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 "
Born Antoine McColister in Broward County, Florida Ace knew he was destined for greatness after an injury derailed his burgeoning football career, Ace turned to his true passion rapping at the age of 17 Ace teamed up with the Broward County-based Maintenancetion label Dollaz & Dealz to play the hit 'Moe & # 8221, ( "Money Over Everything") which sparked an immediate buzz in South Florida Ace began to perform and network which helped him to get exposure like never before, after fine tuning his craft on local crowds he set his sights on performing for DJ Khaled at his annual Birthday Bash
"We were outside a radio station not even trying to get a settlement, but hope to perform at his birthday bash he recalls," We just thought we would try to perform, he had a contest and again where you had to give a certain amount of reasons why you should perform at birthday bash so I figured rap for him on camera and show him why I was worthy, although he had to go on ameeting, he came out looked at me and said I love his image, we gave him a CD and when we did that he listened to the ochringde my manager that night, he said I love his Swag I hear the hunger in his music and I want to a meeting with him "
The meeting turned into Ace becoming the first artist signed to DJ Khaled label" We the Best "distributed by Def Jam Records his hot new single" Cash Flow "featuring T-Pain and Rick Ross are now blazing radio waves everywhere "When I played the song for Rick Ross he loved it and he put the whole Swag itself explains Khaled" The song made quite a lot, but we knew to make it more of a hit record someone like T-Pain, who is running the game at the moment hook so that it goes so much further "The song's?? tter the stage for Ace's debut album Gutta with guest appearances from some of the rap elite including Trick Daddy Flo Rida Akon Plies and production from Cool & Dre The Runners Danjahandz and JUSTCE League Ace deck is definitely stacked
"This album is definitely going to be a classic "Ace says confidently" People expect a lot from me not just because I m on Khaled label but because everyone knows that the ace is ranked as the highest "
