My name is Nate, and I'm from a mixed musical background. I was classically trained on the piano and quickly became interested in every form of music I could get my hands on. I especially love abstract, slick jazz. I won statewide competitions in classical piano, started composing for choirs and ensembles, and do hip-hop production. Hip-hop and folk, I think, have a lot in common with each other. This kind of music is the only way to really express certain things, like the specifics of society or how you see the world. It's literature and music at the same time. That is, if it's done right (rap and hip-hop have bad connotations because of the manufactured popularity of a few disgusting individuals in record industry towers). I'm also a big hater of our current politics, religion, and mass conformity, and true hip-hop has always been a movement against that BS. In 2002-2003 I started rapping with my cousin Josh Wyatt, aka Kurzed, and WeaponX (our boy Tonio). We were producing as Dheeper Meaning & WeaponX Presents, but we were going in different directions and ended up settling for collaborating as separate artists. Now I'm making home studio music and trying to collaborate with as many creative musicians as possible. My goal is to be in a band similar to the Roots, but with more instruments and a very wide variety of styles - from hip-hop to jazz to salsa to folk to rock to all things "world." So if you're a good musician, I need somebody to play with. I'll probably want to collab, so if you're interested, by all means let me know.