Niceguy The Illian

Donovan Christiaan Doorson / With, better known by his stage name Niceguy The ILLIAN, is an unsigned rapper/actor from Amsterdam (The Netherlands).
He was born on the 12th. Of October 1990 in Surinam and moved to the Netherlands at a age of 9
His music career started when he had a age of 14 as a drummer in a marching band called: Obsession.
His biggest dream was to become famous, but rap wasn’t on the first place
he wanted to be famous as a DJ or Actor
until his older cousin asked him to do a chorus on one of his songs.
And as told, LiL-D (his first rap name) did what he was asked.
While doing his thing, his cousin saw that he was well talented and asked him to make some more songs with him,
and that’s how he discovered his passion in the English rap music.
He started to write his own English rap lyrics on instrumentals.
His first mixtape ‘Hiker’ has been released in 2008, and was hosted and mixed by a Slip ‘n Slide Dj called ‘Dj Chuck Clasik’. (At that time his stage name was D-Nice)
In 2009 he recorded his first Videoclip which was a remix to Jeremih’s ‘Birthday sex’.
When one of his video’s went online on the number 1 urban/hiphopsite worldstarhiphop,
people started to get to know more about him.

In 2010 he got introduced to a music label called: Wrekonize, and they wanted to invite this upcoming artist to their ‘team’.
Niceguy already had contact with one of the members of the music label, and he actually told his dad (‘label owner’ Dj-Chippie) about him, and so he connected his dad with Niceguy.
-On May28th The label organized a official Release party for Niceguy The ILLIAN
That was the official release of his first single *Fresh Dress On & My Blackberry With Me!*
On June 24th. The video of his single went online on WSHH (worldstarhiphop),
With more than 10.000 views within two days
-Because of the bad contacts between him and the label, he decided to go his own way again.
He ended the year 2010 with another video on worlds number 1 hiphop site WSHH!
This time he did a studio performance on ‘Dirtymoney’P-Diddy’s Hello Goodmorning.
With more than 10.000 views in the first two days, Niceguy The ILLIAN was more than ready to make a great beginning in 2011.
After the release of the #HelloGoodmorning video, his fanbase started to grow,
people started to recognize him as that dude from Amsterdam that came on worldstar.
For his 2nd mixtape ‘The Cremation’ he contacted ‘DJ Choz’ from MaybachMusicGroup.
The Cremation mixtape has been released in august 2011.

His 3th. Mixtape ‘The Cremation vol.2’ is about to drop in the summer of 2012.
The first single ‘Of course they go’n hate’ of his debute album ‘Bright Future’ is online on i-Tunes & the video is online on youtube.
-The album will come out in 2012. #BrightFuture.

Links:

Twitter.com/MrNiceguyMusic
Facebook.com/NiceguyTheILLIAN
www.youtube.com/officialmrniceguy

Dope D.O.D.

Dope D.O.D. is a hip hop crew from the Netherlands. After releasing their first internet album Fountain of Death in 2008, accompanied by the 2 video’s “Double Jeopardy” and “Insane”, their new video “What Happened” Premiered the 1st of January 2011 on Vidzone Playstation 3, worldwide and got over 3,000,000 views on youtube within 7 months, now they are about to hit the world with their debut album “Branded” dropping Sept. 2011. Collaborating with the likes of Sean Price and Simon Roofless backed by production from some of the hottest producers in the dutch underground (Including P the Dope D.O.D. crew) you can expect nothing but the real raw.

The Crew consists of mc’s: Dopey Rotten, Skits Vicious and Jay Reaper. Peter Chimunya is their producer. Ghosttown (Groningen) is where they came together but they all have international roots from Africa to England. The music they make is inspired by the mid 90′s hardcore hip hop from America. It has elements of European electronic styles like dustep and drum and bass mixed into the beats. With revolutionary video’s, outlandish lyrical subject matter combined with a lot of witty punch lines and cartoonish violence, they are the next evolution of rap music.

Skits Vicious: “We have the same vision but different rap styles, we throw these together and that creates the Dope D.O.D. sound. Its definitely inspired by those that came before us, but we are not trying to recycle what has already been done. Being original with your sound, takes you back to the days when rappers had to have their own unique style to be respected as lyricists. This is the frame of mind Dope D.O.D. is in. Building on what paved the road for them and bringing a new style to the table.

Aside from the music they have a visual arts team, that does photography, video and paintings. Playing a major part in the creation of the Dope D.O.D. universe. These are the following 4 individual artists: Walker Pachler, Andres Fouche, Anton v/d Linden and Ruben v/d Linden. Each of them has a quality of their own, sometimes working together or delivering solo work for the crew. After taking it to new heights with their latest release, they are currently working with Dope D.O.D. on a new up coming video. Its a creative family that works together as one.

So far Dope D.O.D. participated in the grotto Prijs Van Nederland 2009 a national competition in which they ended 3rd place. The final was held in Amsterdam Paradiso. After working on Branded in 2010, they have a new list of shows coming up. Most note worthy would be their place in the line up at Bridging the gap festival including Wu Tang Clan, Masta Ace, Sean Price, Smiff n Wessun, Dead Prez and more. Receiving lots of love from county’s outside of the Netherlands, it wont be long until they start doing shows abroad.

Discography

Date Title Format Physical / Digital
01-11-2009 Rain Of Terror EP Digital Only
30-01-2009 What Happened Single Digital Only
30-01-2009 Redrum Single Digital Only
12-04-2011 Psychosis ft. Sean Price Single Digital Only
24-06-2011 The Evil EP EP Physical + Digital Only
23-09-2011 Branded Album Physical + Digital Only

Links

https://twitter.com/dopedod
http://www.youtube.com/dopedod
http://www.facebook.com/dopedoddopedod

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