Member Since: 29/10/2007
Band Members:Adam J AKA Lockdown
First and foremost, Adam J aka Lockdown is NOT your ordinary hip hop artist. From the places he grew up to the swagger that makes him unique, Adam J stands out amongst most people that you meet. He’s never been stereotyped as any one individual, such as a country boy, thug, punk rocker, metal head, criminal, mamma’s boy, lover, or fighter, simply because he’s got a little bit of everything in him.
The music that he makes is a combination of all these things rapped up in a rap so to speak. His lyrics paint you a picture with every song, originality and style at its best, with no room to doubt his obvious talent and creativity. His ideas are limitless, his limitations are non-existent, and without a doubt he IS the future of hip hop.
Born in the country, raised in the city of Houston , back to the country as an adolescent and finally spending his teen years in the suburbs of Clear Lake , he has been exposed to every culture imaginable. He has always listened to ALL genres of music from the likes of Lynard Skynard, The Police, Garth Brooks , Mozart, Korn, Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg, Easy-E and yeah even Queen.
Raised without a father, Adam did his best to become a man with only the insight of a woman to help, his mother. Though he had a defiant attitude as a youth and caused more then his legal share of troubles, he still excelled in education with a love for reading and writing stories. Not until he became a teen did he start to realize his God given talent with poetry.
Since that realization and his quest to pursue a music career, he has kept striving for a spot at the top for one reason and one reason alone: because EVERYONE that has heard him spit was astonished and amazed. From the older hippies of the sixties to the hip hop heads of today Adam J, aka Lockdown, has made a fan and devoted listener of them all. All it takes is 60 seconds or less of your time to realize his music is a classic in the making.
//Achievements....
//Released 3 underground albums; over 5,000 copies of EACH albums were distributed by Adam and his street team at various venues in Clear Lake area and New Orleans.
//Another album is to be released on February 1, 2009
//Performed at multiple Clubs in the Houston area such as Bikini Beach, Scout, Pallapa’s, Club Onyx, Docks, 18th Street Pier and Blue Dolphin.
//Featured in a Boomtown music video, on Hot TV and StreetFlava.
//Competed at rap competitions in Louisiana and Texas and placed top ranks in both states.
//Recorded a music video and also recorded many other freestyle videos all of which have been posted on various public internet sites with great fan response to all.
//Built up an extremely large fan base that consists of listeners of all ages, races and genres, both where he lives in Clear Lake and across the world through the use of the internet. He has a rapidly growing fan base on MySpace already.
//Registered all music with BMI and all lyrics have been copyrighted.
//Opened up a record label/small business for promotion and collecting payments for music.
//He has achieved all of these things in less then 10 months!
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