Joell Ortiz är högaktuell med soloalbumet “House Slippers” som släpptes i mitten av september. I samband med detta initierade Ortiz med DJBooth.net rap-tävlingen “Fade To Famous” på en barbershop i New York. Hela 150 rappare deltog – se video från eventet nedan!

The barber shop is the heart of the neighborhood, so when Joell Ortiz wanted to give back to the streets via the pure art of rhyming, it was the natural place to hold the first ever Fade to Famous and DJBooth cypher. We invited every willing rhyme spitter in the Big Apple to show and prove their skills, then selected the top six to get down in the cypher, closed out by Mr. Yaowa himself.