Artists Bio: 
Writer
Genre: Hip hop
Accomplishments:
🏅Rapped on stage w Kurupt 
🏅Music highlighted on radio
🥇Music articles published
🙏more wins to follow 👀

- Hometown? 
Fresno, CA
S/o Cedar & McKinley!

 - Influences?
Warren g - regulators g funk era & definitely My DAD. He influenced me in a major way! 
He buy these records & I go through all his CD's & tapes, he'd be hella mad yelling, telling me don't touch his shit!! He had the stereo system in the living room so when he's outside, I'm digging. That's where I found songs like "The message" & "Mind playing tricks on me"
 
 - Projects?
For now I'm releasing singles.

 - How long have you done music? 
Writing and recording probably for about 20 years. It's been a journey of highs & lows "It's easy to get knocked off your path but it's also great to create a new one"

 - When did you start music? 
When I was 10 years old I was playing with two older neighborhood  kids they was pulling me on a wagon & they invited me into there home. I guess They wanted to show me their karkoee machine and they started to rap over the microphone, I could hear there voice coming through the speaker and As a young kid, in my mind "I left thinking what was that"..
Later on I ended moving into that same house where I Found a freestyle tape in my bedroom. I was 13 years old at the time & I decided to grab a notebook & give it a try.

 - When did u first write or record?
Wrote my first rhyme at 13. Recorded my first record at 15 yrs old at a fellow artists home studio. I used to ride the fax bus there after school, chose that over doing my home work.

 - Future plans?
Make impactful music on my terms. Do what I like & speak to an audience just like me.

 - Group or Label?
No group No label. I'm super independent. 
I want to level up by building good relationships & doing good business with like minded people. "Nothing more solid than being a part of somebody else success story, you'll end up writing one as well"

 - My stage name? 
Raw Minus.  The name RAW from someone who heard me rap & said "Raw Mic" & The Minus part of my name, is my last name is pronounced.

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