COMPLEX.COM PREMIERES MACKENZIE NICOLE’S “ACTIN LIKE YOU KNOW” FEAT. TECH N9NE
MACKENZIE NICOLE IS THE FIRST POP ACT TO COME OUT OF INDEPENDENT HIP-HOP POWERHOUSE STRANGE MUSIC
KANSAS CITY, MO (June 7, 2016) – Complex today premiered the video for Mackenzie Nicole’s “Actin Like You Know (feat. Tech N9ne).” The self-penned debut pop single is already receiving airplay on Kansas City Top 40 station KMXV (Mix 93.3) and has been remixed since it first appeared on Strange Music’s Tech N9ne Collabos – Strangeulation Volume II, where it was the No. 1 most downloaded track on the album. “Actin Like You Know” is available on iTunes and Spotify now.
The opera-trained recording artist is Strange Music’s first pop venture and Tech N9ne’s protégé. “I’ve always known Mackenzie was going to be a superstar,” Tech N9ne said. “Back when we recorded together for the first time in 2009, she was just 9 years old, but I could just tell she had it. When she sent ‘Actin Like You Know’ for me to get on it, I immediately called my partner Travis at Strange and said ‘Are you ready bro? Cause this is about to be a smash!’ I was right!”
Mackenzie Nicole has been featured on Tech N9ne’s “Fear” and “Demons,” and now he returns the favor by providing a lacerating rap on “Actin Like You Know.” Singing over an insinuating, edgy groove, Mackenzie has a no-nonsense message for those who judge her family for her unconventional upbringing: think before you open your mouth. “I was raised in the middle of a rap label,” said Mackenzie, who is the daughter of Strange Music’s CEO and Co-founder, Travis O’Guin, “I was also sent to a conservative private grade school and those two things don’t mesh,” she says. “People saying my parents aren’t raising me right is something that’s haunted me my whole life.”
Founded by Tech N9ne and O’Guin, Strange Music is the most successful independent hip-hop label of all time. What began as a company in the basement of O’Guin’s house has grown into a sprawling business enterprise that has two 18,000 square foot offices, another 7,000 square foot space, one of the most envied touring operations in music, more than 600 merchandise items for sale on its website, 23 wrapped vehicles, 11 releases from its artists (Tech N9ne, Ces Cru, Krizz Kaliko, ¡Mayday! and Rittz, among them) in 2013 alone and two of its own state-of-the-art recording studios.
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