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Quantico Sentry
May 27th
CVIC Marine fights battles with sharp tongue
by Cpl. Sean P. Cummins
MCB QUANTICO, Va. –Derek Meitzer has been stepping into battle since he was in high school. He didn’t fight his enemies in dusty, Middle Eastern towns, but during rap battles in school hallways and parking lots of Cleveland. Bearing “D’Meitz” as his nom de guerre, Meitzer threw hooks and verses instead of hooks and jabs.
Meitzer,“This is how I remember it, whether or not it actually occurred is up for debate,” said Meitzer, “I was listening to Red Hot Chili Peppers, ‘I don’t wanna ever feel like I did that day,’ that song, and my sister came in, she opened up the cassette player, popped in the tape…put in Salt ‘N Pepa and hit play.”….
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RapBasement.com and DaDopeness.blogpost.com
Dec 3rd
YO YO YO – check out To Those with Wings at RapBasement.com
Also, shout out to Jean Bean for big uppin D’Meitz in DaDopeness.blogspot.com - thanks for the support
TPPS.com interviews D’Meitz
Nov 27th
To promote the release of “To Those with Wings”, Terry Urban over at ThePressPlayShow.com recently interviewed D’Meitz.
Check it out @ ThePressPlayShow.com
Military.com article on D’Meitz
Nov 19th
Yurp. Shout out to Heather Golden for writing this article and Mr. Ye for taking good pictures.
Excerpt:
CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa – Lance Cpl. Derek Meitzer isn’t exactly singing the blues.
The Cleveland native, a combat photographer with Headquarters and Service Battalion, Marine Corps Base Camp Butler, is like any other hard-charging Marine.
Except Meitzer just released his first hip-hop album through his own label, Kiem Media, on an Internet music store and has air space on radio stations across the Pacific.
The album, “Chivary, Soleminity, and other bad ideas,” hit virtual shelves in July. Meitzer said he received positive feedback from Okinawa and Filipino disk jockeys that played his music on their radio stations.
Full article can be read @
Military.com – Marine on Road to Making it Big in Music
