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Gotta Get It...

2005-12-14T19:20:00.000-08:00

Download Balance - Gotta Get It [right click + save]

Young N' Restless coming March 7, 2006...

New Balance song featuring EA Ski

2005-10-26T10:49:00.000-07:00

Balance - "It Is What It Is" featuring EA Ski. From Balances' forthcoming "Young & Restless" album coming in January 06.

Balance on the cover of Shout Magazine

2005-09-20T09:13:00.000-07:00

New Balance Single "Right Here"

2005-08-08T18:52:00.000-07:00

Download Balance's New Single "Right Here" ft Aquanetta (Production Sho Nuff)

You Know What It Is...

2005-05-09T14:09:00.000-07:00

"A New Dawn, A New Bay" article on Balance in SF Weekly

New Balance Interview @ Ballerstatus

and of course some Mp3's from Balance's Bay Area Mixtape King

[right click & save]

What Up

Roll With Me ft Chamillionaire & Stat Quo

8 Ball ft Locksmith & Royce the 5'9"

Balance: Source's Unsigned Hype + More Press + MP3's

2005-04-27T09:53:00.000-07:00

Unsigned Hype...

Recent mentions @ Cocaine Blunts and So Many Shrimp

MP3's from the Bay Area Mixtape King...

[right click + save]

What Up (currently receiving airplay)

Roll With Me ft Chamillionaire + Stat Quo

8 Ball ft Locksmith + Royce 5'9"

Balance's "The Bay Area Mixtape King" is further expanding the “New Bay” Movement, which he has been spearheading along with groups like Frontline and The Federation. Balance has created a strong regional presence with his mixtapes, freestyle appearances on the Wake Up Show, and having “Nice Girl” and "What Up" enjoying regular spins on Bay Area radio. With his latest mixtape Balance is adding to his reputation as “The Bay Area Mixtape King."

The “Bay Area Mixtape King” features Stat Quo, Chamillionaire, Royce the 5’ 9”, and many more. For more information please visit Balance's site

Justo Mixtape Awards Nomination, More Press, More Songs, It Keeps Getting Thicker...

2005-03-23T14:29:00.000-08:00

Balance was recently nominated for Best West Coast Mixtape Artist at the JUSTO Mixtape Awards...

XXL's Artist to Watch – 9/04

As part of the “West Coast resurgence, Balance is likely to explode in 2005.” Sohh.com 1/05

and over 100 mixtape appearances and counting....

The buzz is picking up on the net as mention of the mixtape has been spotted @

Hip Hop Game

Gel & Weave

West Coast 2K

SF Weekly (scroll down after clicking)

and Hip Hop DX

MP3's from The Bay Area Mixtape King

[right click & save]

What Up (currently receiving airplay)

Roll With Me ft Chamillionaire & Stat Quo

8 Ball ft Locksmith and Royce the 5'9

Palm Trees & OG's

Go Hard ft Game, Lloyd Banks, & 50 Cent

Welcome To Cali

Hustler

Balance's "The Bay Area Mixtape King" is further expanding the “New Bay” Movement, which he has been spearheading along with groups like Frontline and The Federation. Balance has created a strong regional presence with his mixtapes, freestyle appearances on the Wake Up Show, and having “Nice Girl” and "What Up" enjoying regular spins on Bay Area radio. With his latest mixtape Balance is adding to his reputation as “The Bay Area Mixtape King."

The “Bay Area Mixtape King” features Stat Quo, Chamillionaire, Royce the 5’ 9”, and many more. For more information please visit Balance's site

Bay Area Mixtape King Updates...

2005-03-15T12:06:00.000-08:00

Balance was recently nominated for Best West Coast Mixtape Artist at the JUSTO Mixtape Awards...

The buzz is picking up on the net as mention of the mixtape has been spotted @

Prohiphop
Different Kitchen
Gell & Weave
Honey Soul

as well as upcoming press in the SF Weekly

Here's some more music from the forthcoming "Bay Area Mixtape King"

[right click and save]

What Up - currently receiving airplay here in the Bay

Roll Wit Me feat. Chamillionaire & Stat Quo

and

8 Ball featuring Locksmith and Royce the 5'9

also a new interview via hiphopposten

for more info check the Balance site

Balance: "The Bay Area Mixtape King"

2005-02-14T14:15:00.000-08:00

XXL’s Artist to Watch – 9/04

Over 100 mixtape appearances including: DJ Vlad, Clinton Sparks, Kool Kid, DJ Absolut, Lt. Dan, and Dow Jones.

As part of the “West Coast resurgence, Balance is likely to explode in 2005.” Sohh.com 1/05

MP3's from the forthcoming "Bay Area Mixtape King"...

[just right click and save]

- Welcome To Cali
- Go Hard ft Game, Lloyd Banks, and 50 Cent
- Huslter
- Palm Trees, OG's, and Gangstas

Balance's "The Bay Area Mixtape King" is further expanding the “New Bay” Movement, which he has been spearheading along with groups like Frontline and The Federation. Balance has created a strong regional presence with his mixtapes, freestyle appearances on the Wake Up Show, and “Nice Girl” enjoying regular spins on Bay Area radio. With his latest mixtape Balance is adding to his reputation as “The Bay Area Mixtape King."

The “Bay Area Mixtape King” features Stat Quo, Chamillionaire, Royce the 5’ 9”, Planet Asia and many more. For more information please visit Balance's website.

Balance a factor in the New Bay Incarnate...

2005-02-08T13:30:00.000-08:00

East Bay Express Article on the West Coast rap renaissance.

Excerpt:

So what changed, and when? While Locksmith's second-place finish at the MTV battle catalyzed the New Bay movement, it actually started at least a year earlier. In 2002, the Frontline (who first formed in 1996) teamed up with battle-hardened, turf-affiliated Oakland MC Balance (formerly of the group Tango + Kash) and a bunch of other artists, including the Federation's Goldie Gold, SF's Mr. Kee, Oakland's Mistah F.A.B., and Sacramento's Zac Wood for the Watch Out Now and New Bay mix tapes. Back then, this confederacy of fresh-faced artists called themselves the New Bay to signify their new way of thinking. Early Frontline material such as " and Locksmith, Left, by appearances during started branding term?s the dexterity; lyrical agile more discernibly with music mobb of attitude hard-nosed fused ?Workout? Califoolya? Balance on freestyle shows on SF commercial urban stations KMEL and WYLD, as well as LA's

In part, Balance says, the movement was born out of necessity -- appearing on freestyle shows was "probably the only way we could get on the radio at that time," he says. "We didn't have any connections. I'm not talking about payola and shit like that, but just who you know. 'Do you know the DJ, does the DJ know your music?'" Although "Nice Girl," his duet with Baby Jaymes, is currently clocking morning drive-time spins on KMEL, Balance recalls that "At that time, we weren't even thinking about radio."

"I never heard of the New Bay until Balance and those guys started yelling 'The New Bay,'" says Sean Kennedy, CEO of Ill Trendz, an Oakland-based record pool and urban marketing firm whose clients include national major-label artists and local indie hustlers alike -- Kennedy boasts that he personally took the Bullys wit Fullys album to Jazzy Jim Archer at KMEL and got it approved for airplay. "The first time I heard of the New Bay was during the freestyle sessions at KMEL in February of 2003," Kennedy recalls. "They were saying it on the radio. I never heard of it before, because they never had a platform before to promote that way."

Balance acknowledged as an Artist to Watch in 2005

2005-02-04T13:46:00.000-08:00

With a West Coast resurgence occurring, Balance is also likely to explode in 2005. The Oakland rapper has consistently been making his presence felt on mixed CDs across the nation and is now generating interest from several labels.

"He's one of the soldiers repping out West. He got a good work ethic. He'll probably take it to the next level this year," Brooklyn's own DJ Ronde Vu shared. "He's out West, but he's on New York mixtapes crazy. I think he was # 3 on XXL's artists to watch. He's coming up."

via SOHH.com