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- Artist : F.L.Y. (Fly Life Yungstaz)
- Album : Jamboree
- Label : Def Jam
- Genre : Rap
- Street date : 2009-00-00
- Quality : 189 kbps / 44.1kHz / Joint Stereo
- Encoder : Lame 3.97 -V2 --vbr-new
- Size : 72.17 MB
- Time : 50:33 min
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- 1. Jamboree 2:35
- 2. Bands 4:06
- 3. Swag Surfin' 4:09
- 4. Party Time (Feat. Band Geakz) 4:57
- 5. Mr. Lenox (Feat. Young Dro) 5:31
- 6. Gotta Be 4:28
- 7. Across The Globe (Feat. Sammie) 3:38
- 8. Mounted Up 4:39
- 9. Prada Walkin' (Feat. Band Geakz) 3:04
- 10. Sauced Up 3:28
- 11. Better Days (Feat. Dear Jayne) 5:45
- 12. Stop Hatin 09 4:13
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- Although many artists ride the wave of success, only a few stay on top.
- Luckily for the Fast Life Youngstaz a.k.a. F.L.Y., they have sailed straight
- to stardom. Hailing from Stone Mountain, GA, the three members of Def Jam's
- newest hip-hop group have made a tremendous splash all over the country with
- their dance-driven smash hit "Swag Surfin'." "If you go on Youtube and type
- in `Swag Surfin'' you'll see videos of people inside clubs going from side to
- side in a wavy motion, surfin,'" says 21 year-old rapper Mook, who helped pen
- the hit with fellow group members Myko McFly, 20 and Vee, 22. "We got bands,
- drill teams and college basketball teams playing it before they run out for
- their games. The Atlanta Hawks come out to `Swag Surfin'' now too. It's just
- a whole buzz we have that's building up."
- After releasing "Swag Surfin'" in the late summer of 2008, the Fast Life
- Youngstaz melodic sing-song style started to burn like wildfire throughout
- the Southern United States. It didn't take long before Def Jam president L.A.
- Reid caught wind of the fresh new group and invited the guys to perform live
- for him in New York City. Although the guys had only been a group for close
- to two years, they were already performed numerous times in and around
- Atlanta.
- "It was like six in the afternoon on January 20th of this year and our
- manager Prophet called us and he was like, `We're going to New York
- tonight,'" remembers Myko. "So we flew in that night and the next morning we
- got up, went shopping and then we did a showcase for L.A. Reid around three
- o'clock." "We actually performed the whole show that we do," adds Mook. "Once
- "Swag Surfin'" dropped that was it, we pretty much could have walked out of
- the office but we didn't. We made sure we gave L.A. Reid the best show he'd
- ever seen."
- F.L.Y. signed their deal with Def Jam later that week. Since securing their
- spot on hip-hop's most revered label, they have been hard at work recording
- their debut album, JAMBOREE. "We pretty much work with a lot of new up and
- coming producers," says Mook. "We make feel good music because, you know,
- it's a recession and everybody's down but we're bringing the party back."
- JAMBOREE is a spirited ride through the F.L.Y. guys' everyday life. Songs
- like "Across The Globe" let listeners in on what it's like to live life in
- the fast lane. "'Across the Globe' is for the ladies," says Vee. "It's pretty
- much telling that one girl that we've been meeting a lot of girls and going
- to a lot of different cities but when we come home, she's the only one that
- matters."
- On the KE produced track "Bands," F.L.Y. play off the kinetic energy of
- collegiate halftime shows. "The beat itself sounds like you're in the band
- room at a HBCU football game," says Mook. "The title `Bands' actually has
- about three or four different meanings that we're playing off of in the
- song."
- With a supreme sense of style, F.L.Y. are just as comfortable in the mall as
- they are in the studio. On "Mr. Lennox" Myko, Mook and Vee rap about their
- shopping exploits while simultaneously raising the fashion bar. "We're really
- trendsetters," says Vee. "We dress like we're about to play golf in Polo and
- Lacoste with a lot of bright colors. Whatever we do somebody else is going to
- dig it and do the same thing."
- In an effort to quiet any would be skeptics, F.L.Y. recorded "Stop Hatin'
- `09" which details their road to success and their unique take on down-South
- hip-hop. "We're versatile," says Myko. "We can pretty much adapt to any style
- of music." "In a lot of our songs there's a lot of harmonizing and real
- melodic flows with different types of word play and metaphors," adds Mook.
- "We like to have fun on our songs. You're going to want to dance every time
- you hear a FLY record."
- Armed with their debut album JAMBOREE, F.L.Y. are ready to take everyone
- who's listening on a ride. "I believe the rest of the country will catch on
- to the F.L.Y. movement because it's like a wave," says Vee. "And you don't
- want to be left out or you'll drown."
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