[citation needed] He started writing poetry and rapping in high school but did not release any original music until he met Tim "One Love" Sommers – a drummer, producer and DJ at Cornell University, where the two were both students.
In the summer of 2012, Kinetics released his first mixtape entitled With A Little Help From My Friends,[3] featuring guest appearances from R.A. the Rugged Man, Remedy, Nitty Scott, Dylan Owen, the Unknown Prophets and Lower East Side-based rapper and poet Accent.
Since 2013, Kinetics has been featured on tracks by Neon Hitch, King Deco and Accent as well as the chorus of “No Reservation” by BK Brasco, Timbaland and Pusha T. In 2014 he took a hiatus from releasing projects, however, to focus on songwriting for other artists.
The song “Michelle,” for example, is a coming of age story about an immigrant girl living in the Bronx in the 1970s - doubling as a metaphor for and personification of the genre of hip-hop, in the spirit of rapper Common’s "I Used to Love H.E.R."
Together with his producer and writing partner One Love, Kinetics has cowritten for a variety of artists including B.o.B, Pitbull, Eminem and Melanie Martinez and Madison Beer making his commercial debut in 2010 by penning the chorus to B.o.B's Grammy nominated, platinum selling single "Airplanes" featuring Hayley Williams of Paramore.