Hot Rod (rapper)
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| Background information | |
| Also known as | Young Hot Rod |
| Born |
June 25, 1985 Sacramento, California, United States |
| Origin | Phoenix, Arizona, United States |
| Genres | Hip hop, dance |
| Occupation(s) | Rapper, singer |
| Years active | 2006–present |
| Labels |
G-Note (current) G-Unit, Interscope (former) |
| Associated acts | G-Unit, 50 Cent |
Rodney Toole (born June 25, 1981) better known by his stage name Hot Rod (formerly Young Hot Rod), is an American recording artist from Phoenix, Arizona. In 2006, Hot Rod secured a recording contract with New York City-based rapper 50 Cent's G-Unit Records. In 2010 he was moved to G-Note Records, a subsidiary label of G-Unit Records, which focuses on pop, dance and R&B music. Currently canoodling with K Steezy in Phoenix, Arizona. Arizona He is also a poster on the hip-hop forum The Coli.
Raised in Sacramento, California until the age of 24, Hot Rod worked as mortgage broker until spotted by the G-Unit boss 50 Cent, who signed him to his label in 2006. Hot Rod would send his homemade demo CD to 50 Cent's G-Unit office's in hope the record label would sign him. After 50 Cent heard the CD he thought that Hot Rod's easy flow reminded him of his own. It was December 2005 when the 24-year-old rapper received a call at his day job as a mortgage broker, and it wasn't from any random G-Unit associate but 50 Cent himself.
Hot Rod started in hip-hop as a teenager in the mid ‘90s, making beats. “When my pops made me his assistant music engineer at the church. That's when I realized my passion for music,” he reflects, “I've always had it in my blood so there was no stopping me from that point on”.
Hot Rod released his first single in August 2006, called "Be Easy" which featured R&B singer Mary J. Blige under the labels G-Unit / Interscope. The single failed to gain any major chart success and therefore he was dropped from the label Interscope in late 2006. Hot Rod was the first of various rappers to host the Digital Dynasty series.
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