"JAY, 50 & WEEZY" TAKES DEE-1 TO MTVu's "THE FRESHMEN"

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New Orleans, LA - As a former educator, it is only fitting that Dee-1 get his start at MTV on MTVu's "The Freshmen." His Jay, 50 & Weezy video is up for voting on the site all this week - http://freshmen.mtvu.com/ after making its debut on MTV Jams last weekend. Today also saw the video go over 100,000 plays on YouTube, with over 42 pages of comments.

Some typical reactions from viewers include: "A breath of fresh air!!! FINALLY!!!", "That was HOT! One of the few rappers that I would pay to see" and "This was very poignant, real, and heartfelt. Shoutout to Dee-1." They just go on and on.

David Augustine aka Dee-1 always had a passion for music. After graduating from Louisiana State with a bachelors in marketing, he began teaching middle school as a way of funding that passion. The strong bond he built with his students, even as his notoriety as a local artist began to grow, made him realize that being Dee-1 gave him a much larger platform to enlighten than being Mr. Augustine and so, his career choice was made.

Since then there has been his highly successful mixtapes, Still We Rise, I Am Who I Am and I Hope They Hear Me, an independent album, David & Goliath (nominated for for Hip Hop Album of the Year by Offbeat magazine) and live performances alongside the likes of Lil Wayne, Drake, Lupe Fiasco, Trey Songz, Akon, Talib Kweli and more, where his star power was evident. Dee-1 was also the first rap act to win the annual Louisiana State University "Battle of the Bands."

Next up for this unapologetic musical educator is his new mixtape, I Hope They Hear Me: Vol. #2, set to drop as a free download later this year. The first single/video for the tape is "Jay, 50 and Weezy", a lyrical challenge from Dee-1 to those he looks up to in the game.

VIDEO: - "Jay, 50 & Weezy" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1IGfv8zSgw

To keep the buzz alive until his tape drops, Dee-1 is dropping mixtape tracks and freestyles, along with original material from I Hope They Hear Me, Vol. #2. Below is a link to download Gold & Platinum, Dee-1's interpretation of Black & Yellow.

DOWNLOAD LINK: http://tinyurl.com/dee1GoldandPlatinum