Ryan Leslie - Bad Ass Mofo written by 4bars
Aight, so thanks to my MAIN MAN KT, criticizing Hov for his lack of compassion and relevance was already covered this week J, but I found something quite inspiring via You Tube, shouts out to my boy JGarrett for putting me on. I’m sure many of you have heard of Ryan Leslie, or at least heard his pretty infectious “Diamond Girl” single on the radio as of late. But I’m pretty sure very few knew this dude scored a 1600 on his SATs and was admitted to Harvard undergrad….at age 15.
He graduated with a double major in government and economics at 19 and honestly is a pretty impressive cat to me cause now he’s making beats, hits, and writing songs (in a f’n suit and shades, hahaha). His career has been one of relative struggle considering his talent (his first album flopped, heavy). But what I thought was really cool was the clip from when he was a teenager in Cali (peep the clip from 1994). Dude still hasn’t really grown into his face or body which was prolly why he could focus on his studies in hs and college (haha) and frankly reminds me of Farnsworth Bentley…with talent. But peep the rest of his You Tube clips, pure talent.
Ryan Leslie Makes "Addiction"
Ryan Leslie in 1994 [ KXTV ]
4 comments:
that 1994 clip is classic!!! but yea dude been putting in production work for a while, especially with bad boy. You can see the Diddy swag in his Diamond Girl video haha. R LES!!!
Does anyone else remember him being in the Bean chillin in that "studio space" that used to be in dudley telling everyone he was going to be a star!?!?!?!?
We called him Pretty Boy... he was soooo Abercrombie. And now look at him... no fro and good to go. Im happy for him.
This is why I fucks with PTM ("no pauze, non of that shit. get off my d***").
4Bars, good shit on putting me on to this cat. Heard the name, but didn't know his unique story.
D-NYCE
God damn!
Addiction is being downloaded right now...
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