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@short fewz
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New Haven, CT USA
Joined Jun 6, 2009
BORN IN BRIDGEPORT,CT 24YRS OLD RAPPER,PRODUCER,ARTIST. MUSIC IS MY LIFE! I'VE BEEN RAPPING AS LONG AS I'VE BEEN TALKING,AND WALKING. GROWING UP IN MUSIC WAS A BIG INSPIRATION FOR ME. GROWING UP IN Pt. BARNUM PROJECTS,ON THE WESTEND OF BRIDGEPORT. I WAS RAISED BY MY GRANDPARENT THAD, AND MARY WILLIS. MY GRANDFATHER WAS A DECON IN THE CHURCH AND ALSO WROTE SONGS FOR THE CHURCH CHOIR, MY GRANDMOTHER MARY WILLIS WROTE THE POETRY COLUMN FOR THE CONNECTICUT POST IN THE LATE 80'S EARLY 90'S. MY GRANDFATHER ALWAYS WOULD SEND ME TO THE STORE TO GET BLANK TAPES SO HE COULD RECORD HIS SERMON FOR SUNDAY OR PUT TOGETHER A SONG FOR THE CHOIR. SOON HE WAS DIAGNOSED WITH CANCER BUT HE STILL WROTE AND RECORDED EVEN ON HIS DEATH BED. I STILL COULD HEAR HIM SAYING TO ME "GO TO THE STORE AND GET ME THE BIG PACK OF BLANK TAPES. I WOULD COME HOME AND JUST WATCH HIM LAY IN THE BED (WITH CANCER) WITH HIS TAPE RECORDED AND PUT TOGETHER SONGS. WHEN I WAS GROWING UP IN MIDDLE SCHOOL WHEN EVERYONE IN CLASS WAS LISTEN TO THERE TEACHER, I WAS CRAFTING MY STYLE MAKING WORDS RYM AND CONNECT IN A WAY NO ONE MY AGE WAS DOING AT THE TIME. I WENT TO LONGFELLOW MIDDLE SCHOOL. IN LUNCH EVERYDAY I USE TO BEG MY TEACHER WHO HAD TO GET ON THE MIC TO ANNOUNCE THE CLASSES THAT HAD TO GO UP TO EAT, TO LET ME GET ON THE MIC AND SAY ONE OF THE RYMES THAT I BEEN WORKING ON. SOON THE TEACHER GAVE IN AND I NEVER LOOKED BACK I THINK I WAS ABOUT 10 OR 11. AND SINCE THAT DAY ON I KNEW I WANTED TO RAP AND BE A SONG WRITER. FROM THAT DAY ON THE WHOLE HOOD FOUND OUT ABOUT ME. AND EVERY FRIDAY IN LUNCH I WOULD GET ON THE MIC AND SAY A NEW RAP (NO BEAT). I WOULD GO TO THE STORE WERE I LIVE AT AND ALL THE DRUG DEALERS WOULD ASK ME TO SAY A RYM AND THEY WOULD GIVE ME MONEY. I ALWAYS HAD THE SUPPORT OF MY HOOD. ALL THE DRUG DEALER USE TO TELL ME YOU GOING TO BE A MONSTER WHEN YOU GET OLDER. MY GRANDMOTHER TOLD ME WHEN I WAS A BABY WHEN I STARTED TO CRY THEY WOULD PLAY R&B REAL LOUD AND I WOULD STOP CRYING, SHE SAID IT WAS LIKE THE MUSIC SOOTHS ME MORE THE A BOTTLE OR PICKING ME UP WOULD, IT WAS LIKE MUSIC WAS MY MOTHER. AS I GREW UP I STARTED LISTENING TO A WIDE VARIETY OF MUSIC RANGING FROM MARVIN GAYE,ISLEY BROTHERS, MICHAEL JACKSON,BABYFACE,DAS EFFECTS,BIG DADDY KANE, WU TANG CLAN, RUNDMC,NOTORIOUS B.I.G,AS YOU CAN SEE THE LISTS CAN GO ON... I REMEMBER WHEN MY AUNT "CORETTA" WOULD BABY SIT ME AND SIT ME IN FRONT OF "YO MTV RAPS" AND I WOULD RAP ALONG WITH THE RAPPERS, AND AT THE SAME TIME THAT'S HOW I CRAFTED MY STYLE. AN ARTIST THAT STUCK OUT TO ME WAS RAKIM! SO I USED TO REPEAT ALL HIS RHYMES TO GET MY VOICE TO SOUND LIKE HIS. WHILE ALL THE KIDS WERE PLAYING BASKETBALL AND FOOTBALL I WAS SITTING IN THE HOUSE WATCHING YO MTV RAP TRYING TO GET MY VOICE TO SOUND LIKE RAKIM LOL.
I NEVER MADE UP MY RAP NAME ! IT WAS GIVEN TO ME ON SOME REAL HIP HOP SHIT. A LOCAL Dj/AIR BRUSH ARTIST/PRODUCER BY THE NAME OF WEST WORKED IN A STORE CALLED CONTEMPO IN DOWNTOWN BRIDGEPORT. ANYTIME I WENT DOWNTOWN I WOULD SIT IN THE STORE FOR HOURS WATCHING HIM AND HIS CRU CIPHER,AIR BRUSH, AND Dj ALL THE HOT MUSIC THAT WAS OUT AROUND THE EARLY 90'S LATE 80'S. ONE DAY I ASKED WEST COULD I RAP HE SAID YEAH WHATS YOUR NAME SO I COULD INTRODUCE YOU TO EVERYONE. I SAID "JIMMY" HE SAID "NO, YA RAP NAME" I REPLIED "I DON'T HAVE A RAP NAME". WEST STILL LET ME RAP IN FRONT OF THE STORE THAT DAY, A CROWD BEGIN TO FORM IN FRONT OF THE STORE. NO ONE COULD BELIEVE THIS 11 YEAR OLD KID WAS RAPPING ON THE MIC. AFTER I PERFORMED WEST VOWED HE WOULD HAVE A RAP NAME FOR ME BY THE NEXT TIME I CAME BACK TO THE STORE. THATS WHEN SHORT FEWZ WAS BORN. HE SAID THE WAY YOUR SHORT SELF JUMPED ON THE MIC AND BLEW UP SO FAST WE GOING TO CALL YOU SHORT FEWZ AND ITS BEEN THAT EVERY SINCE.
