Rapper Mason releases new EP 'Candy Flippin'

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE –

The rapper from the US East Coast known as Mason has released his latest EP hip-hop record, titled, “Candy Flippin.” The record is comprised of five original tracks for an approximate total listening time of 20 minutes and includes “Bookoo,” “Go On Green,” “Drive Me Nuts,” “Lift Me Up” and “ Glory Is Gold.” It has been released on the 11:11 Movement music records label. The “Candy Flippin” EP is Mason's most significant official release since his popular January 2013 record, “The Dark Side.”

Mason's signature style is marked by intelligent lyrics, deep grooves and rock-solid back beats. His urban poetry commands the stage even with excellent and widely varied melodies backing him, and the production level on “Candy Flippin” is executed with razor-sharp precision, making this collection of Mason material among his best-recorded music to date.

The lyrics that Mason writes come from an educated background and and endless supply of open-minded thinking.

“I’ve never seen time as linear,” he writes in his official bio, “but I also didn’t always believe in destiny. Now I have one and I walk through everyday without a question.”

This destiny bloomed before him in an unlikely manner.

“While doin’ laundry I randomly felt compelled to write a song,” he writes. “I had written poetry in the past but this was a song. For the first time I found melodies that I loved as much as words and together they formed a chorus that spoke to me. That moment changed everything...”

The obvious care that goes into Mason's mixtapes and albums stems from a genuine passion for his art. He writes of this, “I love music. I’ll literally give my life for it. I figuratively already have. One day the world will hear the whole story. It’s full of struggle, insanity, rage and unorthodox focus under constant distraction.”

“Candy Flippin” by Mason is available online worldwide.

-S. McCauley

Staff Press Release Writer

MondoTunes

The EP “Candy Flippin” is distributed globally by MondoTunes (www.MondoTunes.com) and is available at iTunes for convenient purchase and download

MondoTunes (www.mondotunes.com) supplies the largest music distribution in the world and provides upstream services for many major labels in search of breakout artists. While most independent distributors reach only 45-50 retailers despite charging needless monthly and yearly fees, MondoTunes reaches over 750 retailers and mobile partners in over 100 world regions without any monthly or yearly fees.

ARTIST CONTACT INFO:

http://gotmason.com

Hip-hop rising star Mason releases newest album “The Dark Side”

Hip hop newcomer from the east coast, Mason, has released his latest and greatest collection of tracks, a long-playing album appropriately dubbed “The Dark Side.”

Hip hop newcomer from the east coast, Mason, has released his latest and greatest collection of tracks, a long-playing album appropriately dubbed “The Dark Side.” The record consists of 18 original tracks for a combined listening time of just under an hour, making his debut release both a comprehensive and ambitious one. Mason's overall tone for this flagship LP is one of imminent victory, and indeed the talent showcased here is an abundant explosion of youth, brains, and impetuous assertion of character.

This ought not to surprise Mason's fans, who know and love him in part for his unwaveringly skyward course. “The way I'm heading only leads to the top,” Mason says. Another of his lyrics explains his pointed ambition thus: “I'd rather drown tryin' than be on this side of the island.”

The sound of Mason's “The Dark Side” is a classic, old-school, urban overture, the loops of which at times include violently charged electric guitars or a chamber orchestra of violins, always to a heavy-hitting back beat that delivers enough punch to serve as a main attraction, but also leaves room enough for Mason to deliver his jabs between thumps.

Mason has performed at shows featuring artists such as Lupe Fiasco and Cypress Hill, as well as at festivals (South-by-Southwest, 2012 perhaps being most notable). His contract with Doghouse Records landed him the job of representing them as their first signed hip hop artist. Studying as a psychology major in the Philadelphia suburbs, he started writing rock songs in his dormitory while keeping an eye on his laundry. “The Dark Side” stands as his official declaration and return to the hip hop genre from rock music.

Still, it isn't all fun and games for him. Mason has a dark side, himself, that causes him to address the cold and brutal aspect of planet Earth. “I can't get away from the ghosts,” he spits. “They want me to join 'em... You gotta see 'em to destroy 'em.”

Mason is more than capable of pointing such specters out, too. He has no trouble seeing in the dark. Fans can hear his phantoms firsthand beginning 15 January 2012.

-S. McCauley

Staff Press Release Writer

MondoTunes

The LP “The Dark Side” is distributed globally by MondoTunes (www.MondoTunes.com) and is available at iTunes for convenient purchase and download

MondoTunes (www.mondotunes.com) supplies the largest music distribution in the world and provides upstream services for many major labels in search of breakout artists. While most independent distributors reach only 45-50 retailers despite charging needless monthly and yearly fees, MondoTunes reaches over 750 retailers and mobile partners in over 100 world regions without any monthly or yearly fees.

ARTIST CONTACT INFO:

eMail -

masontheant1@gmail.com


website -

www.gotmason.com