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Ace Hood
Ace Hood
Birth name	Antoine McColister
Born	May 11, 1988 (age 21)
Origin	Deerfield Beach, Florida
Genres	Hip hop
Occupations	Rapper
Years active	2007-present
Labels	We The Best Music Group/Def Jam
Associated acts	DJ Khaled, Rick Ross, Akon, Trey Songz, T-Pain, Brisco, Flo Rida, Plies
Website	[1]/[2]

Antoine McColister, (born May 11, 1988) better known by his stage name Ace Hood is an American rapper. He is signed to DJ Khaled's label We The Best Music & Def Jam.^[1]

[edit] Biography

Ace Hood was born on May 11, 1988 in Port St. Lucie, Florida and raised by his mother in Deerfield Beach, part of Broward County.^[2] Following a football injury in the 10th grade and after realizing he wouldn't be able to become professional, the Broward County native began to seriously consider rapping as a career.^[1]^[2] In 2007, he met DJ Khaled outside the offices of WEDR 99 Jamz, a South Florida radio station that mainly plays hip hop and contemporary R&B music. After Ace gave him an autobiography and demo tape, Khaled asked Ace to rap over the instrumental of "I'm So Hood" and later signed Hood to his label, We the Best.^[3] Ace was named with several others to the Freshmen of 09 by XXL magazine.^[4]

His first album, Gutta, was released in 2008. Singles included "Cash Flow" featuring T-Pain and Rick Ross and "Ride" featuring Trey Songz. Hood also released a mixtape, Ace Won't Fold, and made a guest performance among several rappers on DJ Khaled's single "Out Here Grindin'".^[3]

Ace Hood appeared on Wildstyle Radio with Rome and Hoss on WUAG 103.1FM in Greensboro, North Carolina September 7, 2008 to promote his album Gutta along with DJ Khaled.^[5]

On June 30th 2009 Ace Hood released his second album titled Ruthless once again on Def Jam. The albums first single was "Overtime" which was produced by The Runners and featured Akon and T-Pain. The albums second single is "Loco Wit The Cake". The albums guest lists includes Rick Ross, Ludacris, The-Dream, Jazmine Sullivan, Birdman and Lloyd.

Ace Hood, by his twitter page just confirmed a release of a new album called Underrated.

[edit] Discography

Main article: Ace Hood discography

Albums

2008: Gutta
2009: Ruthless
2010: Underrated

Mixtape

2008: Ace Won't Fold (Hosted by DJ Khaled)
2008: All Bets On Ace (Hosted by DJ Khaled)
2009: The Preview Mixtape
2009: Street Certified (Hosted by Bigga Rankin)

[edit] References

^ ^a ^b Concepcion, Mariel (2008-05-20). "Ace Hood". Billboard. http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003805807.
^ ^a ^b Cordor, Cyril (2008). "Ace Hood > Biography". allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:gcfixzt5ld6e~T1. Retrieved 2009-03-10.
^ ^a ^b Reid, Shaheem (2008-05-09). "Shawty Lo Wants To Confiscate T.I.'s 'Hood Pass; DJ Khaled Banks On His New Artist Ace". Mixtape Monday (MTV News). http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1587247/20080509/id_0.jhtml.
^ "Check out the (3) Cover for XXL's Dec. Issue (#109)". XXL. 2008-10-20. http://www.xxlmag.com/online/?p=27195.
^ http://photos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-sf2p/v323/79/46/1393560204/n1393560204_30411518_520.jpg

[Billboard-0] Concepcion, Mariel (2008-05-20). "Ace Hood". Billboard. http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003805807.

[allmusic-1] Cordor, Cyril (2008). "Ace Hood > Biography". allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:gcfixzt5ld6e~T1. Retrieved 2009-03-10.

[Reid_2008-2] Reid, Shaheem (2008-05-09). "Shawty Lo Wants To Confiscate T.I.'s 'Hood Pass; DJ Khaled Banks On His New Artist Ace". Mixtape Monday (MTV News). http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1587247/20080509/id_0.jhtml.

[3] "Check out the (3) Cover for XXL's Dec. Issue (#109)". XXL. 2008-10-20. http://www.xxlmag.com/online/?p=27195.

[4] ttp://photos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-sf2p/v323/79/46/1393560204/n1393560204_30411518_520.jpg

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