2008-05-29 23:45:21 -
- Luck Media & Marketing, Inc. Guy McCain, 818-760-8077 Currently celebrating an incredible 50 years in the music business, "Godfather Of Rap" Morey Alexander could easily kick back and rest on his formidable laurels: launching the careers of rap pioneers N.W.A, Easy-E, Ice Cube, Mellow Man Ace, Kid Frost and Dr. Dre following a lengthy run as a top blues producer, marketing manager and impresario whose charges at the Legendary Blues Label, KENT RECORDS included B.B. King, Ike & Tina Turner and Etta James.
Despite these trying times in the music industry, the Las Vegas based Alexander continues to look ahead optimistically and find exciting, innovative ways to break deserving new artists on the rap and blues fronts. As
the owner of Kent Entertainment (www.kententertainment.com) and its two subsidiary independent labels, the Kent Blues Label and the rap-driven FirstKut, he has experienced his share of distribution struggles with unscrupulous companies these past few years.
Yet Alexander--who recently inked a new deal with Super D Distribution--has still managed to achieve great breakthrough success with a powerful stable of artists, including (on the rap end of things) Slick of the Shock Mob (Elements of the Game), Slick's son King Con and BOO-YAA T.R.I.B.E (Angry Samoans).
Alexander and Slick are currently involved in a joint venture to manage and produce up and coming rappers and helping establish them as stars that will keep the genre thriving for many years. Both are excited about working with one of FirstKut's new artists, breakout Bay Area based female gangsta rapper Mo Wiley, a real deal artist with major street cred whose songs reflect the struggles of and redemption through her rough and tumble childhood and early young adulthood. Her debut album is called Major League Ballin.
Because Alexander is so renowned for his groundbreaking role in rap music, people sometimes forget his love for and legacy in the world of blues. In addition to John Lee Hooker, Jr., the Kent Blues Label also has Deacon Jones, a longtime keyboardist with Hooker, Sr. whose upcoming recording will be called Jonesin' For Money.
ΒΆ Las Vegas Based "Godfather Of Gangsta Rap" Keeps His 50-Year
Musical Legacy Thriving with the Kent Blues Label and the Stable of
Rap Artists on His FirstKut Label
