Malicious Bio

Montreal native Malicious (a.k.a Mr. Malish) is no stranger to the so-called “game”. The unassuming rapper (of Barbadian descent) was already making waves at age fifteen, when he won a freestyle challenge, over hip hop icon Jeru The Damaja, which brought him rave reviews in The Source and caught the ear of industry heavyweights, like Russell Simmons.

On his own at sixteen, the “undisputed Montreal freestyle king” has previously had a US single release. The joint “Take Off” was well received in major urban centres such as New York, Detroit and Chicago.
He also spent time as a member of legendary outfit “Offsides”. The group toured Canada and Asia to support their full-length release “Foul Language”, in fact the first single “2def” (produced by Malicious) received heavy video rotation on Much Music, MTV Canada (Top Ten Most requested) and MTV Asia.

No stranger to hard work, Mr. Malish, lists his cousin, the infamous R-Kade and Prince as his two major inspirations. He writes and produces all of his material and recently finished putting the finishing touches to his debut album, “Music Starts With M” which is due out February 2007. This “labour of love” is aided by the Odoublef family, which includes super djs Team Canada (who also contribute on production as well as scratches) and Soldier Management (The General Trent).
Other members of the crack team, assembled to bring the project to fruition include Tyson (Canada’s premiere knob twiddler) on the mix and “hot shot” video director RT (Randall Thorne), who has already directed two clips from the forthcoming album. .
The debut single/video Heavy M-T-L (Heavy Metal)/Yuk spent six weeks in the Top 5, on the RapCity countdown, as well as receiving regular rotation on Much Music & heavy on Much Vibe..
The latest single Heatwave, is again receiving strong support at Much & Vibe, and seems set to break out as it is fast becoming a fave with urban djs.

Malicious is ready for the “payoff”! Constantly proving his worth, one only has to check out his My Space site, which has accumulated over 150,000 hits (the only other independent Canadian hip hop act to achieve this feat, was Swollen Members).

Besides working on his own project, Mr. Malish masterful skills will also be featured on the forthcoming Grand Theft release and he has been busy criss-crossing the country promoting his singles.

Although it’s hard to find down time for “your rapper’s favorite rapper”, he tries to get to his property in Barbados as often as possible. There, he writes a lot of his music and rejuvenates his mind.

“Selfishly holding down the new sound in hip hop”


Check him out @ www.mrmalish.com
or
drop by www.myspace.com/mrmalish



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