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About Brickface ,DaBrickfigga born in Brooklyn Queens Womens Hospital in 1972 . born to Mack and Jannie Peoples of Virginia and Georgia. From five children , Brickface ,daBrickfigga. was the foruth child . In early eighties he used to listen to Hip Hop played on 98.7 Kiss & WBLS growing as a child . I was inspired to write listening to the "Bridge " by MC Shan . I was compelled to perform as an entertainer after watching one of my teachers sons at my Junior High School do his first perfo...

About Brickface ,DaBrickfigga born in Brooklyn Queens Womens Hospital in 1972 . born to Mack and Jannie Peoples of Virginia and Georgia. From five children , Brickface ,daBrickfigga. was the foruth child . In early eighties he used to listen to Hip Hop played on 98.7 Kiss & WBLS growing as a child . I was inspired to write listening to the "Bridge " by MC Shan . I was compelled to perform as an entertainer after watching one of my teachers sons at my Junior High School do his first performance on the release of his album in New York . When I returned home that day I was excited , I went to listen to the radio and the whole evening they played the song I just seen perfomed at my school. Over the years , I continued to listen to Hip Hop and Rap , but I never began my journey in writing . Until I entered George Wingate High School. This is when I met MC Lyte. I never knew who she was until later that evening , when I returned home and watched Video Music box at 3:30 after School on Channel 25. I always heard her on the radio and recorded her but never saw her in person. I then began to get involved with Break dancing and Beat Boxing. One day things began to change in my life and in my family . The crack epedemic in Bed- Stuy, Brooklyn was so wide spread , for every other house on my block you had at least two family members on CrackCocaine including my own home . I also had two of my own family members addicted as well.life was hard ,times were desperate , people souls were lost. including mines ,I droped out of school to sell crack to help feed my siblings and lost all since of life ,love & respect for humanity. I became my own worse living experince & sleeping nightmare. I've always seen myself in a coffin with my eyes wide open, it was making me sick. my friends thought i crazy who grow up with me , my gangster friends thought that shit was okay .but in my heart i knew that wasn't the way it was supose to be at time when i would return home to my disfuctional family. I would write about what was going on at my house and i would kick these songs in front of my friends on my block ,but never take it serious because my life was falling apart ,my family was disolving and there was nothing I could do to stop it . I still went to school in the day ,but at night I would hustle then after a while money made more cents than education and the dollars came as fast as it went ,just like the shit i was selling but the sins of my ways came head on when I was behind the hole at about 3am when my pops and his man came and copt, some shit and to see my father walk off with my next door neighbor was fucked up . I then began to try an figure out a way out but money ,sex & bullshit was more of a state of progress to me than getting out of the streets to save my self before I would end up dead at the hands of another or my own. My mother would worry about me at night ,hearing people shooting or knowing my friends were shot scared her like any parent would be . but one thing i remember threw out every thing that was exciting,sexy,fly ,cool or etc. is that the 'the life in which you live you create for your self and that if its to be its up to me." Now that I excepted my erors,now time to change my ways ..... I began to write more ,to take my thoughts come to life on paper. next was to compose those thoughts into music . next was to record these songs and demostrate them to my friends my friends thought that was cool, but i was only writing accepella I had no beats ,so I went to my first record store to by two tapes one was 'EpMd and the second was delasoul single with the instrumental I took that beat and wrote to them ,then I would practice my raps on one of my friends.them another,an so on till I got that respone that when i recorded it and play it my friends actually thought it was a new record. A few more years past and I never knew how to freestyle . I began to stay legit I got a job at a record store in the heart of downtown brooklyn called the 'Music Factory; where I was a fake dj,and people actually believe I knew what Iwas doing but learned from some of the best like Craig G,S&S,Goldfinger,Tonytouch,RonG they showed me some pointers for me to sell those records to keep my job. We would hold Mc freestyles in the basement of the store and I just started flowing off the head picking out objects ,people ,colors etc.. I was crazy with it ,people only started to come to see me freestlye not to buy records the manager loved it because I knew how to flow over other people beats ,so the djs from the hood would like the records and collect them for there mix tapes. Holding these freestlye chypers at the store made me known to the mc of the underground I came across some of the illest mcs,like Poisonpen & stronghold , RedRum,Knoxx the destoyer,Das effects, Gorillas in the mist life,MOP ,Smooth da Husler, Mumms etc.. I began to look more into perfoming on stage to really show my talent so I started the promotonal sharks tours' Showcases for fake ass promoters selling tickets under the promise of A&Rs and Recordlabels signing you. I also started a circut with my friend Poisonpen doing College shows or Open mics and fashion shows just to show my talent ,but still got jerked around so I stoped . I started paying out pocket for studio time ,all over and realized there was a problem ? the money is never enough if you are legit ,paying out of pocket. two my music started to sound the same, as my freestyle. You couldnt till the two apart . So I stop freestyling and show casing because it took a way from my true creative ablity to write songs or make good music. I then contiue to work at the record store and thats when I met Straife; Mr.set it off..the original man him self . He them introduce me to his younger brother Marcel aka Dahim HE and I began to work on a song for the set off movie with his brother but he choose a female over us on that one opps... But me and Dahim continue to make music together over the years we did my first single & video called Do or Die' our first of many in 2002 but time and life changes people ,he and I both got married and have familes and fell out for a minute to do the man thing . but now where back . With more to satifiy the true hungry comsumer/fan with good original concepts ,stories ,rhymes & songs . thanks to everyone who has belief in my capablity to succeed at any thing I choose thats good for my future... Brickface da Brickfigga