
Denver surpassed Kansas City as the MC’s largest market for record and ticket sales, he said, but he’s nowhere to be heard on local hip-hop station KQKS-107.5/FM. Making his success even more impressive, N9ne has gotten to where he is mostly without the help of radio.

“And just imagine where I’d be if I was on the radio,” N9ne said. saturation - has seen steady growth over the years, a trend that got a little bump from a stint with the Insane Clown Posse, whose fans (known as Juggalos) took to N9ne’s angular rhyme schemes and big, Southern beats. (The 52 dates of his current tour will be handled in less than two calendar months, allowing for very few days off.) And his popularity - a.k.a. His numbers are impressive, with millions of MySpace plays, skyrocketing attendance figures at his many concerts and nearly 1 million albums sold on his own imprint, Strange Music.Īnd N9ne did it all the old-fashioned way: spreading the gospel via restless touring.

But the rapper - and friend/collaborator to the Insane Clown Posse - isn’t a superstar MC just yet. N9ne, born Aaron Dontez Yates, doesn’t lack ambition. Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menu
