Zip Locc

Yo dawgs, dawgettes - be sure to check out dees sick cutz (produced and rhymed by G.E.M) featurin' dat dirty pimp hound dawg, - Zip Locc!!

http://www.myspace.com/gemziploccog

-Zip Locc

I started started out rapping in 2003 on my friends answering machine (free flow) after getting in a feud over peoms we where writing ..

My friend's older brother was impressed no less and encouraged me to further my game - that week I bought a Radio Shack tape recorder and made sweet use of a Sega Saturn's A/B playback feature to take my first sample loops (From DJ Quik and Spice-1).. I made a short mix-tape with this and even started making my own beats with a really old Yamaha PSR-180 keyboard (two tracks from the mix "Wanna Grow Up To Be A Gangsta" and "Police State" got more people listening). My parents bought me my first PC in 2004 (I'm ever so thankful for this) that year I seriously got into producing (trying my best with what I had at the time - really inferior analog equipment for the most part) and my first smash-hit "Gangsta Shit" (fully self-produced and recd) hit # 51 on Audiostreet. I worked on and released five or so more tracks going into mid-2005. Now I got into some digital production and was finally rapping %100 to my own exclusive beats. Near the end of the year my promo - "Rags N' Dollas" got back me into the roots where really I accel (- west coast-style gangsta-rap). In 2006 I really began cranking out my productions and got more quality equipment (dropping about half a years savings into studio equip - my sound started to really shine) and that year I made ALOT of beats (tragically I had a hard drive failure five days before christmas that destroyed many of my beats and even some original recordings which really hurt).. Early 2007 I really got into recording and producing and started working with more modern and refined sounds. So far this year I've recorded some 20 tracks and made more than three times as many beats as last. I've been working on the case for my debut EP and stocking media supplies as of now.

As of yet I haven't ever done a live performance - I've done some free-flow in public.

Master P, Eazy-E, Rick James, Michael Jackson..

My songs convey outlooks and my states of mind when writing them (not just in the lyrics of course)

Athlon64 X2 3800+ w/ 2GB ram/ dual wide-screen displays and XFI Xtreme Audio, Behringer Xenyx-802 mixer & a Sure PG-58 microphone..