I’ve been struggling with the notion of writing this bio…I guess big time artists pay a PR person to write theirs and small time artists write their own in the third person so it sounds like they could have paid someone to write theirs. As a small time artist I took the latter approach but could never finish one because they always sound wierd when I read them back…So I decided to just go ahead and tell my story in first person and let convention be damned so here goes nothing. My first musical adventure was in the late 90’s (’97-’99) as the vocalist in a group called Pure Irate Souls which I formed with some kids i was in highschool with in Myrtle Beach, SC. We never made a professional recording or did any kind of touring but we did play regular shows in and around Myrtle Beach and put out a cassette that we recorded at our guitar player’s house on a 4-track with Radio Shack mics. My two favorite groups at the time were Rage Against the Machine and The Roots and Pure Irate Souls’ music reflected that. I had joined the group in hopes of being a singer but during one rehearsal I did a little freestyle and the group decided I should rap instead, I obliged and never looked back. In 2000 I moved to Atlanta to go to art school which I hoped would allow me to meet some people who would be down to do music with me. This plan worked because I ended up meeting the artist who will come to be known as Metrognome. He and I had known each for a while and eventually became roomates. Metrognome had been into making music ever since I met him but neither of us had access to any kind of real recording equipment so nothing had really come of it until a mutual friend, the legendary Jahmez, brought over his Technics 1200’s to our apartment. Armed with sound we now could begin to explore the possibilities of making music on a serious level. Soon after Metrognome and I started getting our feet wet I bolstered enough confidence to join a battle that was being held at school. I didn’t win, I lost in the final round to the known favorite but it did result in bringing a final crucial element into the fold, original beats. In the crowd that night was a producer by the name of Blac Shrien, he found me one day at school and let me here some of his beats. He said he was interested in putting a group together and wanted to work with me. Until this point neither Metrognome or myself had any means of producing legitimate beats so we jumped on the oportunity thus Street Temple Emcees was born. With Shrien providing beats and vocals and Metrognome handling DJ duty the three of us quickly put together some songs and recorded a demo. On the strength of that demo Street Temple started to make some noise around Atlanta. Street Temple bolstered its roster by adding two more emcees and Metrognome would start assuming more production duties adding his own beats to the equation and taking on the role of Street Temple’s official engineer. With a full line-up, a home studio and an official headquarters a slew of recordings would come as well as shows in Atlanta and also nearby Athens. Finnally in 2005 Street Temple Emcees released their first (and incidentally only) album an EP called Asphalt Prophets. Unfourtunately the rigors of being an independent group got the best of us and Street Temple Emcees dissolved shortly after the release of Asphalt Prophets. After Street Temple Emcees I made a few attempt to strike out on my own as a solo artist. I worked with a couple of producers but nothing ever grew out of any of these endevors. Although I had been haunted by doubt during this down time I stayed productive by consistantly writing new material. Finally in late 2006 I reached out to Metrognome to see about doing music again and he was more than ready. This is pretty much the story so far. Metrognome and I are right in the middle of putting together an album of all new music which, if I may say so myself, is going to surpass anything we’ve done prior. We shall see…