Artist description El the Self Image is original, eclectic Hip-Hop for the new millenium and beyond.

Music Style Hip-Hop, Soulful spoken word

Musical Influences Zion I, Common, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Black Eyed Peas, Micranots, Students of Life, Dead Prez, Jedi Mind Tricks, Tha Roots, Dilated Peoples, Jurassic 5, Planet Asia, Pharcyde, De La Soul, and many many more...

Similar Artists Common, Zion I, Micranots

Artist History I've been an avid hip-Hop head since about the age of 12. I wasn't really able to listen to it until then. Anyways, I started writing when I was 15. A couple doodle rhymes on the back of my math test, a couple rhymes in my notebook... I eventually started my own battle board on my own site, but after a while the site died. I moved on to the now infamous Hip-Hop Hangout, where I spent a lot of time working on my skills (what little I have). I eventually stopped postin on HHH, mainly because of the bullsh*t that went on there. around the same time, I started doing audio freestyles over beats that I jacked from my CD's. I also joined Lyrical Warfare, which also has a lot of problems, but I need to work on my skills...I started getting interested in making my own beats, so I began downloading software. Anything that had to do with music. Most of it I couldn't even figure out, but I got some advice and now I'm using Fruity Loops to create the odd and utterly original beats that you hear on this site. I am not currently signed to a label, and I'm not really looking to be. Hip-Hop is my life, not my career. For that, I look towards technology, I plan on becoming a web aplications designer. That's about it...

Group Members Thomas Olabode Itabiyi A.K.A. El the Self Image

Instruments Sony F-V15 Microphone Yamaha PSSR 280 MIDI Keyboard, Tons of Soundfonts, Cubase 5, Fruity Loops Pro 3

Albums Reflections of Self (Comming January 2002)

Press Reviews If the press ever heard my music, they'd probably hate me as much as the government does

Additional Info Peace to all my brothas and sistas with me in the struggle to make Hip-Hop a recognized artform.

Location Anaheim, California - USA

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