HOTBOX’d
TI, RICK ROSS, FLO-RIDA, B5, BRISCO, & SISTER are all getting’ HOTBOX’d!
HOME TOWN REPORT: Spotlight on 305: Poeboy Entertainment/ Def Jam platinum recording artist RICK ROSS in the HOTBOX for production of the Carol City Cartel (TRIPLE Cs) debut album which will include a HOTBOX track featuring Junior Reid. Also getting HOTBOX’d Poeboy Entertainment/Cash Money artist BRISCO (“Street Medicine”) and Poeboy Entertainment/Atlantic artist, FLO-RIDA (“Gunshine State”) will be releasing debut albums this year.
Taking OVER: TI’s next album gets heated with a HOTBOX track in a song that will feature Texas rapper, Paul Wall. HOTBOX’d in association with Underdog Entertainment, P-Diddy’s Bad Boy Entertainment will be launching boy-band B5’s sequel album while Universal girl-group Sister also getting HOTBOX’d in their debut album.
WHOSE BEEN HOTBOX’d
HOTBOX carries production credits working artists across the musical spectrum.
Trick Daddy,
Juvenille,
Nappy Roots,
Tupac,
Stacey Orrico,
Rick Ross,
Trina,
and
Gorilla Black
have ALL been
HOTBOX’d. Two records on the multi-platinum Tupac “Better Dayz” album are credited to Andre “Briss” Brissett and HOTBOX Entertainment (“When We Ride On Our Enemies” and “Street Fame”). Producer/Musician/Songwriter Andre “Briss” Brissett is the beat inside the HOTBOX. Briss expresses his musical fluency in every instrument in his original tracks and compositions. Also carrying HOTBOX credentials "I Gotta", featuring platinum recording artist Rick Ross for Trina's "Glamourest Life" Album. Representing South Florida’s cultural diversity, every HOTBOX beat has a unique flavor. As a result of a master musician, the HOTBOX is a place overflowing with diversity of musical repertoire. Having paid dues as a part of the Underdog Ent production camp, HOTBOX Songwriter Andre "Briss" Brissett maintains a publishing deal with Underdog Ent and Rondor Music, an affiliate of Universal Music Publishing Group.
HOTBOX: BY D EFINITION
WHAT is a HOTBOX?
WHO is HOTBOX?
WHERE is HOTBOX?
WHAT : The “HOTBOX” refers to – 1.) the sweat chamber that was the original HOTBOX recording booth with no A/C, muggy South Florida weather, and was in uncomfortable proximity to water heater. 2.) the adage that resulted when PRODUCER Andre “BRISS” Brissett coined “Time to get back in the HOTBOX” whenever resuming a session. 3.) the name of the Jazz Band lead by MUSICIAN Andre “BRISS” Brissett that used to play weekly at the Marlin Hotel in South Beach.
WHO : Andre “Briss” Brissett is the beat inside the HOTBOX.
WHERE : The HOTBOX is anywhere Andre “Briss” Brissett catches a vibe. The HOTBOX studio is hidden somewhere in South Florida :-P
THE BEAT IN THE HOTBOX
As another distinguished Alumni of the Dillard High Performance Arts Music Program, Andre “Briss” Brissett destroyed his first drum set at the age of two and has been beating on stuff tearing through every instrument since. “When the music is inside you, its gotta get out.” His first memories are of Miami… another J’American kid growing up in the shadow of that Coppertone Billboard off 826 with the dog pulling the little girls pants down. By the time he was eight, he was playing drums at church, was fairly fluent at piano. He began playing anything he could find : Recorder, Flute, Baritone, Trombone, Clarinet with God anointed proficiency. In 6th grade, when he started with the Saxophone as an elective, the teacher taught him how to read music (and then there was REALLY no stopping him).
SPENDING A NIGHT IN TUNISIA
When Andre landed at Dillard, Leroy "Daddy" Gibbs changed his world in a moment when he introduced him to Dizzy Gillespie’s “Night in Tunisia.” “As a saxophonist, as a kid, hearing Night in Tunisia for the first time blew my mind.” Add to that Gibb’s full repertoire which would include such influences as Earth Wind and Fire, Barry White, and the entirety of classic Jazz, music had its hooks in Andre – and Jazz had his soul. “It gave the music God was always playing in my head a larger range, a wider scope…like a completely new dimension.” Having already defined himself as a drummer, saxophonist, and Jazz piano/keyboard player, love of music and an amazing ear had Andre producing at about sixteen. He composed and produced an entire musical score for the Boy & Girls Club/ Creative Arts Unit musical production. A program for which, as an adult, he became Musical Director. Andre never stopped making music. In fact, TODAY, Andre “Briss” Brissett is very likely at the HOTBOX Studio still striving to let the whole world hear what’s playing in his head.
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