Omid Walizadeh

[2] He has produced tracks for the likes of Freestyle Fellowship,[3][4] Busdriver,[5][6] 2Mex,[7] Subtitle,[8] and Awol One.

[9] Omid Walizadeh graduated from Loyola Marymount University with a bachelor's degree in recording arts.

[10] Inspired by the underground hip hop movement at the Good Life Cafe in the early 1990s, he released a collaborative album, Beneath the Surface, in 1998.

[13] It was inspired by Dan Simmons' novel Hyperion, the music of Sun Ra, among other things.

[14] It featured contributions from the likes of Abstract Rude, 2Mex,[15] Buck 65,[16] Luckyiam, Aceyalone, Murs, and Slug.