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Members: TRAIDMARC

"Through Reality and Inspiration Divine Music and Rap's Created.
That's Traidmarc"

All his life he always loved to become a rap musician and have dedicated most of his formative years to music. Traidmarc's been rapping ever since he was able to talk. He recalls sneaking into his uncle's room while he was away to record his first demo using his uncle's psr620 Yamaha keyboard.

He just couldn't wait to hear his voice playback from a double-sided cassette tape so he would voice over any cassette tape that was at his disposal. According to Traidmarc, he'd sometimes erase gospel tapes and replaced it with my rap music when he ran out of empty tapes (laughs). Growing up as an artist, he wrote and composed songs almost every day and recorded whenever he had the chance to. He started with two tape deck recorders, and then moved on to digital. "I was very eager to get on the mic and perform in front of some muther fuckers I aint seen before".

Traid made his bones on the streets at the age of 16. He attended all kinds of events from concerts, clubs, fashion shows, radios and attracted all kind of people from the good, the bad and guess you know the rest etc. Music is his life. He's undoubtedly passionate about it and arguably one of the most original sounding and multi-talented artists out there in the underground scene so much so that even Nas gave a shout out to him on his song "Oochie Wally" and these were his exact words...

"Traidmarc's the army
Is that Horse? it must be
I heard he husky
Yeah, there go jungle eyes red
Looking for trouble"

Traidmarc have performed alongside with industry moguls and superstars such as P' Diddy, John Legend, Rhianna, Shakira, UB40, Neyo, Kelly Rowland, Lupe Fiasco, to mention but a few. The hunger and thirst for success has let him to sit and rub shoulders with entertainment moguls such as Mathew Knowles (Beyone's Dad from the former Destiny's child) Dame Dash (Jay Z's former Boss) etc. He enjoys his music, loves it and cherishes it more than food or sex!

"I listen to all kinds of music and I have no particular favourite but I grew up in the era of; NWA, OPP (Naughty by Nature), Chris Cross, Class Act, Mc Lyte, Salt n' Pepa, Arrested Development, SWV, Da Brat, Bone Thugs n' Harmony, KRS1, Snoop Dogg, Dr Dre, Ice Cube, Notorious B.I.G, 2life Crew, Mc Hammer, Keith Murray, Public Enemy, 2pac, Outcast etc".

Ever since 1981, the year Hip-Hop was born in NYC to 1996 when 2pac was shot in LA, traid's love for rap has waxed stronger. And after he heard Natural Born Killer by Dr. Dre and Ice Cube, he was utterly convinced that one day he too will become a rapper! And Traidmarc has never given up his dreams since then. Welcome to the many faces of Traidmarc.