Mike Stud hardly had the most conventional start to his musical career, originally this Rhode Island born artists talents lied in sport as a baseball player for his University team in North Carolina.
He’s proved himself as a talent that can get through any challenge put in his way, and a very bright future beckons as a result. It’s translated into two studio albums and a string of sold out tours all over his home country, and the only way is up from here. Since then, he’s become a true star on YouTube, with his total channel views reaching 37 million views by July 2014. The following year, his first three hits were all featured on his first mixtape “A Toast To Tommy”, which hit the top three of the iTunes hip-hop charts while still being released completely independently. His second song posted “In This Life” was another viral hit, viewed over 1.7 million times in short order. While recuperating, he turned to making music to pass the time and eventually it became his main focus, spurred on by how a track of his, a joke song created for his baseball team called “College Humour”, became a viral hit soon after he posted it.
A prodigy his whole life, by the time he graduated high school he’d made his school’s baseball and basketball varsity teams, a sports scholarship to Durham, North Carolina’s Duke University followed where he was on the fast track to a professional career before disaster struck.įollowing his second year there, Stud was struck down with chronic arm issues that required surgery that took him out of commission for his entire 2009 season. Practically ancient in these post-Lorde years, and that’s because his first passion was sports. In this particular case I’m talking about Mike Stud, one of the hip-hop world’s most promising newcomers who didn’t start writing and releasing music on the internet until he was twenty two years old. Rest assured I’m not talking about Wayne Rooney’s karaoke take on Valerie. However that’s beginning to change, we have musicians who actually can act and actors who actually can write music, and weirdest of all, we have sportsmen who don’t embarrass everyone in the known world when they get involved with music. When any artist getting involved in something like acting or, heaven forbid it, an actor getting involved in music would have been ridiculed as a poser of the highest order. There was once a time when musicians were musicians and artists stuck to what they were good at. If an item is Pre Order it will ship when indicated in the listing.Maybe we’re just getting better at multi-tasking as time goes on. Once it leaves our facility we cannot be responsible for any item that is not delivered because once we hand it to the carrier, it is out of our hands and shipped to the address that was provided at checkout. If an item is lost in transit or cannot be delivered, the buyer must contact the shipping company to resolve any shipping issues and/or file any claims with that shipping company so the item can arrive safely to them. Effie’s Paper is not responsible for any items after they leave our facility. If an item is lost in the mail and cannot be or has not been delivered, a new order must be made. Once an item is shipped the shipping address cannot be changed.
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