When it comes to the music world, you are persuaded to have a certain image. Well think about it how do you think I felt when I found out everything wasn't how I imagined. How my family and friends could double cross me, faster than my enemies for material value. Maybe, if I had switched girls more than I made songs because of trust issue's and jealousy problems. If I found out that my friends didn't live by the same "Death before Dishonor" code as I. These are some of the ups and downs; I had to go through, just to keep my vision in the music world...:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> I grew up in Flint, Michigan a small, premodominantly black city between Detroit and Saginaw. It wasn't the best city to grow up in my teen years. We have low population with no jobs and low income. When I was growing up music was a big impact in my community. As a child, listening to artists like LL Cool J, Run D.M.C, Slick Rick, 2pac and more. I started rapping at the age of eleven but I didn't take it as serious as I do now. I had creative ideas and excellent hand writing, and a way of expressing myself in a rhythm of poetry. This was supported and noticed by English teachers at my school. I was told I have a way of getting the crowds attention with my voice. At the time music was the last thing I thought about when I rest my head at night. I started taking rapping serious in my ninth grade year. I attended Carman-Ainsworth High School in late 2006. In the beginning of the year there were a lot of distractions for me. One distraction included music; I wrote songs more than I did homework. I went to the studio more than I attended class. In late November I joined my first rap group "Lets Get It Boys". I would have to say there was about seventeen boys and at least thirteen girls. I created my first single also and early December I had my first show. My songs were easily created but the instrumentals were not originally created. Most of instrumentals came from the industry but all my ideas were originally created by me. It didn't matter though you could have a hundred good songs but with an instrumental that didn't belong to you made you look unprofessional. The group that I was in did not last for a period of time; they officially called it quits because of jealousy in early January 2007. By the summer of 2008, I had created a street buzz for my rap name "Sunny D". I started my promotion team fast; I simply chose ex-members from the "Get It Boys" and formed my very first group "Empire". It included six members, they all rapped and we located a new studio. We took it serious my tenth grade year. We also created our first mix tape "Long Story Short". It had been released on Christmas. We found a website source that produced instrumentals that could be purchased and owed by the musician. We thought it worked, but later had a great disappointment after it had been released. We didn't sell anything it was published and we all felt stressed about the situation. Which led us to a second official break up and left us hundred and thirty dollars in debt from music pirated. Now, we have reached the beginning of the spring. I had not really been concerned with music since my first mix tape. Until I was asked to join a local group in the city called "Dream team" signed by "Cold Commission Entertainment. Out of the entire artist signed with the label they accepted me as a solo artist. I managed to perform over nine shows and created two mix tapes as a solo artist. I managed to pay off the studio debt and I started to purchase my own instrumentals. I still continue to do music every now and then, but I don't seem to have the same passion as I did before. Now I just listen to my old songs and they all seem to tell a story of my life or a problem. But out of all the stuff I've been through I wouldn't ta