I’m a conscious rapper, I rap about stuff from my life, my surroundings. Most of these rappers are either punch line rappers, bars rappers — I tell stories with my raps. I speak about my life and what I go through. I love doing club music so I also rap about stuff that goes on in a club. I let music speak for me. Whatever I’m thinking at the moment, that’s what comes out. I rap about how I feel about the beat. If the beat is on point and it hits me hard it’s going to be a good song. I’m especially good at ghost writing for RnB songs. 



I like to hear tropical beats and trap beats with good melodies, usually with piano. I’m taking a beatmaking class at AS220 Youth to learn how to use the machines and get more professional. I’m the type of person who gives advice to other people because no matter what your songs can always be better. It can take me three or four years to complete a song sometimes because I’m a perfectionist and sometimes I don’t even finish songs. I like to explore the environment or different places to give me different ideas for what to write about next. I like writing poetry as well. 



Nas influenced me — he showed me how to tell stories with my raps. Also Lil Wayne helped me with metaphors because his metaphors are crazy, you’re like, Oh I could’ve thought of that, but you didn’t. He has people thinking. Chris Brown influenced me with his dancing. I know how to krump, a dance style invented by Tight Eyes aka Chez. One day at church a guy told this testimony of how dancing saved him from gang violence so I took the initiative to go up to him and ask him if he could teach me how to dance. So I started going to church and learning how to krump. Eventually I started traveling to different states and battling people, and started chilling with other dancers like breakdancers, popping, electro boogie, etc. I took the time to try all of those and make my own dance with them. I do choreography as well. 


General Sativa on the beat 
Music is my drug of choice

One of the most talented artists in R&B, Tyree Thomas is a vocalist, songwriter, and producer with sounds from Hip Hop to Mainstream Pop. Tyree started releasing music as an early teen and has racked up millions of streams across Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube combined.

Tyree Thomas is originally from Atlanta, Georgia. As an early 90s baby, he was exposed to hearing family members play lots of R&B around the house from artists like Joe, Avant, Usher, R. Kelly and so many more that intrigued him on the sound of the genre. He studied albums by Usher and performed songs by him around the city of Atlanta. His father bought instruments like beat machines and keyboards from the thrift store and gave them to him to play with as a child. His dad also gave him a tape recorder and this is how Tyree first started recording his songs. By age 13, Tyree walked away from his favorite sport football to pursue his dream of music. His mother, father, and stepfather supported him by buying his first PC and a Roland Phantom keyboard. From there, he used software like FL Studio, Reason, Logic Pro, and Pro Tools to start making songs. He spent more of his time with Pro Tools though, spending hours and hours at the computer figuring out the program. After school, instead of hanging out with friends or studying, he was locked in on Pro Tools and writing & producing songs. Today, he has multiple albums and songs out. But there is more to come!

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