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Building Down the Burning

About Me

Penn is my birth name, I swear I'm a magnet for chaos. It's not all bad though infact alot of whats happened to me is pretty entertaining, and I was always told to writte about what I know so alot of my songs are actual stories of my mishaps. I've been writing rhymes since the fifth grade I'm twenty-eight now you do the math. I was once a part of a group called Lost Talent, we toured the bar scene in Philadelphia and held regular venues at North by Northwest in Germantown and the Independance Brew pub. I'm very single and thankfully have no mouths to feed but my own (I think I would be doing the world a great injustice if I were to reproduce). I prefer to concentrate most of my efforts and attention to my music. I'm getting closer to the completion of my first solo album and am very excited about it. The studio I currently am envolved with is Pitch Black studio in Williamsburg Brooklyn, but I currently reside in Philadelphia, PA. Anything else you wish to know about me you'll have to find out through listening to my ramblings over beats.

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Member Since: 06/03/2006
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I get my myspace layouts at kawaiispace.com , you should too!

Influences: KRS-1, Mobb Deep, Slick Rick, The Beasty Boys, Wu-Tang, Black Moon, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, George Lucas, The Beatles, The Velvet Underground, Matt Groening, Atmosphere, Gary Oldman, My Mother (R.I.P.) All my friends throughout the years, De La Soul, Company Flow, Stephen Speilburg, Alan Alda, Stan Lee, Timothy Leary, The Pixies, A Tribe Called Quest, David Cross, Common, My old crew: R-Son (the voice of reason) Shanti, Luce Lief, Louis Logic, Barrett Lanciano, Jus' Bogart, Newborn, St. B, Big John Stud A.K.A. John E. Mackinhoes, Jon Rayner, My Dad, My older brother Kristian, Martin Stoyer of Straight Root Productions, JJ Brown, Barrington Levy, those that help me along my way wherever I go, My boy Bose, Omni, Denski, Pau Fauster, Bucky, Holly and the rest of my Brooklyn Crew, Most important of all: My kid brother and best friend in the whole wide world Kael Janson. My Influences vary because I am a very complex person (just ask anyone whose ever tried to date me). I listen to alot of classic rock and indie rock, it's not to be trendy or whatever. I just can't stand most mainstream pop, and I don't even want to get started on current popular hip hop. I never got into music for fame and fortune, I just wanted to write songs that people like. As an artist, I can only feel whole when I can express myself through music, it gives me a sense of satisfaction to complete a song or verse that I can't get from anything else. So far I've lead a pretty remarkible life and it brings me great pleasure to share my experiances with others through the songs I write. I believe that one's influences become strongly presant in the art one makes no matter what that person's medium might be. Therefore, I try to listen to as many different forms of music as possible so my shit doesn't come out sounding like everything else on the market. Even though I'm constantly being compared to Eminem, as a white hip hop artist in this day and age however, I think the comparison is unavoidable. I don't concider the comparison as a diss' actually I hold alot of respect for Mr. Mathers. What does bother me are the folks who are too quick to judge and dissmiss my music due to their opinion without giving it a decent listen first. But whatever! I never tried to make everyone happy, it's impossible. So if you don't like it then choke on the M.F. and it wasn't made for you anyway.
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

INTELLIGENT DESIGN

I need more pain so I can pretend to be tough
Posted by on Thu, 14 Aug 2008 07:56:00 GMT

WHO "THEY" ARE...(FNORDS)

They are in complete control...They make you feel fear for no reason...They are the reason you can walk by a homeless person...and not "see" them...They are the reason you can drive by a burning build...
Posted by on Sat, 02 Aug 2008 02:25:00 GMT

DEATH STAR

THE name that keeps floating thru my head...the name of our band maybe...
Posted by on Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:19:00 GMT

Yea I can’t really be a band by myself...

Where the fuck is penn?I need to make more music and better music...I have been smelling this real funky odorkinda smells like my dad...gross!!!then I discovered...it was me!!!Double gross...I am in d...
Posted by on Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:44:00 GMT

I went back and fixed up all the songs

I am constantly going back over my music that I engineer in the studioIf anyone listens to master your high I think that is the best song I have ever recordedThat I was actually onand not just the eng...
Posted by on Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:11:00 GMT

Numb

Isn’t Irony a bitch? Hows this for ironic? I moved here in part to get away from my psychotic ex-girlfriend and to try to put my life back together after the shambles she left it in. I can&rs...
Posted by on Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:54:00 GMT

Pish Posh

I do not know what’s going on with my new situation. I am not making enough music to keep me here. I want to go to Colorado. I hate the "fast paced coke and meth induced attitude". The East ...
Posted by on Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:10:00 GMT

Eggs

And so begins the legacy of Darth Mir... A sith lord who was so in tune with the force that he was able to achieve time travel, but with each trip back he realized he couldn't change the past, and it ...
Posted by on Sun, 24 Feb 2008 19:33:00 GMT

Ghosts of South Philadelphia

Since I've been back in Philadelphia I'm confronted by all these ghosts. Not the literal disembodied spirits that roam the earth because of unfinished business but the memories of my past coming back ...
Posted by on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 14:56:00 GMT