Kryptiq Rasul - Durban Bedroom Beatmaker

Born Msizi Professor Mcanyana, at Inanda, North of Durban. Kryptiq Rasul grew up in a region where his peers and elders were influenced by Kwaito music. Of cause it was the mid 90’s and Kwaito was at its zenith. He would sit around listening to one of his neighbors playing 2pac cassettes. “One day he (the neighbor) lends me one of his Rap collection cassettes and from the first track that I played I was hooked”. Though at the time he was six years of age he couldn’t understand English but kept playing this then ‘violent and aggressive’ music. At the age of 8 his father passed away and had to entirely depend on his mother for everything. Year 2001 saw him changing from listening to Rap to “living” it. Largely influenced by Eminem (then) and Dr. Dre, he would study and rap their lyrics publicly and during classes (at school). “People thought I was crazy for doin’ that and one of my neighborhood friend, Mase, later gave me the name Nigga. It was probably cause back then people thought that someone who raps is a n*gga”. By 2003 he started writing his own rhymes at the age of 13 but admits they were ‘wack’. “Those rhymes were as wack as most MCs rhymes are today” In 2004, mid May, him and his family moved to Morningside, a suburb near Durban, to live with his grandmother, a renowned Maskandi artist. “My mother thought that she was escaping crime in the township but didn’t realize that it everywhere like molecules” In the 10th grade, i.e. in 2006 he had been known as Kadog in Hip Hop wapsites such as Hiphop4u.net. “I was a cell phone/internet MC, and being addicted to wap was a blessing in disguise cause I made friendship with Blackzn who introduced me to beat-making. That bro educated me a lot about Hip Hop, I wrote conscious hip hop and never knew anything about punchlines and he would lend me some of his collection”. He joined a small crew called Limited Period Inc. which didn’t go successful as most of its members were too caught up in alcohol and ganja. “Them kats would be sleeping during rehearsals and some of them stole my belongings and I felt like Hip Hop had stolen it, ha-ha-ha. So I made my own ish, Young Balck Male The Beginning volume 1, where I adopted the name Kryptiq and Rasul, Arabic for messenger, so do the math. The mixtape was lyrically good but the production was dull and messed up”. At the same year, he and his school mate, Genius, started a cipher session at school that was suppose to take place every Friday afternoon but later died like a goat being slaughtered. “Many pupils weren’t into Hip Hop and many MCs recited written rhymes and claim they were freestyles. That session was suppose to help kats to sharpen their freestylin skills”. “I started attending events like Abdus’s Terminal Cipher session on Fridays (where i was an audience) but later dropped out of it (coz of school commitments)and started attending Life Check”. In 2007 he produced two tracks on Genius’s Ezaselok’shini mixtape which was then produced by Shaka Pro. Failing to arrive at Bat Center’s Life Check on August where he was suppose to enter Beat Battle Of the Year was very upsetting to him. “I still wonder about that event, but nah it was by God’s will (inshallah)”. Seeing that his Beatmaking and writing skills were much better than his rapping talent, He decided to “stay behind the glass in this Hip Hop” and plans to sell or give his beats to upcoming kats from Durban and abroad.Some of my work is available at http://www.myspace.com/krasull (my music page) www.yourbeats.com/index/artist-KryptiqRasul.htmlima yung dude on da 12th grade. im into hiphop ,n im stil contiplating studying sound engineering or dentistry,hmm. i write poetry n raps ,n im no longer usin swear words on my rhymes, dat sht is weak, im into months. Why have 7 days when i can get 10x3 days Haha.