Young Paperboyz

Young Paperboyz is Mayor Boss and Della Ratta better known as simply Young Paperboyz, Mayor Boss (born June 5, 1986) and Della Ratta (born October 27, 1987) is a Nigeria Hip/Hop, R&B & Pop group who are based in Ukraine. Young Paperboyz derived there stage name from friends when they are growing up back in 2007

Early life

Mayor Boss and Della Ratta was born in Nigeria After graduating from Senior High School and university in Nigeria, they later travel to Ukraine where they got their first taste for the music business. After recording their first demo in 2007 young paperboyz music started gaining recognition in the Ukraine

Career

Young Paperboyz began their full music career 2008 with their hit single ‘You Know’ which was their first song to ever be played on local radio in Ukraine and they continued work with their 13-track debut album, Moving, which they put out in 2009. In 2010 they dropped another single, ‘Livin on the Edge’ feat Quis from the ‘Lavish Life Mixtape’ which gained success all over the world. Later in the year, Young Paperboyz made their first Ukraine tour with Angeliya from city to city. The group did a freestyle to the song free madness by one of the Nigeria famous musician Terry G a.k.a. Gabriel Oche Amanyi earning them popularity in the Nigeria market of music. Due to a lot of request’s from fans, finally in 23 August 2010 Paperboyz released the Mixtape with 21 tracks on it. Title (Paperboyz lavish life Mixtape). They also released the single; ‘Live it Up’ featuring Logan Chapman which became another hot track in Ukraine and parts of Europe. Young Paperboyz produces and markets their songs as an independent artist. They have worked with a couple of studios like Champion Studio film USA, Hardx Soul Suiter Entertainment Nigeria, Sutbeat studio Germany, NDSL Ukraine, IRenaHouse Ukraine, and many more .

In January 2011 Young Paperboyz got signed to Bandamusic label in which Young Paperboyz music will releases to be distributed through Universe Media Group

2009: Moving

In mid-2009 Young Paperboyz released their debut album, Moving, which spawned three singles: "Rozkachai", "Moving", and "You Know". The first single released from the album was Dancing Step The second single is "You Know", The single made a Hot Shot Debut in the street of Ukraine, Nigeria & Germany getting much radio airplay since it debuted. While promoting the album, Young Paperboyz made guest appearances on multiple songs by other artists in UK, Germany, Ukraine USA Nigeria and so on The whole album was made with slaviq music studio

2010: Mixtapes and singles

in August 2010 Young Paperboyz released a mixtape titled "Paperboyz lavish life Mixtape" which features a lot of act which was available for free legal download online. Despite no album release for the year, Young Paperboyz did many more single and appeared in numerous singles as a featured performer. also appeared on tracks from albums of Eyes Pe, albums of Mapro Makwa (Congo) and albums of XFINIC

2012–present: Naija Boss

Young Paperboyz announced the release of his next Mixtape Naija Boss, for January 2012, however it was confirmed on November 11, 2011 it has been pushed back for release to June, 2012 because of their education studies and mayor boss of the Young Paperboyz was preparing for his graduation in May 2012. The pictures from the graduation was published on Thenigerianvoice, Modernghana.com titled Mayor Boss of Young Paperboyz Graduates with a Masters

On February 5, 2012 Young Paperboyz premiered two singles from there new Mixtape Naija Boss titled Smash The Club & Shake Am featuring RacenNext Iroking.com rated the single 4.5 out of 5.

Naija Boss features guest appearances by Nigeria rappers Lil Jojo, Sutfute, Jasi Caesar, Mr. Raw [of Faraw], T-Money, Asuzu, Olumyth, RacenNext, Mapro Makwa [Congo], NaNa [Ghanaian] Tofa [Ukrainian] along with singing vocals by Tustep, Maxim Novitskiy [Ukrainian], Mariana, Hardx, MKurgaev, Alex Martin female rappers M1ss MC & Qslimz. Production varies from Double Brothers DJ’s, Sutbeat, Dj Nikita Noskow, Jacob Levan, TrimzBeatz, MavMonet and others. The mix-tape consists mostly of original material, and includes a remix of Meek Mill’s “Im a Boss” and “Smash The Club” by Kardinal Offishall as bonus tracks.

Naija Boss was released August 25, 2012. for free download on SoundCloud.com On September 9, 2012, its was made available on the iTunes Store, Amazon, Nokia Music, iHeartRadio, Google Play, Spinlet.com, Spotify and Many More

Musical style

In an interview with Naijamayor.com Young Paperboyz said that their song is Hip Hop style and a little bit of pop so the people can dance to it, and sometime try to mix the Nigeria Afro Hip Hop style to it so the Nigeria people and the world can feel their music

Collab songs with other singers

Young Paperboyz has appeared in numerous singles as a featured artist, including "God Pass Dem" by sutflute, "Malo lera Remix" by Eword, 'LET'S ROLL" by Evagreen, "Alone" by The Reaper, "TO D TOP" by sleek kings, "Go get it" by Evagreen, "summer time" by Angeliya, "Maloro Pe Ogbon" by Hardx, "Shaka ma" by RacenNext, "WE RE 9JA" by Eyepe, "NEVER LOSE" by XFINIC, Crazy For Love by Mapro Makwa (Congo) and Many more

Personal life

On Thursday 31 May 2012 Mayor Boss (of Young Paperboyz) received his Masters Degree Certificate in Pharmacy from Ternopil State Medical University Ukraine, launched himself into the class of Nigerian musicians like Banky W, rapper Naeto C and a few others in the bandwagon of Nigerian musicians with academic degrees Della Ratta is set to graduated this year 2012

Discography

Studio albums
  • 2009: Moving
Mixtapes
  • 2009: Naija Boss
  • 2010: Lavish Life Mixtape

Awards

  • Best UpComing African Act HIP HOP AWARD UKRAINE 2010

Nominated

  • Best Rapper HYP.E AWARDS 2011 Ukraine
  • Most Top Ten Hits on kissfm 2011
  • Best Dance Single VIBE AWARD Ukraine 2010

Videography

2011
  • "Live it up"
  • "One Day"
  • "Song For Japan"
  • "Flying"
  • "What You Know"
  • "I'M A Boss"
2012
  • "SMASH The Club"
  • "cast"
  • "dope"

References

  • Universe Media Group Artist 1
  • nigeriafilms 2
  • iTunes 3
  • 360nobs 4
  • www.youlicense 5
  • ameyawdebrah 6
  • underdarock 7
  • tunecore 8
  • Museke African artistes 9
  • naijanedu update art 10
  • discogs.com 11
  • jaguda.com song for Japan 12
  • WHAT’s HOT ABOUT Young Paperboyz 13
  • newafricanpress.com one day video 14
  • talkmedianigeria.com keep flying song alert 15
  • brandamusic artist 16
  • datpiff.com mixtape 17
  • Reverbnation.com artist 18
  • Naijamayor.com song of the year 19

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