Hailing from Baltimore, Maryland is an ambitious emcee by the name of Mullyman. Striving to be a hope for those settling on broken dreams alongside the mean streets of violence and poverty, this DMV rhymer is a true success story. Gaining worldwide recognition through his viral music videos played on MTV, in addition to getting his music air play on popular show The Wire, he has surpassed struggle and proven that adversity is nothing but another obstacle to be overcome. Hes not yet where he wishes to be, but Mullyman has already created valuable landmarks of his success. Sharing the stage with the legendary KRS-ONE, and being one of such an exiguous amount of independent artists to attain this status of credibility, are a few of the many great things to come from this talented rapper. Music/Video:MullyMan – “Get Ya Life”DJ Gemini Ft. D.M.V. Dream Team [Mullyman, DC Don Juan, Bossman, Gerreddi, Skarr Akbar, Whitefolkz, Smash, and Kingpen Slim] – “Welcome To The D.M.V.”AllHipHop.com: How did you get your music on a series like The WireMullyman: Actually through a guy who approached me about doing a mixtape, his name is Don Juan, and I got on that mixtape which landed in David Simons desk. From there it took his interest to work with Baltimore artists on the wire show. At first, they had never had any artists on The Wire but after that mixtape they got us on there and then following that they got The Wire soundtrack, and thats how I got on there. I had two songs on the soundtrack and had four songs featured on the actual show, season 4 and 5 and thats what really set up me being on the soundtrack twice.AllHipHop.com: Seeing you have your hometown established, what is your plan to have the rest of the world know your name?Mullyman: Right now MTV is showing a lot of love. My first video on their was the I Go Harder joint with Jay-Z on the hook and they were playing that video crazy. As far as presently, this coming week Ill be up to my fifth video. This video is not my solo song but its a solo song called The DMV Dream Team, produced by Unbelievable and it features me, three other artists from Baltimore and four artists from D.C. As far as the world, a lot of artists have a hard time figuring out how to get on MTV and its the quickest way to me, even quicker than radio as far as the world seeing you because every time that video is played its seen all around the world. Im really playing off of that to keep the world in tune with what I got going on. MullyMan – She Hurtin em from tabi Bonney on Vimeo.AllHipHop.com: How did you get up with Tabi to actually direct one of your videos?Mullyman: Well Tabi is from D.C. and at the time me living in Baltimore, its only 30 minutes apart and I had seen he had success with a few of his videos , so we reached out to him to do my first one in hopes that some of the magic he had going on with some of his own videos would work for me as well and it did. Since then, I developed my own rapport with MTV so now whenever I send them something they respond to it. That also made Music Choice On Demand show the same love as well. AllHipHop.com: Going back to the grassroots…what are you earliest memories of loving Hip-Hop?Mullyman: Ah man. Im a real fan of Hip-Hop, so Im fans of Big, Jay, Pac and Im also fans of KRS-ONE, Rakim, Big Daddy Kane. Im just a fan of Hip-Hop since the beginning, I study it. Hip-Hop as a whole, you name it, I love it and appreciate it. AllHipHop.com: Youre from Baltimore, how would you say that the music culture in that area is embedded in your own music?Mullyman: I think each area has a distinctive slang and mood of things. I incorporate Baltimore slang in there. We have B-More club music, we have a rhythm called the B-More two step which is also featured on there. Were just a city thats known for going hard so I incorporate that energy as well into the music, as well as talking about my experiences growing up there. Every place you go to has their signature on what makes them uniquely different. I definitely epitomize the dude from the hood thats from Baltimore but not in a negative way. In an optimistic way, coming from the hood and emerging and making something better of a bad situation. AllHipHop.com: How are you able to do that and still stand out among other artists from your area?Mullyman: Im just a firm believe that the truth is stronger than a lie. A lot of rappers rather bend to be whatever they think people perceive they should be. I believe if you give people the truth in a way that they can receive it and its good, they will. If you look at the people that really have longevity its people that really are artists; the Lauryn Hills the Kanye Wests to the Drakes, these people give you something that wasnt supposed to work. Usually thats true, because were in an industry where truth isnt what people are trying to sell for the most part. The artists that bring truth are the ones who win the award and last. AllHipHop.com: What is your focus point right now? What are you working on and working towards?Mullyman: Right now I have that CD out which is “Harder Than Baltimore,” its got 19 tracks on it and its produced by DJ Booman and Unbelievable. It features Lady D, Nik Stylz and Sean Paul. My focus is really getting that out to the people and letting everyone know how great the music is. Just gaining more Mullymaniacs. The ultimate goal for this Cd, and Ive been out here in Atlanta for three weeks now and I just had a great meeting today, is getting it nationally distributed to the world. AllHipHop.com: In your opinion, how crucial do you feel freestyling is in the measure of a rap artists credibility?Mullyman: Ah man, I think its very crucial. I believe if youre going to call yourself something, you should be able to do it within balance. You should be able to write, you should be able to freestyle, you should be able to make great hooks. You put me on the spot, Ill give it to you and Ive done it time and time again. Ive even been fortunate enough to get a chance to freestyle with KRS-ONE live on stage, and killed it. I believe that adds an extra element to what you can do as an artist if youre able to improvise. Sometimes things get thrown your way and the energy of the room is going a certain way, you can make magic happen.AllHipHop.com: What was it like for you to share the stage with KRS-ONE and be able to go at it?Mullyman: That was humbling, it was unbelievable! It was crazy. It was when Blender Magazine came down here to interview me and after the interview we needed something to do. We were going to a specific show and it got cancelled because my homeboy got arrested so instead we made the choice to go to this particular event. Once we were in there he was on stage, doing his thing and he asked the question before he left the stage, How many emcees do we have in the building?; before he could get the word out I had jumped on stage, I already knew where he was going with it. Im standing beside KRS-ONE, I kid you not, I always walk around with a couple CDs in my pocket just in case I see somebody, not expecting this to happen that night. While up there, I hand him my CD first. He takes the CD, he has me sign it for him, then he lets me do my thing. The crowd goes crazy, Blender Magazine goes crazy. It was a humbling experience, it was just crazy. Who thinks theyre going to be on stage just rocking the crowd with KRS-ONE? That just doesnt happen in your day! Ill never forget that moment, I cherish that moment and its one of many of a independent artist just doing his thing. AllHipHop.com: You’ve mentioned before overcoming a lot of adversity, growing up what was one trial that stuck with and would you say defined you as a person and artist? Mullyman: I know the world is familiar with The Wire. Its based off of true stories twisted up. Its like the atmosphere where I grew up, a lot of drug activity, poverty, violence, my pops didnt live with me growing up, and the majority of those people dont have success stories. Every day I wake up and do what I do, all the stories of the people that had something in them and for whatever reason it didnt go right, so that its not in vain, its like Im fighting for everything that went wrong. To make a right out of everything that went wrong. Thats how I feel every day I wake up. For every homie I lost that died, for every homie thats locked up, for every kid that feels like he doesnt have a chance, I want to be that hope for the hood. Thats my drive. At the end of the day, good does prevail and I want to be a walking testimony of that. Prioritizing is essential to anyone in the music industry, no matter what field youre in; be it artist, journalist, whatever. For you, what are some of the things that YOU make a priority. Ill say truth first. I fundamentally believe that truth is stronger than a lie, I believe that love is stronger than hate so I would say truth and love. Those are the energies that I operate out of. Those are my priorities. Love is going to consume all at the end of the day, so that is my priority to stay truthful and loving. AllHipHop.com: What’s your next move and what can your fans be looking out for from you?Mullyman: Its funny because theres a saying, Tell God your plans and watch him laugh. I could sit here and tell you Im going to be at the award shows, Im going to be doing concerts, but I think that if the skys the limit, Im definitely going to ignore the sky but as far as me putting a limit of anything I can do, I cant even limit that. I want to be the greatest emcee that ever lived, thats what people should expect from me.Visit Mullyman atTwitter.com/MullymanMyspace.com/Mullyman Youtube.com/majorleagueunlimitedBooking: [email protected]