This is a recording of the VH1 Hip Hop Honors Pre Party which featured performances from: Mickey Factz, Skyzoo, Torae, XV, and J. Cole. The video was filmed for Subconscious Threads Clothing at Club Touch in New York City.

I had to put question marks around this one because I'm not exactly sure if GLC and Bun B. are going to be on the final version of the remix. All we know, so far, is that verses from GLC and Bun B. were recorded for the much anticipated Mirrors Edge Remix. Will these verse make it on to the final cut of the remix… I guess we'll have to wait and see…

Will XV get signed before 2010? Of course he will! After releasing one of the most anticipated mixtapes of 2009 "Everybody's Nobody", and receiving 2500 downloads in under 12 hours, he has proven to all his critics that he is one of the best unsigned in the world. Not just in Kansas… in the world. Not just is America… in the world.

His new management team, Noizy Cricket, has all of the connections and promotional power that XV will need in order to create a record label bidding war. XV recently stated on his twitter that he got a call from Interscope Records (the record label that signed Noizy Cricket's other artist, Charles Hamilton), and in his recent interview with Karen Civil he mentioned that he's been getting a lot of support from record label executives. He's been featured on Hot 97, A-List Radio… heck, the college radio stations are still spinning tracks from his previous album"Complex", which I promoted for him back in 2007. He's now a featured artist on myspace music, and he'll most likely be on the cover of XXL's 10 freshmen of 2010 magazine in a few months. He is absolutely bound to get picked up by a major label, (most likely from the Universal Music Group family, unless he gets an offer from Roc Nation.). If XV isn't signed by 2010, I'll change my name to Mary Poppins.

UPDATED 8/13/2009

This is what happens when multifaceted rappers have way too much time on their hands. Here’s the back story: In 2008, XXL made a magazine cover documenting the top ten rising starts in hip-hop, "The Top Ten 09 Freshmen", which included, Mickey Factz, Charles Hamilton, Asher Roth, Blu, Wale and more… Strangely XXL made the bold decision to put Ace Hood on the list instead of XV, and many hip-hop fans weren't too happy about it, including me. People began flooding XXL's blog site asking questions like "Where's XV?" "Where's Drake?". Most of the artists on the list are connected to each other by one or two degrees of separation and they were all major players in the internet rap movement except for Mr. Hood. Ace Hood is simply part of different scene; he can't be compared to "blog rappers" or anyone that's associated with the new hipster rap genre. I like Ace, but personally I'd rather see him compared to Plies, or Gucci Mane - major label, flashy southern rappers that are getting nation-wide commercial airplay.
What if Ace Hood wasn't on the cover? Who should have taken his place? XV? Drake? Skyzoo? Maybe Skyzoo didn't make the list because he's an "underground rapper" that is often ignored by mainstream media. Maybe Drake didn't make the list because he's a Canadian rapper that wasn't as popular in the US during most of 2008… So what about XV? Maybe XV wasn't on there because the entire "Top Ten Freshmen of 2009" cover was a well designed product of a joint lobbying effort from major label executives to promote their newly signed artists on a grand scale. Whatever the case, the controversy still looms. Now that it's 2009, XV decides that he's not going to continue to rant about XXL, and burn a potential bridge, he instead decides to send them a subliminal "F-You" through this beautifully crafted, ignorant image of the week.

I'm calling this out early, even though the track is unfinished, and there's still 8 months before 2010, I honestly believe that when these two artists begin to establish themselves as two of the world's most popular rap acts, people will look back at this collaboration in the same light as the legendary 1997 Masta Ace & Eminem collaboration for Hellbound.
I got a chance to listen to this record about 3 months, ago over the phone; I still have no idea when the full remix will be done and released, but I know for a fact that it’s going to feature some pretty big names (you'll have to wait and see). This verse was recently placed on the new "Please, Hold" mixtape which is a gathering of some very very old XV songs such as Cooler Than Ya Boyfriend, along with some very new XV songs and remixes including this one right here. It's sort of a mixed bag for me since I already had 60% of those songs on my computer, but it's great for people that missed all the unreleased XV songs through the years and feel a need to catch up.

So pick that mixtape up, and enjoy the very short, yet memorable, verse from XV on this epic Swedish instrumental with one of the world's best rappers, Henok Achido.

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"Fly, Fresh, Forever (Remix)"
Artists: XV and Henok Achido
Producer: Filthy
Album: Please, Hold
Year: 2009
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/xtothevizzy
Contact: Xtothev@gmail.com

Download Tyrell Smith's Remix of "Vizzy Vizzy Vizzy" on Tripletimexl.com!

I absolutely love this new version, best rap remix of 2008, easily, best beat of 2008, definitely! Once again, the Final Remastered Version is here, sound the AlIarms!

Download: Download and Share! 320kbs
HotLink: http://www.tyrellsmith.com/XV-VizzyVizzyVizzy-TyrellSmithRemix.mp3

"Vizzy Vizzy Vizzy (Tyrell Smith Remix)"
Artist: XV
Projects: 40 Days 40 Nights (Remixed)
Album: The Kid With The Green Backpack (Remixed)
Label: Royalty City
Country: USA
Year: 2008/2009
Tyrell Smith on Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/newtyrell
XV on Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/xtothevizzy
Website: www.TyrellSmith.com & www.TheCoolniverse.com
Contact: Tyrell=AT=TyrellSmith=DOT=com

Download XV's "Loser Mind" on Tripletimexl.com

This song will be everywhere. Chouette!!!

Download: Download and Share! 6MB

"Loser Mind"
Artist: XV
Album: "The Square In The Circle"
Year: 2008
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/xtothevizzy
Website: www.thecoolniverse.com
Record Label: Royalty Recordz

XV releases "The Definition Part 4" as a Free Download! After 3 weeks of waiting, fans are treated on Christmas eve with one of XV's best releases so far. Visit http://www.myspace.com/xtothevizzy to download or just click the image above.

“Definition 4”
Artist: XV
Other Artists: Stik Figa, Bling, Seven, Mickey Factz
Year: 2007
Label: Royalty Recordz
Contact: Royaltyceo@aol.com
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/xtothevizzy.com
Release Date: December 24th, 2007

Check out this excerpt from XV's Making of the "Definition Part 4" Mixtape.

If you're in the Kansas area, don’t miss XV & Mac Lethal Tear it up on Stage, Dec. 8th, at the Flying Monkey Brewery.

Artist: XV
Genre: Hip-Hop
Location: Kansas
Country USA
Myspace: www.myspace.com/xtothevizzy
Website: www.royaltycity.com
Label: Royalty Recordz
Label Style: Independent
News: “Definition 4” due out exclusively on Online, December 8th 2007.
Next Album: Due out Early 2008.

Watch XV & Seven's "Get Fresh" on Tripletimexl.com!

“Get Fresh”
Artist: XV
Album: "Complex Experiment Volume 4"
Year: 2007
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/xtothevizzy
Website: http://www.royaltycity.com
Record Label: Royalty Recordz
Booking: royaltyceo@aol.com