Mar 06 2010
The Glit Gets 2 Know Fly Gypsy
Fly Gypsy
Since their introduction to the industry, Fly Gypsy, Jamaican-born emcee Kom Plex and Russian-born producer/one man band Alexei have gotten airtime on VH1 Soul and MTVu, as well as national and international recognition for their unique brand of Hip-Hop. Now that the band has a very successful album “Change For a Dollar” and mixtape “The Vodka & Rum Mixtape” under their belt, they are making sure their new project makes just as much noise.
(L to R) Chaya W. -The Glit, Alexei -F.G., Kom Plex - F.G., Victoria O. -The Glit
The Glit got the chance to hang out with Fly Gypsy as they promote their new mixtape, which has yet to be titled. We caught up with the duo on Sunday at the Atlas Theatre, and got a chance to witness another one of their awesome shows. Because the guys hit the ground running when their first album dropped, they weren’t able to nurture their DC audience the way they wanted to, but this time around they are making sure their DC fans are ready—with ears wide open—for their soon-coming mixtape, slated to drop March 16th. The “Remix Kings” as we dubbed them, have been getting a lot of positive feedback about their recent remixes, including Robin Thicke’s “Sex Therapy,” “Wale’s Pretty Girls”, and their latest, David Guetta and Akons’s “Sexy Bitch”, to name a few. “We actually taking songs and making them better in our opinion, our humble opinion. Alexei touched up the production and I like flipped some of the concepts completely,” explains Kom Plex.
Although many would categorize Kom Plex as just a rapper, he would beg to differ. The emcee clarifies that he has never set aside his first love; spoken word. “I still haven’t transitioned to rap. I do both, says Kom Plex. He goes on to explain that “poetry for me is very different than hip-hop. There are a lot of people who slow down their rhymes and call them poems, but I actually write poetry. It’s like the same language but a different dialect”.
Fly Gypsy has definitely been leaving their stamp in various locations worldwide and continues to expand their brand even further.
Recently, the duo shot the video for their “I Wanna Rock (Brooklyn)” remix in NYC. Check out the new video which was released on Tuesday!
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