Music Style Party,street shit,

Musical Influences 2pac,big pun,nas

Artist History The young 20-yr. old rapper, who was born in Detroit and practically lived his entire life in the city, started writing rhymes back in 1996. While growing up in the potentially dangerous parts of the city, he was inspired by hip-hop of the early ‘90’s to become a rapper. But it didn’t happen overnight. The rapper wanted to put together a rap group by 1997, but never succeeded in recording the 10 songs he wrote, because of schedule conflicts and lack of transportation. By 1998, the young rapper became a DJ at 89.3 WHFR, a college radio station. When asked what he was going to call him self on-air, he simply said “Rick”. The hip-hop DJ Hahn Solo said “DJ Rick,” which sounded awkward for a DJ name. Since then, DJ Rick started doing hip-hop shows for the college radio station, and built a name for himself. Later that year, he met Skully and his crew, Da Hardheads, who had thanked him for supporting their music. Soon after he was introduced to Skully’s basement studio, DJ Rick had succeeded Skully’s basement studio, DJ Rick had succeeded in recording his first demo song “I’m A Hardhead.” After passing out free copies of the song, people surprisingly gave him good feedbacks. Since then, DJ Rick decided to pursue his rapping career as a solo artist, after graduating from high school by ‘99. The infamous Y2K arrived, as DJ Rick was slowly working on his first album, due to lack of money and time, because of working and going to college. By Summer of 2000, DJ Rick had recorded enough songs to put a maxi-single out, but then something happened. He came across a producer (whose name will not be identified), who had talked him into buying so many beats from him. DJ Rick was advised by this producer that he needed better beats for his album. DJ Rick eventually gave in the producer’s offer, which he found out later to be a big mistake. Consequently, DJ Rick suffered a great loss of money, and was not able to put out his album by then. Meanwhile, DJ Rick came across rapper/producer Hush, from Detroit’s well-known rap group Da Ruckus. Hush produced new songs for DJ Rick, who decided to make more new songs for the album. Due to limited financial budgets, it took DJ Rick another year to finish up his album. This time, he wanted the album to sound professional. By the Fall of 2001, DJ Rick completed his album, with the help of Marc Kempf (of Real Too Real Design), who had designed and duplicated his album. DJ Rick finally released his full-length album “Born Rebellious” by December 4, 2001! As of December 20th, 2001, DJ Rick now lives on the Southwest side of Detroit. DJ Rick is currently promoting his album, and plans to do shows around the Detroit area. Album copies (only on CD) are available at Hot Hits and Record Time. Expect the album copies to be sold at Harmony House soon. Bio Pt. 2 - "NY to the D" While DJ Rick was finishing up his "Born Rebellious" project, he was discovered by Chris Trife through the DetroitRap.com site. Chris Trife, a N.Y. native of Greek descent, had just moved out of the Bronx to Yonkers. DJ Rick and Chris Trife had started off doing a couple of collabos on the side... Then the 9/11 tradegy had occurred. Because this event changed the entire world's way of thinking, including DJ Rick's thinking, DJ Rick & Chris Trife decided to team up and work on something different, that is, the group album linking Detroit to New York. DJ Rick had recorded a diss to bin Laden, which was supposed to appear on a Benefit compilation cd, but was never pressed out. It also failed to make the tracklisting in "Born Rebellious." The song "Survival Of The Fittest," feat. Chris Trife helped anticipate the upcoming "NY to the D" album. Despite the economy going bad and money shortage, DJ Rick and Chris Trife continued to put their effort into making the group album. Over a year later, they have finally completed the "NY to the D" LP, which will be released Nov. 2002.

Albums Born Rebellious & NY 2 The D

Location detroit, michigan - USA

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