If there’s one thing I love most about music and since becoming an Fm radio DJ Host; its meeting great artist with a fantastic message in their music as well as drive and aspiration. It’s very admirable to see that despite the world’s corruptions and oppression, there are STILL dedicated positive, active, creative artist that take full responsibility in their role in society.

They have the maturity to understand and recognise just how important their role as a musician is and the high influence they have on young people who listen and follow them in their music journey and how do I know this? Because I have had the pleasure, to pick the brains of all three here artist. Interviewing each of them finding out the truth behind their music. Meet the following artists….

Mac Nitti          

Mac Nitti hails from Rochester, NY. He is the self-proclaimed Pharaoh of Rochester. He belongs to his own label, Pyramid Entertainment. Mac Nitti is best classified as a positive rapper, though he considers himself to be a Socially Conscious Poet. Mac is also a producer and has displayed his talents on the albums of many local acts. His debut album, Addicted To This, was released July 2007 and is flooded with his crisp beats and lyrical opinions on situations faced by people of the inner city. Mac is hoping to not only have his music heard, but to make as many changes, through his music, as possible. Always looking to make a positive change, he figures his music, is the best way to make a change. This includes speaking to other artists he is producing music for or collaborating with.

He added in a blog: “Yesterday I was talking to Renae Rain, who by the way is doing big things in the music world, and we were building on how we were thoroughly disgusted with the music industry, in particular the rappers of today. We were saying how we remember how Hip-Hop used to be a platform for people to express their dissatisfaction with the system and the unfair advantage given to the ghetto residents. Hip-Hop was a way for us to tell the world the dirty little secrets that the government tried so hard to hide.

But the all of a sudden, our heroes of the rap world decided to add a clause to their principles. The hands behind the scenes said, “Look, you can make more money and gain more fame if you stop talking about the ghetto and how you can’t get hired because of the color of your skin.” They said, “You can get rich quicker if you called women bitches and rapped about smoking weed and cooking coke and stop rapping about the unbalanced education system in the hood.” So, the principles we had set were set down and never picked back up. His album, ‘Still Addicted’, is passionate about social and economic betterment for the poor and neglected, while still proving his lyrical ability”.

Mac has rhymes reflect his environment; situations he witnessed first hand, or situations others in the ghetto were facing.  He came from a middle class family and grew up in the inner city. “I grew up in a close family.  I remember my mom playing Aretha Franklin and Earth,Wind & Fire.  My dad played Sam Cook and Mahalia Jackson.  So I was exposed to a variety of soulful music.  But that was my parent’s music.  I wanted my own. Mac would find his own music in songs like La Di Da Di, and I Need Love. “I was hooked. I ate Hip-Hop up!  Anyone that had KRS-ONE or Just-ICE, I dubbed a copy.  Finally, my own music.”

Mac Nitti grew up in the ghetto. “Sure, I had a structured family.  But I saw what drugs did to our community.  The poverty and the torn families.  Hip-Hop was a way to vent.  All of Hip-Hop; rap, graffiti, dancing, slang; were tools for expression and venting.  So I used it for that. It’s in me to crack a joke when I can to lighten up a tense moment, so from time to time I throw some comedy in my rhymes. At the same time, my rhymes are very serious. Feel me?”

Check out Mac Nitti on www.reverbnation.com/macnitti

And also his latest single Hip Hop lust on youtube feat his Nephews www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEAPEpwTf4w