TaraMarieEnt: Swayze Jones "SwayzeNation: The Mixtape"

Swayze Jones has been top of the list of my favorite female North Carolina emcee's for a few years now. She has this unstoppable drive in her that refuses to let her give up, on anything! "SwayzeNation: The Mixtape" has been evolving since she first started working on it well over a year ago, and as trials entered her life, she put them into her music. Born in D.C. and raised in Maryland, Swayze found her way to Greensboro, North Carolina and went to work! Most recently, earning her Business Degree from NC A&T. She's not "just another rapper", she's known to pull out her keyboard and beat machine while live on stage, and don't be surprised when she jumps on the tables and starts deejaying during her live sets either. Swayze's lyrics are educated, life-lived and honest.

"SwayzeNation: The Mixtape" includes her in house producers, The Graduates and Blahzae Beats (who also features on a few tracks), Lonestar Beatz, Boonie Mayfield and Flight 125. Features include Poet Dasan Ahanu (on both the Mixtape Intro and Outro), Young Dirt (GHSL founder, on "My Way" and "Strip Club Muzik"), Durham bred J. Gunn ("Rocket Ship"), King Kun, Ashley Alexander, Raheem Kashon ("Love Jones") and singer Chantaul Williams ("Hustla"). This project is solid from beginning to end with Swayze's aggressive and confident delivery on the club sounding tracks, the smooth flow and instrumentals in "Love Jones" and the vulnerable side exposed on the "Tribute To Cordelia Ross" (Swayze's Grandmother who passed away a few months ago). "SwayzeNation: The Mixtape" released today to iTunes, Amazon, Spotify and all other music outlets.

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