Born Anthony Michael Marsh in San Diego, California on October 18th, 1984. Ampsterdam was born into what he would later refer to as an instant dance with the devil. His father left his mother before he was born and Amp was forced to learn the ways of manhood from his two older half brothers, who were both very young members at the time of the infamous California originated street gang "The Crips". Rewinding back to his earlier childhood. Ampsterdam experience molestation at the hands of a family memeber followed by a brush with death at the age of 4, when he fell from a high rise apartment window and had to be airlifted to a local children's hospital. After regaining his consciousness hours later, Amp walked away with only a few bruises and minor lacerations. The fall should have been fatal. This is the first testament to his belief that a higher power is protecting him so he can fulfill a divine purpose of healing this world with his voice, But he wouldn't  understand how to help change the world, unless he endured the pain of the world. This meant that he would be raised by a neglectful parent. He would be bullied by people of every color for being mixed. His own family would despise his type of creation. He would be hated for his multicultural background, and envied for his ability to relate and empathize with the struggles of other cultures. From the beginning of life he would face discrimination and hatred for thing's he was unable to help. Amp was born, an ultimate victim of hate crimes, but this would mold him into the loving, persevering, and talented artist he would become. In 1994 after one of Ampsterdam's brothers was arrested in connection with a vandalism ring going around San Diego; the state of California gave his mother the option of moving the troubled child out of the state, or letting the state hold him in juvenile detention until the age of 18. Amp's mother chose to send his brother to Columbia, South Carolina to live with his grandparents. Amp's mom would later move them to South Carolina to live as well. Moving To the east coast was no better for Amp's family. It would only compound the already existing problems in there life with more malicious dilemma's. His brothers would both resume gang banging on there newly found gang curious turf. They would also continue having run ins with law enforcement. His mother would remain neglectful to them for sake of her own pleasures and pursuits. His father was still missing. As Amp grew up dealing with the culture shock and having to adjust to the racially tense southern stigma he was living under; he began to struggle with school as well. Amp began skipping school, because of constant bullying by his classmates. Being that he was from a lower class family; he didn't have the nice clothes, shoes, and other accessories that seemed to be so important to this Southern culture he was experiencing.   Ampsterdam began smoking in middle school and later doing drugs in highschool. From there his downward spiral would begin to gain speed. He found solace in hanging out and excessively smoking weed with his older neighborhood peers in the notorious Columbia, South Carolina's Route 48 neighborhood. During this time he also found another comfort to ease the pain of a life unraveled. When his middle to oldest brother Jermaine came home from prison and heard him singing an Usher song called "my way" alone in his bedroom, he offered to let Amp sing the chorus on a song he had written called "Hard Times". From there, 14 year old Amp went into a professional studio for the first time to record his brothers lyrics. The song was good! It gained him instant notoriety in his neighborhood. The little fame he experienced gave him a high greater than any drug he had ever taken. He was hooked. Music was now his love. From that day forward, music became his darling. Although, Even with his new found happiness in the wings; Amp never escaped the pressures of a neglectfully negative childhood. After meeting a new man, falling in love and giving birth to twin girls, Amp's mom  devoted her life to her new family like she never had to he and his brothers. Feeling like a man who was never a boy, Amp began to fight constant battles with his mother who was oblivious to his childhood struggles, which were now reflecting in his teenage years. By 15, Ampsterdam was kicked out of his mother and step fathers house to go live with his brother Jermaine and a cosine in an environment counter productive to a teenagers needs. Surrounded by heavy weed smoke, exotic dancers, sex, drugs, and alcohol; Amp was in a rebel teens heaven. As the years past, Ampsterdam repeated the 9th grade 3 times and by 17 decided to give up on school altogether. He dropped out of high school in 2002 in order to make more money to support himself in the street life he was thrust into. At the age of 20 Amp's then girlfriend gave birth to his son Cameron Anthony Marsh. Two years after they had his daughter Carmen Nicole. His kids instantly became his inspiration to fulfill his destiny to be one of the greatest recording artists in history. With his son and daughter here, he now had more reason to strive for greatness. His newest goal became giving them the life that he was never afforded. But, overtime Amp continued to struggle with life in general. He couldn't hold down a job, because his mind was always on music. No other line of work in the world, regardless of the pay off, could keep him from chasing his dreams to be star. Eventually he took his music on the road, going all over the country from Los Angles, Hollywood, and New York; to Las Vegas where he lived for a year, after separating from the mother of his two kids. After several years of coasting through cities and continuous denial by major record labels, Amp was now like his father. He was a rolling stone. He would go months upon months without seeing or speaking to his kids. He was becoming a horrible father just like his very own. Baring this title has been the hardest thing for him to take, but he knows if he is going to gain the world for his children, there must be great sacrifice. As a fan of the late Bruce Lee, Ampsterdam incorporated Lee's martial arts principle of never limiting yourself to one style into his music. Amp began to blend Hip Hop, R&B, Pop, Funk, Rock, and Mosh, creating a supreme style of music he calls "Super Music". After a face to face meeting with the Vice President of A&R at Def Jam Recordings Lenny "Lenny S" Santiago, Amp walked away with the praise that his music was extraordinary, but needed branding. He would have to get his fan base up and grow a bigger following. Today he is working harder than he ever to gain that following and to prove to the world that he is here to set his carbon footprint in platinum and enter the annuls of history as one of the greatest artist to ever impact the world in a positive way with his music. He is a member and founder of The White Flag Army, which is a peaceful movement of all walks of life that adorn the white flag of peace on their person in public to show that war is not necessary in the struggle for peace. Peace now and peace always! Join The revolution!!! Team Ampsterdam!!

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