D'ToX510
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D’ToX
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“Maybe I’m just a mental case/Spittin’ in this booth,” suggests emerging West Coast rapper, D’ToX. With deft rhymes matched to relentless beats, his music would indicate otherwise as the imaginatively named creator powers up testimony to his thoughtful and provocative brand of urban truth. There is no substitute for authenticity, and in a genre crowded with bling-encrusted poseurs, D’ToX handily cuts through the clutter with command and vision.
Originally from Northern California’s Bay Area, for D’ToX, constant relocation became a way of life when his parents split up and his mom remarried a marine. “I went to four junior high schools in three years,” he recalls. “At that age, meeting new kids was a bitch.” Returning to the bay, he discovered a soundtrack for his isolation and alienation in music hard core, punk and especially rap. “It’s just what I was around. It was easy to relate to, the streets. That’s what I was out doing.”
These youthful misadventures became the text for his lyrics, as did a string of low-paying jobs. “Most of what I write about is struggling,” he confirms. “That’s really all I know; working and not getting paid shit.” For a white kid in an urban environment, skateboarding provided a four-wheel passport into other neighborhoods: from the dicey streets of downtown Oakland to the Embarcadero in San Francisco. Early on, D’ToX tried working with collaborators, but he relates that the other guys didn’t share his commitment to the music. “Rap you can do by yourself,” he confirms. “It’s all just you.” That said, he raps across a breadth of styles, with an inclusive musical vocabulary that doesn’t pigeonhole him into one dimension.
As his name would indicate, extracting poison gives reason to the rhymes. “I sit in my room and write that’s all I do, not get involved on the street. I’m past all that shit.” The creative process is at the center of this universe. “I sit down with a beat and words start flowin out. I don’t really have to think about what I’m sayin. When I look down there’s a song that all makes sense.”
And beneath the edgy lyrics and bumping beats, there is a higher purpose. “The reason I want to do music is I want to make a difference. Music changed my life: To know someone has gone through the same experiences as you is therapeutic. Anyone can do anything, you just have to believe. Music can get that across to kids who don’t have faith in themselves. It can help them turn around and become something great.”All comments (1)
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