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I'd like to meet:
T.I. gotta meet himT.I. - What You Know Bout Dat????
..New PeoplE ....down earth... ...full a Life... reaching for the StarS....whoever as long as your out to get iT it really doesn't matter.....One Luv Peeps keepin real...
Music:
Gimmie a beat wit a Break in It n watch me Get StupiD....Poet,Charly,Sirverse, blu beast. Young Educated NuggaS, new artist with mad Flava check their pagesTrae,Zro, "ABN" Reppin 4 the durty----FREE Z-RO---Over the years the word zero has come to represent the average brother struggling to survive in the wake of devastating poverty and institutional racism that has regulate young Black men to the bottom of Americas socio-economic latter; hence the reason why Houston native and Rap-A-Lot latest rap sensation Z-RO chose the numerical symbol for his stage moniker. I come from nothing, says Z-RO. Didnt have nothing and couldnt see nothing up ahead. Everything was just nothing. So I told myself a long time ago that I am going to adopt the name of nothing and make something with it. I took that name to keep me grounded and to remind me of where I came from and to respect my blessings right now so I dont go back that way. It was through hip-hop that Z-Ro found a channel for his experiences. While playing basketball at Willow Ridge High, he was also getting good grades. "I mean, I was doin' it right," he says. Then, another setback. He got shot, and couldn't pass the physical to play ball. To this day, Z-Ro carries the shell casing in his body. "I was like 'I can't play ball no more, I don't want to be robbin' and shit, let me give this rap shit a try,'" he says. Z-Ro, born Born Joseph Wayne McVey in Houston's South Park area, (Also home to Scarface) states "It was the regular lil' ghetto life, ya know?" says the rapper of his formative years. "I wasn't born into no ghetto, my people had money so I was goin' to a good elementary school. But then tragedy strikes - my momma die. I'm livin' house to house now, 'cos don't nobody want an extra mouth to feed." Times were hard, and with no fatherly guidance, a young Z-Ro had to fend for himself. It wasn't until Z-Ro grew older, that the trauma of his mother's death hit him. She died from cancer, and at 20 years old, Z-Ro still very much remembers. "I was six-years-old, I seen my momma when the paramedics came in, took her up off the bed, with a sheet over her face," he recalls. "I ain't know what that meant at six-years-old. I thought 'damn, why y'all messin' with my momma, she asleep'. When I got into my first apartment at 15, then it hit me for real, 'cos I was payin' all the bills. It tore me up. By this time he had moved to Missouri City (a Houston suburb known to locals as Mo' City')"I was on my own pretty much 'til 13," he continues. "I got 13 and I moved back with my grandmother. From then on, it was crazy. Thats when shit started to get real, recalls Z-Ro. A nigga started experiencing muthafuckers gettin' shot, killin' themselves, drugs, stab wounds and all that other type of shit. That shit hit me like a storm. I got caught up in the underflow. I became a product of that for real, I became a muthafuckin' threat. A veteran of 16 albums at the age of 28 and an acclaimed member of Houston's Screwed Up Click, Z-Ro is much more complex than his surface or the simple intro of THE LIFE OF JOSEPH W. MCVEY may imply. Started making music with befriended local rap group, Street Military, who were signed to EMI-. "I'd go over they house, we playin' ball, smokin' weed, and around 8 o'clock, Lil' Flea used to come downstairs and be like 'look, we gonna start recording. Everybody that ain't recording, get the fuck out! If you ain't here to work, leave'," recollects Z-Ro. "So I stayed, just to peep out the process. They was writin', bobbin' they head, smokin' weed, singin' and shit. I fell in love with that and it seemed like overnight it came to me, ya know? I had always been in singing groups and church choirs, my old man played music, my momma used to sing. It was in my genes already, I just had to tap into it". Now a member of Street Military's Killa Klan collective, with his rap skills being honed, Z-Ro found himself inducted into DJ Screw's infamous Screwed-Up Click in 1997 his fiery, toe-taggin body-baggin & braggin style contrasted with the slowed-down crew. But Screw wasn't the only one to pick up on Z-Ro's talent, and what followed over the next five years were a string of independent albums, considered by fans around the world to be Down South classics.
Movies:
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Television:
BeT, MtV, EspN, anything worth watchin when i get some FreeTime busy young man here..out on my grind.!
Books:
Celia a slave..., Black Boy; Richard wright,...Letters to a Young Brother; Hill Harper.. Savage inequalities children in America's Schools; Johnathan Kozol
currently Readin..Scientist of the Mind...
