2010 Bay Area Freshmen 10 Recap: DaVinci

With nominations for the 2011 Bay Area Freshman 10 coming to a close tomorrow, we thought now would be an appropriate time to look back at our 2010 Freshman and acknowledge the grind that they put in since being included in the inaugural list. So for the next 10 days we’ll look at one MC at a time and highlight their careers up to this point, as well as what they have done since becoming a Bay Area Freshman. Every artist’s career plan and philosophy is unique, but no matter who you are, taking advantage of legitimate buzz can never be wrong. Because in this fickle, over saturated world that we like to call hip-hop, the second you stop releasing content and doing shows, unfortunately seems to be the second many forget that you ever existed. So let’s see how the first Freshman class performed since they were named some of The Bay’s top prospects.

Davinci:

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Sweetbreads Collective interviewed on Wax Poetics

In San Francisco’s Fillmore neighborhood, the projects go up and the projects come down, but rapper DaVinci’s family has owned property there since the ’50s, part of a wave of African-Americans that left the South in search of better job opportunities. On DaVinci’s debut, The Day the Turf Stood Still, hard-boiled raps are underscored by soulful, sample-heavy beats, courtesy of his Sweetbreads Creative Collective collaborators Al Jieh and Ammbush.

Read the whole interview, written by David MacFadden-Elliot here!

DaVinci - Concrete Jungle Juice (Official Video)

New video from the boy boy Don John DaVinci, off his free album The Day The Turf Stood Still...keep an eye out for his appearance on Under The Bay Season 1: The Mixtape...it's a heater....

DaVinci interviewed on Distortion2Static

With some sneak peaks at his upcoming video, Jungle Juice...Looks savage to me!

DaVinci on Streets Is Talking Radio

Oakland's Streets Is Talking Radio got a chance to chop it up with Fillmore's rising star DaVinci. He speaks on the logic behind releasing his album The Day The Turf Stood Still for free and much much more.

Download: DaVinci on Streets Is Talking Radio

DaVinci - Ben (Official Video)

"Don't make me dead guys for dead guys in my pockets"...Produced by Big D, directed and edited by Marcus Ubungen. Off The Day The Turf Stood Still.