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Lank aka Lankizzle

About Me

Bio:I was born in Germany in 1984. Than I moved to Washington at the age of 5. I grew up with both parents as the only child. I was more close to my mom because my pops was in the military so he was in and out of my life. One thing I always loved was music. As I was getting older, I mainly hung around dudes that was older than me for a couple of reasons. One was I was tryna find that older brother/father figure and two was because we had the same music interests. I had crazy music knowledge at a young age which attracted older folks to me also. When I was 15, I ran into a dude at school named Jeremy (aka Liive) that instantly clicked with me because we both loved music. He tought me how to make beats and how to freestyle and rhyme. I started writing songs, but all I wrote about was violence and stuff I wasn't truly about. Than later on, a situation came up at high school where I didn't get to graduate. So I stayed at the house making beats for secular artists and I ran into one certain artist that I really got along with. He invited me to church and so I went with him. I enjoyed the services as I kept going, and a month later I gave my life to Jesus Christ on Sep. 29, 2002. I did not truly know what I got into. I was still cursing like a sailor and acting a fool for a couple of years. Also I started to switch up my raps on speaking on things that was real but full of anger and grudges I was holding onto. As the years went on, I developed a true intimate relationship with God and stopped piggy-backing off of other peoples faith. Than God slowley but surley changed me on a lot of things. An anger problem I had ever since I was little dissapeared, I stopped cursing and my raps changed up. I started to shift towards doing "positive" rap with substance with no cussing. Even a little after that, I was getting into Gods word more and found myself putting the gospel in my raps. My taste buds that I had for secular music changed but I found myself still bumping some of it cause "I thought the beat was tight". Not knowing that it was affecting my walk with God. I felt weird because even when I was doing music for the Lord, I was making mixtapes with remixes mixing secular acapellas with beats I made. One day God told me to stop doing the secular mixtapes. So I stopped doing secular music (including working with secular artists) and went all the way out for Christ. Meaning I did not strattle the fence anymore. Also my cd collection changed up, I threw all of my secular cds out and started re-stacking the collection with christian rap and gospel music. God told me straight up it's either "all or nothing, hot or cold", can't be lukewarm. Boy oh boy after I did that, folks that I thought was my friends dissapeared on me. The Lord showed me the people that was only being around me because of my mixtapes I used to do in the world. So I felt like I was all alone but God was still there for me. So I was all the way sold out for Christ at this point. I started ministering in different churches and the relationship I had with God was getting a lot stronger. Plus God let me know it's more than rapping "christian" on tracks but to also live it. At the end of the day it ain't about how tight my raps sound, but it's about how tight my relationship with God is. Pretty much I'm not a tight rapper, i'm a vessle. I had a lot of friends saying I was "doing too much" or "I was brainwashed" but why settle for less when God has something bigger for me? So I had folks saying to my face they respect my decision, but go to others and they tell them how they truly feel. God weeded out all of the friends that wasn't good for me and replaced them with real friends that are striving for the same thing I'm striving for, rightousness. Now and days i'm seeking Gods face and doing music that only glorifies him as I'm learning something new everyday.

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Member Since: 10/25/2005
Band Members: Ambition Of a Christian Freestyle Ambitions Of a Christians
Let Him In Studio Session Lank - Got Em Session
Jay & Lank - Hated By The World Session 1

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Influences: God, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, the Word & Mistakes
Record Label: Jesus Christ
Type of Label: Major

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