GOTTI

GOTTI GOT THANGZ IS AN ESTABLISHED INDEPENDANT ARTIST HAILING FROM SOUTH BEND IN. HE HAS APPEARED ON RECORDS THAT HAVE COLLECTIVELY SOLD 250,000 COPIES. HE IS WIDELY RECOGNIZED AS ONE OF HIS AERA'S PREMIERE ARTIST AND HAS BEEN CREATING MUSIC FOR OVER A DECADE. GOTTI IS CURRENTLY A SOLO ARTIST UNDER MO SHINE RECORDS LLC. THE LABEL IS THE MOST WELL ESTABLISHED IMPRINT IN THE SOUTH BEND AREA, BOASTING AN ALL STAR LINEUP OF ARTIST AND LONG STANDING HISTORY OF RELEASING TOP QUALITY MATERIAL INTO THE MIDWEST STREETS.



GOTTI GREW UP LIKE ANY LATIN KID ON THE BLOCK WITH DREAMS. THOSE DREAMS WERE INSPIRED BY HIS FATHER, WHO WOULD BRING A YOUNG GOTTI ALONG WITH HIM FOR BLUES AND SOUL MUSIC JAM SESSIONS, THESE EARLY MEMORIES SERVED AS THE FOUNDATION FOR WHAT WOULD BECOME GOTTI'S DEEP PASSION FOR MUSIC. AS HE GOT OLDER GOTTI WAS PARTICIAPATING IN TYPICAL HOOD ACTIVITES WITH OTHER STREET CATS, LEARNING THE ART OF THE HUSTLE. BY THE AGE OF 16 GOTTI BEGAN TO GET MORE SERIOUS ABOUT THE MUSIC AND POSSIBILTY OF IT BECOMING A CAREER. HE JOINED A GROUP CALLED THE VOICES OF TRAGEDY WITH HIS BROTHER DLOW FLEXXICAN AND LONG TIME FRIENDS AND FELLOW ARTIST GHOST WIT DA MOS. THE GROUP DEVELOPED A DEEP AND LOYAL FANBASE ON THE LOCAL HIP HOP SCENE. THE GROUP RELEASED 2 ALBUMS, TRAGIC RAIN AND THEY DONT MAKE THUGS LIKE THEY USED 2, BEFORE THE GROUP DISBANDED TO PURSUE SOLO INTRESTS.



ON APRIL 4TH 2002 GOTTI'S OLDER BROTHER, ANTHONY VILLANUEVA, WAS MURDERD OUTSIDE A NIGHTCLUB IN DOWNTOWN SOUTH BEND , WHEN GOTTI AND FAMILY RECIEVED THE NEWS THEY RUSHED TO THE SCENE OF THE CRIME, THEY ARRIVED TO SEE THE LIFELESS BODY OF GOTTI'S BROTHER STILL LYING THERE ON THE CONCRETE. THE EVENT PROVED TO BE BOTH TRAUMATIC AND EMPOWERING, AS GOTTI USED THE TRAGIC PASSING OF HIS BROTHER TO FUEL HIS MOTIVTION FOR SUCCESS IN HIS LIFE AND MUSIC CAREER. IN 2003 GOTTI SIGNED TO MO SHINE RECORDS, A FLEDING LOCAL LABEL STARTED BY FORMER GROUP MEMBER GHOST WIT DA MOS. GOTTI'S FRIST APPEARANCE CAME ON THE LABELS FIRST OFFERING, A COMPLATION ALBUM ENTITLED 'FAMILY BUSINESS' THAT SOLD OVER 20,000 COPYS. GOTTI'S SOLO ALBUM ' MY LETTER' WAS RELEASEDIN 2007 AND WAS A HUGE SUCSESS, MOVING OVER 100,000 UNITS THROUGH A STRONG GRASSROOTS EFFORTS AND ENDLESS GRINDING IN THE DIGTAL WORLD AND PERFORMANCES. THIS HARD WORK HAS LEAD TO GOTTI'S MUSIQ RECIEVING WELL OVER THREE MILLION PLAYS ON MYSPACE. HIS SONG ' DO YOU REMEMBER ME' WHICH FEATURES THE CHICAGO'S R&B GROUP 3PIECE, HAS RECIEVED WELL OVER 600,000 PLAYS AND AT THE 2007 SOUTH BEND HIP HOP AWARDS WAS NAMED SONG OF THE YEAR. GOTTI ALSO WAS HONORED AS THE 2007 SOUTH BEND HIP HOP AWARDS AS ARTIST OF THE YEAR AND WAS NOMINATED FOR SEVEAL OTHER AWARDS AT THE EVENT.



WHAT GOTTI REALLY WANTS TO BRING TO HIS LISTNERS IS A SENSE OF HOPE FOR THOSE THAT LIVE IN TODAYS ROUGH WORLD. HE HOPES TO INSPIRE OTHERS TO USE THEIR OWN TROUBLING CIRCUMSTANCES OR TRAUMATIC SITUATIONS AS A TOOL IN THEIR OWN QUEST FOR SUCCESS IN LIFE. GOTT'S EMBODIES THAT ATTITUDE AS HE PAINTS VIVID PICTURES OF LIFE. LOVE, HAPPINESS AND THE INEVITABLE OBSTACLES THAT ARISE FOR ALL OF US. HIS MUSIC IS A JOURNEY, AND HIS ONLY HOPE IS THAT THE WORLD WILL SOON BE ON THE JOURNEY WITH HIM. GOTTI IS CURRENTY WORKIN ON HIS SECOND SOLO PROJECT, WHICH WILL RELEASED ON MO SHINE RECORDS AND IS ENTITLED 'THE MUSIQ NOTE' THE RECORD AND IS SCHEDULED FOR RELEASE IN EARLY 2010 OR LATE 2010 AND IS GATHERING INTREST FROM SEVERAL DIFFRENT MAJOR DISTRIBUTORS.