Shanell’s Interview With Divas Lounge
Video: Shanell Chats With Angela Yee on Lipservice
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Party With Shanell
If you’re in the Houston area on Thursday, July 22nd, check out the flier below! You might just be able to hang out with the one and only Shanell!
Young Money Compilation Album Goes Gold
Young Money continues to keep the ship afloat while the captain is away. Nearly seven months after hitting stores, the label’s compilation project, We Are Young Money, has officially reached gold status by pushing 504,217 copies. The LP was fueled by the chart topping singles “Every Girl” and “Bedrock” and the also successful “Roger That.”
One of the album’s more acclaimed tracks, the video for Lil Wayne and Gucci Mane’s collaboration, “Steady Mobbin,’” was also recently released. The album peaked at #9 on the Billboard 200 charts.
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Shanell Appears In Ne-yo’s “Champagne Life” Video
Check out the gypsy’s appearance above!
Rap-Up TV: Shanell Talks New Lil Wayne-Drake Record, Nicki Minaj
Via Rap- Up:
Shanell checks in with Rap-Up TV to share a new Cool & Dre-produced collaboration with Lil Wayne and Drake for her debut album called “So Good,” writing for Electrik Red’s sophomore album with her team The Girls Club, the Young Money member she’s closest with, and partying with her labelmate Nicki Minaj. Plus, is she dating Lil Wayne? Young Money’s singer-songwriter sets the record straight once and for all.
Whose excited!!
Pictures: Shanell Out In Atlanta
The homie KodakBoi of KidduNot held his 2 year anniversary party in ATL recently for his very popular blog. Check out two great shots of our gypsy Shanell who attended the party.
Shanell Speaks To AOL’s The Boombox!
She may be Lil Wayne’s favorite punked-out badass, but Young Money’s resident chanteuse, Shanell Woodgett aka SnL, is ready to introduce the world to the sexier side of the squad. The 26-year-old Atlanta native, known for rocking a signature chain connecting a pierced ear to her nose ring, made her grand entrance to the mainstream world as the featured guest on Wayne’s top-20 single, ‘Prom Queen,’ in early 2009. Now, after dropping her viral mixtape ‘Shut Up N Listen’ in April, the buttery-voiced songstress has officially begun work on her untitled debut, which she hopes to have in stores by spring or summer of 2011. “I started to work on some stuff,” she told The BoomBox, having recently wrapped up a tour with her Young Money associates a few months back. “It’s a slow process. I don’t want to rush anything. I think creativity has no time limitation on it, so I’m taking my time and I’m coming up with some great, great ideas.”
‘Shut Up N Listen’ was only a taste of Shanell’s eclecticism, touting her remixes of originals by Ryan Leslie, Simian Mobile Disco, Groove Theory and Eve. Now that the mixtape has slithered across the internet and clocked upwards of two million downloads, Shanell plans on using her debut to bring her sound to the next level, focusing the album more on rhythm by building each track with a percussive foundation.
“I’m a rhythmic person because I am a dancer,” she explains. “And I feel before I sit down and actually listen to words, so I know I want it to be kind of a rhythmic album or a feel-good album.”
While Shanell has worked with everyone from Melanie Fiona to Lil Wayne to Ludacris, she plans on keeping the collaborations to a relative minimum on the LP, noting that most classics showcase the artist at the helm. “The albums that I think are classic and last the longest have stories and some kind of theme,” she says. “Nowadays, you buy an album and it’s almost like a compilation. There are so many features from different artists on one project; I kind of want people to really get into me, so I’m going to do a lot of it by myself, but I’m probably going to collaborate with a few people.”
The debut might be a ways off, but in the meantime, the Universal Motown recording artist doesn’t plan on idling. Shanell recently shot a few videos, including one for ‘Runnin” off Lil Wayne’s ‘Rebirth’ album — on which she isn’t featured — as well as for a couple cuts off her mixtape, including the dance track ‘Hair Down My Back.’ Once the raw footage is edited, she plans on rolling out the clips every two weeks to build up anticipation for the album. And the buck doesn’t stop there. “I’m working on my show. I have a band and dancers and I put that all together myself, so I wear a lot of hats,” Shanell explains. “I’m in rehearsal a lot, and hopefully will be coming to a city near whoever’s reading this soon.”
Video: Shanell Sits Down With Vibe.com
Via Vibe:
VIBE’s own Bonsu Thompson sits down with Young Money songstress Shanell to talk about her burgeoning career, visiting Lil Wayne in prison and Bangladesh. Check out the excerpts
ON BANGLADESH SAYING LIL WAYNE HASN’T PAID HIM
“First of all, it’s not Wayne. There’s a whole system behind every artist so if a producer or another artist has a problem with financial issues there’s a whole building, a whole system behind that kind of stuff. Bangladesh is a friend of mine so for him to just point out Wayne I kind of called him like, Dude… but he knows who he’s mad at and it’s not really Wayne.”
ON VISITING LIL WAYNE IN PRISON
“He’s as good as you can do but he wouldn’t show us other than that. He’s a very strong individual. He’ll be like yeah I’m good, I’m good, I’m good and he might cry after but we don’t see that side. He was entertainment. He was fun. He would dance around the studio and play jokes. We would be in the studio til the sun came up and if anybody fell asleep they would get a trick played on you and he was the ringleader of the trick. It’s just, his energy is missed.”
ON DYNAMICS WITH SISTER D. WOODS
“It’s funny because when I was watching the show, Making the Band, I saw so much hood chick in her that I ain’t never seen before. But I think it’s because her surroundings were so opposite. Because at home where we come from she was quiet. She keeps to herself. She’s get into what she’s into and me, I used to always run around on the streets, jumping fences and act like a little tomboy.”
Rap Up TV: Young Money’s Shanell Shares Visit with Lil Wayne
While Young Money may be without their captain, Shanell has been doing her part to hold down the fort by releasing a mixtape Shut Up and Listen, writing with The Girls Club, and recording her debut album.
Young Money’s singer-songwriter describes her recent visit to Rikers Island to visit Lil Wayne, their non-music discussions, and how he’s been passing his time. “He’s been reading and observing. It’s like watching TV in there for him. Wayne is a very, very smart individual and I think he’s watching,” Shanell told Rap-Up TV between sips of her apple martini. “He’s acted out each person that he’s come in contact with.”
