In January 2012 Drupy was named as one of Nashville’s
Hottest of 2011 being featured on Concrete Magazine’s/ IUM project by the same
name and appearing at the Bonnaroo Music Festival. Soon after he followed the
accomplishment with the announcement of the album Fli Musik 2: Pop World
produced by Kyle Lampi (Enjoy the Zoo), Ducko McFli (Trinidad James), SykSynse
(Wale, Meek Mill, DJ Drama, Drake) and Boy Genius (Chancellor Warhol).The album
release show was held at legendary Mercy Lounge, headlined by the artist
himself and featured Nashville’s hottest MC Chancellor Warhol and pop-upstart
Beta Pop among others. He also headlined the popular Nashville event, Y2K,
twice, over popular acts Case and Coach and Treekeeper (EDM). He formed the
band Purple Noon w/ Wild Minds and former Pink Spyders drummer Bob Ferrari and
performed on the Hard Rock Café associated international internet TV show,
Balcony TV. The producers of that show invited Drupy to meet producers Sean
Giovonni and Peter Keys (Keyboardist/producer for Rock Hall of Fame legendary
southern band Lynyrd Skynyrd) in the stdio. After hearing the album the
producers signed on to executive produce Drupy’s follow-upfull-length project,
FM3: The End of Dayz, scheduled for a fall 2013 release.
Always staying busy, Drupy was booked as a performer at this
year’s Industry Mixer/Showcase held by Concrete Magazine and featured top rap
DJ, DJ Smallz. Smallz signed onto host the new mixtape project and hit he
studio to preview upcoming tracks off the record. In 2013 Drupy expanded the
Fli Musik Group label by adding in-house DJ and A&R, DJ Cevan and legend in
the making female MC, Tanya Ali. Drupy received an MTV profile and will have
all video content supported by the network independently, while simultaneously
brokering a sponsorship deal with performance right org, SESAC to headline the
artist first national tour. The seven city college tour called The Fli Gang
tour will feature supporting acts like Tanya Ali, Fyutch and Kaby as well as
other up-and-coming acts. This year Drupy Fli Musik received two Nashville
Independent Music Award nominations, Best Rap/Hip-Hop performer and Hip-hop/Rap
Artist of the Year (alongside Chancellor Warhol, Starlito and Fluid Outrage).
The beginning of 2014 has shaped up to be a great start to
the year. Drupy released his long unreleased Kanye West collaboration,
introduced the world to the Fli Gang Collective by releasing the crew’s first
single “YSL” featuring G-Side front man ST 2 Lettaz. He performed alongside ATL
newcomer ScottyATL for the buding artist Tour and defended his title as the
Illest In the Ville alongside artist like Classic Williams and Mello Rello.
Also, the final single to be released of the LSD2 project called “WTF”
featuring the who’s who of Nashville underground rap scene (Tanya Ali,
Chancellor Warhol, Kaby) has been picked up by MTV and launched the artist own
VEVO page (drupyflimusikVEVO).With all of these accomplishments and goals set
in the last year alone the future looks bright for the fashionable trendsetting
artist.
Drupy Fli Musik in a move to further his brands reach as an
independent links with Beau Burgess of Burgess Creative for the design, layout
and marketing roll out behind his up-coming project, TIME. The first piece from
the collaboration between the creative director and Fli Musik Group is the
artist new website image realignment and single launch ("SoulMate").
The sponsorship with AxVaporizers, also a business associate of Burgess
Creative, is the brain-child of Burgess who has plans to cross promote artist
music with corporate products and entities. The independent artist also inked a
deal w/ The Tara Thomas Agency publicist to Hip-Hop A-listers like Dame Grease
and upstarts like K-Camp.
This young man is a prime example of looks can be deceiving. His
hit song, “ON MY VIBE” has opened up many doors for Jae Mac. He is currently in
negotiations with several labels to date. Jae Mac has worked with producer Dame
Grease as well as Mazardi Fox, King Sons, Tswagg, Atlantic Records Recording
Artist K. Michelle, and a few more industry heavy hitters. Jae Mac’s simple philosophy to his music
hustle “No Grind No Shine.” 
