FuegoMarket's Flice Fuego

lways true to its mission of bringing you the best of those contributing within the industry of entertainment, Ambi’ance Uncut acknowledges the legends, the Unsung, as well as the up and coming artists. In this issue, Flice Fuego, half of the FuegoMarket duo, is our featured up and coming artist.

Born and raised in Burlington, NC about a half-hour’s drive from Greensboro, Flice grew up around music. By the age of five or six, he had already begun watching his older cousins, who started a group called, Toys, rapping and receiving buzz all around North Carolina. Later, Mike Rankin, the eldest cousin came up with the name, Carolina Henchmen in one of his songs. “After the name Carolina Henchmen was named in my cousin’s song, two of my other cousins took the name and kinda ran with it. That’s when we (the younger cousins) started the whole Carolina Henchman thing and then we formed something called, Money House. We had linked up with another North Carolina group and we pretty much made Money House the label, but we kept Carolina Henchmen and I’ve been doing music under it since I was around fifteen or sixteen years old.

Today, the Carolina Henchmen are still going strong backing and supporting their younger cousins, Rashad Fields aka ‘Flice Fuego’ and George Williamson, aka ‘Black Market’ who are now booking as the duo “FuegoMarket”. Ambi’ance Uncut caught up with Flice after their inter- 73

view on Raleigh, NC’s radio station, The Choice FM 92.1. Still pumped, Ambi’ance asked how it felt to hear their music on the airwaves. “Yeah, it was a real dope experience! I’m still mesmerized by it. It’s that sensation just to hear your music being played with people all over the air hearing it. It’s crazy!! It was actually my first time having that kind of interview of that caliber, I was a little nervous, but it was good for the most part! It’s a wonderful and satisfying feeling of finally reaching a part of your vision!”

After moving through the underground industry for most of their career, FuegoMarket is continually developing a fan base and has been dubbed, the “OutKast of NC” with their fan base now reaching all around North Carolina, South Carolina, California and recently found out that some portions of Africa and other countries, are downloading and playing their music while social media is keeping the buzz alive.

With most of their marketing and videos being done in North Carolina, FuegoMarket finds themselves understanding the power of family support and industry networking. “We connect with each other in the market. If there are guys out here doing camera work, we work with them. It’s like a corresponding relationship, we look out for them and they look out for us. We are all pretty much building our brands, you know, putting North Carolina on the map. So, we’ll work with anyone that’s seri74 ous about their craft.” Being serious about their craft, this has become a family endeavor with Flice writing all of his lyrics, his brother laying down the beats, his mother making all of their shirts, logos and other retailed merchandise, and another cousin creating the logos for their mixed tape covers. They also have family members that are promoters, event planners, social media reps., cameramen, and so forth. Let’s not forget the original, Carolina Henchmen navigating and supporting them through the industry! It looks like this family has covered every base making this a genuine family supported, owned and operated business!

Ambi’ance asked how the duo was making out during the COVID pandemic and found that they are still doing their thing and not allowing the pandemic to slow their creativity or their determination to succeed. “The pandemic kind of put a stop to a few things. We were just getting into a mode. We had a radio interview in Charlotte right before the COVID thing happened. We were traveling and going out of state on this little mini tour, taking our merchandise to different states and of course, all of that slowed down. But, as far as standing still, I’ve pretty much been building up my music repertoire, getting a lot of writing done and pretty much lining up projects. Right now, the main song being talked about is called, ‘The Pain in My Voice’ which

is about why I’m flared up and the struggles we faced as teenagers growing up. Its on all platforms, iTunes, Spotify, Apple music and everything like that. The trailer is out, and we are receiving a lot of social media buzz right now. So, we are pretty much going to have a video release party where we will release the whole video for that song.”

With the pandemic still lurking all around the world and now social and systemic injustice being in the forefront of this country, we found that these issues haven’t been placed on the back burner of these young men and they use their current platform as their lyrical voice in addressing these issues. They attend peaceful rallies and bring that energy of equality to the mic. “I pretty much try to put myself in that situation lyrically because this is happening to my generation. I write a lot of hard lyrics, you know here and there, but the basis of it all is to imbue positivity and positive thinking. I speak on social injustice and social justice and how we can overcome it, you know, unite as one.”

Finally, we asked Flice what he wanted our readers to know about him as we get to know him and his music. “I just want people to know that I’m just an all-around good guy. I don’t put myself above anyone else, even though this music thing, I have a lot of confidence in myself and I see that I have something going like no other, but in the same sense, I’m just another human being out here trying to chase my dreams and goals, you know. I’m passionate about this music. This is what I pretty much love at the end of the day.

Ambi’ance is following and supporting FuegoMarket as they continue to make strides and differences all the way to the top and you can say that you saw them featured here first, at Ambi’ance Uncut. Check out their latest song, The Pain in My Voice on Spotify, iTunes, and Apple music. You can also follow them on their Facebook fan page: FuegoMarket145, Instagram @FliceFuego, Twitter @Fuegothegoat145, Snapchat @Fuegothegoat and finally, Rashad Fields on Facebook. Stop by their platforms and show them some love and support. Don’t forget to drop them a line and tell them that Ambi’ance Uncut sent you by!

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