My City Records

Deric Dewayne Lockhart AKA Flawless was born April 8th 1982 in Rockford, IL. He has always had a passion for music since a little kid, including Hip-Hop, R&B, 80's Rock, and 50s-70s soul music. He first started writing music at a young age of 8yrs old with his cousin Josh Lang(RIP). At the age of 12 he started writing raps as well as continuing singing R&B. At the age of 14 he decided he also wanted to be a rapper, when realizing singing wasn't his high talent around 15-16 is when his focus was directed strictly towards hip/hop. He was a very shy kid so he mostly stuck to himself, until the age of 16-17 when him and a few friends (Zavar Purifoy, Jeffery Miles Smith AKA Lucky(RIP), Matt Koch, and Jarrod Rigsby) started kickin freestyles here and there. Him and Zavar would sit up all night every night drinking, spitting, recording freestyles on cassette tapes through a boombox, and Zavar really started pushing him into pursuing his dreams and goals. At the age of 20-21 is when he finally got motivation started working hard and buying studio equipment. He put together a cheap little set-up in the laundry room of his moms basement and recorded the "Just Practice Mixtape Vol.1" "The Laundry Room Edition" no mix no masters. Most popular for his track "Tha Dz Anthem" over Nas's "Hate Me Now", included the 48 bar no hook "Hustlers Anthem" freestyle over Rick Ross's "Push It" In 2008 (A Name Unmentionable), Atam "Epidemik" Maurchie, Jake "Stranga" Brewer, and Deric "Flawless" Lockhart started My City Records. They recorded their first track together "So Clean", the track had alot of buzz going for it, it was played on 104.9 once that summer and had a few plays on 97.5. While building their studio Epidemik and Flawless stayed recording track after track including "Dont Call Me", "In Da Club", "Trust", "Die Tonight", "Lose Your Life" etc. Tho they were working alot alot of things happened and their buzz slowly started decreasing. There has been alot transition in My City, people leaving people signing and linking together.(See Basic Info) MyCityRecords / OffTheAve.Com / Critical Productions / Monster Music / Flexkamp My City and affiliates have many big projects coming up including The My City Records Compilation "Protocol Restoration". Flawless "Buiznes Iz Pleazure" .Epidemik "Half Hour Swag Shower". Eddie Monster "Horror Show" and much much more so be on the look out in 2012... For more detailed info on or about anything else you can click on the links to the Right of the page or email Flawless at Lyrikalyflawless@gmail.com...

I'll play live on stage, at a club, a bar, in a arena, a house, a studio, or where ever theres a mic & a beat.

My Influences? I dont wanna sound to stereotypical but its pretty much the same as your favorite musician read what they say & thats probably about right... Anything that makes me laugh, cry, dance, chill, get buck. anything anyone really rappers, singers, musicians, actors, family, friends, haters, females, & of course the root of all evil tha mighty dollar bill.

CAD GXL2200 Condenser mic, Behringer Eurorack UB2442FX Mixer, Tascam US-122L interface, M-Audio 49 USB Keyboard, Akai mpd 16, M-Audio BX5 Studio Monitors, Compaq Presario, Cubase5, Reason3, Fruity Loops 9, T-RackS-3

I'll have more tracks up soon this was the only song i had on my flashdrive back when this page was set up... Thanks for comin thru...