He was first introduced to hip hop at Peck Park childcare, where older counselors would paint graffiti in the empty public pool and play the now defunct AM radio station 1580 KDAY.

While attending high school in Los Angeles, Thes One met Michael Turner (Double K), and the two began working together as what would soon become People Under The Stairs.

Chris Smith contacted Thes One initially for one song for their compilation series Deep Concentration and Mushroom Jazz, but upon hearing the tracks they were working on, offered P.U.T.S.

left for their first world tour in August 1999, initially as support for the Deep Concentration project but later that year in Europe as a Solo Act with local openers.

Critically acclaimed for its broad musical influences and dead on hip hop sound, songs such as "Montego Slay" and Acid Raindrops quickly became favorites and helped solidify their dedicated worldwide fan base.

[citation needed] As well as producing People Under the Stairs albums, Thes One completed remixes for many artists as well as library music for a few television pilots which were not picked up.

The first twelve-inch release on the newly formed Tres Records imprint was Thes One's Noonen 12", an ode to the music of the movie Caddyshack, followed by Doin’ It with Raashan Amad.

He signed a deal for the group with local Los Angeles label Basement Records and coordinated the elaborate deluxe packaging with long-time friend Joshua Dunn of design team Secret Pizza Party.

[4] Throughout 2006 and 2007, Thes One continued to tour as a member of People Under the Stairs and tour/business manager, expanding the groups presence throughout the world through festival dates in Japan, Australia, Europe and the US.

In 2007, Thes One also spent the year writing, performing and recording the original 5.1 score for Street Dreams, a dramatic feature film starring Rob Dyrdek and Paul Rodriguez Jr, slated for release in 2009.

His first full-length feature score, he enlisted the help of long-time friend and musical collaborator Kat 010, drummer Alex Newman, DJ Mekalek and Violinist Paul Dateh.

It received the "Audience Favorite" award at the 2009 Newport Beach Film Festival and Thes One spoke at the screening alongside director Chris Zamoscianyk and the cast of the movie.

Following this, Thes One organized, planned and funded the video for "The Wiz", a song to be released on Fun DMC and shot entirely on location in Sydney Australia with director Matt Bird.

After years of producing and engineering the complicated Fun DMC album for People Under the Stairs partly in studio and partly on location in South Central Los Angeles in Blewfoot's backyard, the album received worldwide acclaim and noted a marked turn in the groups sound back towards the modern funk of early 1980s Los Angeles.

Following a nationwide tour in support of the album, People Under The Stairs celebrated their 10-year anniversary in December 2008 with a sold-out show at Los Angeles’ historical El Rey theatre.

On October 18, 2009, the Fun DMC debut on the Billboard charts as #6 on the Heatseekers List[6] In February 2009, Thes One booked, managed and performed as a member of PUTS in their first tour of China, selling out shows in both Beijing and Shanghai (in excess of 800 people).

As explained by The Onion in their AV club review, "Carried Away proves that Thes One and Double K will be pumping out sunny, laid-back party anthems long after the Internet memes grow stale".

Specializing in local Los Angeles pressings of rare funk, soul and rock, he has spent the latter half of his life searching for the lost and forgotten music of his hometown.