Pheo

“No Jive” Two simple words that encompass what Pheo, aka “Blackman Magnificent” lives by and his music subscribes to. Hailing from Moreno Valley, California, he represents the creative collective, U.T.B Life$tyle. April 2009 saw Pheo’s first official mixtape Word to Your Blogger, it demonstrated his superb writing ability and wordplay. His capacity as a fine tuned craftsman manifested with the release of his first studio album Wriot! The album released in March 2011 and subsequently featured in L.A. Weekly, to which it proclaimed, “…we played it 10 times in 2 days…” A year after Wriot!, Pheo goes on to record the They Soulection EP, a collaboration with Long Beach based Soulection Radio. Pheo’s music was admired by Diplo’s Mad Decent record label, which went on to release the California Sex EP through its Jeffree’s imprint. The album featured selected tracks from Wriot! and They Soulection, alongside the title track produced by Mad Decent’s DJA. The release received praise from The Fader as well as UK based The Guardian. Pheo will spend his Summer 2012 on the Smokers Club Tour, a nationwide tour headlined by Juicy J of Three 6 Mafia. Pheo continues to carve his niche alongside U.T.B. Life$tyle, as well as expanding his own personal mantra, ‘Avocado Everything’. For 2013 he strives to release the UTB Life$tyle compilation, a joint project with Cashius Green and Realism, his next solo album. As always, upcoming projects will be one hundred percent ‘No Jive’. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.