Allen Forrest

Who is Allen Forrest?

Allen David Forrest Jr. also known by the stage name Matchstik or Match, is an American recording artist, rapper, singer/songwriter, music producer, and actor. He is also the founder and CEO of M. Republik Music Group.

Forrest has released three studio albums and one EP. The Concept album released in Fall of 2009 has over 100,000 digital downloads worldwide. He was featured in Billboard magazine and on Yahoo.com's The New Now. Matchstik was the first rapper to make front page headlines in Dothan, AL in the Dothan Eagle newspaper. Matchstik's song Give Back was featured in the Sony movie Stomp the Yard 2: Homecoming movie soundtrack. He also was a social media expert on the 2009 SESAC annual Music Boot Camp. His latest single "Nothing Is Free" is produced by The Black Eyed Peas's hit-maker Jean Baptiste. He ha finished his anticipated acoustic EP titled The Allen Forrest Project which includes "That's What I Say", which has over 107,000 plays on Europe's #1 Urban Magazine, "Yo Raps" featuring Jennifer Åkerman, a singer/model/actress who is the younger sister of the actress Malin Åkerman.