Stix’ Finishes 2016 Strong With Releases ‘Gettin2da’ & ‘Sorry Peta’
Watts City’s own Stix finishes 2016 Strong with the release of ‘Gettin2da’ and ‘Sorry Peta’, to kick off his new project Focus Move Ford coming out 1st quarter 2017…
Beginning his career as a dancer back in 2002 and moving over to the music industry in 2004, Stix has had an extensive and successful career in music, from founding popular hip-hop event ‘The Pit’ amassed support from some of the west coast’s most notable artist like Kendrick Lamar, Problem, YG, Glasses Malone, Roscoe, Mistah Fab, J-Doe, Gizzle (Bad Boy), and BadLucc (Diamond Lane) to name a few. The Pit also received support from artist outside of the western region like Nas, Redman, and Young Jeezy. As well as the pit Stix was noted via TRUE Magazine as a artists that everyone should know and gave him a cover story in our Straight West Costin’ themed issue.
Later in his career, billboard’s cover story music executive Sarah Stennett, hired Stix to join her Turn First / First Access roster of A&R’s which lead him to develop, executive produce, and oversee projects from artist Bishop Nehru, Zernell Fontaine, and Laurel. Stix would also lend his services as a songwriter/record producer to exclusively produce and write for artist like Rita Ora, Zayn Malik, Ellie Goulding and other Turn First / First Access artist. During the end of Summer 2015, pop star Iggy Azalea tweeted that she was back in the studio with her good friends Stix, and the collective D.R.U.G.S to work on her 2017 release “Digital Distortion”. The first leak “Azillion” received over 1 million views on Soundcloud in 2 days and the first official single “Team” debuted #42 on the Billboard Hot 100, IGGY’s highest debut of her career. Team has also received over 150+ Million views online and streamed over 30+ million times. Stix would also lend his songwriter/record producer services and work with artist like Rita Ora, Cody Simpson, Lil Debbie, Nicole Scherzinger, and Greyson Chance.
‘Gettin2da’ is produced by a good friend of Stix, Young Fyre (Britney Spears, T-Pain) while ‘Sorry PETA’ was produced by producers Des HTH Souf & Wavy84 (2 Chainz, Jeremih, Kodak Black), both are the first releases from a new project which is set to be released early 2017.