Bizz-ee

I've been in the game for a while now, since 1999. I was only 12 and at that age I was only rapping with friends at lunch and after school. Once I was in high school, the technology was coming around to where you could record yourself on a home computer and burn a few CDs. So that's what I did, downloaded some beats which took a couple of hours per beat and recorded my raps over the top of them. It wasn't that great and the quality sucked. But none the less I recorded enough songs to make a CD. I made some corny looking artwork and put them in thin jewel cases.

At that time it was 2002 and I had 50 copies of my first mixtape, Legal Crime. I decided to sell them for $5 at school the next day. I sold one before I put the rest in my locker during class. Half way through the day I stopped to grab a few disc to sell at lunch and to my surprise... all 49 copies I had left were stolen. The next day EVERYONE had a burnt copy. I took my lose and made a new mixtape called Bigg Bizness a couple months later. By this time I was the ass end of everyone's jokes and for the rest of my years in high school there was always someone who joked about my shitty CD. It sucked, I know... I was 14 years old.

By the time I was a senior I had hooked up with iLLeTe who had a studio in Lowry City. Throughout 2005, I started working on songs for my debut album. As I would record, iLL would tell me what was trash and what was good. He showed me what I needed to change and work on. His studio provided A LOT better sound with great quality. By June of 2006 I was ready to release my debut album. iLL hired a designer to do the graphics and we pressed up 1000 copies of 3rd Times A Charm. I was out of school and hadn't kept in touch with as many people as I had used to so the album didn't get a big push like I really wanted. I did a few shows and sold a couple hundred copies but nothing major. So it was on to my next project...

This time around iLLeTe had introduced me to his friend Smiley Smudge who was a producer from Kansas City. I started working with him and got a lot of beats for my next CD. Before I started the recording, in March of 2007 I got into a bad car accident that landed me in a bed for 3 months. While laid up I wrote another couple of songs about my friends that wasn't as lucky as I was in the accident. Once I was able to walk again I got into the studio to record the Show Biz album and the new songs I wrote for the Memory Lane EP. It took a while to get my groove back in the studio because my lungs had been punctured so iLL started working with me again on my delivery and flow. With Smudge being around this time, he brought a lot of new ideas to the studio as well.

It was 2008 and I had 2 new albums to release. Show Biz came out in the first part of March and then Memory Lane dropped later in the month. It didn't take long to sell a lot of copies of Memory Lane as it was more personal and a lot of people from the area knew what I had went through over the last year. While selling Memory Lane, I sold a few copies of Show Biz and 3rd Times A Charm as well. By the end of the summer I had sold a little over 1,000 copies total of 3rd Times A Charm, Show Biz, & Memory Lane but I was due for another surgery still recovering from the accident.

You might be say..."only 1000 copies?" If you recall, the internet and the digital age of music was really boom at this time. I was on iTunes, Rhapsody, CD Baby, & Amazon.com... so I was digital but I wasn't moving very many units because I didn't have the marketing dollars & I was in and out of a hospital a lot those years.

In late 2009 I was healing great and I was living life to the fullest. OR was I? I had a lot of time to set and think about a lot of different things. Some of those things were a bit darker. I was writing again and by this time I was working part time at a new recording studio in Clinton. I would set in the studio for many hours alone and work on songs which came out very dark. I wasn't working with iLLeTe anymore. Not for any certain reason. I just had access to do it myself and I did. Smudge still came down and we worked on a few songs together and by the end of the year I had enough songs to release a new project.

In early January of 2010 I sent a few of the newer songs to an A&R out in L.A. and he liked what he heard. He got me in touch with Interscope Digital. They liked the new project and wanted to release it. On February 23rd 2010, The Seven Deadly Sins came out and was distributed thru Interscope Digital. It wasn't a deal where they tossed money at me and I wasn’t running to the car lot to buy a brand new Benz or anything but they DID release my record. I sold about 250 copies the first week and about another 200 over the next couple of months due to my advertising on websites such as sickness.net, Facebook, and MySpace. All out of my own pocket. Not too bad…

Now fast forward to today. It’s early 2011 and there are a lot of things going on such as shows coming up in Kansas City & Springfield. I just keep doing what I enjoy. See I still have the deal with Interscope Digital, I'm still cool with iLLeTe, & still cool with Smudge cuz they've been real and showed me a lot but I have one BIG thank you that I really wanna get out there. It’s to everyone else that’s heard my music… especially the ones who stole my music or made jokes... THANKS 4 NOTHIN'

Albums:
- Show Biz; 2008 BBP Records
- 3rd Times A Charm; 2006 BBP Records

EPs:
- The Seven Deadly Sins; 2010 BBP Records / Interscope Digital
- Memory Lane; 2008 BBP Records

Mixtapes:
- Legal Crime; 2002 MWC Records
- Bigg Bizness; 2004 MWC / BBP Records
- Legal Crime 2; 2009 BBP Records

Awards:
- 2008 Peoples Choice Award - West Central Missouri