Alipone has seen it all in his time as a founding member of the Fedd Hill movement. He was there on the day of the crash in which friend and colleague Tyrone B. Mello was brutally killed. He was there the day his team chose the name Fedd Hill as a tribute to Tyrone as they visited the site of the wreck, just one exit away from Federal Hill in Providence, Rhode Island. Alipone has been the rock of solidarity and strength that countless associates have leaned on in times of suffering and need. His positive outlook and allegiance to the Fedd Hill cause enable others to overcome the pitfalls and hardships of life in the streets.Alipone requires truth, honesty and integrity in everything that Fedd Hill does. He knows that the success of Fedd Hill rests heavily on the group’s credibility, so his raps put a major emphasis on accuracy and sincerity. The charismatic hood politician notes, “I refuse to let my team say anything that isn’t 100 percent truth. If you hear us talking about flossy whips, that’s because my team pushes a Lexus and Jag. If you hear us rapping about guns and drugs, it’s because we couldn’t pass an airport security screening if our life depended on it. I’m tired of all this phony rapping. If you want to hear ‘cheesecake,’ my cousin has some milli-vanilli tapes in his basement that you can listen to.”
Alipone’s emotional rap ballads add an epic quality to Fedd Hill’s unique sound, which he describes as “thoughtful but rough” and “gangsta’ but kind.” His true-life stories touch on themes of universal trials and tribulations and offer brilliant, often subtle nuggets of advice. For example, in “The Business” on Reserve Notes Volume 2, Alipone warns, “You keep getting robbed, try lookin at your crew,” and “Show me a man who hates his mother and I’m gonna find you a fool.” From the darkness of the back alleys where Alipone grew up to the brightness of the stages that Fedd Hill now headlines, the charismatic hood politician always offers a large dose of reality in its truest form.VOTE
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