[E-NEWS] 16-Year Old Canadian-Nigerian Girl Makes Beat For Jay-Z’s New Album



AFTER discovering RIHANNA and RITA ORA, rapper JAY-Z is giving yet another young woman an almighty leg-up in the music industry.
This time around he’s picked a 16-year-old Canadian schoolgirl called EBONY OSHUNRINDE — aka WONDAGURL — to be a producer on his new album Magna Carta Holy Grail.
Ebony got the call through a chance meeting with a friend of Jay-Z, who passed her beat to the rap mogul.
Now she’s credited on the album, which came out on Thursday last week via a deal with phone giant Samsung.
It will give the teenager a great start in music — and earn her a few quid in tuck money from royalties.


Ebony, who resides in Brampton, southern Ontario, was credited for the track ‘Crown’.
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Ebony, who has only just finished 11th grade, said: “It’s a really good feeling. I want to show young people that they can do it.” She originally passed a reggae-inspired beat made on her laptop to friend TRAVIS SCOTT, who works with KANYE WEST and Jay.
It’s finished up as the song Crown on Jay-Z’s album and Wondagurl’s name is now credited alongside TIMBALAND, JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE, BEYONCE and PHARRELL.
She said: “Travis texted me and said, ‘I’m about to change your life’. Usually, that doesn’t happen to 16-year-olds.
“A lot more people want to work with me now. It’s pretty cool.”
Ebony’s in good company. Rihanna and Rita Ora were both discovered by Jay-Z when they were teenagers — although his signing of British rapper LADY SOVEREIGN is perhaps best forgotten.



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