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HighDro

HighDro is a 24 year old Activist/ Connoisseur, and Songwriter/Performer raised in Sin City. His music is heavily inspired by Roots Rock Reggae as thats mostly all hes listened to the past four years.

HighDro found his love for Hip Hop and started freestyling at the age of ten. Three months into his career he entered the Apollo Talent show that came to town & took third place out of fifty plus Rap and R&B performers. He had less than twenty performances under his belt.

He is an energetic crowd pleaser that truly pulls a crowd in. He has recently recieved an astonishing amount of positive media in local magazines & papers. HighDro released two professional albums in the month of June 2009. His music is on sale online & in stores.

HighDro has performed over three hundred times & is very comfortable on stage. He's performed in over thirty five venues in the past year & a half. He started Las Vegas' most consistent Hip Hop night "Hip Hop Roots" where he unites two genres together. Hip Hop & Reggae. The night has been running weekly for over a year & been embraced by the people of Las Vegas.

He chose to release a three EP collection of six tracks a piece rather than a full length first. He displays three completely different styles all able to be marked to different crowds. His first album "Rise Up" is inspired by Oldschool Hip Hop & Roots Rock Reggae. It was wrote in the intention of bringing the soul and substance back to Hip Hop music. The second album "Concrete Jungle" is his mainstream club/radio album. Hard hitting beats all the way through! Catchy hooks with a tounge twisting message. This is not your typical dumbed down mainstream album. The third album "The time is now" is his Political/Revolutionary/Underground side. Packed with supressed information & backed with real emotion and anger. Together you have "Rise Up Concrete Jungle, The Time Is Now". Meaning the people of poverty, the people knowing of whats going on must stop talking about it & start standing up. His goal in his music is to inspire and educate people so they can better themselves and society as a whole.

HighDro has performed with:

  • Wu-Tang Clan
  • Mobb Deep
  • Killah Priest
  • Barrington Levy
  • Tech N9ne
  • Reel Big Fish
  • BluePrint
  • Illogic
  • Abstract Rude
  • Aceyalone
  • Iame
  • Sapient
  • BLU
  • English Beat
  • Raashan Ahmad
  • The Skatalites
  • Musab
  • Canibus
  • Inspectah Deck
  • Opio
  • Guilty Simpson
  • 2 Mex
  • Planet Asia
  • LMNO
  • Sage Francis
  • Self Jupiter
  • Ghostface Killah
  • Raekwon
  • Percee P
  • B. Dolan
  • Mayday
  •  Frank Nitt
  • Scarub
  • CappaDonna
  • Knocturnal
  • Rasco
  • Masta Killa
  • Tha Liks
  • Josh Martinez
  • Awol One
  • Ecid
  • Three6Mafia
  • Afro Classics
  • King T
  • FaShawn & Exile
  • Free Moral Agents (Mars Volta)
  • The Slackers
  • Jean Grae
  • Dark Time Sunshine
  • Debanaires
  • Okwerdz
  • Sahtyre
  • Z Man
  • Everlast
  • Big B
  • Bliss N Eso
  • Medusa
  • Potluck
  • Kottonmouth Kings
  • La the Darkman
  • Illa J (J Dilla's Little brother)
  • & Many More

He has been blessed to entertain on stages at:

  • House of Blues Main Stage Mandalay Bay (Las Vegas NV)
  • Cesears Palace Poetry Night Club (Las Vegas NV)
  • Monte Carlo Brand Lounge (Las Vegas NV)
  • Monte Carlo Diablos Cantina (Las Vegas NV)
  • Hard Rock Cafe on LV Blvd (Las Vegas NV)
  • LVCS (In Front of Fremont Experience) (Las Vegas NV)
  • Beauty Bar (Las Vegas NV)
  • Brass Lounge (Las Vegas NV)
  • Boomers (Las Vegas NV)
  • Bunkhouse (Las Vegas NV)
  • Henderson Events Center (Henderson NV)
  • The Airliner (Los Angles CA)
  • The Element Lounge (San Francisco CA)
  • Club 6 (San Francisco CA)
  • Ruby Room (San Diego CA)
  • Kadan San Diego CA
  • Kilby Court (Salt Lake City UT)
  • Uprok (Salt Lake City UT)
  • The Urban Lounge (Salt Lake City UT)
  • John Henry's (Eugene OR)
  • Bacaro (Boulder CO)
  • Warehouse 508 (Albequerque NM)

...& Many more places w/ 4 regional tours under his belt.


Rise Up