RYE RYE - HARDCORE GIRLS (Official Video) Published by DjLanre

Rye Rye (b. Ryeisha Berrain - aka ryerye), is a rapper from Baltimore, MD, USA. She met Blaqstarr, a friend of her sister’s, & worked with him, on her early material. She met M.I.A. in a studio, after M.I.A. overheard one of Rye Rye’s songs. Then she worked with Diplo, to make Wassup Wassup, plus other songs including: “Gangsta Girl”, “Hardcore Girls” (with The Count & Sinden) & “Reasons”. She is also working with Zakee. “Hardcore Girls” appears on the Hardcore Girls EP by The Count and Sinden via Domino Records. She has described her sound as “unique, hard-hitting, anything thrown I can handle it.”

Rye Rye began performing at the age of 16. She has toured with M.I.A. during the fall and winter of 2007 and early 2008 and briefly with Afrikan Boy. She features on a remix of M.I.A.’s “Paper Planes” with Afrikan Boy, which appears on the Paper Planes - Homeland Security Remixes EP by M.I.A. and is available on her MySpace. Her song “Shake It To The Ground” was made available for download on iTunes.[1] She has also made a music video for the song.

Rye Rye is the first artist signed to M.I.A.’s new music label N.E.E.T., and her album is set to be released in 2009. They both appear on M.I.A.’s remix of Busy Signal’s “Tic Toc,” an unfinished version of which M.I.A. showcased on Gilles Peterson’s Radio 1 show.