 LOS ANGELES (Top40 Charts/ Luck Media & Marketing, Inc.) - Contrary to the old adage that we've all heard a million times, it's IMpatience that's the virtue-or at least it is with Bay Area female gangsta rapper Mo Wiley, who's keeping busy with a ton of exciting entrepreneurial activities as she awaits the upcoming release of 'You Can't Touch It,' the club groove driven first single from her highly anticipated debut Major League Ballin', due to drop this fall on Kent Entertainment's First Kut Records. In August, the multi-talented performer (www.myspace.com/missmowiley) was down in L.A. shooting a video for the track with director Ian Fletcher, whose credits include the clip for DJ Quik's 'Tonight's The Night.' She is also planning a tour centered on performances for U.S Troops for later this year. Though she cleaned up her act and went straight a while back now, Wiley brings a gritty vibe and real street cred to Major League Ballin' and is already a popular club draw in Northern California with a huge fan base in Oakland (where she made Club 17 her home base). She's matching her lofty ambitions with action, starting her career with big time players in the rap biz. Not only is she working with the 'Godfather of Rap' (and Kent owner) Morey Alexander (who launched the careers of rap legends like N.W.A, Easy-E, Ice Cube and Dr. Dre), but her album was produced by one of First Kut's most popular artists, Slick (from Slick and the Shock Mob). In 2008, the artist incorporated with several partners the Mo Wiley Children's Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to feeding, sheltering and educating our youth. Inspired by the negative media attention received by Oakland in the wake of the March, 2009 shooting of four OPD police officers by a single assailant, Wiley recently launched a second community based organization called For The Streets, by The Streets Youth Foundation; its mission is to serve the needs of at-risk inner city kids. 'Even though the media's coverage of the tragedy made many people out there think we're all at war with each other, there are many good things going on in Oakland,' says Wiley.
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