Altayzie is an underground hip-hop artist from St. Louis, Missouri who's been surrounded by music his entire life. Once considered to be a promising clarinet player, Altayzie was being fast-tracked to Powell Symphony Hall before reaching a state of burnout in middle school, where he gradually fell in love with hip-hop, and watched the trajectory of his whole life change.

Instead of fixating on a profession, Altayzie has dedicated his life to passion; releasing several albums, performing at various shows/events/festivals, and exploring the country along the way. While the world was yelling at him to get on LinkedIn, Altayzie was wearing his headphones, listening to artists like Immortal Technique, KRS-One, and Dead Prez, while building community with fellow emcees, dj's, b-boys and graffiti artists in the underground scene.

Now 29 years old, most people in the regular world struggle to understand his lifestyle decisions. What Altayzie lacks in financial stability, he also lacks in emotional stability. Being bipolar with anxiety disorders and ADHD, Altayzie is constantly rotating between feeling invincible and suicidal, having everything together and losing it all simultaneously. He'd be nowhere today without his siblings who've talked him off the ledge, his friends who've let him crash at their places, the strangers who've picked him up off the side of the road, the legends who've shown him love, and of course, anybody who's ever passed him a mic on stage.

George Watsky is a rapper, writer and performer from San Francisco now living in Los Angeles. A versatile lyricist who switches between silly and serious, technically complex and simply heartfelt, George won the Youth Speaks Grand Slam Finals and the Brave New Voices National Poetry Slam in 2006. Immediate after, George appeared on the final season of "Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry" on HBO in 2007 while himself a college Freshman and subsequently performed at over 150 universities across the country. Rapping all the while under the name 'Watsky,' George released a jazz-hip hop record with his band Invisible Inc in 2007 and the self-titled 'Watsky' in 2010, which peaked at #7 on the iTunes hip hop charts. In January 2011 George's fast rapping went viral and led to two appearances on the Ellen Show, a slot on Last Call with Carson Daly, and an exploding online profile. George has performed at the Just for Laughs festival in Montreal, the NAACP Image Awards on FOX, three times at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, and has been featured in XXL, Billboard Magazine, and the New York Times Magazine. Watsky's social media presence made him one of only 23 artists dubbed by 'The Next Big Sound' as a 'Big Sound of 2011,' alongside Mac Miller, Kreayshawn and Skrillex.

T-Mass is an EDM (bass) producer and DJ from the SF Bay Area.

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