NiQ Music

Shout out to NVus and Flypaper, check out my song “Nasty Boy” off my ‘S.E.C. The Mixtape’, stream or download for free at the link below.

http://www.flypaperblog.com/2010/02/25/fly-tunes-playlist-22510-downloads/

Photo by Fred Squillante for The Columbus Dispatch. Clothing by Dope Couture

A Local Limelight interview with The Kid. here

Clothing by Dope Couture.

Shout out to Parris Payden, aka P the Professional, Irv White, Fred and Kevin from the Dispatch, and PR for getting this done.

Locals, don’t forget, get to Skully’s before 11
pm Friday to catch his live performance at the Chip show. Mention NiQ at the door to be entered to win a Dope Couture prize pack.

Check our Events page for more details, to purchase advance tickets[<1 hr left], or to RSVP here

Wanted to do a drop for the 1 yr anniversary of ‘SEC:The Mixtape’

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..

Want to hear some NiQ on the go? Download Radiolicious for the Blackberry or iPhone and check out the brand new NiQ Radio.

      click here

      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.

Thanks to Mike and Janie from Skopemag, for this short
introduction to ya boy NiQ and the new Single ‘Rocker’. Check it at the link
below.

—-> 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..

Rocker Album Cover

“I was currently producing another project where I only had the capacity to be an engineer and knew that I was only using a fraction of my talents by merely twisting knobs, so I wanted to compose something of my own free will.
I had mentioned to a few different rappers I was working with that I wanted to produce a song influenced by the club music I was into at the time: LMFAO, Pitbull, MSTRKRFT, Justice, and the rock and roll I have always listened to.
So me and NiQ hooked up at the Blue Moon one night and he had a hook he mentioned sometime before that needed a beat. Basically we just killed it within 90 minutes, I was trying to play electro synth on the keyboard but I couldn’t get the tone I wanted so I just stepped up to the mic and did the sound with my voice.
That turned out to be the actual sample in the final version of the song. Listening to electro sometimes seems like rock to me and very easy to translate to the guitar with sorta the same feel, so I just played what fit and stayed away from overly complicated riffs or solos to keep in the pocket.
I took a long time to mix on this, just redoing and tweaking things till them fell into place, we got it mastered in NYC at Sterling Sound by Will Quinnell a few times to get the right aggressiveness, and all the hard work had finally come together into one perfect single. ”

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

Look for more from NiQ and VJ OZ soon..

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Check out the Urb Review of NiQ’s track ‘HNIC’

Reviewed by Adam Figman

  It’s the classic way to enter to the rap game. Get a job as a mortgage salesman, then lose it due to a recession and a collapsing housing market, then hit the studio. OK, maybe it’s not the standard way of entering hip-hop, but there’s very little that’s standard about NiQ. Abbreviating the term “unique” in his stage name, the Columbus, Ohio native makes both club-bumping tunes that will have you ready to party and mind-stimulating jams that may cause you to sit down and ponder a little. This versatility is one of the many reasons his name is no coincidence. Peep “HNIC” for the proof.

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