It's been a long time since I updated this. With the recent name change to Paradigm, I figured now was as good as time as any.I (not going to refer to myself in the third person) started rapping in about 2002. I did freestyles and never recorded anything. I honed the rhyming skills in the cafeteria of Raytown High School. I battled against a vicious Emcee by the name of Mac who is now in a group called "Jackson County," I believe. He got me pretty good and I'll never forget that battle. There weren't many people who could take me, but this day I just got stomped. At least I can admit it though, right? After that battle, I started taking the craft more seriously. I established a rhyme book and within a few months, had probably 30-40 songs completed.Once I had these down, I started dabbling in the beat process. I started out with Fruity Loops. I tried to learn the system, but lacked the patience to produce a decent quality beat. To go with that, the rhymes really weren't that great either. It was then, however, that I started to actually record. A cheap MIC plugged directly into the input of hewlett packard computer. I started recording the CD titled "Kester," which, as lame as it is, was another name for "Chris." I had about 7 or 8 songs fully recorded. Of course they weren't mastered, so they sounded pretty terrible. But as a "fresh on the scene MC," I was just anxious and excited to get stuff done. I had a guest appearance on some tracks and created a few funny skits. The guest was a good friend of mine, Kyle Thompson. He added comedy to the tracks, and I thought it would be a nice touch.During 2003, it all came crashing to a hault...literally. My computer had crashed and I had lost every recording and every beat that I had made thus far. I was pissed, to say the least, but what could I do? It was shortly after this that I ran into who I consider to be the best "underground" (only cuz he hasn't signed a major deal, although he's proved he deserved it) emcee in the Kansas City area: Kemet Coleman. Some of you know him as "thephantom*" I recorded a couple of songs with him and I believe that it was his presence on the track that allowed me to record some of my best verses at that time. I remember two tracks, specifically. One being titled "Neva Duplicated" which I still listen to this day and "Over a Rainbow" which was never finished, but still decent. I decided that my angsty "rap" verses that I had been writing just weren't who I really was. So I decided to throw all my old rhymes in the garbage and start from scratch.PoeticLieSins was born. I've always written poetry. Poets play with words and create sounds and images with them that aren't meant to be there. It's called wordplay, and a poet's right to do this is called "poetic license." I played with the words and took "license," broke it down phonetically and created "LieSins." At the time, I thought this was a very interesting choice and suited me perfectly.It was under this alias that I recorded all the tracks that you can currently listen to on myspace. My objective here was to take more of a hip hop approach, as that is where I truly felt that that was where the real music was. No watered down, saturated similes and metaphors. Just pure and honest wordsmithing. I aspired to be that type and I feel I've accomplished that pretty well as to take on subjects of society and critique them to the best of my ability.Then a couple of days ago, as I was laying on the couch looking at my microphone, I told myself that I'm still not being COMPLETELY real with myself. And that was my ultimate goal in the music voyage. I don't care about a paycheck or gaining the respect of other artists. If they see potential in me, great. If they see me as "just another one," then that's fine too. I've decided that I'm not out to prove anything. I just want to be heard. whether by one or by millions.I decided to become the Paradigm.Stay tuned.
