Video: Roach Gigz - "Can I Rap"

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	Video: Roach Gigz - "Can I Rap"	11.02.2010


	Bay Area Emcee Shows Local Pride Using Hometown Team's Stadium As Backdrop For New Video

The Video: One of Roach Gigz' best qualities is his ability to balance his lighthearted nature with an underlying seriousness. In his new video for "Can I Rap," from *Roachy Balboa 2, the follow up to Roach's highly acclaimed Roachy Balboa* mixtape released earlier this year, the San Francisco Bay Area emcee sets out to answer the question posed in the song's title. He offers a relentless three-plus minutes of chorus-free rhymes, over a sparse lunch-table beat provided by C-Loz, who handled the production of Roachy Balboa and the forthcoming sequel, pausing only briefly to catch his breath. Roach's flow and lyrics are as unique and dynamic as they've ever been, and he moves effortlessly from tangent to tangent as he tackles subjects such as Doritos, interoffice relations, scalping Giants tickets in the 7th grade, and Miley Cyrus. The location for this video makes perfect sense when one considers how important The Bay and the San Francisco Giants are to Roach's personality. With his favorite baseball club on the verge of taking the World Series at the time of filming, director and frequent collaborator Aris Jerome fully captures the frenzied energy of the scene. "Every moment was enjoyable, just watching everybody around get into the filming and just having a good time," Roach explains. "This is history and I just wanted to play my part in it." The timing of the video couldn't be better, with the San Francisco Giants' win of the World Series. Roach Gigz' Roachy Balboa 2, offered as a free download, will be dropping soon. Stay tuned for further information. Check out the video for "Can I Rap": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=208zbUoQcas Also be sure to download "Black & Orange," a tribute to the San Francisco Giants from DaVinci, Roach Gigz, San Quinn, Big Rich and Cellski, here: http://media.audibletreats.com/DaVinci_Roach_Gigz_San_Quinn_Cellski_Big_Rich-Black_And_Orange.mp3 Download *Roachy Balboa* from Roach's website: http://roachgigz.com/ Tweet For more information on Roach Gigz please contact Michelle or Dan at Audible Treats. The Background: Selected as one of 106 KMEL's Top 10 Freshman Rappers of the Bay Area, 21-year-old San Francisco native Roach Gigz has gone from virtually unknown to one of the hottest artists on the West Coast in just four years. Born and raised in the Bay Area Roach was conceived in Nicaragua during the Contra and Sandinista war. His father was a supporter of the Sandinista Liberation Front and has never lived in the United States but Roach's mom moved to California and raised him as a single mother. Needless to say his upbringing was very complex so being a white rapper in a predominantly Black and Latin dominated business is not an issue for Roach. "I'm just being myself and I think my fans see that. It ain't about race; it's about the music." Named after a combination of the character Roach from the movie *Next Friday* and his high school days dancing skills, Roach Gigz first gained local fame with close friend Lil 4Tay as one half of the group Bitch I Go (B.I.G.). Now, with two successful mixtapes under his belt Roach is currently preparing his debut album, tentatively titled *Therapy Sessions*, which is scheduled to be released this fall. The album is shaping up to be a very personal one. Roach says the music will touch on the ups and downs of his life from the struggles he's been through growing up in the Bay to the birth of his newborn son.
Streams: "Can I Rap" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=208zbUoQcas DaVinci, Roach Gigz, San Quinn, Big Rich & Cellski - "Black & Orange" SF Remix http://media.audibletreats.com/DaVinci_Roach_Gigz_San_Quinn_Cellski_Big_Rich-Black_And_Orange.mp3 Young Gully feat. Roach Gigz - "What If" http://media.audibletreats.com/Young_Gully-What_If_Ft_Roach_Gigz.mp3 "Goomba Pimpin/Kirplunk" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YFFrbdOiFI "Magic Gas" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0KwOj5A_CU "Respect It" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEAueiDijRc "Pop Off" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_A3yMfHHuE Bio, pictures, and streams available here: http://www.audibletreats.com/download/roach_gigz/ Website: http://roachgigz.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/roachg MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/roachgigz Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/roachGtv Bandcamp: http://roachgigz.bandcamp.com/