I covered the backstage are of the 2017 XXL Freshman show in L.A. for REVOLT and chopped it up with 24Hrs, PnB Rock and Ugly God (who actually turned it around and interviewed ME!)
Watch all of the footage below!
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Author: Marisa Mendez
(Video) Marisa Mendez on The Zoo & LatiNation [Los Angeles, CA]
Thanks to my super dope friend Ronnie, I was featured on LATV‘s The Zoo, as well as profiled for LatiNation.
I was able to discuss my podcast, my time on INTPL, Hot97 and more! Check both videos out below.
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Marisa Mendez x Jamal x Tunisia – Marisa Explains It All [Episode 35: “Hov Alone”]
And we’re back! Once again Tune-less (we know, we know!), me and Mal tackle everything that’s gone on since you’ve heard from the MEIA crew last – from my red carpet run-in with Joe, to my 4th of July flyout, Mal’s take on 4:44, Rob and Chyna and more!
Stream episode 34 “All Eyez On Mari” below, and subscribe on iTunes here! You can also email us at MEIApodcast@gmail.com!
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(Photos) Me Doing Misc. Cool Shit – May & June 2017
None of these deserve their own posts soooo here’s stuff like me and G-Eazy at a Pink Dolphin party, me on the carpet for the CLAWS premiere, a party I hosted BET Weekend, me at DJ Khaled‘s listening session, a cool shout out from Funk Flex, me at the MTV Movie Awards, me and Amber and Rosenberg at a birthday party, Too $hort at REVOLT, me and Ty at 24‘s listening session, on the set of “What U Like” (which Zombz made a cameo in!) and me and Demetrius Shipp Jr. backstage at Powerhouse.
K bye.
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Interview: “Joe Moses: On Ty And Other Dolla Signs”
Joe Moses came up in the same crop of burgeoning LA artists that birthed the careers of Ty Dolla $ign, YG and DJ Mustard, but he’s taken a bit of a different path than his fellow Los Angelenos.
In the late ‘00s, the rapper vacated his Cali roots and migrated to Atlanta, under the tutelage of a then-scorching Waka Flocka Flame. A deal was inked with Flocka’s Brick Squad Monopoly imprint, but eventually, Joe returned to LA to make things happen on his home turf.
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(Photos) BET Awards 2017 Red Carpet [Los Angeles, CA]
I had the honor of hosting the red carpet at the 2017 BET Awards for REVOLT, alongside Cardi B’s little sis, Hennessy.
I got to interview MC Lyte, Ty Dolla $ign, Dascha Polanco, SZA, Erica Mena, Tammy Rivera, A Boogie and more…and of course I ran into Joe. LOL! More pics below.
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Interview: “IAMSU Looks Back And Looks Forward”
It’s 12:54am on a Wednesday, and I’m sitting down with IAMSU and his cameraman in the front room of their hotel suite. Su was in town for a headlining show in Santa Ana, followed by another one the next night in Los Angeles. I had planned to interview the Bay Area rapper at the LA show, but while I was out and about that evening, I’d received a FaceTime call from him, telling me to come and hang. He was an hour out from my house in the Valley, but I still made the trek. We smoked, we hung out with his mom, walked down a highway to get some gas station snacks and then eventually decided, “What better time than now to do an interview?”
I first met IAMSU in 2014, while he was promoting his first studio album, Sincerely Yours. That year, he’d go on a national tour with Wiz Khalifa, following up three insane years that included back to back to back smash singles: a feature on LoveRance’s “Up” in 2011, a feature on E-40’s “Function” in 2012, and a feature on Sage The Gemini’s “Gas Pedal” in 2013. He’s continued to grow his profile in music every year since, while remaining so independent, that I still get a text and an email directly from him for every new song, video or even a vlog.
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