Gremlins 2: The New Batch

I Love Hip-Hop=> my 1st love. I love female emcee's. I love old school hip-hop. I love my ratchet songs.

R&B => 2nd love. I love the slow songs that make me cry or remember what was, wonder about what might have been. I love how I can relate to a lot of the songs.

Rock/Indie/Alternative => 3rd love. Just love it.

Da Floataz is an American rap duo made up of Indeux Shabazz and Rappin’ Mitch a/k/a GRANDE MITCHO. The collective grew up in Charlotte, NC during the early 1990’s. Their rebellious sound, a mix of southern trap, crunk and soul was influenced and inspired by a wide range of artists and creators, including T.I., Rick Ross, J. Cole, Scarface and 2Pac. The duo both have an assortment of solo projects and have gained local recognition throughout their hometown of Charlotte, however it wasn’t until late 2020 that they decided to link up for their first project, Drop Tha Addy, which included feature artist Westside Ree. This album was initially slated to be a one time offering. However, based on the regional success of the project, which landed highly favorable reviews from local taste makers, this would be the indicator that a collaborative project should become more. With a host of indie shows, events and recording sessions throughout the spring/summer of 2021 the soundscape of Da Floataz had been born.

If being the youngest of four siblings growing up on the Westside of Charlotte wasn’t tough enough, coming up in a house full of hustlers and gang bangers certainly was added weight to an already bending bench bar.  Troubling for some, but this was life for Ray Wilson, known to his friends as “Dubble Up”, or simply “Dub”, for his impressive knack of making ones quickly turn into twos, fours into eights and tens into twenties, in an abundance of ways.  This was a hustler’s mentality, a family trait that he had been birth into its occupancy.  While hustling any and every illicit attribute that his neighborhood had to offer he had acquired a certain sense of purchasing virtually two of everything identical to one another, which is persuasively the rationality behind why other friends, who equally hustled in his neighborhood, called him “Ray Dubz” as he entered into his teenager years.  
With the unquenchable thirst for gain, his hustling ideology only increased, going from 100 to 180, matching speeds only designed to run on the Autobahn.  His gambling with chance raced him quickly to trouble with the law.  After being arrested on numerous occasions, 6 CCWs (carrying concealed weapon), dope charges, assault, and his last being in 2010 for a probation violation, he vowed to never give them another day of his life risking his freedom again.  
While he always been a fan of the gangster tales told by such West Coast Hip-Hop artists as Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg, N.W.A. and Mack 10, mostly because those tales were ones that he could relate to by watching his own family and surroundings, when asked, “what turned you on to music” he simply stated that: “My parents use to party to older records such as BB King, George Clinton and my cousins used to listening to G’ Funk, those old Dr. Dre and Snoop joints”.  However being that he was from the south he always took a strong liking to artists that told similar stories of defiance and rebelliousness with a slang and dialect that mirrored that of his own, such as artists like Project Pat and T.I.  He wrote rhymes as a child, developing better in the skill set of rhyming, and matching his thoughts to his life as a teenager.  Eventually after that last incident with the law he’d convinced himself to fully commit himself to his craft of storytelling as an adult.   
Linking up with one of Charlotte hottest producer, Curt Roca, he had begun an endless rampage of flexing on every hot rap song of current day and of yesteryears that he deemed necessary to help carve out his name on the throat of this game.  Entitling his mixtape projects Flexico Burress Volume 1, Ray Dubz hope is to put his city of Charlotte on the forefront of the rap game by cooking of gangsta chronicles that are reminiscent of the ones he had came into this culture fixated upon and had lived.