YouTube is looking for rappers in their second installment of the OntheRise contest. Emcees have the chance to win a $10,000 Guitar Center gift certificate and a single recorded by G-Unit/Interscope Records.



YouTube users will vote for the final winner out of a field of 20 chosen by a panel including 50 Cent. The winner will be announced on September 7th, nice publicity for 50’s new album which drops, so to speak, four days later.

YouTube can only hope to match the success of last year’s Underground contest in which the final four bands were unveiled on Good Morning America. The winning video in that contest by a group called Maldroid received more than a million views and despite receiving some big label attention signed with indie label Fuzz.

“We had a sweet video before we had a band” they write on the Fuzz website. “Some say we are starting our band in reverse but the reality is we are evolving to an ever changing musical landscape.”

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