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kamakazi skillz

NEW YORK, NY, United States

Hip Hop, Rap

Songwriter, Mixing Engineer

Kamakazi Skillz Anthony Marcel Bailey (born july 16th,1990) better known as Skillz  American rapper from 155st 8th ave Harlem,Ny.Born in Harlem Hospital on 135th  and 7th ave.At the age of 8 years old i began writing always to shy  to let other people know what i was doing i always kept it a secret,  i would hide my writings under my bed, under my pillow, wherever someone  else couldnt find it. I started off writing poetry, all throughout school  i would be an outcast to the other kids i never felt i belonged so becoming  a writer was my escape from not being able to be social.2pac was always my  favorite rapper and he also wrote poetry, i felt i could relate to who he was  as a person because we shared something deeper then just rap on the streets,  he was a great inspiration for me. As i got older i started to play with words  and counter the norm, whenever someone told me something they heard i would  try to find a clever way to flip the script, if someone suggested we go left  i would be the one to argue this is why we should go right.I was different,  but i realized by the time i finished junior high school that being different  wasnt always a bad thing. By the age of 14 i started to write short stories  for everyone in school, i never really liked the predictable "hood books" girls  read in school so i thought to myself i can do this and better and have everyones  attention to read my work.i was ready to express my vision through words, and as  i always expected when people got to know me as a writer things would change.  by the 10 grade in highschool i was on to hip hop making remixes to already popular  songs and spitting my lyrics to my friends, still at this time i wasnt confident enough to  go record it have it played but writing was my thing.I did my first performance in the 11th  grade at a high school talent show after the show i was recognized people who didnt know i  could rap were now asking me for my mixtape, girls were on me and i had the juice.  By the time i turned 18 i had wrote so many songs i couldnt even keep up with them  and was ready to start putting them on wax to make my debut, but i was in the streets  and didnt take it serious, hustling was what i loved and chilling on the blocks of Harlem  i made desicions that put me away for awhile.I went to jail for a gun charge in 2008  and music became a hobby for me not a career, it was something i loved but not something  i could see happening for me. When i got out of jail i was ready to change my life, so i decided  to stay off the block i went to college and my love for music and writing started to come back i  saw other artist stage there talents and immediatly felt im way better then these "niggahs".  So i signed up for open mic, i opened up with a poem i wrote and grabbed everyones attention,  then i did a remix to the song finale by young money it was me and a few of my friends, we wrote the track proably 1 hour before the performance and had it memorized. when we went to perform the track i got the biggest response i could imagine, people there just believed in me and i appreciated all the love and just like that the old me revamped.Since then Ive recorded over 40 tracks done so many shows i couldnt even tell you ive performed for coast to coast in NYC, California Brew Haus in Rochester, Ny and have gained a fan base of people in the upstate area that love and respect me for my musical talents.

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