This CD represents the accomplishment of MACKIN' ROB as a Hip Hop Artist/College Student. I graduated from Portland Community College with an Associates of Arts degree in Business Administration. So my Music is a way to express my success to the WORLD.

18 MP3 Songs
HIP-HOP/RAP: Rap, HIP-HOP/RAP: Street Rap

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MACKINâROB

Let the Rhythm take you, âMusic makes me Highâ! Thatâs Mackinâ Robâs musical promise to you as listeners. Just play his music grooves and in due time he will make you move. Mackinâ Rob wants to rekindle the magic that was once associated with Hip Hop. This philosophy is evident when he talks of the musical influences of his career: Tupac Shakur, Notorious BIG, and Jay-Z all have such passion in their music. They make you feel what their rapping. Rob has studied his mentors well, he is a talented and intriguing young rapper whose showmanship reaches out and pulls you on stage with him. He combines his talent and mesmerizing good looks to make you feel he is only rapping to you ladies, causing you to experience the joy and pain he is rapping about. His smooth and sensitive approach to positive songs will defiantly become his trademark.
Born in Great Falls Montana, and raised in Portland Oregon Rob discovered his rapping talent harmonizing with some neighborhood friends on the porch. Eventually he enters the Portland Apollo and won first place. By 1995 he was with Game Related Music in which he recorded his first single entitled âRide Wit Meâ! Later, Mackinâ Robâs career then took a unique turn and he begin recording music for a local record label entitled Greenleaf Entertainment, in which the group âRose City Playaz Clubâ was formed. The group released a CD in 1997 entitled âThe Rose City Playaz Clubâ volume 1. You know them for the ever so popular âColla Poppinâ! Mackinâ Rob and label mate Brotha Luv in 2000 then went on to release another CD on Greenleaf Entertainment entitled âOregonizedâ! As one of the head rappers Mackinâ Robâs opened up for performers such as Snoop Dogg, Dogg Pound, Bad Ass, Too $hort, E-40, The Luniz, 3XKrazy, Richie Rich, the late Great OLD-Dirty Bastard, The Roots, Talib Kweli, Common, Ying Yang Twins, Red Man & Method Men, Nelly, Foxy Brown , Donell Jones ,112, and Ginuwine.
Mackinâ Rob has also appeared on the âKeep it realâ show hosted by Kenny Warren, the North East Spectrum show hosted by Joe Bean Keller and he has done several commercials, fashion shows, various local television, and cable shows in the greater Portland area. Mackinâ Rob not only raps the music but he writes it too, he feels that makes him a double threat to the industry. In 2003 Rob graduated from Portland Community College with an Associates of Arts degree in Business Administration. In 2005 Rob then graduated from Portland State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing & Advertising. With two degrees under his belt Rob set out to release his highly anticipated long awaited double solo albumsâ under his new record label UPâNORTH Records/Greenleaf Entertainment entitled âAssociates of Artzâ & âBachelor of Scienceâ. He also plans to release his second Compilation project in early 2008 entitled âRose City Playaz Club Volume 2â. Mackinâ Rob is an entertainer who will be around for a long time to come and he promises never to let go, âSo let the Rhythm take youâ!