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Yeah its very hard for independent artists to break into the scene today without the help of national tv exposure that something like idol provides. Radio airplay is definately a key factor for new artists.

Yeah agreed. The man’s gotta get paid or his music in total comes to a stop.

Looking forward to seeing how unperfect love goes as well. That track made waves on the net. I actually thought gemini was better, but we’ll see.

Danja hand produce this? coz its got his percussion pattern all over it - ish .. reminds me of Luv In The Club .. but i agree with Bobby, dude’s done way better than this. Its cool though

Not sure if he did i can find out though

Agree with you boys, I actually told Iz I didnt like it.

But… Wait till you guys hear the album.. Its off da hook. Closer, incredible, beautiful soul, love is killing me… just to name some of the absolute jams on the album. If you dont like this track, dont think you wont like the album, cause its on a diff level.

this is from israel
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Hey fam.

Thanks for messaging on grooveon about the single. For some reason I can’t log in to my WHOISISRAEL login to post this up myself (U block me jon? haha)

For real, I appreciate the feedback on the single. And I know there are a lot of mixed reactions from the single. Some people absolutely love it and some people dont. But regardless, the support on radio has been insane, and remember peeps- we are independent. This is done through our own imprint The Nufirm (Independent Record Label). So having the 5th most added track to radio is a big deal… some artists that are signed to major labels can’t achieve this. This means that local RnB/Pop/Urban whatever you wanna call it is on its way up.

I did get told by my boy Fluke that he didn’t like this single at all. But I did a mailout to all the djs i could nationwide with 2 joints to service and gave our Djs a chance to have their input on which song they felt was a better joint for a single and Freak tonight came out on top!

On Friday, it landed at number 16 on the nation wide Hot30! We hope for it to keep rising so please vote for it.

Poppa- You def don’t have the album… I am sure you will be pleased with the outcome my dude. I’ve kept the album mega fresh and competitive to my world competition.

As far as Gemini- nah, we didn’t take it to radio at all… Remember it leaked.. and set me back pretty majorly. I can understand if people are unsure about whether my album or singles have been out or not because of the leaks… but “Freak tonight” is the first single I have had out in 4 years! All the leaks have caused me to stay in the studio and make as much fresh shit as i can for the fans and for my peeps. And on a side note, for those that think that we leak our music purposely- nope we didnt. (thanks to german hacker kid crew Blacknbeats vibes and other hacker crews lol)

Yo honestly, its a great time to get behind local talent. I wrote the new Jessica Mauboy single “Been Waiting” and produced it. So make sure you peep that joint, she needs your support too.

Hopefully I and The Nufirm can have 2 top 20 singles over the next month with these two releases, and if so… then it will open a lot of Music industry/Radio/TV/Media doors that were recently closed to local RnB/Hip hop over the last few years.

Your support, encouragement, advise, and criticism is vital at this time.

And coming from the inside, if we are going to do anything about Local RnB/Hiphop/Urban music then now is the time!

YEah ya’ll!

Holla

ISRAEL

Much respect for getting on here and addressing everyone dude. Just so you know, the board changed and everyone’s accounts got deleted, so def recreate your account!

Looking forward to hearing the new album. I expected the album to have all the tracks that were leaked by blacknbeatzvibez! It’s unfortunate that gemini was leaked and as a result wasn’t the first single to be released. I haven’t heard one bit of negative feedback about that track.

It’s hard to believe it’s been 4 years since anything’s been dropped. The CD player in my car only plays original cds (no burnt cds) so I’ve been playing all the old stuff i purchased. So many good tracks flew under the radar back then, like the remix of wake up with you (elite fleet, not markia which was also good), and the elite fleet remix of kyle’s beautiful woman. Wtf ever happened to that track!?! I can’t believe it didn’t take off.

Anyway, good luck. Hopefully quality music won’t go unnoticed this time!

Thanks for the post Izz. No, your account isn’t blocked, this is just a new forum, so you have to register again.

Hope the local scene becomes better again, like around the time of 2002-2003 I think from memory. A lot of talent out there, which I’m sure Israel knows of since hes probably worked with about 90% of them!! Looking forward to the album. Wheres our interview??

Single has gone number six on itunes rnb chart thanks to those who have supported it and shout out to all the haters aswell no one from here thankfully, they are across the board, but u know what they say, ur doing something right if someone is hating.

Has the album dropped yet? First time in a long time I’ve had to look for some new tracks and stumbled across his song produced by will.i.am.

Looking forward to hearing the whole album.

album launch this sat @ the formum come bobby ill put u on the door if u want

Thanks man, but I can’t! :(

I’ll be buying the album as soon as it drops though. Look forward to finally hearing it!! Woooo!!!

Just checked the iTunes r&b;charts.
Gemini is number 7 and Hold On Me is number 10.
Good stuff!

Whats the link to the charts?

http://www.apple.com/euro/itunes/charts/top10songs.html

Then choose Top 10 Rnb/Soul songs from the dropdown menu