His father is Hilton C. Felton, a jazz pianist who had performed with George Benson, Grant Green and many others.

He has been crowned "the future folk-soul hero" by Complex Magazine for his vocals on Prince Paul’s Politics of the Business album.

His collaboration with JLaine and TFox under the name Antithesis has so far resulted in two releases on Tasteful Licks.

In 1999, he starred in the critically acclaimed hip-hop play Rhyme Deferred, performed at the Kennedy Center, the National Black Theatre Festival, and the Nuyorican Poets Café.

Ellington had a role in Multitudes of Mercies,[1] a movie that aired on BET worldwide December 1, 2005 as a part of World AIDS Day.