Hey world. I decided to give you all a piece of me. I'm a 21 year old(soon to be 22) Hip Hop and R&B artist and producer from the 804 area of Virginia. I have been doing this since I was 10 around the time my aunt passed away to breast cancer. While the family was making her funeral arrangements, my cousin James "Concise" Potts(follow him @Concise804) was showing me, what would would become, my future. I instantly fell in love with it. The first thing I ever wrote was to Southern Hospitality by Ludacris. Since then I've written so much material, most of it lost to multiple thefts and misplacing of notebooks and binders with my material in it. I started battle rapping in the 6th grade against friends and anybody else who was willing to battle. I've done multiple shows in the 804 area. My first one was in 7th grade at my middle school honors ceremony. My long time friend Marc "Lyta" Payne (Follow him @Mr800and4) were asked by our Science teacher to do a remix to Nas' If I Ruled The World after hearing us rap for a science project we did earlier in the school year. After that I moved to another school system where I continued to write more songs and do more battle raps. I ended up realizing my singing talents in junior high school and since have been writing R&B songs as well as singing my own hooks. After high school I came to VSU where I ended up networking with fellow artists, performing at fashion shows and winning talent shows such as the 2009 Ape-ollo Talent Show hosted by the Beta Gamma Chapter of alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. My most recent show was on April 29, 2012 at Kingdom in Richmond. Here are some clips from the performance below.
My first mixtape, Long Time Coming was a whirlwind of trials, tribulations and emotions. My freshman year in college I began work on my debut mixtape. At the time, it was going to be titled First Encounter but after years of pushing it back and people wondering how much longer it would be before it dropped or if it even would drop so in 2011 I changed the title to Long Time Coming. I ended it up recording the entire mixtape the week of it's release while battling a growing cold and through all the hard work and late nights it was completed and put out to the public on November 11, 2011 (11/11/11). The mixtape features 15 songs with collaborations from Cedric "Chemistry" Scott(Follow him @1_LostKing) many of my B.E.T.T.A. Entertainment label mates including SpotZ (follow him @_SpotZ) and Slim Royale (Follow him @SlimRoyale) and production by myself as well as E'Class (follow him @Eclazzz), who produced the title track Long Time Coming and Make Love, and my homie Tre (Follow him @TreIII3), who produced Playa Mentality and Rock With You. You can listen to and download individual tracks off of Long Time Coming below or download the entire mixtape at www.hulkshare.com/T-Money804
On August 4th 2009, E'Class and I founded B.E.T.T.A. (Building Entertainers To Top All) Entertainment. Over the years we have picked up 4 other members including SpotZ, Dena X, Slim Royale and Bates The Boss. We are currently working on the B.E.T.T.A. Entertainment Mixtape dropping August 4th, 2012. You can listen to some of our music below and be sure to follow us @BETTA_ENT.
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