Wayback Thursday’s – Getting To Know You | A Melo-X Dedication Party

This week on Wayback Thursday we rewind the clock to August of 2008 and a party produced by Melo – X titled The Dedication Party. This party was intended to be a part of a series in which Melo would pay tribute to his creative friends.  This particular episode is pretty cool because it features a couple of artists who are blowing up right now.  The first being the host and former New Pop Crew-mate Melo – X (who has toured all over the world with Kid Sister and just got back from Paris promoting his mixtape More Merch), Mickey Factz (featured in the URB Next 100 with us and just recently finished touring with Big Sean), and Theophilus London (who was featured or made cameo’s in a number of New Pop episodes and can now be seen everywhere from MTV to The Tonight Show with David Letterman).

Back in 2008 they were all striving for big things but were rubbing elbows in small places.  This video not only highlights these three artists, but pays tribute to the collage of talented folks that made up this scene.  A big reason I launched TheNewPop was my desire to capture talented people and relevant movements before they evolved into something bigger.  It’s a bit early to confirm that is what’s happening now, but if it isn’t it’s pretty darn close.   Anyway check out this video which actually is the video that gave me the idea for my Getting To Know You series that I started last year and plan to take on the road this spring/summer.

Enjoy
TrVZ

Wayback Trivia: Thenewpop.com was a direct offspring of the website sceneinteractive.com a videocasting site I founded in 2004.  After leaving in 2005 I wanted to take that concept and apply it to musicians and artists. The early newpop videos were not much more than video head shots with artists telling their stories to the camera.  Innovative yes, creative not so much.

Apr 14, 2011 | Categories: VIDEO, WAYBACK THURSDAY | Tags: Melo-X, mickey factz, Theophilus London | Comments Off