This idea spread fast, due to the success of the mixtape - driven by "All The Way Turnt Up!," no doubt - and the subsequent heavy rotation of the single at radio. While Dash negotiated joining the Porterhouse fold, Travis Porter released the I'm A Differenter 2 mixtape on Augwith "All The Way Turnt Up!" credited as "Travis Porter featuring YT and ATL," giving the impression that Dash, still rapping under the moniker "ATL," was merely a guest on the song. "We started the process of lawyers and paperwork and everything." "Charlie called me and said he liked the song and was interested in signing me to their label, Porterhouse Records," says Dash. It sat on the group's hard drive for several weeks, until T.P.'s manager, Charlie Jabaley, stumbled upon it while putting together their mixtape I'm a Differenter 2. The first verse, hook and intro remained - Dash handed the song over to Travis Porter. Because Travis Porter had an established local name, Dash figured it would help his cause if he incorporated the group into the song. Strap listened to the song and immediately wanted to get on it. "And I purchased the beat from producer Vibe Beats off of ."
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"I'd written all three verses on the song plus the hook," explains Dash. One day, in a car on the way to a club in 2009, Dash let YT and Travis Porter member Strap hear a song he'd just recorded entitled "All The Way Turnt Up!" Dash became cool with the group and hung out with them from time to time.
His networking efforts led him to his cousin Torrey "YT" Hood, an investor in the Stone Mountain-based trio Travis Porter. It was about spending time with her and making sure I could provide her with a great life."ĭash continued to record songs in his basement and distribute them at school and at parties. "When my daughter was born, my life suddenly had a purpose," says Dash. However, the aspiring emcee didn't begin to take his music career seriously until he became a father at the age of 16. The following year, the already popular Dash - a basketball-playing heartthrob - released a solo mixtape entitled My Turn, further boosting his high school profile. In 2006, the group (which included Dash's brother) released a mixtape, Recognition, which generated significant buzz around Mill Creek High School. By high school, he'd taken on the name "ATL" as part of a four-man rap group called the Blackout Boys. "When he'd leave the house, I'd steal the beats off of his computer and record them on a karaoke machine."ĭash began writing raps at 12 years old. "My brother used to make beats in the basement," says Dash. The baby of the family (he has an older brother, two half-sisters and two step-brothers), Dash was an inquisitive and bright child who learned about Hip-Hop from his older brother Erik. Now, he is writing his own pages in history.īorn Jeffrey Johnson, Jr., Dash grew up in Atlanta's Capitol Homes projects under the watchful eye of his mother and great-grandmother. The rapper made major noise in '09 with the party-starting radio smash "All The Way Turnt Up!" featuring Soulja Boy.
And then there's Roscoe Dash, an ATL native son poised to carve a movement of his own. Atlanta breeds its fair share of music milestones - chart-topping trap boys, dance innovators, crunk divas, trendsetting teens who finger-snap, "twerk," and "swag surf" their way into the pop culture mainstream.
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