Midi Mafia

Midi Mafia

Midi Mafia is a hip hop/R&B production duo consisting of American Bruce Waynne (born Waynne Nugent) from Brooklyn, New York and Canadian Dirty Swift (born Kevin Risto) from Ottawa, Ontario.[1] They are most notable for their production of 50 Cent's number-one single "21 Questions".[2]

They also produced "When I See U", the second single from Fantasia Barrino's self-titled album Fantasia[2] which held the number one spot for eight weeks on the U.S. Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs charts.[3] More recently, they contributed a track to fellow American Idol contestant David Archuleta's self-titled debut album, released in November 2008. They have also produced for artists such as Jennifer Lopez, Bravehearts, Gemma Fox, Jean Grae, Talib Kweli, Young Buck, Nelly, Miri Ben-Ari, Frank Ocean, John Legend, Lloyd Banks, Brandy, Frank Ocean and Justin Bieber.[4]

In November 2009, "PHamous," a song they produced, was used as a backing track for a flash mob. The flash mob was conceived by YouTuber ShayCarl, who was assisted by fellow Youtubers: LisaNova, MysteryGuitarMan, KassemG, Denise Vlogs, TimothyDeLaGhetto2, and HiimRawn.[5][6]

"PHamous" is being used in promos for VH1 television programs and also it’s used as the ending song for weekly video of What da Faq Show which airs at YouTube and Facebook. Midi Mafia currently produced their own album Vegas Lights as well as the main hit "2 Piece."

"Last Call" and "2 Piece" from their album Vegas Lights are also featured on the MTV show, Jersey Shore in season 2

On July 16, 2010, the video for "PHamous" debuted on YouTube on TheStation channel, a collaboration channel of most of the YouTubers of the original flash mob, including the lyric about being "friends with ShayCarl." The song was also featured on the We Killed the Radio Star Podcast [7] as the introductory and concluding piece of music during the episode "Don't Drink the Water."

References

  1. ^ Keith Murphy (July 2003). Midi Mafia: Beward of the Boys. XXL (magazine). 
  2. ^ a b Elianne Halbersberg (2008-03-01). "Midi Mafia: DJ Dirty Swift and Bruce Waynne break it down and build it up". Mix Magazine. http://mixonline.com/recording/mixing/audio_midi_mafia/. Retrieved 2008-08-13. 
  3. ^ "Fantasia Barrino - Artist Chart History - Singles". Billboard.
  4. ^ Jon Michael (2008-07-03). "Midi Mafia - Hitmen For Hire". SixShots.com. Archived from the original on 2008-07-11. http://web.archive.org/web/20080711155945/http://www.sixshot.com/articles/11674/. Retrieved 2008-08-13. 
  5. ^ ShayCarl (2009-12-01). "Shay Carl - PHAMOUS PLANET HOLLYWOOD FLASH MOB!". [ShayCarl]. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C18p7QIbWqc. Retrieved 2009-12-01. 
  6. ^ Chuckmonster (2009-12-28). "The Day The Mob Saved Vegas". [Vegas Tripping]. http://www.vegastripping.com/news/news.php?news_id=3079. Retrieved 2009-12-30. 
  7. ^ wekilledtheradiostar.com. "Don't Drink the Water". [wekilledtheradiostar.com]. http://www.wekilledtheradiostar.com/podcastarchive.htm. Retrieved 2010-17-09. 

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