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Mario Mims (born May 19, 1981), better known by his stage name Yo Gotti, is a southern rapper from the northern side of Memphis, Tennessee who was previously known as Lil Yo.

Music career[link]

Independent Albums[link]

Yo Gotti released a string of independent albums. From Da Dope Game 2 Da Rap Game (2000),Self-Explanatory (2001), Life (2003) and Back 2 da Basics (2006) Yo Gotti became very well known in Memphis after the release of his album Life. The song "Dirty South Soldiers" featuring Lil Jon propelled Gotti into the higher ranks of Memphis rappers. The album Back 2 da Basics had even more success. The singles "I Got 'Em", "Full Time", "Shawty", & "Gangsta Party" featuring 8Ball & MJG solidified his status as one of the top rappers from the city.

[edit] Live from the Kitchen (2009-2012)

Yo Gotti's first studio album is called Live From The Kitchen. The album's original first single was titled ""5 Star"" and it was released on May 20, 2009. The single peaked at 79 on the Hot 100, 19 on U.S R&B and 11 on U.S Rap. "Women Lie, Men Lie" was the second official single released December 11, 2009. The song peaked at 81 on 100, 22 on the U.S R&B and 12 on the U.S Rap. "Look In the Mirror" was the third single released 7 months after his second single on July 27, 2010. The song peaked at 97 on the U.S R&B chart "For the Hood" featured rapper Gucci Mane it was released on October 1, 2010 and charted at 86 on the U.S R&B chart. "We Can Get It On" was released May 10, 2011, and the single featured R&B singer Ciara. It peaked at 40 on the U.S R&B Chart. "Single" was released on August 5, 2011. This song is said to be the first "official" single off the album, all the others would be cut from the album. The second single will be a song with rapper Drake, entitled by "All About Mine", produced by Giarad Fleetwood.

Discography[link]

Studio albums

• 2012: Live from the Kitchen

Independent albums

• 2000: From Da Dope Game 2 Da Rap Game
• 2001: Self-Explanatory
• 2003: Life
• 2006: Back 2 da Basics

Mixtapes

• 2006: Full Time Hustlin'
• 2006: I Told U So (Gangsta Grillz)
• 2008: Cocaine Muzik
• 2009: CM2
• 2009: Cocaine Muzik 3
• 2010: Cocaine Muzik 4.5 (Da Documentary)
• 2010: CM5 (White Friday)
• 2011: CM6 (Gangster Of The Year)
• 2011: January 10th (The Mixtape)

Collaboration mixtapes

• 2008: Definition of a G (with Gucci Mane)
• 2010: Cocaine Muzik 4 (with Zedzilla)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Yo Gotti Official Site
• Yo Gotti RCA Label Site
• Yo Gotti | Features Artist | Global Hit Music
• Behind the Scenes, Yo Gotti, "Women Lie, Men Lie" in Los Angeles, February 4, 2010 by Streetgangs.com
• Yo Gotti Interview, Jan 18, 2010
• Non-commercial Yo Gotti mixtapes

AJ Rafael (born March 12, 1989^[1]) is a Filipino American musician and Internet celebrity. He is best known for his original songs such as I Just Want You and We Could Happen. Some of his influences include Sara Bareilles, Jason Mraz, MYMP, The Beatles, John Legend, and Bob Marley.^[1].

Career/Life[link]

AJ started posting on YouTube in 2006, and has since gotten over 300,000 subscribers and over 73,000,000 hits. ^[3][4] In 2011, he was nominated to be a part of Billboard's Battle of the Bands alongside Gentlemen Hall, Otenki, Hotels, Lightning Love (band), and Side by Side.^[5][6]

Music Speaks[link]

Music Speaks was started in 2006 when looking for a charity to donate to for his concert. Since his nephew, Nathan, has autism, he decided to donate to Autism Speaks.^[7] This concert utilizes the gifts of music and dance to inspire those fortunate enough to be born without autism to speak out for those who were, by being aware of their condition and taking action towards improving their living conditions and perhaps even uncovering the mystery behind its cause.^[8] Some of the previous performers for these concerts include:^[1][9]

• Jennifer Chung
• Quest Crew
• JR Aquino
• Mike Isberto
• Chris J. Limjuco

Discography[link]

AJ's full-length album, Red Roses, was released on June 7, 2011.^[6] One of his songs, "Emma Watson", is about his eponymous celebrity crush.^[10]

Juicebox EP[link]

[edit] Red Roses^[11][12]

Singles[link]

• 2009: "My Soldier"
• 2009: "I Just Want You"
• 2011: "We Could Happen"
• 2011: "Without You"

References[link]

External links[link]

• AJ Rafael's channel on YouTube
• AJ Rafael on Facebook
• AJ Rafael on Twitter
• AJ Rafael on Myspace

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Wong Fu Productions
Wesley Chan, Philip Wang, and Ted Fu introduce their feature length film A Moment with You during a 2006 screening event at Cornell University.
Born	Wesley Chan (陳德偉[1]) (1984-04-27) April 27, 1984 (age 28) Ted Fu (傅大誠[1]) (1981-10-26) October 26, 1981 (age 30)[2] Philip Wang (王振翔[1]) (1984-10-28) October 28, 1984 (age 27)
Residence	Los Angeles, California
Alma mater	University of California, San Diego
Years active	2001–present
Website
http://www.wongfuproductions.com/

Wong Fu Productions^{[Note 1]} is a Chinese American^[1] filmmaking group composed of Wesley Chan (born April 27, 1984), Ted Fu (born October 26, 1981), and Philip Wang (born October 28, 1984).^[3][4] The trio met at the University of California, San Diego in 2004 and produced a number of music videos and short films released on their website and later YouTube before establishing a professional media company, Sketchbook Media, after their graduation. Their works have been featured at a number of national and international film festivals, including the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, San Diego Asian Film Festival and the Cannes Film Festival.

As of April 2012, Wong Fu Productions' YouTube channel has over 1,100,000 subscribers and over 160 million upload views. ^[5]

History[link]

According to Philip Wang, Wong Fu Productions was unofficially established in 2001 during his high school junior year. Wang mainly utilized his family's digital camcorder to film school projects in collaboration with classmates.^[6] In his first year as an undeclared freshman at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), Wang and his friends released a music video of Justin Timberlake's song "Señorita".^[7] It was the first music video produced by Wang and, although he did not actively promote it, the video was quickly circulated among other fellow college students.^[8] The video was circulated in its original computer file format because it was released prior to the advent of the video sharing website YouTube.^[9]

In 2004, Wang met classmates Wesley Chan (graduated from Mills High School in 2002) and Ted Fu through a school production, and the trio began working on small scale projects in their spare time and for class assignments.^[10] They did not originally consider filmmaking as a career when they entered university; Chan explored an interest in animation, Fu had been a student in electrical engineering and Wang considered a career in economics.^[11] After graduation in 2006, the three moved to the Los Angeles area and continued their venture under the professional name Sketchbook Media.^[4][11]

After approximately five years of hard work, Wong Fu Productions finally hit 1 million subscribers in 2011. The members, Phil Wang, Ted Fu and Wes Chan commemorated this achievement with a special video. During this 12-minute short, many familiar faces appear, including Ryan Higa, Dominic Sandoval (D-Trix), Kevin Wu (KevJumba), Freddie Wong, Brandon Laatsch, Joe Penna (MysteryGuitarMan) and the Fung Brothers.^[12]

Notable productions[link]

If at the end of the day there's someone out there who has a better day because of us, then we've succeeded.

—Wong Fu Productions motto^[10]

Wong Fu Productions was initially known for its independent music videos of contemporary hit songs such as Maroon 5's "Sunday Morning" and Jason Mraz's "I'm Yours".^[13] Wong Fu released its first major short film called Yellow Fever on January 25, 2006.^[14] The film, which satirized the topic of interracial dating between Asian Americans and White Americans, brought Wong Fu into recognition among many college students in the United States.^[8]

A Moment with You, the group's first feature-length film, premiered on June 3, 2006, at their alma mater.^[15] It was also screened at the San Diego Asian Film Festival on October 18, 2006. The film revolves around two neighbors who share similar romantic situations, in which one person in each relationship cannot let go of his or her past.^[16] "A Moment with You" was promoted through a screening tour at high schools and universities around the United States and Canada.^[8] In a review for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's student newspaper The Tech, Tina Ro wrote, "Despite its large Asian fan base, Wongfu's [sic] movie has a cast of equal numbers of Asians and Caucasians. Furthermore, all the characters were shaped by their own characteristics rather than by their race, a refreshing concept for a movie."^[17] According to The Daily Texan's Katherine Fan, A Moment with You featured a "more mature, introspective mood than their previous work."^[8]

Following the success of A Moment with You, Wong Fu was approached to create a second film called Sleep Shift. However, the project was abandoned after producers disagreed with casting an Asian male in the film's lead role.^[18] Since the end of its first tour, Wong Fu has created music videos for rising artists and continued producing short films.^[9] The group's merchandise line, which included original T-shirt designs, was launched in conjunction with the 2007 film Just a Nice Guy.^[19] The short film The Spare was featured at the 2008 San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival,^[20] and two additional short films—At Musing's End and A Peace of Home—were shown at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival Short Films Corner.^[21] In September 2009, Wong Fu released the short film Poser!, a mockumentary on the history of the peace sign.^[22] As of November 2009, Wong Fu Productions has created more than 130 short films and music videos.^[18] Because the group does not require a fee to view its films, it gains a salary from being a YouTube partner, draws profits from merchandise sales, public speaking on university campuses, and music video production for rising Asian American artists.^[4]

On Sept 7, 2011, Wong Fu Productions announced that they have been hired by multiplatinum Taiwanese pop singer Wang Leehom to direct his upcoming music video "Still In Love With You".^[23]

International Secret Agents[link]

In the addition to the group's filmmaking career, Wong Fu Productions has organized a series of multidisciplinary concerts in California. The concert series, International Secret Agents (ISA), featured musical disciplines from urban dance to deejaying with Asian American guest artists such as Far East Movement. Additional guest performances included America's Best Dance Crew champions Quest Crew and Poreotics and Ryan Higa aka Nigahiga and Kevin Wu aka KevJumba and Jay Park and singers–songwriters David Choi and Kina Grannis.^[24] According to Chinese American rapper Jin, "ISA is about self-branding and viral marketing — using YouTube, MySpace, Facebook, and the Internet to promote yourself as an artist." He asserted, "We as artists are aware of this and make ourselves available [on these mediums]."^[25] Far East Movement member Virman Coquia said, "We want to give back to the community to show that Asians can have an influence today in the U.S." Additionally, Coquia believed that ISA presented the opportunity to present Asian American talent as cool and mainstream.^[24]

The first ISA concert was held in September 2008 at the San Gabriel Mission Playhouse in Los Angeles.^[26] A second concert was held in March 2009 at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, and both events were attended by a sold-out crowd.^[25] The concert returned to Los Angeles in September 2009 and was sponsored by department store J. C. Penney.^[21] In 2010, ISA was held in New York City for the first time. Wong Fu has also expressed interest in holding future ISA concerts in Washington, D.C. They also had another ISA concert in Los Angeles on September 5.^[18] Playing up the name "International Secret Agents," The LA leg of the 2010 ISA Concert was filled with surprises as secret guests like Nick Cannon showed up to join the performers on stage.^[27]

Impact[link]

Short films released by Wong Fu Productions have received, cumulatively, millions of views, and the group has several thousand fans.^[4] According to Wang, the group's website received 5,000 daily hits in 2009. He expected the audience size to grow "as online video becomes part of everyday life for the up-and-coming generation of movie-watchers" but believed that movie theaters will not become obsolete.^[28] University of Southern California digital media expert David Wertheimer also believed that "Wong Fu's use of new media to tell their community stories and build a business is the wave of the future."^[4] The group's success has allowed for growth in the popularity of Asian American comedians who promote themselves primarily through YouTube, such as Kevin Wu (KevJumba), Ryan Higa (Nigahiga), Christine Gambito (HappySlip), and David Choi.^[29] Although grateful for the group's success and popularity, Wang said, "Some people who go to film school, they'll make something great but it's only seen by like, two hundred people [...] It's kind of not fair."^[13]

In a feature by CNN, newscaster Ted Rowlands reported that Wong Fu's primary audience were "young Asian Americans who often can't find accurate depictions of themselves in mainstream media".^[4] Through its films, Wong Fu Productions hoped to break the different stereotypes of Asian Americans.

While we may not bring up [Asian Pacific American] issues in our work, we are not afraid to show that we are Asian. This is an issue in itself that we believe we're tackling head on. We want to show that APAs are just normal people, and shouldn't be stereotyped in the media and should have proper representation. We don't all do martial arts or have accents. We have stories that most everyone can relate to as human beings. We really want to show that our work and voice should and can be seen colorblind. The same way African Americans can now be accepted in the mainstream without a second guess, that's what we hope will someday be the case for APAs.

—Wong Fu Productions, Pacific Citizen^[9]

Despite this goal, Wong Fu's films were inspired by the members' life experiences rather than racial experiences. The group also does not promote political messages through their works but, rather, raises "many APA issues that we feel would fit our brand and image."^[9] They are often considered role models for Asian Americans aspiring to enter the entertainment industry.^[13] In response to this, group member Ted Fu said, "We actually didn't set out to be the 'heroes' of Asian Americans. It just happened by accident. But now that we're given this huge responsibility, almost, I feel like it's our duty to take it seriously."^[18] Wong Fu presented "one of the most antipicated workshops" on sustaining an independent production company at the 2008 Intercollegiate Taiwanese American Students Association Midwest Conference.^[30] They were also the keynote speakers at the Intercollegiate Taiwanese American Students Association 2010 West Coast Conference, which was hosted at their alma mater, UC San Diego.

In February 2012, the boys (Phil & Wes) flew over to Malaysia from Los Angeles for the first leg of their Southeast Asia Tour, meeting and greeting over 1000 fans. ^[31]They were also aired LIVE on HITZ fm, Malaysia's leading English-language station.^[32]

Notes[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Wong Fu Productions official website
• Wong Fu Store
• Wong Fu Productions's channel on YouTube
• Sketchbook Media official website
• [1] official interview