Ebony
aka Wondagurl, lives in Brampton Ontario, got the call from Jay Z after meeting
one of his friends who passed her beat to the rap mogul.
The
12th grader said “It’s a really good feeling. I want to show young people that
they can do it. According
to Ebony, it all started after watching a video of Jay-Z and Timbaland working
in the studio together at age 9, she began to download music software and teach
herself how to use it by watching YouTube tutorials. "I wanted to do the
exact same thing that [Jay-Z] did," she recently told the Star. When she
was 14, she made it to the quarter-finals of Toronto's Battle of the
Beatmakers. She won the title the following year, because she is incredible,
and went on to sign an exclusive management deal with Black Box.
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According
to Ian Stanger, a representative with Black Box, "It’s amazing to see
somebody with that much talent working as hard as she can to make the most of
it at such a young age. It’s her work that people should be paying attention
to, not the fact that’s she 16."
And
her work is exactly what people have started to pay attention to. Earlier this
year, Oshunrinde sent the beat to her friend Travis Scott, a young rapper and
producer. He happened to be in the studio with Jay-Z when he received it - and
when he told her that the cut had made it to the album, she thought he was
joking.
"Usually
that kind of thing doesn't happen to 16-year-olds," she explains.
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