garage. “Man, I didn’t even have any beats. My boy use to just bang on the table and I would rap over that. In 2002 D. Smith and a few friends started the group hoodlife. The group created quite a local buzz and released one mixtape before going their separate ways. After things didn’t work out with hoodlife, Wayze decided to take break from music for a little while. After about a 1 ½ years, Wayze returned to the music scene and began pursuing his solo career. This time around D. Smith was a lot more focused and determined. In 2005 he released his debut solo mixtape “Let’s Talkâ€. The mixtape displayed a lot more growth and maturity than his previous works. A lot of people began to notice him on a whole different level. “A lot of people blew me off before I dropped “Let’s Talkâ€. I don’t know I guess they thought that I was just like the other up and coming artist who have nothing to talk about. When I went to record this album I was like okay I have to get more personal and let people know I not average, I can get deep, I can make the street anthems, I could do the chick songs, I can do it all.†It’s that perfect combination of originality, versatility, and realness that sets Wayze apart from the competition. Wayze is currently working on completing his debut solo album which has yet to be titled. He is also work on signing a major record deal and getting is his own independent label, Get A Grip Entertainment, off the ground. He is definitely, someone to look out for in the near future. CHECK OUT MY BOY S.BOOGIE
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