WATCH VIDEOS FROM BAG$ ON www.youtube.com/bagstheboss. BIO CONTACT LINKS:: www.myspace.com/bagstheboss www.twitter.com/bagstheboss MIXTAPE DOWNLOAD:: "***** I'm A Star 3: Illusions of Grandeure" Amalgam Digital: www.tinyurl.com/bagsam (2000+ downloads) Dat Piff.com : www.tinyurl.com/b3piff (8 downloads) ThatCrack.com: www.tinyurl.com/b3crack (1000+ downloads) "What We Need" Music Video YouTube.com- www.tinyurl.com/bagswwn (2000+ views) DatPiff.com- http://www.datpiff.com/What_We_Need.v6742.html (800+ views) ThisIs50.com- http://thisis50.com/video/what-we-need (800+ views) BIO For some, the rocky road to success isnt easy to navigate. Take Queens native BAG$™ for instance. After working for years writing, changing producers, and waiting on his manager, BAG$™ noticed no one was going to help him as much as himself. Thanks to the popularity of his "B!T©H I'M A STAR™ imprint, Queens Hispanic scene would never be the same. Raised with his brother in South Jamaica Queens, BAG$™ learned at a young age how to improve upon the not so perfect conditions around him. "My mother always said I used to setup stands and always try to sell somebody something, whatever it was" says the rapper born Angel Melo. "My father worked extremely hard to get what he has, so that work ethic was instilled in me since young. I knew that anything I wanted to get I had to work for." After graduating from high school, BAG$™ dabbled in drugs and started to see money roll in slowly, which prompted him to record at various studios and doing shows which in turn forced him to miss a lot of college. "I was doing all types of things," says the Queens MC today. "I was going to City College, after that I'd go straight to the studio in Bk, go to sleep, be up at 8am, go to class, make some sales. I knew I wanted to do entrepreneurial things, but I was still trying to find myself. Then I focused." It wasn't until a 7am call from DJ Fatfingaz in 2007 that made BAG$™ work harder. "The first thing he said was 'yo you wrote that Who You Know Fresher joint? Cuz I'm gonna start playing it wherever I'm at," says the 23 yr old entertainer, "He was actually playing the record everywhere, then after that all the other DJ's started catching on." BAG$™ worked with Fatfingaz for the upcoming months and noticed that more dj's were playing his song, "Once I realized that people were feeling me I just went out and hit the streets," says the resourceful MC who recorded his hit "Who You Know Fresher" in October of '05. "I just started emailing the record out and going through different people and promoting. I would be passing out CDs and going out partying and making sure they [DJ's] played my song. The buzz just started to grow and before I knew it 'Who You Know Fresher' was at all The Queens' clubs." This was when he got to work on his 2007 SuperStar Jay hosted mixtape "B!T©H I'M A STAR™." Not being content with how the project was received by the public, BAG$™ changed his flow and reinvented a new persona. With a new image and attitude, BAG$™ got to work on his 2009 release of "B!T©H I'M A STAR 3: Illusions of Grandeure." Tracks like "Illusions of Grandeure" and "Swing For The Stars," show you where the "new" BAG$™ is headed. That seems to be for the charts. "Model For Me" finds the Queens artist praising models and everything fashion. While "To Whom It May Concern" and "Old Fashion'd Girl" offer a glimpse of the harsh realities we face, the single "What We Need" outlines this lyricists troubles with past relationships with women. With the help of Dj KOOL KID and the majority of the mixtape catering to various markets, "***** I'm A Star 3" is sure to knock heads nationwide. A tireless work ethic and the B!T©H I'M A STAR following, continues to help BAG$™ build a future through his love of creating music. "I'm a workaholic," says BAG$. "For the next few years I'm going to go harder than any other artist. There's no other choice for me, this isn't a hobby, its my way out."