What makes you?

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Yo what up fam.

I was thinking about my past and how it made me who I am today, on the mic, off the mic, and lyrically. I'll go into more detail when I come back later tonight, but something to think about....

What's your story? How did you become who you are right now and how do you ultimately see yourself?

If you wrote a biography about your past, what would you say?

Fie.
 
Everyone/Everything that has gone against me...cause instead off turning around and giving up I made every challenge become another step on my stairway to my dreams.

-Nito
 
I wouldn't say much more than I say in my music.. Of course, I say a lot in my music but... There's plenty to say, some of which I'll always keep hidden. I've got a lot I'm not proud of, but as you said, it's made me who I am today.
 
Ultimately I really want to change how folks view the recording of music. THis is something from my Bio. When I was around 10 i had 3 brothers I had to take care of in a liberty city Miami project apartment. My moms worked all the time but suddenly she realized more than I did that I liked music and brought me this old Radio with a tape recorder. She got from god knows where but I spent alot of time recording songs from the radio then I eventually figured out it had a mic and I could record folks voices. It wasnt a mic you held so to speak it was sorta built in old school. I use to record myself and my brothers just saying funny stuff. Then I would play it for my moms and she would just laugh at us. On the radio though I heard acts like Whodini and run dmc on the box then I went and saw the Breakin movies at the drive ins.


I was hooked after that. I started out break dancin,. I copied all the moves and I was pretty good. My moms even sent me to an afterschool dancing program that was taught by one of those fame cats. I didnt get into that much but it was my moms who made who I am today. She didnt have a clue about what my vision was but she new I loved everthing about music and supported that.
 
man!! im trippin. i was just talkin about this last night in another post in the songwriting form - i started writin a verse to express it too -- damm i gotta find that verse!!!
 
I grew up as a kid going back from the hood to the suburbs. My parents were both around but they worked like crazy so a lot of times I would come home from school and have to get things done on my own, like if I wanted to eat or if I had homework whatever. So I guess all of the going back and forth between home and different relatives, I got to hang around different types of people.

My mom tried to forbid me to listen to rap music (unless it was totally clean). I didn't totally agree with that because I don't see anything wrong with using profanity (and still don't). I'd always been into music from childhood up. Around the time I was about 12 - 13, I started getting heavily into rap. I liked a lot of old school hip hop and gangsta rap. I was a loner as a teenager and had all of my issues so I used lyrics as my therapy so I could discuss whatever I felt like talking about in my own way.

Around 14, I got involved in a group called 3.1.2. We did a lot of party rap type music...truth be known we did it to get drunk at parties and enjoy it. Plus this kept me away from home because I didn't like being there with me and my mom having arguments and issues all the time.

So I started doing stuff with the group for a couple of years and then we just went our separate ways. The other guys went to dealing drugs and gangs. I decided that I wanted to rap because I felt that's where I needed to be. So for years I just wrote and wrote because I didn't know anybody who could make beats.

I started gettin frustrated with life (I was thinking of suicide around these years) and started getting more creative with my words, I guess this is where I got a little more edgier with my lyrics. So around 22, I finally found a producer who had decent prices. Little did I know you get what you pay for. The beats were ok but the production sucked.

But I'm like Change, there's some things that I can be open with and tell you but some that I'm wanting to leave in the past because I'm not as proud of my involvement in.
 
My story is complicated... Up until I went to college in 2000, I didnt even listen to music. But then I started buying CDs and singing along with them. Then I got involved with this female at school, and I would sing those songs to her (on some PIMP shit :cool:... ) She played volleyball and would always try to get me to sing the national anthem at her games... But anyway, she got killed in a car accident sophomore year -- After that, I made up my mind to use the talent I had been blessed with. Nothing could stop me from pursuing my music. I developed an intensity like I had never experienced before. I worked the rest of that year to scrape up the money to buy my equipment. Now I wont even lie...my first musical attempts were awful. But now 4 years later Ive progressed to the point I can feel success within my grasp. I cant really explain it, but Ive always felt I was meant to do something extraordinary with my life, I just wish I didnt have to go through what i went through to realize what it was...
 
My story

A lot of good stories her. We all seem ta have ups and downs...

My story has a lot of ups and downs. I never even listened much to music until I was in the high school. When I graduated, I didn't know what I wanted ta do. I got a scholarship and went to SFSU for multimedia. Music and audio is what I really liked. All the other stuff was just a bonus.

I had my hard times. I worked with an artist and developed her from the ground up for about 4 years. We agreed if she got got signed we would stick together. But, as you know, money changes people. She got signed to a major label and left me in the dust. What's cooled, is she had to lie about everything. You know, things like the plane ticket is in the mail, I'm sick, and do on. Well, the plane ticket never showed up and she cut me off. :confused: What's even colder is that I got off work to go to NY to produce her album. Our date was set, and she never showed up! I lost a lot of money. I didn't have any good contract to cover my bases. If I did, the record label would have had to include me in any signings. But, I had to learn the hard way. It taught me to be more business minded and cover myself. This industry is shaddy. It brought me to the point I am know. I went form a producer to a business minded person. I make sure no one tries to get over on anyone signed to our label. I have caught to many cats trying to get over, and I made them look twice and they ran the other way. Now, I try ta teach others how not ta get played.

There's a lot more to this so just read my bio and resume if interested.

http://www.travsoniconline.com/aaronreppert/
 
Interesting stories…good thread.

I lived in a trailer park until I was 5, then moved to the city. Then my Dad opened a computer store and we moved to the suburbs. My parents thought it was better for us growing up in the burbs, but me and my brother ended up getting into a lot more trouble there. We did some crazy shit. Then my parents filed for bankruptcy and we moved back to the city. Then I moved to the burbs myself.

I’ve always had music in me. I was always the kid in the department store messing with the keyboards. My first real instrument was recorder…then I played drums/percussion for a lot of years. I was a pretty accomplished drummer , but got too cool for that in high school. Ending up dropping out of high school.

I also took break dancing classes and was real big on hip-hop when I was younger. Loved the Breakin movies and Krush Groove. West Coast gangsta rap got me really into buying albums, but it was Biggie that made me wanna write.

Was part of a group for a while “The Foundation”. That’s when I started making beats. Then the group broke up and I went solo. Released an EP and made it to the finals on Queen Latifah’s Talent Show. Then I decided to concentrate on producing.

Been doing that for a while, but life gets in the way. Started a medical transcription company to put food on the table. That took away from music, but paid real well. Now, that business is going under next month….so I’m at a crossroads. I can try to build that business up again or I can focus on producing seriously for a little while.
 
what made me the person i am today is the death of my dad and mom. when i was 10 years old they both past away and me and my sister's, inturn grew up in a grouphome for 8 years. all along music was there, from the days of poor ass living in the projects to the day i graduate college. music has always been my outlet, i love it. it rescued me and kept me real! theres nothing a willing person is not capable of achieving!
 
I don't have a story, grew up in Alabama both parents, alway had love for the music wasnt really into the rhymes..Join the military(less then 5 years I retire), traveled to different places in the world. Got into bootleggin CDs to the bootleggers,, one of my friends friend came over(back in 2000) and he rapped..I had re-looped at twista beat(Ad. Rush) and he flowed over it..and I just downloaded fruity Loops and had a little bull crap beat playin in the background..and he told me i should be makin beats..so I went lookin for hardware..I started out with the Boss DR-550(2001,I still have it..LOL)..It didnt have enough sounds for me so I got the yamaha RM1X(2002Which I sold). All the tracks on the site was done on the RM1X..Now I got a E-MU XL-7 Command Station(2004) with extra sound ROM and im waitin on my Akai DPS-16(2005) ..so I can get back to recordind artist that want to make moves and that like my music(LOL)...

I started gettin into beatmakin for the fact i got tired of hearing the same crap on the radio...and tired of hearing every other song sampled on the radio(this is why I dont listen to the radio musch anymore)..I felt everything can be done the same with original sample free music..so i started doin it for my on personal enjoyment..but some people liked the beats and waited to flow over them..and i wanted to see if i can do a good job recording them..and plus i love to here folks flowin over something I created..

thats about it..without goin into to much personal detail..
 
I'd always been into music from childhood up. Around the time I was about 12 - 13, I started getting heavily into rap. I liked a lot of old school hip hop and gangsta rap. I was a loner as a teenager and had all of my issues so I used lyrics as my therapy so I could discuss whatever I felt like talking about in my own way
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Same here; you just gave me hope.
 
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