Tone Milion *M4S* WE MAKE HIT MUSIC!!

Tone Milion is very outspoken as he speaks on the current climate of the rap game. “Rap and hip-hop are two different things these days, hip-hop is the culture-the clothes, the slang etc. and rap is the music that fuels it, as opposed to the old days when they were one.” muses the candid 20-year-old producer/rapper/singer/songwriter. Milion goes on to say “What the game is missing right now is versatility, I say that because the subject matter is all the same, where’s the originality, where’s the creativity? Lately, it seems whatever sells excels and real talent gets looked over if they aren’t willing to fit into the mold. I try to break boundaries and barriers with my music, and I wouldn’t have it any other way”.Although a statement such as this may come off a bit bold, coming from a new artist, the Montgomery, Al native backs it up on his unfinished debut album, “The Life”. The Street Credit Music Group/Universal release shines the spotlight on an emerging talent whose influences are as diverse as his many styles. From lyrical lexicons like The Notorious B.I.G, Jay-Z, Nas, Kanye West, and Lil Wayne to musical virtuosos like Prince, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, and OutKast to name a few . “My music isn’t defined by a genre, I’m not a rapper, I’m not a producer, I’m an artist...I create” explains Milion. “If I absolutely had to describe it as something, I would say it’s like ‘a blind man’s dream.’ Concrete and abstract at the same time…complex, but not over your head. I want everyone from drug dealers to preachers to be able to take something from my music and be able to relate”.Tone Milion is poised to live up to his aspirations. “The Life” is filled with every aspect of life; growth, heartbreak, triumph, defeat, love, lust, and death. On the horn-laden “Nothing In This World,” Tone Milion offers a glimpse of the struggles he endured after leaving his home shortly after high school, “Mama said there’d be days like this/but Goddamn it stays like this/sleepin’ on an old sofa/ got roaches on the chair/like they payin’ rent and lettin’ us live here” he spits. On the violin-driven “Keep Your Love” Tone Milion gives listeners a glimpse of his past relationship woes with heartfelt lines like “I wrote her poems, I was the good listener/but she let them other niggas put the dick in her/” He muses “On that day, I saw how it was/ it’s F*** B******, Get Money, Spend Money, F*** Love”.Tone Milion comes from a strong Christian family. He was raised up in the church by his loving grandmothers and aunts up until his teen years, when he moved in with his father who was strongly against secular/profane music. Tone would sing in the church choir and often read from the bible in church programs. However, even with such firm roots in christianity the allure of the opportunities that doing secular music could bring him was far too much for him to pass up. Sneaking and listening to Jay-Z, Eminem, 50 Cent, and anything else he could hide from his father, Tone Milion quickly became enticed by hip-hop, amazed at the deep rhymes and flow patterns of Jay-Z and OutKast, amongst others. But it was during summer school in his 10th-grade year when a 15-year-old Milion knew he had a natural talent for rhyming. However, attempts to hone his skills as home proved futile for the budding artist, whose father would confiscate and often destroy his music in front of him. Milion recalls how his passion grew “Anyone who knows my father knows I’m stubborn just like him, so the more he threw away my lyrics, the more I wrote, until I got better and better, and learned to memorize them bar by bar by having to rewrite them so much so actually without my father being so stubborn, I wouldn’t be here today.”The young artist had found his calling. Milion attended college for one semester in what he calls “the most stupid decision I ever made” “The classes were boring, I couldn’t focus and it was a waste of my time and my mother’s money”. He found himself dabbling in street activities just to get by, but music offered a better way. Soon, Milion met up with J Flowers, a fellow artist with the same aspirations of greatness as him. Flowers was like a brother figure to a young Milion “He taught me how to form my first punch line, he also made me practice everything 20 times before we went to the studio so I wouldn’t mess up and waste studio time” recalls Milion with a laugh. Milion continued to search out opportunities to land a record deal until a high school friend of his introduced him to Family Ties/Atlantic A&R Kabar who was also the CEO of Street Credit Music Group/Touch A Mill Records. Fortunately for Tone Milion, his persistence paid off, as KB contacted him through Myspace and a deal was made on the spot.“You just have to stay humble and hungry” Milion says of his journey to becoming a recording artist. “A lot of cats are claiming they’re this and that, and when you listen to them in depth, they aren’t. I don’t care how much you hype it…if it’s not real and people can’t relate to it, it’s not going to sell. I wrote every last word of my album, and produced 80% of the tracks. There’s nothing fake about it. This is my life.” He pauses and corrects “The Life”.For any business inquiries for Tone Milion please contact KB - [email protected]