Lil Ru

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The Nasty Song 03:27 Tools
I'm Bad 00:00 Tools
Nasty Song 00:00 Tools
Ride 00:00 Tools
Problems 00:00 Tools
Sexy Ladies 00:00 Tools
All I Ever Know 00:00 Tools
Feenin Me 00:00 Tools
Lil Ru - Nasty Song 00:00 Tools
Life 00:00 Tools
Don't I Look Good 00:00 Tools
Yeah, Dat's Money 00:00 Tools
Yeah Dat's Money (Feat. Rick Ross) 00:00 Tools
I'm Spinnin' It 00:00 Tools
Feenin Me (Album Version (Explicit)) 00:00 Tools
Fuck Somethin 00:00 Tools
Commin' Up 00:00 Tools
I Know What You Like (Album Version (Explicit)) 00:00 Tools
Give It Up (Feat. Prynce Cy Hi & Torre South) 00:00 Tools
Ride (Album Version (Explicit)) 00:00 Tools
I'm Bad (Album Version (Explicit)) 00:00 Tools
Give It Up 00:00 Tools
Give It Up (Album Version (Explicit)) 00:00 Tools
Nasty Song (dirty) 00:00 Tools
F**k Somethin 00:00 Tools
I Know What You Like (Feat. Ben Frank) 00:00 Tools
Yeah, Dat's Money (Album Version (Explicit)) 00:00 Tools
All I Ever Know (Album Version (Explicit)) 00:00 Tools
Deep Stroker 00:00 Tools
Problems (Album Version (Explicit)) 00:00 Tools
Life (Album Version (Explicit)) 00:00 Tools
dont i look good 00:00 Tools
I Know What You Like 00:00 Tools
Sexy Ladies (Album Version (Explicit)) 00:00 Tools
Nasty Song (Feat. Busta Rhymes) 00:00 Tools
Yea Thats Money (Feat. Rick Ross) 00:00 Tools
F**k Somethin (Album Version (Explicit)) 00:00 Tools
The Nasty Song (Explicit) 00:00 Tools
We Can Do It If You Wanna (Feat. Slim) 00:00 Tools
Nasty Song (D) 00:00 Tools
Nasty Song (Remix) (Feat. Gorilla Zoe, Mr. Flip & Collard Green) 00:00 Tools
Don't I Look Good (Dirty) 00:00 Tools
I'm Spinnin It (Explicit) 00:00 Tools
I Look Good 00:00 Tools
Yeah, Dat's Money (Edited) 00:00 Tools
The Nasty Song (Edited) 00:00 Tools
Don't I Look Good (Clean) 00:00 Tools
Yeah That's Money 00:00 Tools
Nasty Song (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Money Money 00:00 Tools
Yeah, Dat's Money (Explicit) 00:00 Tools
Put That Pussy On Me (remix ft. Gorilla Zoe) 00:00 Tools
The Nasty Song (Album Version (Explicit)) 00:00 Tools
Don't I Look Good (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
The Nasty Song [Explicit] 00:00 Tools
Yeah That's Money (Feat. Rick Ross) 00:00 Tools
Nasty Song (Clean) 00:00 Tools
Nasty Song (™ Headhunter) 00:00 Tools
Rain 00:00 Tools
Nothin' New (Feat. Fabolous) 00:00 Tools
Don't I Look Good (Radio Edit) 00:00 Tools
Nasty Song Remix 00:00 Tools
We Will Destroy 00:00 Tools
Nasty Song Remix ft. Gorilla Zoe 00:00 Tools
I'm Spinnin' It (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Nasty Song (Remix) 00:00 Tools
Eat It Up 00:00 Tools
Will Destroy 00:00 Tools
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The only way to ensure something is done right; is by doing it yourself. Def Jam’s newest signee Lil Ru learned this valuable lesson at a very young age. “My grandmother passed away when I was like 12 years-old,” says Ru who grew up in Ridgeway, South Carolina.” She was basically my mother. My real mom has been on the streets her whole life. Right now she’s incarcerated for manslaughter. I knew my father, but he’s never been around. I’ve basically just been alone my whole life.” Without any parental guidance, Lil Ru found shelter in various recording studios around his hometown of Ridgeway, South Carolina. After years of recording and releasing independent tracks that were highly revered around the Southern United States, in March 2009, Lil Ru finally got the break he deserved when he was offered a spot on hip-hop’s most historic label, Def Jam. Ru’s seductive street single, “Nasty Song” was all it took for the 23-year-old to step into the spotlight. “’Nasty Song’ has been the biggest single I have ever had,” says Ru about the first track released off his debut album 21 & Up. “It changed my life and got me into this Def Jam situation. Being signed puts you a much better position when you do go to radio stations because people are more likely to play your music. It’s an all around better look for me.” Long before Lil Ru had the power of Def Jam behind him, he figured out how to make noise on his own as an independent artist. When he was 16, Lil Ru caught the attention of the sultry soul singer Angie Stone who helped Ru secure a record deal with the now defunct Elektra Records. Less than a year later, the label dropped Ru when it was absorbed by another company leaving Ru once again on his own. Convinced he was still going to make it, the determined young M.C. dropped the snap track “Don’t I Look Good” which started buzzing down South. Through the success of his song, Ru was courted by other labels including Capitol Records who he was signed to for a short period of time in 2007. Unable to match the success he found on his own, Ru returned to the independent scene. He continued on his solo grind for the next year by dropping street songs and performing at clubs in the Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama. “I had the streets going crazy for like a year or two,” says Ru. “I dropped ‘Nasty Song’ and started pushing that on my own. Then I got my spins up to a nice number to where the labels started recognizing me and then Def Jam came and picked the song up this year.” Ru was signed in March of 2009 after performing for the top executives at Def Jam. Now that he is in the commercial system, he plans to join forces with the label to create a movement behind his newest material. Produced entirely by Lil Ru’s in-house producers, 21 & Up is an album Ru describes as versatile thanks to its wide-ranging subject matter. “I feel like the album represents everything it takes to be a man,” he says. “Whether you’re in the club, the streets, or just struggling all around; People are going to relate.” On the sober sounding “Life,” Ru details the trials and tribulations of his younger life and how his mom’s absence affected his childhood. “Like Dat” lightens the mood as Ru goes out of his way to please the ladies. The party continues with “Yeah That’s Money,” a song that celebrates the finer things in life. “Versatility makes me different from the average rapper right now,” explains Lil Ru. “I’m not just raping fast or rapping slow, I can do any type of song whether it’s an R&B type record or rap or rock ‘n roll. I can pretty much do anything.” With his debut album, 21 & Up set to be released late this summer, Lil Ru is determined now more than ever to win. And even though he is now part of the world’s most powerful hip-hop label, he will always be his own man first. “Never having that stable background or that family, I was alone a lot,” says Ru. “I was able to make a situation happen with my music and I was able to feed myself and family off of that. Music always had me first; I always stayed focused on that.” Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.