I'm just a regular dude from the Midwest who moved out to his birthplace (Southern California) after graduating from college. I have been pursuing the elevation of my musical/lyrical talents for 10+ years, and I've gotten to the point where I am looking to get started with making Rap a profession. However, in the current state of Hip-Hop, can a cat that's a 'progressive rapper' make it in the industry? Probably not. But that doesn't mean that there aren't people out there that are looking to hear music that can also uplift them or inspire them WHILE entertaining them. I'm not the best, and that's not what I'm striving to be. I'm just trying to be the best me. That may be the best, at the end of the day, but that's not important to me. I look up to Hip-Hop's progressive acts, taking it all the way back to the mid-to-late-80's with De La Soul and MC Lyte. Nobody's gassing me up, because I'm my own worst critic. In light of that fact, I still get people really encouraging me to go all out with this music thing, because anybody that knows about lyricism within music knows that I have a leg up on most people in the industry (and a lot of the underground cats, too). I intend to gain my share of the Hip-Hop tapestry, one verse at a time.