Hip Hop's newest star?

Updated 11.22 Sun Apr 01 2007
Keywords: Music Is My Saviour, New York, Hip hop, Mims

New York rapper Mims is hotly tipped to be the next big thing with debut album Music Is My Saviour.

The star - real name Shawn Mims - thinks he is doing his bit to revise critical opinion about the state of Hip Hop in his home city.

"What I'm doing is bringing the fun side back to Hip Hop" - Mims

He said: "I want to see New York do as well with its music as the west coast is doing, so what I'm doing is bringing the fun side back to Hip Hop."

However, the rapper is keen to do away with talk of rivalry between east and west coast Hip Hop.

Mims said: 'I want to start to get rid of this territorial thing. I feel that music is music all across the board.

"It doesn't matter where you are from. I could be from the planet Mars and I could have a hit record. A hit record is going to be a hit record"

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