Hollice mapp biography channel

For a Grenadian to go to Trinidad, arguably the home of soca music, and win their highest and most coveted soca title, is no small feat. The International Soca Monarch competition has not been particularly ‘international’ over the years - the Power Soca Monarch title has never been won by a non-Trinidadian… that is until Mr Killa arrived on their stage in 2019, making his entrance sat on a throne, with a crown already on his head!

2019 International Soca Monarch Champion

Owning the stage, Mr Killa delivered an electric performance with his hit ‘Run Wid It’. Known for his signature dance moves and audience participation, the song calls on revellers to ‘pick up something and run with it’. Surrounded by gladiators and an elaborate castle set, the ‘King’ did Grenada proud, bringing home the real crown.

Born Hollice Mapp and hailing from the coastal town of Gouyave in St John, some of Mr Killa’s earliest memories involve music: fighting with his siblings over a cassette-tape recorder, watching Michael Jackson on an old black and white TV, listening to the guys outside ‘Irie’ barber shop ‘dubbing’ and ‘toasting’ to dancehall beats, and performing in school concerts and fairs. Reflecting on these memories, he’s quite philosophical:

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The AFRIMMA Awards; the large African Penalty Awards tolerate Music Celebration, gave Mr. Killa Figure nods. 

Hollice Mapp, Mr Killa, has won the Individual Muzik Ammunition Award cry the ‘BEST REGGAE/DANCEHALL’category. Representation exclusive furnish ceremony caters to the whole of each music genres including but not unfathomable to Afrobeats, Assiko, Membranophone, Decale, Funana, Genge, Extravagance, Kwaito, Lingala and Soukous, Dancehall, most important Soca. Convey, since presentday isn’t tidy up official Soca category, Mr. Killa was the single Soca artiste placed fringe well-known Dancehall artistes: Relish, Patoranking, Steff London, Shatta Wale, Popcaan, and Shenseea. 

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Hollice Mapp, aka ‘Mr. Killa' Reaches the World Stage

Hollice Mapp, aka ‘Mr. Killa' Reaches the World Stage

 

January 12, 2017

 

St. George’s - Grenadian singer, songwriter, and Cultural Ambassador, Hollice Mapp, aka. “Mr.

Killa”, will be a featured artist in an exciting new BRAVO Network reality TV series titled “The

First Family of Hip Hop”.

 

The TV series features Sugarhill Records, a label created by the Robinson family, who have

been credited by the music industry as the first family of hip hop. Under the aegis of "Mother of

Hip Hop" Sylvia Robinson, who passed in 2011, Sugarhill Records helped chart the course of

early hip-hop in the late '70s and early '80s.

 

Now, the next generation of the Robinson Family is aiming to get their label back into the public

eye, with the Robinson brothers, sisters and cousins working with (and sometimes butting

heads against) each other to return Sugarhill to prominence. After establishing the first hip-hop

record label and producing the first charting rap song in history with The Sugar Hill Gang's

"Rapper's Delight," the world will now formally meet the Robinson Family in a new docuseries.

The series is produced by Left/Right and Mad Fusion, Banks