Jay Z picked a 16 year old Nigerian Canadian girl named Ebony Oshunrinde
produced a track on his new album, Magna Carta Holy Grail.
Ebony, known also as Wondagurl, got the call from Jay Z after meeting
one of his friends who passed her beat to the rap mogul. Ebony is
credited as a producer in one of Jay Z's songs titled 'Crown' in the new
album.
The 12th grader said “It’s a really good
feeling. I want to show young people that they can do it.”. Read her inspiring story after the cut...
Her story
is inspiring and impressive: after watching a video of Jay-Z
and Timbaland working in the studio together at age 9, she began to
download music software and teach herself how to use it by watching
YouTube tutorials. "I wanted to do the exact same thing that [Jay-Z]
did," she recently told the Star.
When she was 14, she made it to the quarter-finals of Toronto's Battle
of the Beatmakers. She won the title the following year,
because she is incredible, and went on to sign an exclusive management
deal with Black Box.
According
to Ian Stanger, a representative with Black Box, "It’s amazing to see
somebody with that much talent working as hard as she can to make the
most of it at such a young age. It’s her work that people should be
paying attention to, not the fact that’s she 16."
And her
work is exactly what people have started to pay attention to. Earlier
this year, Oshunrinde sent the beat to her friend Travis Scott, a young
rapper and producer. He happened to be in the studio with Jay-Z when he
received it - and when he told her that the cut had made it to the
album, she thought he was joking.
"Usually that kind of thing doesn't happen to 16-year-olds," she explains. No, Ebony, it usually does not.
