S II

S II, Oh-Zee, Gut, and Young Cee make up the vicious production concoction of Kemis-tree...Beware...

S II: Formerly known as Black Impact About S II: Born June 27th, 1983. A native of Spring Valley, San Diego California Sezinando Michael Manna II set forth into reality. Always a person with a thoughtful mind toward the senses, music became his strongest. At only months old he earned the nickname "Little Maestro," due to the fact that whenever someone played a basic rhythm or just pure Music, there was a strong, uncontrollable reaction to it. As he grew older, he began to learn of the roots of Hip Hop from his father starting with the Jazz culture, while still embracing Rap and Hip Hop in general. At this time he had told his father he would aspire to be a rapper. This had disturbed him so due to the fact that his father had stereotyped "rapping" with the gang-banging image. One day when he got older, right after coming home from a fatally tragic accident unable to fluently move he had by chance turned to listening to music to comfort him. As soon as he turned on his radio, the first song to comfort him also by chance touched him to the point that he'd believe in himself for the rest of his life in everything that he does. Later on, while in middle school, his father decided to culture him a little more in order to keep him out of trouble. That culture manifested itself in the form of learning to play the trumpet. While that may have been short lived as far as the practice and keeping up the "chops," to be able to play, during that time he thought why not put together his trumpet and "Rapper in training" Rap skills. Within months though he began to grow weary of the trumpet as well as the confidence in his skills and started to write Poetry and rap lyrics. At that time, he was relocated to Bloomfield, Connecticut a small suburb outside of the capitol of Hartford. Here, is where he began to be formed into what he is today. After a discussion of what is a good radio station to listen to, he was told to listen to 88.1 WESU Middletown at a certain time at night on certain nights. After hearing this for the first time he was truly inspired to want to learn more of this style new to him at the time also known as Underground Hip Hop. S II found himself, learning to write lyrics to this style of music even though he had a commercial sounding vibe to him. During this time, he was secretly writing lyrics to try to be the most vicious Emcee, but his father found out. Though he shunned the content and character he was trying to be within the lyrics, he also embraced the fact of S II's vocabulary he had built. For this he gave him the title "wordamatician". Some years down the line he had decided to do an album, he wrote and wrote but no whole songs were completed except for one which was way too long to ever record, but he still never gave up hope, he thought he would be motivated more if he hadn't written songs to other people's beats or songs, and had a set of beats he could call his own. Thus he pushed aside his current goals and projects and stepped forth into the world of production. After a long Hard time of learning music software through their free Demo's he came to realize he was "whack" but everyone told him he still had potential. During this time he had relocated to Groton, Connecticut to be able to concentrate on his craft that he desired to be a career. Little did he realize that since there was not a great deal of the Hip Hop population there, there was also not much competition to measure himself with to help get him better (with the exception of a chosen few). Next, due to financial issues, he then relocated back to Bloomfield, to stay and try to build his life back together. Where he teamed up with high school friends (Gut, and Young Cee) who made up the group Triple Grand. With them as friends, helped motivate S II to get better with the beats, while still trying to keep a business mind. Now, months later, arises a group as monstrous as ever, known only as: Kemis-tree....... To contact S II:

I do not play live, but I do participate in production shows with my team Kemis-tree named Sound Clash.

R.I.P. Jay Dee (Jay Dilla), Illmind, M-Phazes, Kev Brown, Planet Asia, Mystic, (Little Brother, 9th Wonder, Phonte, Big Pooh), Elzhi, Jony Fraze, Algorythm, Young Cee, Gut, Oh Zee, Self Suffice, KRS 1, Nas, Eminem, Dr. Dre, Talib Kweli, Mos Def, (Dead Prez, M1, Stic Man), Oddisee, Spon, Yahzarah, Darien Brokington, Nicolay, Madlib and all of his personalities, Common, Substantial, Ill Tarzan.................and all the whack Rappers, producers, and out and out haters out there because you drive me to be who I am and make me get better. Peace ("Two Finghaz").

AKAI MPC 2000 Iomega Zip SCSI 250 (for the MPC) Iomega USB Zip 100 (To get sounds from the Computer to the MPC) Casio CTK-411 (Cheap a** MIDI Controller) Bheringer Eurorack UB502 (Cheap a** Mixer) SONY MDS JE-480 MiniDisc Deck Roland-JV 1010 Toshiba Laptop Fruity Loops Reason 3.0 Adobe Audition 1.5 Yamaha DGX-505 (I have it but don't really use it, It's for sale though) E-Mu Planet Phatt(I have it but don't really use it)

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