Jay Z picked a 16 year old Nigerian
Canadian girl named Ebony
Oshunrinde produced a track on his
new album, Magna Carta Holy Grail. Ebony, known also as Wondagurl, got
the call from Jay Z after meeting one of
his friends who passed her beat to the
rap mogul. Ebony is credited as a
producer in one of Jay Z's songs titled
'Crown' in the new album. The 12th grader said “It’s a really
good feeling. I want to show young
people that they can do it.”. Read her
inspiring story after the cut... Her story is inspiring and impressive:
after watching a video of Jay-Z and
Timbaland working in the studio
together at age 9, she began to
download music software and teach
herself how to use it by watching YouTube tutorials. "I wanted to do the
exact same thing that [Jay-Z] did," she
recently told the Star. When she was 14, she made it to the quarter-finals of
Toronto's Battle of the Beatmakers.
She won the title the following year,
because she is incredible, and went on
to sign an exclusive management deal
with Black Box. According to Ian Stanger, a
representative with Black Box, "It’s
amazing to see somebody with that
much talent working as hard as she
can to make the most of it at such a
young age. It’s her work that people should be paying attention to, not the
fact that’s she 16." And her work is exactly what people
have started to pay attention to.
Earlier this year, Oshunrinde sent the
beat to her friend Travis Scott, a
young rapper and producer. He
happened to be in the studio with Jay- Z when he received it - and when he
told her that the cut had made it to the
album, she thought he was joking. "Usually that kind of thing doesn't
happen to 16-year-olds," she
explains. No, Ebony, it usually does
not.