What happened to XV?

[A Tribe Called Quest ™]

who?

This song along with the remix with Pusha T was huge breh

 

[SnowflakesByTheOZ]

Man, I was wondering about him not too long ago. He was a dope rapper and producer too, he had a couple beat making vids online. As a poster said I think Jus Blaze was taking him under his wing then he just disappeared

 

[Sugar]

.

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

Dude is a lowkey pioneer of the nonthreatening and regular joe J. Cole/Wale/Drake generation... Really he was the black Logic before Logic

Kanye is but he was part of that school

 

[Rell Lauren]

He got signed. His name was out there on social media when he was independent. When the label gave up on him, he gave up on himself.

 

[Carlton Banks]

Wow forgot he existed til this thread

 

[prophecypro]

J Cole kinda took his lane tbh

 

[reserved_one]

On other note what happened to Donnis?

Same thing that happened to XV..but Donnis was over at Atlantic I believe. i particularly thought he was kinda generic imo..didn't really standout.

This makes me think about Laws...the rapper Justice League was pushing to be the next Drake. Remember him? Last I heard he was working at Costco somewhere in Florida.

 

[Uncle Phil 36]

Damn ya'll bringing back with Donnis, XV and Laws

XV was dope, idk what he does, think he lost his passion for music

Donnis was generic so not surprised he never made it.

Laws, he had some joints on that tape of his

 

[Rembrandt]

Dude is a lowkey pioneer of the nonthreatening and regular joe J. Cole/Wale/Drake generation... Really he was the black Logic before Logic

nah. he came after all three of them.

he fell off after being a blog darling. blogs pushed him and rockie fresh a lot as alternatives to those three when they were getting big and they couldn't keep up with that growing fanbase. XV was releasing a song a day for a good min while still being on XXL and other sites, nobody cared.

around that time, so many prominent blogs were trying to be the first to push an artist that I think people just stopped caring.

 

[MikeyC]

Judging by his insta, he still outchea recording n performing

 

[BigMan]

Used to love his music

 

[Uncle Phil 36]

nah. he came after all three of them.

he fell off after being a blog darling. blogs pushed him and rockie fresh a lot as alternatives to those three when they were getting big and they couldn't keep up with that growing fanbase. XV was releasing a song a day for a good min while still being on XXL and other sites, nobody cared.

around that time, so many prominent blogs were trying to be the first to push an artist that I think people just stopped caring.

That's not true, I remember XV when I was in high school around 2006-2007. He finally broke through years later when he was doing the 40 day songs

Rockie Fresh came out more around the time when Drake was coming up around 09-10.

 

[tru_m.a.c]

Wow XV....

 

[Neil Tyson]

That Wichita joint was flames.