Here is Juice Radio and co’s honorable mention list for the Freshest in the Northwest top ten list!
Honorable mentions for this year:
Grieves – Headlining across country and solid album Winter & the Wolves (D-Money)
AD – Solid album Intelligent Design, in-house produce for Messy Marv (Horizon)
Myke Bogan – #1 fan vote getter this year from Billings, Montana (DJ Swervewon)
Fearve Villain – Solid album Let it Be, national tour with Grieves, solid videos (Sermon)
Dave B . – Watch #10 video for details, panel tied and lost fan vote by 1 vote (Darryl Reese)
Royce The Choice – 2 spots on DJ Mustard’s tape Ketchup, Talk Ain’t Cheap album (Darryl)
Stewart Villain – Rapping and producing for many cats in NW as well as Danny Brown and Smoke DZA (Mac Smiff)
Xperience – Had a great window working with Macklemore. Great EP Revelations. (Luvva J)
Artists that could make a run at next year:
Shelton Harris – Solid fanbase, “No Gods” single (D)
Ugly Frank – Solid solo album Bobby Hill, ILLFIGHTYOU! Member (Horizon)
Perry Porter and Louis V aka Tasman Holloway (Swerve)
Porter Ray – Shout outs from MTV’s Sway (Darryl)
Navii Cosmo – Rapper from Bremerton won SoundOff competition (Q Dot)
Drae Steves – Heavy Portland street buzz (Mac)
Amin – Did 10,000 downloads on debut album Odyssey to Me (Mac)
Skanless – Rapper from Spokane who would benefit from access to good resources (Luvva)
Illmaculate – Solid album and national buzz (D)
Cool Nutz honorable mentions not shared during video:
J. Pinder – Associations with Dr. Dre. Easily could make return back to list next year
Onry Ozzborn – Work with Grayskul & Dark Time Sunshine, constantly touring
Sleep of Old Dominion – Solid album Oregon Failure
Cassow – Will be list worthy when he drops Bayous By US this Fall