In January 2012, Hopsin landed a spot on MTV2’s “Sucker Free Sunday” by appearing in Tech N9ne’s music video for “Am I A Psycho?”. In it he disses Tyler, the Creator of the Los Angeles Hip Hop collective, Odd Future. In July 2011, Hopsin released the fourth installment of his “Ill Mind of Hopsin” video series which later received over 21 million views on YouTube. In March 2011, Hopsin went a two-month nationwide tour to promote Raw with the I Am RAW tour. Hopsin’s second album, Raw, was released on November 19, 2010. In the song Hopsin pokes fun and disses other rappers such as Lil Wayne, Drake, Soulja Boy, Lupe Fiasco, Rick Ross and Tomica Wright, the owner of Ruthless Records. The video became a YouTube success and currently has over 37 million views. On October 8, 2010, Hopsin released a music video for the song “Sag My Pants”, the second single off Raw on YouTube. Hopsin released “Nocturnal Rainbows” as the first single off of his upcoming second album Raw on August 1, 2010. On mixtape website DatPiff, it has been certified Gold for being downloaded over 100,000 times and it later made available for purchase for digital download via iTunes and. Funk Volume originally wanted to sell it for retail sale, but were unable to due to Hopsin still being contracted by Ruthless Records at the time. Shortly after launching Funk Volume, both Hopsin and SwizZz released a collaborative mixtape titled Haywire in June 2009 to promote the label. SwizZz, Damien Ritter’s younger brother and a former classmate of Hopsin at Monroe High, was the first artist to be signed to Funk Volume. Shortly before the departure from Ruthless Records, Hopsin founded his own independent label, Funk Volume, with Damien Ritter. Shortly after the album’s release, Hopsin sought his release from Ruthless Records due to lack of financial compensation, artist support, and promotion. However his debut album, Gazing at the Moonlight was not released until October 27, 2009, with little to no promotion. The album was set to be self-produced by Hopsin and feature no collaborations with other artists. Hopsin’s debut single “Pans In the Kitchen” was released on May 27, 2008. Hopsin had initially signed with Ruthless Records in 2007 and even began recording his debut album as early as 2004, he was originally hailed as one of driving forces behind attempting to bring Ruthless Records back to previous glory. Hopsin began recording his debut project “Emurge” in 2002 and was eventually released locally in 2003, copies of the project are very sparse and hard to find, a bootleg version appeared online in 2008 and had many extra songs on it, however to this day the album has never been release officially. He credits Eminem as the rapper that initially got him interested into Hip Hop music. He stated that he used the contacts to give himself a memorable appearance and differentiate himself from other African American rappers with the cliché appearance. While starting his music career, Hopsin decided to sport colored eye contacts while performing in his music videos. He dropped out of high school during his senior year in 2004 to pursue a career in music, purchased a microphone, and installed FL Studio (known as FruityLoops at the time) on his computer. He started rapping at sixteen years old, and took his hobby more seriously by 2003 which is the year the majority of the tracks from Hopsin’s self-produced album Emurge were recorded. Hopsin has been an avid skateboarder since the age of twelve, as many of his music videos feature him skateboarding. He attended James Monroe High School, where he was placed into special educational classes. Marcus Hopson was born on Jin Los Angeles, and was raised in the Panorama City neighborhood of Los Angeles. He is well known for his use of white colored eye contacts in music videos, performances, and interviews. Hopsin has released four studio albums, Gazing at the Moonlight through Ruthless Records, Raw, Knock Madness and Pound Syndrome along with the collaborative project Haywire (with SwizZz) through Funk Volume. In 2007, he was signed to Ruthless Records, and has since founded his own record label, Funk Volume, in 2009. Marcus Jamal Hopson (born July 18, 1985), better known by his stage name Hopsin, is an American rapper, record producer, director and actor from Los Angeles, California.
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