King Vega has sold out shows for four years straight, performing at such places as The Diamond Awards hosted by Bigga Rankin, for Wendy Day, whom he has built a relationship with the Hip Hop Icon, Wendy Day, even getting tweets and retweets from her via Twitter, in support of King Vega and his music. King Vega has also collaborated to do songs with Verse Simmonds, Blitz McBain of Dipset.
King Vega has gotten play via CBS, NBS, CW, Desert Storm Radio and has made over 100 mix tapes hosted by official DJ’s such as Green Lantern, Tampa Mystic, DJ Culture and DJ Ill Kid.
Representing his hometown of Syracuse, he has done tracks like the “Boeheim Anthem” and the “Syracuse Men’s Basketball Anthem” which both videos received over 5000 views in its first week on YouTube. He also has an upcoming new single “I Get Money” which features Grand Hustle artist Ricco Barino. King Vega has maintained a lot of activity for an independent artist making him one to watch for.
I spoke with King Vega as we spoke about music in general on this episode of #PhoneTap.
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