Lamar J. Smith (Jus Love) is a 19 year-old singer/songwriter/MC/guitarist/producer born and raised all around the city of Chicago. Since childhood Smith has been intrigued with music once in high school he became a prolific hip-hop artist and producer. He has recorded a solo EP/LP called Emphatic (2006) in addition to his work with Daily Lyrical Product. Smith executive produced underground MC Defcee’s debut effort, One Eye Open (2007). He is also a member of the multi-genre band D.E.F. and a budding guitarist and singer. He is currently a sophomore at Columbia College Chicago majoring in Audio Arts & Acoustics.
Nate Marshall (Illuminate Mics) is an 18 year-old MC and poet from the Wild Hundreds section of the South Side of Chicago. From the age of 13, Marshall has been writing and rapping. Marshall is a 2008 Louder Than a Bomb (LTaB) Chicago Teen Poetry Slam Champion, a 2008 LTaB MC Olympics Champion, and a 2008 Brave New Voice International Teen Poetry Slam Finalist. In addition to these accolades Marshall has been published as both a poet and short story writer, most notably in The Spoken Word Revolution: Redux (2007) and Blacklight Literary Magazine (2008). In addition to his work with DLP, he has also featured on various projects from other artists. He is currently a first-year student at Vanderbilt University majoring in English and African-American & Diaspora Studies.
Daily Lyrical Product has been a group since 2006. In that time they have made an indelible mark on the Chicago Hip-Hop scene. There projects, The Product (2006) and Jus Ill (2007), have been independently released and well-received. The duo hosted a youth open mic at The Spoken Word Café for a year and a half. They have performed around the city and region at various venues including: The Elastic Art Gallery, The University of Hip-Hop, The University of Wisconsin-Madison, Soldier Field, and many others. The group is a founding component of the hip-hop collective, The Open Mic Crusher Collective (OMCsquared). OMCsquared is dedicated to the preservation and advancement of hip-hop music and culture. Daily Lyrical Product is currently working quietly but steadily toward their third release.
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