Say what? A Canadian teen whose studio name is WondaGurl has been credited as a producer on "Crown," a track on Jay-Z's new album, Magna Carta Holy Grail, according to Jezebel.
Ebony Oshunrinde, who just finished the 11th grade, has an inspiring story. Earlier this year, she sent the beat to a friend, a young rapper and producer, who just happened to be in the studio with Hov when he received it. She thought her friend was joking when he told her that it made the cut.
Her story is insanely inspiring and impressive: after watching a video of Jay-Z and Timbaland working in the studio together at age 9, she began to download music software and teach herself how to use it by watching YouTube tutorials. "I wanted to do the exact same thing that [Jay-Z] did," she recently told the Star. When she was 14, she made it to the quarter-finals of Toronto's Battle of the Beatmakers. (FOURTEEN. I didn't even know how to make a grilled cheese when I was 14.) She won the title the following year, because she is incredible, and went on to sign an exclusive management deal with Black Box.
According to Ian Stanger, a representative with Black Box, "It's amazing to see somebody with that much talent working as hard as she can to make the most of it at such a young age. It's her work that people should be paying attention to, not the fact that's she 16."
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