Friday 20 January 2012

ARTIST LOOKOUT - JOHNNY POLYGON

[Johnny Polygon]


With every new year comes new music, new opportunities, and the chance for new artists to take some of the spotlight for themselves. The problem is figuring out exactly which artists are going to make it big next, a task that isn't easy as the music industry can be very unpredictable with today's plugged in generation. Who might gain some fans this year? well there are a lot of artists to look at, but id like to concentrate on a particular hip-hop artist whom I feel just might have the tools to create a name for himself, and that's the man from Oklahoma, Johnny Polygon.

Johnny may not be the biggest name right now, but hes not without his accomplishments, he's featured in Nas' "Black President", and had one of his own songs, "Price on Your Head" featured in Rockstars GTA4 (an achievement in its own right). MTV aired one of his videos on their regular lineup in 2010, "The Riot Song", which is probably his greatest stab at the mainstream arena. He is also cosigned to Kid Cudi and 2dopeboyz, among others.



With songs like "Price on your head", "Kids Broken Hearted" and the backing of a few big names in the industry, Johnny Polygon is a great candidate to make it big in 2012.

17 comments:

  1. I'm sure he's great, he should rethink his name though. :P

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    1. I was going to comment saying this exact same thing. Seriously, terrible name!

      Great post though.

      GM x

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  2. So crazy he's from Oklahoma. Nice post!

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  3. Never heard of him, will check it out, returning the follow :)

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  4. Oh boy, "Price on your head" sure takes me back. Love it.
    I hadn't thought to check out any of Johnny's other tracks, but I tried out a couple. "Riot song" is definitely my kind of track. It reminds me a lot of Guru's album Jazzmatazz. A mix of hip-hop and jazz.
    Love the posts.

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  5. Sounds like he is surely on the rise, will have to look up a few.

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  6. I like his name actually. Sounds like he could have been a character on the old show "The Electric Company"..he could have been Easy Reader's sidekick.

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  7. Thought u were gonna post a video too

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  8. Sounds interesting. What`s with the last name, though?
    +Following! Interesting blog.

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  9. never heard of him, ill try it out

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  10. I like that he comes from Oklahoma. Not many big acts from there.

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  11. i remember that song from gta. i'll check him out

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  12. very nice! you got a new follower :D +1

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