SwizZz
| SwizZz | |
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| Birth name | Justin Ritter |
| Born | September 28, 1987 |
| Origin | San Fernando Valley, California, United States |
| Genres | Hip hop |
| Occupation(s) | Rapper |
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| Website | myfunkvolume |
Justin Ritter (born September 28, 1987), better known by his stage name SwizZz, is an American rapper. He is best known for significantly collaborating with childhood friend Hopsin, and being signed to their record label Funk Volume, which was co-founded by Hopsin, himself, and his older brother Damien "Dame" Ritter. He has released various mixtapes including Haywire with Hopsin, and Good Morning SwizZzle. He is currently working on his untitled debut studio album.
SwizZz initially met Hopsin in high school, where they were classmates and became close friends. After high school SwizZz got accepted into the University of California at Irvine, but after two years he decided to put his education on hold, while he would pursue a career in music. He was having a hard time figuring out what he wanted to major in, and he could not find anything he was passionate about in school.
In 2009, Hopsin founded his own independent record label, Funk Volume, with Damien Ritter. SwizZz, who is Damien Ritter's younger brother became the first artist to be signed to Funk Volume. Shortly after launching Funk Volume, Hopsin and SwizZz released a collaborative mixtape titled Haywire on June 18, 2009 to promote the label. Funk Volume originally wanted to sell it for retail sale, but were unable due to Hopsin still being contracted by Ruthless Records at the time. On mixtape website DatPiff, it has been certified Gold for being downloaded over 100,000 times, and it was later made available for purchase for digital download on iTunes and Amazon.com.
SwizZz was featured on three songs from Hopsin's second studio album Raw (2010). The music video for their collaboration, "How Do You Like Me Now" was released on February 25, 2011. Following that he went on the I Am RAW 30-date tour with Hopsin in support of Raw and in promotion of his upcoming mixtape. On June 25, 2011, SwizZz released his debut solo mixtape Good Morning SwizZzle, along with saying his debut album tentatively titled, Rock, Paper, SwizZzors would be released in 2012. On December 11, 2011, Funk Volume released a song "Funk Volume 2012", featuring Hopsin, SwizZz, and new Funk Volume signee Dizzy Wright.
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