At the tender age of 8, I wrote my first rhyme. It was in story form about me getting ready for school. I was raised on the northside of Chicago, in a neighborhood called, "Uptown". You can probably compare this neighborhood mostly to NewYork, due to the diversity of creed and culture. I learned how to hustle from blacks, whites, puerto ricans, indians, cubans, everybody. I also learned very early that everything is everything.........My mother had three children, i was the oldest. So I have ...
At the tender age of 8, I wrote my first rhyme. It was in story form about me getting ready for school. I was raised on the northside of Chicago, in a neighborhood called, "Uptown". You can probably compare this neighborhood mostly to NewYork, due to the diversity of creed and culture. I learned how to hustle from blacks, whites, puerto ricans, indians, cubans, everybody. I also learned very early that everything is everything.........My mother had three children, i was the oldest. So I have the typical "oldest kid" syndrome. She was a young , hustlin mother from the Low end; a notorious southside neighborhood who was not going to be broke. We had the best materially, and educationally. I went to schools that had art and music programs. We had weekly assemblys and plays. But like many of us, I also had overexposure to the streets. I learned to live double lives very early in life.I was involved in many neighborhood activities where I choreographed a team of dancers for the bud billiken and city of bolingbrook parades. Also, wrote rhymes for the Voice of the People Organization entertainers. My mother began to catch me with a group of kids rapping and playing a boom box. I attended catholic school for many years, but then attended Lincoln Park High School. I got too caught up in the streets and was sent to Minneapolis, Minn. where i ultimately graduated from Roosevelt High School. I moved back to Chicago for legal reasons, and shortly moved to Houston, Tx to pursue an English Degree at Texas southern University. Here I started Richmond Sweethearts, a group of female rappers, singers, model, dancers, and cute women that got money.Due to legal reasons, I was forced to move back to Chicago. I quickly realized that the corporate world was spiritually draining, and began to pursue my entertaining dreams once again.Fortunately my childhood crew was diligently at work, and got the funding for Music Life Productions. Here I was Head of Promotions and Advertising; as well as doing the music and attending Columbia College for an advertising degree. During this time, I wrote and performed the classic hit, "EveryDay". In 2001, I had a life awakening and was on a spiritual journey for about 4 years in which I wrote over 1200 songs with hooks, found my estranged father, and fell in love. I woke up in 2005 after numerous 35,000yr salaries, feeling like a slave, and nothing to show for it but a car and an apartment.I decided that I will focus on getting PAID OFF MY GOD GIVEN TALENTS. And realized that is the only way........ the science of working.......
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