Album Notes

AFFILIATE was born Garland Webb, on October 9th, 1984. Raised in the South End (Tent City) of Boston, Affiliate always had a love for music growing up. Although he chose to focus on sports, Affiliate would keep the pen to the pad filling up notebooks full of lyrics written about his own personal life experiences growing up in the streets of Boston. Eventually all the hard work in sports landed Affiliate a spot on the University of Maine football team but he decided to take this opportunity to focus on music instead. Using a microphone from a video game Affiliate got to work recording songs in his UMaine dorm room. This soon lead to the beginnings of his first rap group “Gritty City Mafia” which consisted of four members. Creating a large buzz around the UMaine campus, Affiliate sought out Sean Smith, founder of Queen City Entertainment who then introduced him to T.J Jozefowicz and his label Flophouse Records.
Since then Affiliate has released several projects including the mixtapes “The Preview,” “Power of Fear,” and “Hott Shit 20: The New England Takeover,” with artists Termanology and Dre Robinson. His long-awaited debut on Flophouse Records, “Trash Bag Money The Album,” features quality street bangers such as “Front To Back” and “Click, Click” and showcases his lyrical skills on songs such as “Night Moves Feat. Ali Vegas”. Affiliate’s storytelling diversity in rapping is one of his strongest attributes. In one song he can talk about his troubled past in Boston and in the next about falling in love with the perfect woman. He has performed with hip-hop artists Papoose, Bubba Sparxxx, Doujah Raze, Termanology, Dre Robinson, and Statik Selektah within the last few months alone. Under the management of Flophouse Records and Queen City Entertainment, Affiliate is poised to be the next major New England hip-hop artist and he’s ready for it!