Biography

I love music! My oldest memory of being an entertainer is as early as elementary school. Before every assembly one of the teachers would ask my brother and I if we could do our “rap thing” for the school.

I didn’t grow up like the Jackson Five in constant practice and rehearsal but my mom having a musical background of her own provided opportunities for me to develop my talents. Most families buy more furniture or an extra TV if they have any room left over in the house but not mine; we always had a “music room.” Keyboards, guitars, drums, and amps all stuffed into a little room leaving little space for us to “jam.”

Church has always been a major part of my family’s life. My brother and I won are first national competition in Washington D.C. at the Assemblies of God Fine Arts Youth Convention in 2003.

In grade school I would never had imagined myself creating my own record label, music for me was innate never intentional. In 2007, my senior year in high school my whole life changed when my business math teacher gave the class an assignment to create a company. At the time I didn’t know much about marketing but I loved music. I could have left the whole idea in the classroom but I decided I was going to make TICE Records a lifelong project.

After two semesters at Onondaga Community College I moved to New York City to do a summer internship at Def Jam in 2008. Returning back home to Syracuse, New York after three months of getting coffee and delivering music videos to BET, MTV, and VH1 I went straight to the lab. The winter of 2009 marked a check point in my life when my debut album “Everything’s Good” was released on iTunes. That summer I received the New Times Sammy Award for best rap artist, it was a true honor.

My heart, not money has always been the vehicle for my success. I believe you will never fully launch into your destiny until you learn how to listen to your heart. In what feels like a short amount of time I have learned to just be myself and not try to appear bigger than I really am. That’s probably why I’m writing this bio in first person and not in third as if I have some company editor. I’ve had a lot of help and learned a lot of lessons. One being education is opportunity so I made a personal to decision to enroll back into OCC (Onondaga Community College) in the fall of 2009 then transfer to Long Island University in Brooklyn, New York in spring 2010. I have learned success is a journey not a destination, and the more you give the more you get!!!