SwizZz

Justin Ritter (born September 28, 1987), better known by his stage name SwizZz, is an American rapper. He is best known for significantly collaborating with childhood friend Hopsin, and being signed to their record label Funk Volume, which was co-founded by Hopsin, himself, and his older brother Damian "Dame" Ritter. He has released various mixtapes including Haywire with Hopsin, and Good Morning SwizZzle. He is currently working on his untitled debut studio album.

Early life

SwizZz initially met Marcus "Hopsin" Hopson in high school, where they were classmates and became close friends. After high school SwizZz got accepted into the University of California at Irvine, but after two years he decided put his education on hold, while he would pursue a career in music. He was having a hard time figuring out what he wanted to major in, and he could not find anything he was passionate about in school.

Musical career

2009-2012: Forming Funk Volume and Good Morning SwizZzle

In 2009, Hopsin founded his own independent record label, Funk Volume, with Damien Ritter. SwizZz, who is Damien Ritter's younger brother became the first artist to be signed to Funk Volume. Shortly after launching Funk Volume, both Hopsin and SwizZz released a collaborative mixtape titled Haywire on June 18, 2009 to promote the label. Funk Volume originally wanted to sell it for retail sale, but were unable to due to Hopsin still being contracted by Ruthless Records at the time. On mixtape website DatPiff, it has been certified Gold for being downloaded over 100,000 times, and it was later made available for purchase for digital download on iTunes and Amazon.com.