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"Skiddalz; like the candy Skittles; is a metaphor meaning you can be any color/race in Hip-Hop. It doesn't matter if you're white, black, brown, blue, red, orange, green, or yellow. It's about the music. It's a way of life, not a race issue." Skiddalz hopes to make her mark in the music industry as an individual, rather than a stereotyped, labeled artist.

Angel Graham also known as Skiddalz started out as a young 16 year old artist writing and recording tracks in her room in the small town of Centralia, Illinois. With no one to rap with besides herself - Skiddalz turned to the internet rap forums to help better her craft. She started finding beats on her own and taught herself how to record on a program called Cool Edit Pro 2.0. As time passed she started to develop her rap skills and decided to post her songs on a music page on MySpace. It wasn't until late 2006 when she was 17 years old that she was invited out to perform at her first show in December of that year. After that first show - it was a wrap. Since then, Skiddalz has been grinding it out and making a name for herself in the entertainment business. She is now being managed by Slo Down of the St. Lunatics.

From late 2006 to the beginning of 2008, Skiddalz performed at over 100 shows in the Missouri and southern Illinois area, and one show in Georgia. She opened up shows for acts such as Murphy Lee, Chingy, Dolla, Young Buck, Young Dro, Ruff Ryders bike club, Da Banggaz314 and more. She has also done shows with Pop It Off Boyz, Da Fam, Tha Deck, Koko C'vere, Ooops, Ruka Puff, Gena, Devious, Killa Woods, Lil Ace, LMNOP, Tha Truth, Lil Jab, Unladylike, Maddhouse Clique, Dutch Jackson, Fyreboy Records, Big Cheezy, Tempature, Jelly Joe, Supreme Team, Pistol Pete, OTC, Ms. Bee, Beastmode, and many more.

She has met many well-known people in the industry as well including: Nelly (Derrty Ent./Universal) Chingy (Disturbing Tha Peace / Def Jam), Ali, Murphy Lee, Kyjuan, City Spud and Slo Down (St. Lunatics/Derrty Entertainment), Dolla (Jive Records), Pop It Off Boyz (Universal Records), Angela Richardson (Huey's Manager/Huey Records/Universal Records), Ron Spaulding (Asylum Records), Todd Butterfield (7-14 Entertainment/Atlantic Records), Shorty Da Kidd (100.3 The Beat/Atlantic Records), Steve-O (Pop It Off Boyz manager/Universal Records), DJ T Gutta, Craig Blac (100.3 The Beat), Raw Resse (Rap-A-Lot Records), Potzee (U-C-Me Entertainment), Roland (Black Pearl Entertainment), PK (Disturbing Tha Peace), DJ Sinamin (Core DJ's/Z107.7), Elrod (101.5 CIL-FM), Finnigan (101.5 CIL-FM), and more.

Skiddalz has recently won an award for "Female Artist of the Year" at the 2008 Tony J! Traffic Music Awards. She is part of a movement started by DJ Aaries in the South, called "Hood Hard Movement". Skiddalz has her song "OMG" currently on Z107.7 FM. Skiddalz has had her song "Want It Get It" featured on 101.5 CIL-FM (Southern Illinois' Hit Music) radio station. She has been on several internet radio podcasts, and also college radio stations around Missouri and southern IL. Skiddalz is featured on DJ Sinamin's "Ladies of the Lou" mixtape. You can also find her in East. St. Louis' biggest publication "inBox Magazine" as a featured artist. Skiddalz was ranked as one of the top artists in Missouri on MySpace music charts for several months. Skiddalz was asked in late 2007 by an MTV music supervisor to feature her song "Go White Girl" on the MTV series "NEXT!" which premiered on the new season in 2008. She has done all of this while gaining fans all over the midwest and the world. Skiddalz is known for her emotional songs that hit home with listeners, also her tongue-twisting lyrics that remind listeners of the midwest music style; and she still maintains to fit room in with her slow punchline hitting songs along with her crunk upbeat style. Skiddalz accompanies all of these styles in her songs to give her listeners a wide range of music.

Be on the lookout for Skiddalz in 2008 and months, and years to come.

www.myspace.com/skiddalz

 

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