Dame Plx
-------------------------DAME PLX AKA DAMIEN COMPLX WAS BORN IN HOLLYWOOD, CA. IN THE FAMOUS HOSPITAL NAMED THE CITY OF ANGELS. TWO WEEKS AFTER THE NEW BORN WAS BROUGHT INTO THE WORLD OF OPPOSITES, THIS ILLUSTRIOUS FACILITY MYSTERIOUSLY, BURNED TO THE GROUND, TAKING WITH IT A DEEP HISTORY ROOTED WITH LEGENDARY CELEBRITY STORIES AND THE ONLY RECORDS ON FILE OF THE BIRTH AND EXISTENCE OF DAMIEN ANTHONY. THESE EVENTS MAY SEEM CIRCUMSTANTIAL TO MOST READERS, BUT TO ALL WHO KNOW HIM, THESE OCCURRENCES MERELY FORETOLD OF A DESTINY THAT HAD YET TO BE WRITTEN OR DEFINED. HIS FATHER WAS A YOUNG STREET HUSTLER IN THE EARLY SEVENTIES WHO FELL IN LOVE WITH A CHURCH CHIOR PIANIST. SHE ULTIMATELY TURNED THIS YOUNG MAN FROM HIS ANIMALISTIC WAYS AND CONVERTED HIM INTO A CHURCH GOING INDIVIDUAL. UNFORTUNATELY, THIS WOULD NOT LAST. THE TWO WED AND HAD A SON THAT EMBODIED THE SPIRITUAL THIRST FOR KNOWLEDGE FROM HIS MOTHER AND THE UNDERWORLD CURIOSITY FROM HIS FATHER. THIS MOLDED TOGETHER WITH AN ENVIRONMENT LIKE SOUTHEAST, WASHINGTON DC, MADE FOR A TURBULENT CHILDHOOD FOR A BOY KNOWN AS DAMIEN OR AS HE WAS KNOWN AT THIS AGE, AMEN, BECAUSE HE SEEM TO POSSESS THE DEMONIC CHARACTERISTICS OF THE OMEN CHILD AT TIMES AND AT OTHER TIMES HE POSSESSED A CHRIST LIKE APPEAL. PLX WAS INTRODUCED INTO HIPHOP BY SIMPLE CHANCE. HIS GOOD FRIEND REEK HAVOC HAD MANY TIES INTO THE UNDERGROUND HIP HOP OF VIRGINIA. REEK WOULD ALWAYS PUMP, WHAT IS KNOWN AS BACK PACK HIP HOP OUT OF HIS BLACK OUT CAMARO, FILLING PLX, WHO WAS REALLY INTO GO-GO AT THE TIME, WITH VERBALLY CHARGED TRACKS FROM SOME OF THE MORE DEEP THINKING LYRICIST OF THE MID-90'S. IT WAS DIFFERENT FROM THE GO-GO THAT PLX WAS USE TO IN THAT GO-GO WAS MORE ABOUT A FEELING THAN IT WAS ABOUT THE WORDS. GO-GO REFLECTED HOW THE YOUNGER GENERATION OF WASHINGTON DC FELT THROUGH THE MELODIES AND SOUNDS PRODUCED FROM INSTRUMENTS. HIP HOP WAS SIMILAR IN REFLECTING LIFE BUT THE REFLECTION CAME FROM WORDS MORE THAN FROM THE MUSIC AND THAT'S WHAT CAPTIVATED HIM TO PURSUE THIS FORM OF EXPRESSION. ANYONE WHO KNOWS PLX KNOWS HE IS QUIET FOR THE MOST PART BUT INTENSELY AND INTUITIVELY, AWARE AND ATTENTIVE TO EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING THAT IS TAKING PLACE IN THE ROOM HE 'S IN. HE'S THE FIRST IN THE CLUB OR ON THE BLOCK TO KNOW WHEN SOMETHING IS ABOUT TO GO DOWN AND IF YOU SEE HIM MAKE A BREAK FOR THE EXIT, YOU BETTER BE BEHIND HIM. PLX WAS GIVEN HIS FIRST OPPORTUNITY TO WORK IN A STUDIO ENVIRONMENT BY AN ASSOCIATE OF REEK KNOWN AS SKETCH. SKETCH WAS FINISHING UP HIS SECOND ALBUM ENTITLED "WILD IRISH ROSE", AND WANTED REEK TO GET ON A TRACK WITH HIM. AT THE TIME PLX WAS JUST WRITING AND RAPPING FOR FUN, BUT REEK SAW THAT HIS ABILITY TO WRITE IN RHYTHM WAS ADVANCING AT A RAPID LEVEL. ALMOST AS IF HE HAD BEEN RAPPING IN HIS MIND FAR BEFORE HE HAD KNOWN HOW TO ORGANIZE IT AND MAKE IT ACCEPTABLE FOR PUBLIC LISTENING. SO REEK INTRODUCED PLX TO SKETCH. SKETCH TOLD PLX TO STEP OUTSIDE, LIT UP A CIGARETTE, INHALED IT, LOOKED AT PLX AND TOLD HIM TO SPIT, THEN EXHALED AND LISTENED. WHAT HE HEARD WAS NOT SOME EXTRAORDINARY VERSE HOWEVER HE DID HEAR THE POTENTIAL THAT REEK WAS REFERRING TO. AN UNPOLISHED DIAMOND THAT COULD BE MOLDED INTO A THING OF BEAUTY. THESE ARE SOME OF THE SENARIOS THAT BEGAN TO FORM A CLIQUE THAT WILL ULTIMATELY BECOME LEGENDARILY KNOWN IN VIRGINIA'S HIP HOP HISTORY AS S.U.P.A.N.O.V.A.(SKETCH M., J. BOND, DAME PLX, REEK HAVOC, SOCKET). S.U.P.A.N.O.V.A IS ON THE BRINK OF BEING ESTABLISHED AS A POWERHOUSE OF MC'S, LYRICALLY -------"SMACKIN'. U. PROPERLY. ALL. NIGHT. OFFICIAL. VERBAL. ASSASSINS.(s.u.p.a.n.o.v.a.). IF YOU HAVE NEVER SEEN THESE FIVE MC'S ON STAGE................THEN YOU HAVE NEVER SEEN WHERE THE NEXT STAGE OF EVOLUTION IN HIP HOP MUSIC HAS THE POTENTIAL OF ESCALATING. THEIR STRATEGY IS THAT THEY MUST BE JOINED LIKE FIVE FINGERS ON A HAND. A FINGER BY ITSELF MAYBE ABLE TO DO SOME DAMAGE, BUT FIVE FINGERS CAN FORM A FIST AND CREATE A DEADLY BLOW. ONCE A FIST HAS PENETRATED ITS OPPOSITION, THE FINGERS CAN AGAIN SPREAD OUT AND DO THEIR OWN THING YET FOREVER UNITED BY THE HAND. PLX HAS THE GOD-GIVEN ABILITY TO BRING A CREATIVE AND ENTERTAINING LIGHT TO ANY SIMPLE LIFE EXPERIENCE IN A WAY SO THAT THE LISTENER CAN SEE CLEARER THAN ANY HI- DEFINITION IMAGE, EXACTLY WHAT PLX IS GOING THROUGH OR REFERRING TO ON ANY TRACK. FIRST AND FOREMOST, I HAVE SEEN PLX AS MORE OF A CREATIVE WRITER THAN AN MC. BESIDES JUST RAP, BESIDES JUST MUSIC, ON ANY WRITING PLATFORM PLX CHOOSES TO PURSUE, I BELIEVE HE WOULD EXCEL AND WITHOUT EQUIVOCATION, DEFINITELY STAND OUT AMONGST THE REST. PLX SEES MUSIC AS JUST A STEPPING STONE TO OTHER REALMS AND PLATEAUS OF LITERARY EXPRESSION. THIS PHILOSOPHY COUPLED WITH HIS LIFE EXPERIENCES, MAKES CONVERSATION WITH HIM, AN ADVENTURE WITHIN ITSELF. BY TALKING TO HIM AND LISTENING TO HIS RANGE OF WORDPLAY, YOU CAN TELL PLX IS AN AVID READER. AT ANY GIVEN TIME AND PLACE YOU CAN FIND HIM READING BOOKS LIKE THE DIVINE COMEDY BY DANTE, OR PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN BY JAMES JOYCE, HERO WITH A THOUSAND FACES BY JOSEPH CAMPBELL,OR RACE MATTERS BY CORNEL WEST. I'VE SEEN PLX IN A CORNER SOMEWHERE READING A BOOK BEFORE A SHOW.I HAVE HEARD STORIES FROM FRIENDS AND ROOMATES OF A TIME WHEN PLX WROTE OUT THE ENTIRE DICTIONARY COMPLETE WITH WORD AND TWO DEFINITIONS. IN THIS PERIOD OF COMERCIAL HIP HOP THAT IS LIMITED TO EITHER IMAGES OF BIG BALLIN' DRUG-MADE KINGPINS TURNED RAPPERS OR BURNER PACKIN' EX-STICK UP KIDS TO BUBBLE GUM RAPPERS AND WOMANIZERS, PLX OFFERS A REALISTIC AND REFRESHING LOOK AT THE SITUATIONS THAT OCCUR IN THE AVERAGE INDIVIDUALS LIFE. FROM THE UPS AND DOWNS OF A RELATIONSHIP TO STRUGGLING AND GRINDING OUT A NINE TO FIVE, PLX DELIVERS TRACK AFTER TRACK LIKE SCENES OF A MOVIE. THE FUTURE IS LIMITLESS FOR THIS ARTIST, IN FACT, THE ONLY THING THAT WOULD EVER HAULT HIS SUCCESS WOULD BE HIMSELF. I RECOMMEND ALL WHO READ THIS TO TAKE RECOGNITION OF WHAT YOU HEAR. I GUARANTEE, YOU WILL HEAR, SEE, AND FEEL THE PASSION AND ENTERTAINING INTENSITY OF THE ONE WE CALL DAME PLX, FROM NOW AND INTO THE FUTURE OF VIRGINIA HIP HOP CULTURE.---Bio by AKA............... ..Your musical influences
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