Wondagurl (real name Ebony Oshunrinde) has been the talk of the music scene for about two months now, ever since she collaborated with rapper/producer Travi$ Scott. Travi$ Scott is signed as a producer to Kanye West‘s very GOOD Beats record label imprint and signed on as a Rapper to T.I‘s Grand Hustle record label imprint.
She
produced Travi$ Scott‘s hit single, “Uptown” which turned a lot
of heads when they found out that it was a 16 year old girl behind the hard
Trap/Hip-Hop production. As Travi$ Scott was called on
to Jay-Z‘s latest album, “Magna Carta Holy Grail” last minute, Travi$
Scott did the introductions and track 8,“Crown” was made, as they say
– the rest is history.
In an
interview with Complex
magazine, she told her story of how she became a producer.
“I
started when I was 9-years-old. I was on my computer watching YouTube videos
ofTimbaland—he’s my favorite producer. When I saw those videos
of Timbaland, I fell in love with what he does in making the
instrumentals, and I wanted to do the same thing. I started out making little
beats on my keyboard, and then I went up to Magix Music Maker, then
to Reason, and then FL Studio.”
After
she competed in the 2012 Battle of the Beatmakers competition and
won, the Drake-affiliated Boi-1datook her under his wing and
since then, she has worked on tracks for SonReal & Rich
Kidd as well asRyan Leslie.
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Seven
years after she took interest in producing music, she has produced on one of
the biggest Hip-Hop albums to date, on which most of the production credits go
to her mentor, Timbaland.
She also spoke to the Huffington post recently
on her production credit on Jay-Z‘s album.
The day after
the album soft-launched
“It was
crazy. Just people calling me, texting me and tweeting me all the time. My
phone was just blowing up.”
On how she got
on Jay-Z’s album
“I made
a beat and sent it to Travi$ Scott and he said he
was gonna do some stuff with it. A few days later, he texted me and said he was
about to change my life but he wouldn’t tell me what he was talking about. Then
he called me and told me I was officially on Jay-Z‘s album.”
With all this success in such a short career, Ebony Oshunrinde has
just finished 11th grade and her parents want her to, at least, finish
High School.
“I have
to focus on school because if I don’t my mom takes my computer away.”
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