COCAINE MUZIK PRESENTS YO GOTTI JANUARY 10TH: THE MIXTAPE!

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There is no denying that Yo Gotti is one of the hottest rappers in the streets, with some of the highest quality music. His street albums make serious noise without a major push, he stays on the road performing paid shows and his fan base has boomed in the past few years. He currently boasts nearly 1.3 million fans on his Facebook page alone.

All of this momentum sets the stage Yo Gottiâs Live From The Kitchen, slated for release in January 2012 via Polo Grounds Music/RCA. This highly anticipated album expands upon the sound made famous with his popular Cocaine Muzik mixtape series. In 2011, Gotti also realized the formal launch of his own Cocaine Muzik Group label, and debuted Zed Zillaâs Rentâs Due mixtape as the first official release.

Live From the Kitchen has a lot to do with where Yo Gotti came from (a hustler from Memphisâ rugged Ridge Crest Apartments) and where heâs trying to go with his music (to a worldwide audience). âItâs a street term, because the kitchen is where you cook it up and where it starts from before you take it to the streets,â explains Yo Gotti. âWeâre relating that to the music and the whole movement of cocaine music. Iâve got the mixtape series Cocaine Muzik, which means that once you put the CD in your music player, youâll get addicted to it just as you would be with cocaine.â

And Yo Gottiâs sonic product is Grade A. His uncanny ability to translate real life situations and experience into memorable songs makes Yo Gotti so potent. Itâs something he developed while listening to the great story raps of Memphis pioneers 8 Ball & MJG. âWhen I listen to music, I donât like it if I canât see it, if I canât imagine it happening,â he says. âIf itâs like that, I canât mess with it.â

Growing up in Memphis, Yo Gotti quickly learned about recognizing reality. When he was in the third grade, Federal agents raided his familyâs residence. His mother and his aunts were indicted and sent to serve 10 to 15 years because they refused to snitch. No wonder he feels as though he was virtually born into street life. âThatâs the bloodline I come from,â he boasts. âIâve got women that are realer than the dudes out here.â

Yo Gotti soon started running with kids five or six years older than him. They called him Yo (short for his given name, Mario) and added the Gotti surname later because of his affinity for doing things kids his age typically didnât do â shoot dice, watch out for the police and recruit his own crew of kids that followed him. Funny thing is, Yo Gotti had no idea about the Gotti crime family at the time. He was just that thorough.

Rather than feel as though his opportunities were limited, Yo Gotti chose to focus on becoming successful. âComing from Memphis, it makes you strong and it makes you grind more,â he says. âOut here, nothing is given to you. Nobody helps you do anything. So if youâre going to get it, youâve got to go get it. Literally. I think thatâs why you donât hear about that many rappers from Memphis like you do from other cities. But it helped me because Iâm not the type of guy that complains. From where I come from, you could be dead or in jail. So I wasnât expecting anyone to do anything for me.â

Thus, Yo Gotti would take advantage of any and every opportunity. Through his brother, Yo Gotti got to interact with and study the business savvy (and lack thereof) of several prominent Memphis rappers. He then used the work of N.W.A, 8 Ball & MJG and Cash Money as a blueprint for his own reality-based raps. As he refined his own music, Yo Gotti took different things from Memphisâ two most successful rap outfits. His goal was to rap about real subject matter like 8Ball & MJG with the energy and intensity of Three 6 Mafia.

Yo Gottiâs self-created buzz in Memphis lead to a deal with TVT Records, home then to Lil Jon, Ying Yang Twins, Pitbull and others. But when the imprint went bankrupt in 2008, he was given three days to come up with $500,000 to buy his contract and gain his independence. Ever the businessman, Yo Gotti paid for his contract himself â only to quickly sign a lucrative deal for himself and his Inevitable Entertainment with Polo Grounds Music/J Records (now RCA).

Despite other offers with more up-front money, Yo Gotti chose to sign with Polo Grounds Music because of the relationship he had with the companyâs owner, Bryan Leach, who had initially signed Yo Gotti to TVT.

âI saw the work Yo Gotti was putting in in the streets of Memphis when I worked with TVT,â Leach says. âI knew that his grind and the high quality of his music made him someone I wanted to continue to do business with. Heâs a street artist with the potential for massive mainstream success, and heâs relentless. Thatâs why I signed him twice.â

With a string of hugely successful major classic mixtapes and street albums â from 2000âs From Da Dope Game 2 Da Rap Game to 2009âs CM2 â Yo Gotti has been able to thrive during a period when many artists are seeing their popularity wane.

âI think what weâve done in the last few years is living proof that if you hustle, you can survive regardless,â he says. âIâve only been putting out mixtapes the last few years and now Iâm the hottest Iâve ever been and have grossed the most money without putting a studio album out. If youâve got good music and youâve got a grind, you make a demand for yourself.â

The proof is Live From The Kitchen.