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6'8
Texas rapper 6'8, born Pierre Beard has a love for music but the height of a ball player. Standing 6 feet and 8 inches tall, he uses his height to his advantage by making his presence felt when he walks in a room and commanding the stage when performing.
Growing up outside of Chicago in Harvey, Illinois, 6'8 and his younger sister modeled in local fashion shows. As early as 8 years old, he made the runway his stage and he wasn't afraid to step out in the spotlight. Those early experiences helped prepare him to rock crowds with his music later in life. By 12, his family moved to to Dallas, Texas where he was always the tallest kid in the group. Basketball became a pastime and he inevitably began competing on teams up through high school. His passion for the game wasn't as strong as his desire to make music, so after graduating he started rapping. He teamed up with his childhood friend Jersey, named after his birth state and they began rapping collectively as Ballin Outlawz. Back then 6'8 adopted his childhood nickname Killa P as his rap name.
"I'm a perfectionist and I go hard at everything I do, from basketball to my music and life in general," 6'8 states regarding the meaning of his early rap name.
6'8 and his cousin A1, who was a seasoned music producer began investing in equipment from Guitar Center and set up a home studio in the apartment they shared. Heavily influenced by his favorite rapper Twista as well as Big Sean, Drake, JayZ and the entire Dipset crew, 6'8 began his rap career with freestyles over A1's beats. Shortly after, full songs were written and recorded. One of the first songs completed was "Hit that Hoe". The song stemmed from a popular phrase out of Dallas that referenced dancing. Once the song was posted online it became popular among their friends and followers. After a few years of recording music and sharing it online, and a brief move to Houston, Texas, 6'8 returned to Dallas and concentrated on creating and releasing a full body of work.
In 2016, 6'8 debuted "Height Advantage" on Datpiff and flooded Dallas with hard copies of the mixtape. The record "Big in my City" made from a beat purchased on the popular site Soundclick opened the mixtape that included 15 tracks. The project included the first single "Ain't F'd up About it" and two records featuring his cousin A1. He locked in performances with Coast to Coast Mixtapes in a few cities in Texas and performed at local shows in Dallas to promote the project.
6'8 is currently working on a new project called "High Standard", which he plans to release in early 2017. He's a rapper but mainly listens to R&B because he appreciates the live instrumentation and the focus on love and lyrics that are more respectful to woman than most of the mainstream rap of today. The versatile rapper plans to incorporate those elements in his upcoming music and show that you can make good music without degrading women.
"I have a passion for music and expressing myself so I'm doing what I love," 6'8 explains. "I plan to use my height to get noticed and my voice to be heard."
Eugenius Neutron
Through the span of his music career, Eugenius has consistently produced and released his music independently. This year he’s preparing to share his most heartfelt work to date, “Euniversal Understanding”. The first single from the project, “Passion of the Genius” is a song about passion and purpose influenced by today’s state of hip hop.
“The song details my take on why hip hop has become the world’s most powerful form of music,” Eugenius reflects. “Music is a form of religion, we use it to uplift, to better ourselves, to gain, and share knowledge with each other.”
Eugenius has been sharing his hip hop doctrine from the tender age of nine. Eugene Wright grew up on the west side of Birmingham in Powderly. The area was filled with mostly single parent households, but he along with his two brothers and younger sister were fortunate to have both parents in the home. His father, a local rap artist, served as a major influence in his life and he wanted to follow in his footsteps. So, while other nine year olds were inside playing video games or outside riding their bikes, Eugenius was perfecting his craft. Under the moniker Mafia Boi (Manly Attributes Found In A Boy), he made use of a karaoke machine and recorded his first CD, which was the beginning of his music career.
“My father taught me to be passionate about my music. I saw his group The Balling’ham Connection record and promote their album “From Bombing’ham to Balling’ham”, Eugenius recalls. “I saw first hand the process of creating music but more importantly, it taught me valuable lessons about the music business.”
The tone of his music began to change once he began high school and started venturing into the city. The lure of street life found Eugenius hanging with a group of neighborhood teens who weren’t on a straight and narrow path. While he remained an honor roll student, the themes in his music were more street laced. At the time he was greatly influenced by New Orleans rap artist Lil Wayne for his lyrical prowess.
The honor student spent weekdays in school, most evenings working as a cashier at Foot Action and some nights working at Banana Joe’s, a local nightclub. Eager to flood the streets with his music and taking a note from MP, a legend in Birmingham who created a street buzz with his single “MJ’s in the Club”, Eugenius released 5 mixtapes under the moniker Mafia Boi. He flooded the streets selling his CD’s and performed all throughout the Birmingham metroplex.
With money saved from working at Banana Joe’s and profit from his CD’s, Eugenius paid for his first semester of college at Alabama A&M in Huntsville. Without a booming hip hop community in the college town, he joined the poetry society and began creating music that was less mainstream, more conscious and relatable. The BET Black College Tour gave him an outlet to showcase his incredible wordplay through their annual freestyle battle that Eugene won two years in a row. During the time, he began collaborating with his good friend and producer B-Flat Trax. Their song “Pass Me By” expanded his fanbase and became popular in the city of Huntsville. That is when the gradual transformation from Mafia Boi to Eugenius Neutron began.
I stopped wanting to be like the artists who I looked up to while I was in high school and wanted to be myself and find my own voice,” remembers Eugenius. “The atmosphere in Huntsville was much more productive. I was able to be more creative. Birmingham is a tough place to live and develop. Huntsville gave me that space and opportunity.”
With a new outlook on life and music, Eugenius united an eclectic group of musicians, poets, and visual artists along with his close friends Dee Skillz, No Suh, and Chris Jay, who were also artist across Alabama. The group Loner Dreamer Lover Rebel (LDLR) promoted events on campus showcasing local artists and partnered with local radio stations to produce concerts. To date, the group continues to promote an annual block party in Birmingham distributing backpacks and school supplies to underprivileged students. He also interned at the local radio station 103.1 (WEUP) in the promotions department under the tutelage of DJ Ghon Bomb, who serves as a mentor to him to this day.
After mastering mixtapes, in 2011 Eugenius decided to release his first studio recording with all original music. “The Brainstorm”, spawned two singles, “Pass Me By” and “Searching for my Zen”. The project was sold on iTunes but was available for a free download on sites such as Datpiff and Bandcamp. The following year, he released the mixtape “Million Dollar Dreams”, which was given a five star rating by Concrete Magazine. Instead of boasting of material possessions, the project highlighted the hustle and hard work that precedes success with songs like “I Need a Dollar” and “Wishing for Wings”. In the following year, expanding his musical boundaries Eugenius elected to offer his fans a jazz influenced project. He documented his past experiences and interactions with the nightlife he was accustomed to in “The Roaring 2000’s: Beauties and the Beast”. The collection showcased a tale of a modern day bachelor and gentleman. Four of the songs were regularly featured in the Alabama Now segment on 95.7 Jamz in Birmingham. The biggest song from that album was the title track “Beauty and the Beast” featuring JazzMine Garfield, a local neo soul singer and songwriter.
His upcoming release “Euniversal Understanding” is an evolution of a young kid who dedicated his life to music for the love of hip hop. His story is a coming of age tale that shows the impact of music on a young man destined to share his stories and enlighten the world through song. Be sure to visit Eugenius online at www.andiameugenius.com and follow him on social media @andiameugenius.
Comma Zero
Money always determines everything, whether in abundance or a lack thereof is the motto of M.A.D.E. Entertainment co-founder and recording artist Keith Bynum, also known as Comma Zero. He hails from San Francisco, a city flooded with rappers and independent labels over the years. Known as Sucka Free City, San Francisco hasn’t had much national mainstream success, but Comma Zero plans to change that. He aspires to join the ranks of legendary East Bay artists such as E-40, Too Short, Mac Dre and New Orleans transplant Master P.
Comma Zero grew up in the Fillmore district of San Francisco. The common struggles of growing up in the inner city plagued his childhood, but he was surrounded by a large loving family. He and his two younger sisters were fortunate to have both parents in their household, which was an anomaly in his neighborhood. In his early years, he witnessed his parents struggle to provide a stable home environment for he and his sisters, and attests that to his strong work ethic. The love and support of his extended family, including grandparents and a host of aunts, uncles and cousins kept him on a straight path in his early formative years. However, upon turning eighteen and in his senior year of high school, Comma Zero decided to take matters of getting money into his own hands. The lure of the street life won him over and he dropped out of school. And although he was aware of the dangerous consequences of his choices, he took to the streets and quickly became accustomed to his new lifestyle. As he continued to make money, it began to lose it’s value when placed against the loss of friends and with his freedom in jeopardy. Not wanting to end up on the wrong side of the law, Comma Zero decided to return to school and get his GED and later opted to pursue an Associates degree in engineering.
Upon cutting ties with the streets and finding comfort in his position as a union iron-worker, Common Zero began rekindling aspirations of rapping. His deep seated love of music began at the age of seven when he and some family members recorded a rap song that became popular in his neighborhood. Music stayed close to his heart and fully surfaced when his younger cousin Brandon also known as BlackCard B and the co-founder of M.A.D.E. Entertainment played one of his songs that Comma Zero thought was hot. Comma Zero immediately set out to push his skills to a level that would enable him to trade bars with his cousin on a song. He began to work tirelessly crafting stories to music reminiscent of how he'd lived before getting out of the game and tales of the current state of the violent and drug riddled streets of his beloved city. During that time, he lived in the studio and wrote constantly with the wild side of the streets of San Francisco as the theme of his music.
“I want to be as real as possible in my music,” says Comma Zero of his life like rap lyrics.
The first release from Comma Zero, The Lesson Volume 1 was well received and helped him join the ranks of the elite independent artists in the Bay Area. He’s performed in shows throughout the region traveling as far as Modesto, Ca to open up for platinum recording artist Slim of the R&B group 112. In addition he’s performed with J Valentine, Joe Moses, J-Diggs of Thizz Nation and The Jacka of the Mob Figgaz. His stage show serves up entertaining yet motivational music for his peers and anyone who will listen.
In addition to performing, Comma Zero recently dropped 1000 Real Nigga Avenue for the streets on livemixtapes.com, which is a collaborative effort with Ronald Mack of BlastFirst Records and a premiere artist off Livewire Records, a popular Oakland based record label. This past summer, Comma Zero joined the Livewire Records movement based on several encounters with Ronald Mack. The two artists continued to run into each other at the studio and with a mutual respect of each others music they decided to record Lick It Off. The song is one of several that they collaborated on, so they decided to release a mixtape featuring their work together. Lick It Off also features Stevie Joe who also represents Livewire and is the first single from 100 Real Nigga Avenue. "In late 2014 comma Zero will flood the street with Street Smart, which will feature a more mainstream collection of songs. City Lights featuring Bay Area rapper San Quinn will be the first single from that release.
Comma Zero has taken the motto from the acronym of his label M.A.D.E. Entertainment and applied it to his life and career in music. Money always determines everything, so his relentless quest to build a rap empire is a goal he’s set to help provide for his family and help his friends, some who still live and move with a street mentality. He wants to be successful so that he can provide better options for his nieces and nephews that the presence of money can afford them. He hopes the stories in his music and his example of breaking free from the streets will help steer other inner city youth who are on the wrong path that he once trailed.
“I want my music to motivate people to live a good life and still get money,” Comma Zero says.
Be sure to follow Comma Zero on twitter and instagram @comma_zero.
Through the span of his music career, Eugenius has consistently produced and released his music independently. This year he’s preparing to share his most heartfelt work to date, “Euniversal Understanding”. The first single from the project, “Passion of the Genius” is a song about passion and purpose influenced by today’s state of hip hop.
“The song details my take on why hip hop has become the world’s most powerful form of music,” Eugenius reflects. “Music is a form of religion, we use it to uplift, to better ourselves, to gain, and share knowledge with each other.”
Eugenius has been sharing his hip hop doctrine from the tender age of nine. Eugene Wright grew up on the west side of Birmingham in Powderly. The area was filled with mostly single parent households, but he along with his two brothers and younger sister were fortunate to have both parents in the home. His father, a local rap artist, served as a major influence in his life and he wanted to follow in his footsteps. So, while other nine year olds were inside playing video games or outside riding their bikes, Eugenius was perfecting his craft. Under the moniker Mafia Boi (Manly Attributes Found In A Boy), he made use of a karaoke machine and recorded his first CD, which was the beginning of his music career.
“My father taught me to be passionate about my music. I saw his group The Balling’ham Connection record and promote their album “From Bombing’ham to Balling’ham”, Eugenius recalls. “I saw first hand the process of creating music but more importantly, it taught me valuable lessons about the music business.”
The tone of his music began to change once he began high school and started venturing into the city. The lure of street life found Eugenius hanging with a group of neighborhood teens who weren’t on a straight and narrow path. While he remained an honor roll student, the themes in his music were more street laced. At the time he was greatly influenced by New Orleans rap artist Lil Wayne for his lyrical prowess.
The honor student spent weekdays in school, most evenings working as a cashier at Foot Action and some nights working at Banana Joe’s, a local nightclub. Eager to flood the streets with his music and taking a note from MP, a legend in Birmingham who created a street buzz with his single “MJ’s in the Club”, Eugenius released 5 mixtapes under the moniker Mafia Boi. He flooded the streets selling his CD’s and performed all throughout the Birmingham metroplex.
With money saved from working at Banana Joe’s and profit from his CD’s, Eugenius paid for his first semester of college at Alabama A&M in Huntsville. Without a booming hip hop community in the college town, he joined the poetry society and began creating music that was less mainstream, more conscious and relatable. The BET Black College Tour gave him an outlet to showcase his incredible wordplay through their annual freestyle battle that Eugene won two years in a row. During the time, he began collaborating with his good friend and producer B-Flat Trax. Their song “Pass Me By” expanded his fanbase and became popular in the city of Huntsville. That is when the gradual transformation from Mafia Boi to Eugenius Neutron began.
I stopped wanting to be like the artists who I looked up to while I was in high school and wanted to be myself and find my own voice,” remembers Eugenius. “The atmosphere in Huntsville was much more productive. I was able to be more creative. Birmingham is a tough place to live and develop. Huntsville gave me that space and opportunity.”
With a new outlook on life and music, Eugenius united an eclectic group of musicians, poets, and visual artists along with his close friends Dee Skillz, No Suh, and Chris Jay, who were also artist across Alabama. The group Loner Dreamer Lover Rebel (LDLR) promoted events on campus showcasing local artists and partnered with local radio stations to produce concerts. To date, the group continues to promote an annual block party in Birmingham distributing backpacks and school supplies to underprivileged students. He also interned at the local radio station 103.1 (WEUP) in the promotions department under the tutelage of DJ Ghon Bomb, who serves as a mentor to him to this day.
After mastering mixtapes, in 2011 Eugenius decided to release his first studio recording with all original music. “The Brainstorm”, spawned two singles, “Pass Me By” and “Searching for my Zen”. The project was sold on iTunes but was available for a free download on sites such as Datpiff and Bandcamp. The following year, he released the mixtape “Million Dollar Dreams”, which was given a five star rating by Concrete Magazine. Instead of boasting of material possessions, the project highlighted the hustle and hard work that precedes success with songs like “I Need a Dollar” and “Wishing for Wings”. In the following year, expanding his musical boundaries Eugenius elected to offer his fans a jazz influenced project. He documented his past experiences and interactions with the nightlife he was accustomed to in “The Roaring 2000’s: Beauties and the Beast”. The collection showcased a tale of a modern day bachelor and gentleman. Four of the songs were regularly featured in the Alabama Now segment on 95.7 Jamz in Birmingham. The biggest song from that album was the title track “Beauty and the Beast” featuring JazzMine Garfield, a local neo soul singer and songwriter.
His upcoming release “Euniversal Understanding” is an evolution of a young kid who dedicated his life to music for the love of hip hop. His story is a coming of age tale that shows the impact of music on a young man destined to share his stories and enlighten the world through song. Be sure to visit Eugenius online at www.andiameugenius.com and follow him on social media @andiameugenius.
Comma Zero
Money always determines everything, whether in abundance or a lack thereof is the motto of M.A.D.E. Entertainment co-founder and recording artist Keith Bynum, also known as Comma Zero. He hails from San Francisco, a city flooded with rappers and independent labels over the years. Known as Sucka Free City, San Francisco hasn’t had much national mainstream success, but Comma Zero plans to change that. He aspires to join the ranks of legendary East Bay artists such as E-40, Too Short, Mac Dre and New Orleans transplant Master P.
Comma Zero grew up in the Fillmore district of San Francisco. The common struggles of growing up in the inner city plagued his childhood, but he was surrounded by a large loving family. He and his two younger sisters were fortunate to have both parents in their household, which was an anomaly in his neighborhood. In his early years, he witnessed his parents struggle to provide a stable home environment for he and his sisters, and attests that to his strong work ethic. The love and support of his extended family, including grandparents and a host of aunts, uncles and cousins kept him on a straight path in his early formative years. However, upon turning eighteen and in his senior year of high school, Comma Zero decided to take matters of getting money into his own hands. The lure of the street life won him over and he dropped out of school. And although he was aware of the dangerous consequences of his choices, he took to the streets and quickly became accustomed to his new lifestyle. As he continued to make money, it began to lose it’s value when placed against the loss of friends and with his freedom in jeopardy. Not wanting to end up on the wrong side of the law, Comma Zero decided to return to school and get his GED and later opted to pursue an Associates degree in engineering.
Upon cutting ties with the streets and finding comfort in his position as a union iron-worker, Common Zero began rekindling aspirations of rapping. His deep seated love of music began at the age of seven when he and some family members recorded a rap song that became popular in his neighborhood. Music stayed close to his heart and fully surfaced when his younger cousin Brandon also known as BlackCard B and the co-founder of M.A.D.E. Entertainment played one of his songs that Comma Zero thought was hot. Comma Zero immediately set out to push his skills to a level that would enable him to trade bars with his cousin on a song. He began to work tirelessly crafting stories to music reminiscent of how he'd lived before getting out of the game and tales of the current state of the violent and drug riddled streets of his beloved city. During that time, he lived in the studio and wrote constantly with the wild side of the streets of San Francisco as the theme of his music.
“I want to be as real as possible in my music,” says Comma Zero of his life like rap lyrics.
The first release from Comma Zero, The Lesson Volume 1 was well received and helped him join the ranks of the elite independent artists in the Bay Area. He’s performed in shows throughout the region traveling as far as Modesto, Ca to open up for platinum recording artist Slim of the R&B group 112. In addition he’s performed with J Valentine, Joe Moses, J-Diggs of Thizz Nation and The Jacka of the Mob Figgaz. His stage show serves up entertaining yet motivational music for his peers and anyone who will listen.
In addition to performing, Comma Zero recently dropped 1000 Real Nigga Avenue for the streets on livemixtapes.com, which is a collaborative effort with Ronald Mack of BlastFirst Records and a premiere artist off Livewire Records, a popular Oakland based record label. This past summer, Comma Zero joined the Livewire Records movement based on several encounters with Ronald Mack. The two artists continued to run into each other at the studio and with a mutual respect of each others music they decided to record Lick It Off. The song is one of several that they collaborated on, so they decided to release a mixtape featuring their work together. Lick It Off also features Stevie Joe who also represents Livewire and is the first single from 100 Real Nigga Avenue. "In late 2014 comma Zero will flood the street with Street Smart, which will feature a more mainstream collection of songs. City Lights featuring Bay Area rapper San Quinn will be the first single from that release.
Comma Zero has taken the motto from the acronym of his label M.A.D.E. Entertainment and applied it to his life and career in music. Money always determines everything, so his relentless quest to build a rap empire is a goal he’s set to help provide for his family and help his friends, some who still live and move with a street mentality. He wants to be successful so that he can provide better options for his nieces and nephews that the presence of money can afford them. He hopes the stories in his music and his example of breaking free from the streets will help steer other inner city youth who are on the wrong path that he once trailed.
“I want my music to motivate people to live a good life and still get money,” Comma Zero says.
Be sure to follow Comma Zero on twitter and instagram @comma_zero.