Read the interview in it’s entirety here

“Lots of young men stumble upon hip-hop as an outlet for stress, anxiety, difficult times, or just a way to get their story heard. However, NiQ uses Hip-Hop to tell his story in a way uncommon to the hundreds of local rappers today. Listen to NiQs story, in his own words, in an exclusive interview br…”

In the midst of the housing meltdown and beginning of a recession we decided it was time to give the world a free taste of NiQ. We did this tape with DJ Giovanny of Team Midwest Invasion at the beginning of last year, worked through the holidays on it. Fun project to make, and the first mixtape we did. Got tons of good feedback, and even some press on it, basically errbody showed love. Also, shouts to Dame Shepp, Digg, and Irv White for dropping bars for The Kid.

Check it out, download here and over here for torrent fans. Crowd favorites are Okaaay, Stage of Fire, Baby Talk ft Andre3000, Go Hard, City Behind Me, and Nasty Boy

Oh, and webleedhiphop.com just did a post on it, check it out…Shout out to Bucktown and BSeen
over there

Keep an eye out for the new tape, ‘Bang My Sh*t’ Coming soon..

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      NiQ Radio

What is Radiolicious? The Best Mobile Radio Period. Radiolicious is the leading mobile radio application which is available for free on the iPhone, iPod Touch, Blackberry Bold, Blackberry Curve, and the web. Radiolicious will soon be available for all Google Android phones.

How popular is Radiolicious?
Radiolicious currently has an amazing 6,000 AM, FM, Internet, and Artist Only Stations. They currently also have the largest catalogue of artist only stations.

If you want to check it out from a computer – click here

To find the NiQ station, go to Internet / National: Artists Only, Click on the blue stars at the bottom until you see NiQ. Click NiQ, sit back and enjoy.

If you want to hear NiQ in the mix with other Radiolicious tunes, go to Internet / National: Jam Sessions, HipHop/Rap Session, and take a listen.

—-> http://skopemag.com/2010/01/15/music-up-close-with-janie-%E2%80%93-january-2010 <—-

Rocker Album Cover

“My engineer J (VJ OZ), had came back from on tour with MSTRKRFT and was very inspired by his recent trip to L.A. as well as the tour. He wanted to make something for their scene but with a different feel so he asked me to jump over a very basic version of what’s now Rocker.

So I spit a hook I had in my head for a single I wanted to make. I had a good idea the type of beat I wanted it over and Rocker wasn’t it. But J convinced me to spit also spit a verse for it, and next time I came in the studio..about 2 days later, OZ had produced the track up and also auto tuned my hook with some other plug ins as well so it sounded different then the norm. I spit my new verse I’d brought with me and he thought it was stronger than the other verse I had spit the first night, so I listen to the beat for 30 mins and then made what’s now the 1st verse – and the rest was history.

All in all I never envisioned making a track like that and 2nd, never envisioned EVER doing auto tune or any plug ins on my voice. But as you can hear, I think it sounds pretty good.”

Download ‘Rocker’ by NiQ [Produced by VJ OZ] at http://www.shop.niqmusic.com

Look for more from NiQ and VJ OZ soon..