Bossman

Educated by his city’s significant golf club music scene, Baltimore rap artist Bossman adapts the sensibilities of underground hip-hop to his likes to get more accessible pop-rap. Created Travis Davon Holifield, he was raised for the Appeal City’s northeast part. Because both of his parents had been sent to jail for robbery when he was 11 yrs . old, he spent his early adolescent years coping with his grandmother. Throughout that time frame, he was section of a Kris Kross-like set, performing regional gigs and skill displays under his uncle’s assistance. By senior high school, he was completed with the kiddy rap stage and took for the rap pseudonym Jimmy Hash, developing a hardcore team of regional heavyweights called the Northeast Kings in early 2000; nevertheless, the group parted methods a couple of years after. Reinventing himself into Bossman, the Baltimore MC lunged in to the regional mixtape circuit and produced popular radio strikes like “Off da Record” as well as the Baltimore golf club anthem “Oh!” (the second option produced by citizen high-ranking golf club DJ Pole Lee). In past due 2004, he individually released his 1st full-length, Regulation and Order. Inside the first couple of weeks, he were able to sell 10,000 information doing a lot of the promotional function himself. Generating major-label curiosity, Bossman rejected gives from Columbia, Common, and Interscope to indication a cope with Virgin Information through Atlanta maker and hitmaker Jermaine Dupri, chief executive of its metropolitan division at that time. The Baltimore rapper wished to reissue his Regulation and Purchase album for the label, except with all recently recorded songs, however the project’s release day was repeatedly postponed.