Joell Ortiz

Real Name: Joell Ortiz

Label: E1 Entertainment

Joell Ortiz is a Puerto Rican-American rapper born out of Brooklyn, New York and part of the Slaughter House team. He signed with Aftermath Entertainment in 2003 and has released several mixtapes through various labels.

Ortiz released an album titled The Brick (Bodega Chronicles) April 24, 2007 on Koch Records. The Brick features production by Showbiz and The Alchemist, among others. Guest artists include rappers like: Big Daddy Kane, Styles P, Big Noyd, Akon, Immortal Technique, Grafh, and Ras Kass.

Ortiz parted ways with Aftermath Records on April 15, 2008. He has since joined another team of rappers: Joe Budden, Royce Da 5'9", and Crooked I in a hip hop supergroup under the name Slaughterhouse. Joell Ortiz is rumoured to make an appearance on Royce Da 5'9"s album Street Hop alongside the other members of Slaughterhouse.

All Music Guide
- Evan C. Gutierrez

Brooklyn born rapper Joell Ortiz, who has long among the most critically acclaimed unsigned talent on the East Coast hip hop scene has gone a long way to earning that reputation. A dedicated and accomplished student through his early years, and always a person to whom language came easily, Joell was an impressive rapper by his early teens. As Joell reached high school, family strife and his urban environment turned his attentions from his studies and rap career to street life and the drug trade. After a short time, however, Joell turned his attentions back to the life-giving pursuit of excellence in his music. Thanks to his natural talent and serious work ethos, opportunity soon found Ortiz, and he began to gain some recognition. An appearance in The Source Magazine and winning Chairman's Choice from XXL Magazine earned Ortiz credibility and buzz that resulted in his appearance on the NBA Live 2005 soundtrack. Jermaine Dupri's So So Def label offered Ortiz a contract that year, a deal which quickly went sour, creating bad blood between Ortiz and one of the industry's most powerful players. Since that time, Ortiz continues to record and write actively, collaborating with artists like KRS One and Kool G Rap.

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