Born in Houston Texas, raised in East Flatbush of Brooklyn New York, and moved to the West Coast in his early teens, Tone now rubs elbows with Los Angeles Finest. He has traveled & experienced life altering changes that now make him the young man he his today. The Yankee street smart persona, the down south patient and watchful, and the smooth and grown man appeal of the rich and famous style of Cali creates & describes Tone P. This may sound like the Next Jay Z... But he's just a hustla with a R & B voice.
Brought up in a Jamaican house hold, my uncles as a child i was mostly brought up listening to Reggea, Sizzla, Capleton, Supa Cat, & a couple of other Jamaican artist. I was really never into R&B music in my younger days. Other than reggae i'd listen to the Lost Boys, their song Renee was my favorite, The late Notorious B.I.G... & L.L. who my mother loved back then! It wasn't until I heard my first Boys II Men CD that i realized that i could hold a note, and not only hold a note i could really sing! My passion started to grow for this new found talent when i joined a choir at an after school program called Imani Rights of Passage. We performed at a local high school called Wingate & I was estatic to see the reaction that people gave my friend Carl and I after singing the choir duet. I continued to find more ways of fueling this feeling of being in the spot light, plays at school, the children's choir at my church Brooklyn Faith, anything to do with the feeling of being in the spot light. I also began to take piano lessons, which was honestly not for me because i found the lessons beyond boring. Any opportunity that i had to ditch that class I took it! Until I saw this Girl that took lessons there and only went on the days she was there. Even at that time I never considered pursuing music or taking it seriously, it was just something I knew how to do. As of now i don't really feel my music really sounds like anyone else because its what I do, it comes from my experiences and i turn it into a song... So i wouldn't compare it. Its my unique situation that I want people to hear. I feel I express how many people my age look at relationships and women. I think we can all agree that women don't have the same morals like the woman that Al Green or Sam Cooke Sang about back in the day. With that being said the expectation of a guy is to have the newest cars, the biggest rims, jewelry, & draped in the latest styles, and my song " Driving Me Crazy", I let her know that I'm out in these streets hustling trying to get these things we can look as good as the Jones's so she doesn't have to go anywhere else because I'm making that happen for us. My lyrics are inspired through encounters I have with females or day to day life with my boy Chris Jackson, who has pressed me hard to get into singing. Chris and i went to school together and since then we've been roll dogs... his interest and my interest in music just happened to be our common meeting ground besides other things. He now works for Snoop Dogg as his engineer and is surely working his way in to become one of the music business biggest producers. The songs that Chris and I make together always seem to get the right response because we make our life into music and its real. People see us doing what we make music about & can even relate because they've been through it too. I don't want to come off as a simple sound that you can bob your head to as it comes out the speakers. Thats not why we make music. I want it to sing to your soul, be the reason why those built tears are falling down your face, or why the ex you said you would never talk to is at your house, or even why your in the streets stunting and feeling like you're on top of the world! I want my music to create that unforgettable moment in your life... that moment that every time you hear that song you relive it like it was just yesterday. Tone, I distinguish the meanings of life through music...
I AM TONE P.
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