Antoine McColister (born 11 May 1988 in Port St. Lucie Florida) better known by his stage name Ace Hood is an American rapper signed to DJ Khaled label We The Best Music After a football injury in the tenth grade, he began to seriously consider rapping as a career in 2007 He met DJ Khaled, and gave him her demo Khaled asked Ace to rap over the instrumental of I'm So Hood, and then decided to sign him Gutta's debut album was released in 2008 and featured appearances from T-Pain Rick Ross Akon Flo Rida and Trey Songz His second album Ruthless was released in June 2009 and debuted at # 23 on the Billboard 200
Florida's heat has been radiating over hip-hop for many years from the legendary "Uncle" Luke Campbell, Trick Daddy and Trina to DJ Khaled Flo Rida T-Pain Rick Ross and Plies sunshine state has always produced hot music next artist to come out of this hot climate are Ace Hood, and with an ace on top of the deck he was guaranteed to continue Florida's heat wave
"I got the name Ace as a child My family has always believed that I would be the one to succeed with what I did, "he explains," I know that I'm an army in myself I carry my own weight and because I represent the hood, why not attach it to my name "