Drop Your Talent

Ric Nuek was born and raised in New Haven, Connecticut. He grew up on Kensington St. which was notorious for drugs , crime , violence and gangs . You could say his love for hip hop was what keep him from going in the same recycled path that many others had chosen to get out of the hood dead or in jail. So with those options at age 13 he began to write , record , and market his own music . At the time cassette tapes where running the industry , he gave promotional copies of his music away in his highschool and in the streets . As the music industry changed and cd's took over, he began to understand the business side of the industry as an artist and decided to start his own indie label, Get Doe Records founded in 1999 . He would start releasing mixtapes featuring his hottest freestyles and songs trying to create a buzz for himself and his label as well as other artist & labels he was affiliated with. From there he would have his music featured on the radio on Hot 93.7 "Saturday Night Show down " & "The Kid Fresh Show " Crunk It Or Junk It. He was also featured on Power 104.1 as a winner on Spank Buddahs "Streets Beats ". And as a finalist for Connecticut in "Xhibits Hip Hop Supa Stars" contest. He stayed persistant and kept dropping mixtape after mixtape and his buzz began to grow, he did some performances at Club El N Gee , The C.O.C , Back Court Sports Cafe and The Elks Lounge just to name a few. He then linked up with Stockton, California's "First Lady Playgyrl Slim" of Bonafide Hustler Entertainment and featured on mixtapes that the Bonafide Hustler C.E.O released such as "The Networking Compilation" & her mixtape "2 Face". He would later take a trip to Manhattan to get a feature on "Funk Mater Flex Unsigned Talent Dvd Vol 3 c/o Tat Wza", also some performances on CTV and a long list of radio stations who have spun his records, as well as numerous websites that he has recieved awards and artist features for his music his main goal now is breaking into the game with the major playas and bringing a change to todays Hip Hop Movement .