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Skinny DeVille, B. Stille,
Ron Clutch, Fish Scales
Southern Rap, Dirty South,
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Alternative
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How To Book NAPPY ROOTS For Your Event!
Nappy Roots
may be available for your next special
event!
 When
you think of Nappy, you think raw and untamed," says Nappy Roots
member Scales, explaining the hip-hop sextet's unique moniker. "But
you also think pure and natural." "That's what we are,"
chimes in partner in rhyme, Skinny DeVille. "Our name signifies our
unwillingness to conform with fads. Once the fads die out, you always
come back to the roots."
 As for the group's roots, they trace back to Western
Kentucky University, 1995. The group was drawn together by a
simple love of music.
While carving out their own unique niche, the group
parlayed their hustling instincts into a number of early entrepreneurial
ventures – including the Nappy Roots T-shirts that quickly became the
hottest-selling item on the WKU campus. However, their biggest venture
came via the local ET's Music record shop (with ET short for ER'Thangs
Tight). It was at ET's, which also doubled as a production studio, where
the six would musically take shape with each Nappy Roots member
bringing their own distinct flavor to the mix.
"You'd think it would be hard to get six guys
moving in the same direction, but that's something more people bring to
our attention than we actually think about ourselves," says Skinny
DeVille. "We just be kickin' it, doing what we doing and not really
thinking about the fact that 'okay, it's six people.' It is a matter of
give and take."
 Of course, the Nappy Roots creative formula has
been paying off for years now, giving rise to an underground following
courted through tantalizingly belligerent flows, intuitive hood
analysis, and PA-melting beats. Created and sold at ET's, the Nappy
Roots 1998 indie album, "Country Fried Cess," flew off the
retail shelves from the word go. In fact, NR garnered such a tremendous
buzz with the album that representatives from Atlantic Records soon came
a-knocking.
They're much happier with the simple things in life.
"We're trying to make people realize that it's good to just be
you," says Skinny DeVille, who, along with his five other mic
cohorts, rhymes about "ballin' on a budget." "That's
essentially what Nappy Roots is about. We're glamorizing being
average."
 In shying from narcissistic, flashy images, "Watermelon,
Chicken & Gritz" stands as the antithesis of the norm. "You
ain't gotta be country to understand it," says Big V. of the
album's title and overarching themes. "Our music is just like those
foods – fresh of the earth, of the soul." Indeed, the Nappy
collective serves up a hearty helping of soul food for thought with
tracks like the pensively absorbing "Peanuts," a
semi-autobiographical account of the group's ongoing struggles. Over the
splatter funk of the Groove Chambers produced "Peanuts," the
listener is hit straight up with introspective lines like "Ain't
about thuggin'/it ain't about hustlin'/it's about seeing your kids go
without strugglin'."
The Scales-composed "Life's a Risk" is
equally as ruminating with such Skinny DeVille rhymes as "On the
verge of losing my mind as well as my last nerve/I served my last dime
standin' on this crack curb." In this way, the group places you on
the frontlines of a future fraught with uncertainty. With production
contributions from the likes of Carlos Broady and label-mate Jazze Pha,
the album possesses an abundance of tracks sure to secure Nappy Roots
among the game's most contemplative thinkers, as it also demonstrates
their readiness to party crunk with the best of them – as they reveal
on the block rattling "N-A-P-P-Y."
However, proving their musical muscle is only part of
the challenge for Nappy Roots – there's also the responsibility
of holding it down for their often over-looked hometurf. "It's like
a plant," says Big V. "If there's no light to shine on
Kentucky, it won't grow." "We do have a burden on our
shoulders because a lot is riding on the success of Nappy Roots,"
adds Ron Clutch. "But we're not worried. Our music speaks for
itself."
"Nappy Roots believes that you are the diamond. You should
shine," said Big V, a Bowling Green native. "Why not you? It's
OK to be a common person. Like if you don't get your jeans dirty today,
which is a Tuesday, then Thursday you can put 'em on again, you know
what I'm saying?
"Just be you, and it's all right to be common, cause there's
more common people in the world than rich, so we cater to the common
man. I don't want to tell people something they can't relate to.
Everybody likes turnip greens and chicken somewhere or another, whether
it's baked, fricasseed, rotisserie or deep-fried.
"So it's that way, you know, just talking in language so that
people know how it is to have pocket lint and beer money, nothing more,
nothing less."
Now that, my brother, is keeping it nappy.
Hit songs include --
- Awnaw
- Po' Folks
- Roun' The Globe
- Headz Up
- Good Day
- Sick And Tired
- Hey Love
Nappy Roots may be available for your next special
event!
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Genre: Rap
Styles:
.Dirty South. / DirtySouth
.Southern Rap. / SouthernRap
.Country-Rap. / CountryRap
.Alternative Rap. / AlternativeRap
Years active:
x90s, x00s, x10s, x20s
1996-present
Formed: ..in Kentucky / formed nKentucky
Formed: ..in Bowling
Green / formed BowlingGreenKY
Formed: in 1996
Based: ..in US
Based: ..in Georgia / based nGeorgia
Based: ..in
Atlanta / based AtlantaGA
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Frequently Asked Questions About How To Hire NAPPY ROOTS for a private party or special event.
HOW TO BOOK NAPPY ROOTS?
(i.e., how to hire NAPPY ROOTS for an event)
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more than 50 years, we have successfully helped official talent buyers
around the world secure quality talent.
We welcome the opportunity to be of service to you. Let's do this the
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Simply click on the "Let's Get Started!" link found on this page.
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Include information about your plans for your event and how taking steps to hire NAPPY ROOTS (or someone similar) might be of special interest.
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HOW MUCH DOES IT COST TO BOOK/HIRE NAPPY ROOTS?
(i.e., what is the booking fee to hire NAPPY ROOTS for an event?)
(i.e., what is NAPPY ROOTS booking fee to perform at an event?)
Official booking fees for NAPPY ROOTS, or any other celebrity, are
determined based on a number of factors and may change at anytime without prior
notice.
Factors influencing pricing vary and may include date, location, type of
event, whether a private party or a public concert, the artist's calendar,
whether the artist is on tour or not, how well tickets are selling at the
artist's concerts, the current demand for the artist's music, market activity, etc.
As you might expect, the more in-demand the artist is, the more buyers are
prepared to pay. Of course, this causes the artist's price to increase as
the artist becomes more popular or decrease when becoming less popular.
Exclusive agents with exclusive representation frequently quote a
range instead of a specific price, since changes can occur at anytime.
Generally, the
artist's manager has a role in the decision to accept any
particular offer from a talent buyer.
To learn the most current artist's pricing, or the estimated
artist's fee for your particular event, simply click on the "Let's Get Started!" link found on this page. Then, send us your request for booking
information.
IS NAPPY ROOTS AVAILABLE TO WORK MY EVENT?
(i.e., what is NAPPY ROOTS's availability?)
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click on the "Let's Get Started!" link found on this page. Then, send us
your request for booking information.
Once we have your event/party information, we will be better able to assist you with putting your entertainment talent booking plans in place as your entertainment consultant. Let's get this done right! We look forward to working with you!
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