tune here for the most versitile artist in or out the game...Be A Witness. Formerly Bosshogginshit, the artist T.C.V. is a midwest artist from the northeast part of Kansas, known as JC(junction city). Born in 1982 to a military family he is well traveled and cultured. Both parents were products of the military his father being a drill sergeant instilled great discipline into his everyday life as a child. Raised in a predominantly white community until the age of 10 allowed for multicultural experience as well as a racially challenging atmosphere. Being the only black child in his school taught him first hand struggle of his race and racism beyond his belief. By the age of 10, friends of years became enemies behind the eye of race. Playing with friends turned into racial slurs and blatant disrespect and he was then moved to a more multicultural atmosphere. This change would mold him into the artist that you see today. At the age of 14 being influenced by bone thugs and harmony and street gangs TCV started freestyling on the corners as an outlet. in 2011 TCV formed the label TheCoVenant which is a direct branch off of his artist name. Also in 2011 TCV was introduced to the CEO’s of Beastmode Ent. T-Ball and Bdoe and would eventually become a part of the infamous group called BMG. the BMG group introduce him to limitless possibilities including an introduction with Salty Records in 2012. TCV and BMG opened up for Louisiana Cash in his performance of “walk with a dip” and would later battle it out against the members of Salty records that summer of 2012 in a battle of bands in Junction City,Ks. In 2014 TCV pursued a career in promotions obtaining the position of Head of Promotions for Arices Armada while continue to market his own label and career as an artist. Currently TCV is CEO/CFO of TheCoVenant and is currently performing all over OKC. His first independent mixtape will drop in the summer of 2016. On top off all his business venture TCV has also started a management company with business partner and manager Tiffany Rumpson called TCV mgmt. Along with his promotional team TCV promotions 2016 looks to be a busy year for this young man. TCV is about family FOE (family over everything) is the motto and strives to make OKC the next big thing in hip hop. TCV has performed and opened for acts such as Big Tuck, Charlie boy, and Louisiana Cash and now is in direct contact with Afton shows as a part of his booking scheme. The rest is in the future!!!!

Daddy Sun is an independent artist whose time doing music (particularly Hip-Hop) can be traced back to the late eighties-early nineties. Growing up in East New York Brooklyn during turbulent times (the advent of the Crack epidemic, rise of racial hostility, and the rise of senseless crime in the inner cities), music became a guide and somewhat of a haven for him due to all of the madness going on around him at the time. 

As time went by he began to build a name for himself, battling other local rappers, and performing at local block parties hosted by local DJ's of that time during the summer. Eventually he made his way (with the guidance and help of an older cousin) to amateur night at the Apollo during the early nineties. After winning at the Apollo he went on to perform at the National Black Theatre and again at the Apollo for a show hosted for talented kids. 

As so often happens with talented urban inner city kids his dreams were put on hold because of problems that arose beyond his control....

Now he's back doing more than just rapping. Daddy Sun over the years began teaching himself guitar while studying the Blues music genre which he began to love even more than Hip-Hop.

Daddy Sun joined  SoundCloud to share some of his soul along with members of the B.A.M (family of Emcees) in hopes to share Soulful but REAL music!

Tim Wise is among the most prominent anti-racist writers and educators in the United States, and has been called, “One of the most brilliant, articulate and courageous critics of white privilege in the nation,” by best-selling author and professor Michael Eric Dyson, of Georgetown University. Wise, who was named one of “25 Visionaries Who are Changing Your World,” by Utne Reader in 2010, has spoken in all 50 states of the U.S., on over 800 college and high school campuses, and to community groups across the nation. He has also lectured internationally in Canada and Bermuda on issues of comparative racism, race and education, racism and religion, and racism in the labor market.

Wise is the author of six books, including the highly acclaimed memoir, White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son; an academic volume on affirmative action, entitled, Affirmative Action: Racial Preference in Black and White; an essay collection, entitled, Speaking Treason Fluently: Anti-Racist Reflections From an Angry White Male; two books on race and racism in the Obama era, entitled respectively, Between Barack and a Hard Place: Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama, and Colorblind: The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity; and his latest, Dear White America: Letter to a New Minority, which examines rising white anxiety in an increasingly multicultural nation. He has contributed essays to twenty-five books, and is one of several persons featured in White Men Challenging Racism: Thirty-Five Personal Stories, from Duke University Press. He received the 2001 British Diversity Award for best feature essay on race issues, and his writings have appeared in dozens of popular, professional and scholarly journals.

Wise has provided anti-racism training to teachers nationwide, and has conducted trainings with physicians and medical industry professionals on how to combat racial inequities in health care. He has also trained corporate, government, entertainment, military and law enforcement officials on methods for dismantling racism in their institutions, and has served as a consultant for plaintiff’s attorneys in federal discrimination cases in New York and Washington State.

In summer, 2005, Wise served as an adjunct faculty member at the Smith College School for Social Work, in Northampton, Massachusetts, where he co-taught a Master’s level class on Racism in the U.S. In 2001, Wise trained journalists to eliminate racial bias in reporting, as a visiting faculty-in-residence at the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Florida. From 1999-2003, Wise was an advisor to the Fisk University Race Relations Institute, in Nashville, and in the early ’90s he was Youth Coordinator and Associate Director of the Louisiana Coalition Against Racism and Nazism: the largest of the many groups organized for the purpose of defeating neo-Nazi political candidate, David Duke. He graduated from Tulane University in 1990 and received antiracism training from the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond, in New Orleans.

Wise has appeared on hundreds of radio and television programs, is a regular contributor to discussions about race on CNN, and was featured in a segment on ABC’s 20/20, in 2007.

Tim and his wife Kristy are the proud parents of two daughters.

Da Grimm One aka Theo Royle was born at Walsgrave Hospital on July 28th of the year 1988 to bi-racial mother Donna Royle and black father Keith Bryan. Theo has one older brother Nathaniel aka DJ Slimm, one younger brother Lewis aka Imperfectionist Royle and two younger sisters Kyesha and Kushiah. 
Growing up round Pridmore a part of the city where money was short for all although his mother always tried her best to make sure that him and his elder brother Nathaniel was always dressed well. As a youth as his dad was not around all too much his mum sister Karen and Nan Sylvia and Nan boyfriend Frank would always help out his mother in raising him.
Grimm and his family then moved out of Pridmore and went uptown to a neighborhood called Holbrooks at the age of 8 when his sister Kyesha was born. Although he still used to go Pridmore to visit his Nan often and his best friend Midge and would spend the whole summer down there as he was very close to his Nan until the she died on 12th September 1999 which then took a massive change in his life.
Music had always been a strong part of Theo’s life growing up from listening to Dancehall Artists such as Shabba Ranks, Chaka Demus & Pliers, Beenie Man, Bounty Killer & Mad Cobra to Hip Hop Artists like Biggie Smalls, Puff Daddy, Mase, 2pac, Nas, Snoop Dogg, Busta Rhymes and The Fugees. 
After being influenced by some many different artists at the age 10 he decided he wanted to learn how to play an instrument and joined the steel band. After learning the steel band he then felt he wanted to learn about different instruments to which then lead him to taking recorder lessons before giving it up to join the school choir in which he practiced twice a week and got the opportunity to perform at the city cathedral. Not all too long after that things took a turn for the worst and he became involved in a gang within the school which lead to him being dropped from the school choir and also due to events of so many gangs being formed at the time forced the school to call the police in to have a strong word with all the gangs in the school hall.
When he attended high school in 1999 once again he found himself involved in gang activity, although this time around it was different as it was due to turf war. Due to the all the turf rivalry he was involved in meant that he was not allowed to participate in after school activities such as the football team as he was due to get suspended from school many times but to avoid that happening he would give false telephone numbers. 
During his lunch hour he would spend it smoking weed, playing football and robbing footballs which the teachers had confiscated. At the age of 15 is the first time in which he found himself in cuffs due to getting caught with his friend Adam with possession of Offensive weapons, He had a Crowbar and Adam a Knife.
At the age of 19 is when he started getting really street bound by selling drugs and involving alot in violence too in which got him his name Grimm. 
At the age of 21 is when he turnt alot of his time, effort and energy to music before going off to study music at college the year after. That same year he then started to attend spiritualist church in order to find some meaning in his life.


“I believe in the unbelievable.  When people doubted, I still believed.  I stay strong, remain patient and keep God first.  God gave us all talents to use and all the one He gave me were made for the entertainment business.” From the time Augusta, GA born and bred entertainer Mika Head decided to pursue a career in entertainment, she has charted and upward trajectory towards major success.
Splash Jam South Records has been home to Mika Head for nearly a decade.  She brings a raw blend of discipline and determination to her work and her strengths continue to unfold in every opportunity, forcing her to demand attention and respect for her various talents.  If you want to learn more about Mika Head, you need only listen to her music.  Writing is the ultimate expression of her feelings and life experiences.  Taking queues from some of her influences such as Michael Jackson, Chaka Khan, Deborah Cox and Mariah Carey, she’s honed her natural singing talent (with no vocal lessons or formal training) and developed a style of her own.
When Splash Jam South CEO, Mr. C signed Mika Head to his camp, the focus was mainly on her singing abilities.  Although he knew she possessed this talent, he encouraged her to explore the rap genre.  Realizing how this could be the perfect strategy to expand her opportunities in the industry, Mika Head has blessed the microphone both as an emcee and R&B songstress since 2006.
Though she’s been through many trials and hardships, she keeps pushing forward because when it seemed that success wasn’t coming fast enough, she thought about giving up.  She got “divine confirmation” that music is truly her calling when a royalty check mysteriously arrived from BMI in 2009, due to the placement of a song from her first album “Do The Damn Thing.” The song was featured on the popular cable television show “Bridezilla.” In addition, her self-promotional efforts have gained the attention of influential names in the film industry.  Her most recent accomplishment is landing a role in a highly anticipated gospel stage play “When God Calls, Will You Answer?” kicking off in the summer of 2011 at the Morton Theater in Athens, GA to travel across 6-cities for 11 shows around Georgia and South Carolina.
As multi-talented as she is, singing has always been Mika Head’s first love. Her goal is to positively touch and change the lives of as many people as she can with her experiences.  Her pleasant demeanor and down-to-earth personality widens her audience demographic, allowing her to cross age and racial barriers with her diversified skill set.
With the continued growth of her success, she plans to give back to the community in a big way by helping the homeless and keeping the kids off the streets with positive activities.  Mika Head’s ultimate desire is to leave a legacy off accomplishments, charitable contributions and positive experiences for all that encounter and witness her professional endeavors.

    Today’s American is hard to define. A melting pot of individuals — who come from multi-ethnic backgrounds, colors, races and religions, residing in a country that is considered the most powerful nation in the world, but traditionally they have defined themselves as everything  but who they really are: American. 
           
       Enter Lazy Americanz. A new group comprised of talented musicians with racial ambiguity performing their own genre of music where boundaries cease to exist. A funky alternative to the current music scene, where Electronic, Dance & Pop meets and marries Funk, Hip Hop and R&B giving birth to a new age approach to sound. 

      Lazy Americanz is set to create the soundtrack to 2015's  summer and beyond.

GRAMMY® award-winning composer Michael Daugherty is one of the most commissioned, performed, and recorded composers on the American concert music scene today. Daugherty first came to international attention when the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, conducted by David Zinman, performed his Metropolis Symphony at Carnegie Hall in 1994. Since that time, Daugherty’s music has entered the orchestral, band and chamber music repertory and made him, according to the League of American Orchestras, one of the ten most performed American composers.  In 2011, the Nashville Symphony’s Naxos recording of Daugherty’s Metropolis Symphony and Deus ex Machina was honored with three GRAMMY® Awards, including Best Classical Contemporary Composition.

Michael Daugherty was born into a musical family on April 28, 1954 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. His father Willis Daugherty (1929-2011) was a jazz and country and western drummer, his mother Evelyn Daugherty (1927–1974) was an amateur singer, and his grandmother Josephine Daugherty (1907–1991) was a pianist for silent film. Daugherty’s four younger brothers are all professional musicians: Pat Daugherty (b. 1956), Tim Daugherty (b. 1958), Matt Daugherty (b. 1960), and Tom Daugherty (b. 1961).

The centerpieces of the modest Daugherty home, located at 1547 5th Avenue S.E. in Cedar Rapids, were a player piano, television, and record player. At the age of 8, Daugherty taught himself how to play piano by pumping the pedals of the player piano and watching how piano keys moved to Tin Pan Alley tunes such as "Alexander's Ragtime Band". Music was a significant activity in the Daugherty family, especially during the holidays when relatives would participate in jam sessions of popular songs like "Misty" and "Sentimental Journey". Additionally, the Daugherty family would frequently gather around the television in the evening to watch popular variety hours such as The Ed Sullivan Show, The Jackie Gleason Show, and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. The record collection at the Daugherty home consisted mainly of  “easy listening music” of the fifties and music from Broadway.

During his developmental years, Daugherty's mother encouraged him to paint, draw cartoons, tap dance, and play basketball. His father taught him how to play rock and jazz drums. From 1963-67 Daugherty played bass drum in the Emerald Knights and tom-toms in the Grenadier Drum and Bugle Corps where he competed against other Drum and Bugle Corps throughout small Midwestern towns. During these years, Daugherty was employed as an early morning paper boy for The Des Moines Register.

Traveling was an important pastime for the Daugherty family. They often took long summer road trips down two-lane highways to tourist locations, including Mount Rushmore, Niagara Falls and Miami Beach. In 1964, the entire Daugherty family took a two-week vacation to London where The Beatles and Jimi Hendrix were at the height of their fame and Carnaby Street was the cutting edge of pop culture and fashion – this was in the heart of the Swinging Sixties.

The sixties in America were a time of great political unrest and social change. This made a great impact on the teenage Daugherty. Civil Rights demonstrations for racial equality and integration and demonstrations against the Vietnam War were becoming common day occurrences in Iowa, especially at the nearby University of Iowa, in Iowa City.

From 1968-72, Daugherty was the leader, arranger, and organist for his high school rock, soul, and funk band, The Soul Company. This band performed a variety of Motown charts and music by James Brown, Blood Sweat & Tears, and Sly and the Family Stone. Because accessing sheet music was almost impossible, Daugherty learned to hand-transcribe the music by listening to vinyl recordings. With the help of his father, who drove the band across the state, The Soul Company became a locally popular group that performed at high school proms, dances, and other events.

During the same years, Daugherty was a piano accompanist for the Washington High School Concert Choir, a solo jazz piano performer in nightclubs and lounges, and he appeared on local television as the pianist for the country and western Dale Thomas Show. Daugherty interviewed jazz artists who performed in Iowa, including Buddy Rich, Stan Kenton, George Shearing, and Rahsaan Roland Kirk, and he wrote articles on their music for the high school newspaper. During the summers of 1972-77, Daugherty played Hammond organ at county fairs across the Midwest for various popular music stars such as Bobby Vinton, Boots Randolph, Pee Wee King, and members of The Lawrence Welk Show.

Daugherty studied music composition at the University of North Texas (1972-76), the Manhattan School of Music (1976-78), and computer music at Pierre Boulez’s IRCAM in Paris (1979-80). Daugherty received his doctorate from Yale University in 1986 where his teachers included Jacob Druckman, Earle Brown, Roger Reynolds, and Bernard Rands. During this time, he also collaborated with jazz arranger Gil Evans in New York, and pursued further studies with composer György Ligeti in Hamburg, Germany (1982-84). After teaching music composition from 1986-90 at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Daugherty joined the School of Music at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) in 1991, where he is Professor of Composition and mentor to many of today’s most talented young composers.

Daugherty has been the Composer-in-Residence with the Louisville Symphony Orchestra (2000), Detroit Symphony Orchestra (1999-2003), Colorado Symphony Orchestra (2001-02), Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music (2001-04, 2006-11), Westshore Symphony Orchestra (2005-06), Eugene Symphony (2006), the Henry Mancini Summer Institute (2006), the Music from Angel Fire Chamber Music Festival (2006), Pacific Symphony (2010-11), Chattanooga Symphony Orchestra (2012) and New Century Orchestra (2013).

Daugherty has received numerous awards, distinctions, and fellowships for his music, these include: a Fulbright Fellowship (1977), the Kennedy Center Friedheim Award (1989) for his compositions Snap! and Blue Like an Orange, the Goddard Lieberson Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1991), fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (1992) and the Guggenheim Foundation (1996), and the Stoeger Prize from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (2000). In 2005, Daugherty received the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra Composer’s Award, and in 2007, the Delaware Symphony Orchestra selected Daugherty as the winner of the A.I. DuPont Award. Also in 2007, Daugherty was named “Outstanding Classical Composer” at the Detroit Music Awards and received the American Bandmasters Association Ostwald Award for his composition Raise the Roof for Timpani and Symphonic Band.  His recordings can be heard on the Albany, Argo, Delos, Equilibrium, Klavier, Naxos and Nonesuch labels.

"Music is not what I do, it's who I am". As a producer Leandro has released tracks under established labels such as Sirup, Quantize,Street King , King Street Sounds, NiteGrooves , Soul Candi , Open House , Multi-Racial , Karmic Power Records  and many more. His productions have received notoriety having multiple tracks selected in the Traxsource Soulful , Tech, Progressive and Weekend Weapons charts , as well as having multiple tracks in the Traxsource top 100 genre specific charts . Leandro has also had multiple tracks in the iTunes top 100 House music charts (reaching as high as #48 in America and #19 in Cyprus ), also having multiple #1 spots in the iTunes Dance music category for Cyprus and multiple tracks selected for  Beatport Staff Picks, HTFR top 100 and more . 

Leandros' music is well supported within the industry and he has received support from some of the world's best DJ's and producers including EDX, DJ Spen, Culoe de Song, Black Coffee, Bert Bevans, Quentin Harris, Karizma, Laurent Garnier,Booker T, Phaze Dee, Vinny da Vinci , Laurent Garnier , Dirty Secretz, H@K, Felix Da Housecat and more . He has had the honor of playing alongside some of the worlds best DJ's including Sam Divine, Sharam (Deep Dish) JoJo Flores, Portia Surreal, Bert Bevans, Paulette, Sam Poppet, Les Schmidt, Oliver, DJ Fresh, Roger Goode, Glen Lewis, & many more. He has also done official remixes for artists such as Black Coffee , Sis n Jones , Tumelo and more. Leandros has giged around the world playing over 100 venues worldwide, including some of the best clubs worldwide, such as Amnesia (Ibiza), Guaba (Cyprus), Balux (Greece) ,Skyline (Miami) , Taboo (South Africa), The Palms (South Africa) to name a few. In his current homeland of Cyprus he previously held residencies at XS nightclub, Ammos Beach Bar, Patio , Blueberry Cafe and many others.

Apart from being an accomplished DJ and producer, Leandro hosts his weekly radio show 'Colours of House' on Deejay Radio Cyprus , which has become the longest running & most syndicated house music/dance radio show in Cyprus' history . Syndicated most notably on Grant Nelson's D3ep Radio Network.

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