Tampa offers some of the best nightlife scenes in Florida. Many undiscovered artists are heard in the clubs every night. For two UT students, this is just the start of what they believe will be their future.
Freshman Jonathan Mojica and junior Ja-Rell McArthur went to Miami for Spring Break.
Mojica happened to have the instrumentation to the song ‘Kiss Me Through Your Phone’ by Solider Boy, and the two decided to make a remix of the song.
With their success with the song, the two began to collaborate on an original.
After two days of writing and recording in McArthur’s dorm room, their hopeful hit, ‘She Wanna Make A Movie,’ was finished.
The promiscuous club song features both Mojica and McArthur.
‘We started out with a topic and each wrote separate lyrics. Then we used the programs GarageBand and Adobe Edition to record,’ McArthur said.
The hip-hop song was played on the UT radio last Monday and the two men are submitting it to clubs in Tampa.
McArthur owns a label called Hood Stardom Entertainment.
As a music producer, the New Yorker wanted to promote on-the-rise artists.
‘It came to a point where I realized that if I could help other people, then maybe I could get help in return,’ he said. ‘I put out mix tapes and promotional clothing.’
Last summer, he was an opener at the Juelz/Santana concert.
Mojica was born and raised in Massachusetts.
He came from a family of hip-hip music and worked as an advertiser for a DJ. As an EMAT major at UT, he works with recording and video every day. Together with McArthur, he hopes to make his vision for the song’s video a reality.
‘With the Internet nowadays, people are blowing up now more than ever,’ he said. ‘After we shoot the video, we’re going to upload it and hopefully begin to collaborate with other artists.’
The idea for the video is to film a variety of women playing with video cameras and posing for pictures.
The location for the shoot is yet to be announced, but the artists think they will use the UT campus and the club, Underground, for filming.
They are holding auditions for anyone interested in being in or working with their production.
The two have already begun to be noticed by aspiring musicians and plan to work with Andre Burrell, Rob Wright, Diana Blaser and Waldo Egusquiza.
‘We had a lot of fun but we put a lot into it,’ Mojica said. ‘The success is moving so quickly that we now have people playing our song on Facebook and Myspace.’
For the future, they plan to write more music and create music videos to go along with their top songs.
They are hopeful that their new single’s popularity will become a number one hit.
For more information on auditions and production, email JaRellMmA@yahoo.com. To hear the song, ‘She Wanna Make A Movie,’ visit http://www.myspace.com/threeletterman.
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She Wanna Make a Movie (April 1, 2009)
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