He picked up the double bass when he had joined his school's marching band.
stated he started rapping in his high school years in the mid to late 1980s.
One of his friends had told him that there was a guy who rapped just like him at The Good Life Cafe, a local open-mic venue, named Myka 9.
Not believing his friend, he went to go check out Myka 9 at The Good Life Cafe.
[2] Released independently and distributed by tape collectors, Freestyle Fellowship's first album To Whom It May Concern... was a landmark.
[5] He is also known for his freestyle rap having gone to battle with Eyedea but lost to him at Scribble Jam in 1999.
The Good Life Cafe is the open-mic workshop where he first performed with Freestyle Fellowship in the early 1990s.