Kenteâ„¢ BDAY BASH FRI NOV.14 @ SABAS’

"Kente" was born November 16, 1982 in Albuquerque, NM. He moved to Houston, TX in 1986 and shortly moved to West Memphis, AR (10 minutes from downtown Memphis, TN) in 1989. He started writing music at the age of 9. He was the youngest of three kids raised by a single mother, who struggled just to keep food on the table.At the age of 10 he started to do local talent shows. Pretending to be Kris Cross to A.B.C (Another Bad Creation). He also preformed in local plays (The Jungle Book & Tom Sawyer). By early 1993 his older brother and sister were off to college, leaving a him to be the man of the house at the age of 13. He was never into sports much, just a little junior high football. He was more into singing and rapping.By high school he was running the streets heavy with a group of friends, who really didn't have male figures themselves. He started smoking weed, drinking, hustling drugs, and about anything he and his friends could get away with. In 2000 he sang with his high school choir at the White House, for the Delta Conference and later that year had the chance to sing in New York City at Carnegie Hall. He all most didn't graduate the following year, but soon got on track to finish high school on time.He graduated on May 18 2001. Soon after high school him and one of his cousins' (Cho) moved to Minnesota, to attend Brown College for Radio Broadcasting. They had no money, no cars, was getting ripped off by the school housing program, and struggled getting rides to school. Working at Arby's and hustling weed kept the bills paid, until Early Jan. 02 when the Dakota Task Force kicked in the door of their college suite. They got kicked out and had know where to go. Instead of running back home they moved in with a friend and fought it out until they graduated from college.During this time Kente was doing mixtapes out of Brown, and wanted to start a group bigger than WuTang called Verstyle (versatile) The VER stands for the different verses they spit, and the STYLE stands for all of the different styles they had. Since he was meeting so many people from everywhere he wanted everyone in the group. It started with 5 rappers. Dropped down to 3, to being just 2 Cho & Kente. Now we're "Here to Stay" and ain't going nowhere.