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= Ali Tomineek = Ali Tomineek (born February 28, 1997), is an American independent Hip Hop artist, writer, and producer born in the sunny state of Arizona. Tomineek began in 2011, rapping in his room, posting videos on YouTube, and also donating the proceeds of his iTunes music sales to less fortunate families around the holidays to pay for rent, food, clothes, gifts and more. You will find when listening to Ali’s music there is no profanity. Now, this 21 year old independent artist refers to himself as the first ever Framer of Hip Hop, an acronym that stands for (Filming, Rapping, Acting, Musician, Everyday). Ali Tomineek states to become a framer, one must “market, film, edit, distribute, write, produce, direct, and perform” independently. In 2017 his album The World Famous #FridayFlow was released. This album made it’s way to a #1 spot on Billboard's Heatseeker Mountain Chart and charted 40th between J. Cole & Travis Scott on Billboard’s best selling R&B/Hip-Hop album in the same week. This was achieved without profanity, a radio campaign, or a multi-million dollar budget. In the summer of 2017 Ali had the opportunity to write and produce a song, act, and rap in the sequel “High Strung: Free Dance”. The film was directed by award winning independent director Michael Damian and written and produced by Janeen Damian. This film will be in theaters in 2018.

2011–Present:
Before it became the World Famous #FridayFlow Album, it was called the Monday Rap Madness. During his 10th grade year of high school, Ali Tomineek would promptly rap a verse on TV in front of the entire student body of Peoria High School every Monday morning during the video announcements for a segment called the “Monday Rap Madness”. As time went on, that became a mouthful to say. So the rap segment was moved to Friday and the title was shortened down to the #FridayFlow. Every week, students would direct their attention to the TV monitors in every classroom anticipating what Ali; one of the fastest rappers in the world would bring to the table. The popularity of the #FridayFlow began to grow from the school, to YouTube (where some of the #FridayFlow’s reached a million views, prior to his YouTube account being hacked) to all the way around the world. After the hacking of his YouTube account, a lot of unwanted frustration arose for Ali and his fans. Ali soon found out that his fans across the world were viewing his #FridayFlow’s year after year and those videos became their favorites. Beyonce has organized a large fan-base known as the BeyHive, so at this point Ali’s fans began to do the same thing and come together to create the 31 Squad. The Squad requested for him to compile these past FridayFlow’s into an album. So the #FridayFlow was renamed to the World Famous #FridayFlow. Now, fans across the globe could download the World Famous #FridayFlow album which was released on May 5th, 2017. This album contains 20 songs, all entirely produced by Ali himself and a collaboration track between 2 of the fastest rappers in the world; Ali Tomineek and Futuristic.

Awards and Accolades
Ali Tomineek was named “Best Rapper of 2017” by the Phoenix New Times. He has also joined the list of rappers who’s names are on a Sprite can! He is recognized by the California Legislature for “Exemplary Dedication in giving back to communities” and also received an International “Breakout Artist of The Year” award in Hollywood at the official HAPA Music Awards. In 2018 Ali Tomineek was recognized by the Arizona House of Representatives for using his Hip Hop platform to give back to communities and spread a message of positivity.