RISING STARZ

M.O.D: “I’ve come from nothing to something”

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RISING STARZ TOP OF THE CHARTS. Who will be this weeks Rising Star? You decide!!!!!!!

Contenders for Rising Starz top spot in the chart: Tinie Tempah, M.O.D, Marvell, Skepta, Scorcher, Wretch 32, Tempa T, Griminal, Chipmunk, Ghetto, P Money and JME.

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Ghana Skank is Blowing up the raves!!!!!!!! Learn how to do the Ghana Skank in a step to step tutorial from M.O.D himself and the choreography crew PG. 7

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CONTENTSFEATURES16 MY BRLLIANT CAREER. SCORCHER AND WRETCH 32’S CAREER WITH THE MOVEMENT

24 ADIDAS VS CHECKERED SHIRTS; BOY BETTER KNOW MODEL ADIDAS, JLS MODEL CHECKERED SHIRTS. LOOK TO SEE WHAT THE NEW SWAGG IS.

28 MP5: THE ALL NEW EXPERIENCE OF LISTENING TO MUSIC AND WATCHIN VIDEOS.

32- 33 R.S TOP OF THE CHART: THE CONTENDERS AND A SNEAK PEAK OF TI-NIE TEMPAH’S NEW MUSIC VIDEO, PASS OUT!! 38 THE R.S RED CARPET: THE INFAMOUS RISING STAR IN AMERICA STEPS ONTO THE RED CARPET, DRAKE ‘DRIZZY’ RODGERS!!!

42- 43 COMEBACK SEA-SON: HOW SO SOLID CREW LOOK TO RETURN TO MU-SIC SCENE AFTER BEING OUT FOR MORE THAN 5 YEARS.

Pg 6 R.S Mail

Pg 12 R.S Survey

Pg 68 Subscriptions

Pg 69 Crossword

Pg 70 Prize draw 4 R.S members.

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R.S REVIEWUK’s BIGGEST AND BEST MUSIC GUIDE Photoshoot with Mr 3 stripes Marcel!!

EVERY MONTH45- 55. A 10 PAGE SPECIAL OF Dj’s WEEK-END PERFORMANCE.

DJ APOSTLE 9/10: He rocked the club!! Mono has just been refurbished and it also has a new Dj corner so the levels were to be met by the Dj for the night and Dj Apostle passed with flying colours.

DJ Trilla 10/10: Everytime DJ trilla scratches the record he makes the roof catch fire and we didnt need no water we just let the roof burn looooool. Definately a 10/10 performance!

PG 7: Ghana Skank!! M.O.D and his coreography crew take us through a step to step tutorial. This is a “Skank” that has to be learned.

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RISING STARZ IS THE FIRST MAGAZINE IN THE UK TO INTERVIEW THE EVER RISING STAR M.O.D WHICH STANDS FOR MAN OF DREAMZ

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R.S: Nice to meet you, erm is it M.O.D

M.O.D: Yh but just call me MO (laughs)

R.S: (Laughs) Ok then Mo, how did singing in your life come about?

M,O.D: Well, I’ve been listening to music for years, I love music it takes me places that you will never think of . When it’s me and my mu-sic i’m zoned out i’m in my own world. All them times that i’ve been zoned out I sing, not realis-ing that I could sing good. I didnt actually know if i could sing good or not but it didn’t matter to me i just loved music and i loved singing.

“as i entered the stage there was a bright light on me and the audience cheered and i hadn’t even sang yet”

R.S: So what age did you actually start singing to people or to an audience?

M.O.D: I was aged 12 when i first sang to an audience. There was a open mic talent show at the community centre around my area and my friends were telling me to go and sing, i was obviously nervous when i decided to do it but as i entered the stage there was a bright light on me and the audience cheered and i hadn’t even sang yet i think me just going up on stage showed them i had the courage to do it so they appreciated that.

R.S: As an upcoming young talent, Rising Star shall i say, who do you look up to or who have you looked up to in the music industry?

M.O.D: Well if you dont know I was born and raised in Ghana for about 7-8 years so you might think i didnt know about certain super-stars in the music world which would be a true statement (laughs), however when i did reach this country music was the first thing i heard and since then i found out about stars like Be

yonce’, Jay-z, LL Cool J, Michael Jackson being one of the major ones, Whitney Houston and various other artists but it was mostly them that i heard about. Recently though i dont know if you’ve heard of Tinchy Stryder he is a grime mc so he raps basically and he is my insperation because he is form Ghana aswell and i’ve read articles about him and alot of people doubted him especially his family but inspite of that he still made it so thats my insperation. I feel like i’m kind of in the same situation he was in, as a rising talent but now that my first album is due to come out 6th of March i feel like I’ve come from nothing to something.

R.S: Well it seems like you’ve overcome certain obstacles in your life, but what the audiences and the fans really want to know is what made you come up with the Ghana skank?

M.O.D: (laughs) Well to be totally honest with you i was listening to some baseline which is beats what have a good baseline to it so you can come up with your own skanks (dances), as i was listening to it in my room i started jump-ing up and down it was fun and for a split sec-ond i remembered how me and my family used to dance in Ghana and thats how i started the Ghana skank.

R.S: Well if you dont already know you have every one doing it, even down to my two little kids (laughs). And your Ghana Skank has its own page on the latest RISING STARZ magazine page 7 so its really getting you known there is even a fan page for Ghana skank on facebook so yh keep doing your thing and trust me your gonna make it big time. But thank you for com-ing to talk to us from the RISING STARZ maga-zine and we hope to speak to in another 5-6 months to see whats crackin.

M.O.D: Thank you, the pleasure is all mine. I just want to quickly shout out my family, my boyz Benjani, Dexter, Mumbi, Jiba Jaba, Lb Bar-ros all the man dem. Reminder to all my fans ‘The Creation of M.O.D” is out March 6th dont forget yh and I’m Out!!

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