BIOGRAPHY: BORN EDWARD RAY POMPEY JR. IN GREENSBORO NC ON 1/11/77, TRIPLE HAD A VERY MUSICAL CHILDHOOD. HIS FATHER WAS A SINGER AND DANCER IN A LOCAL DOO-WOP GROUP IN APEX NC, AND HIS MOTHER WAS A SCHOOL TEACHER OUT OF GREENSBORO. THE TWO MET IN GREENSBORO AND THE RESULT WAS A BABY BOY, NAMED AFTER HIS FATHER. PROBLEMS WITH HIS FAMILY FORCED EDWARD JR. TO STAY WITH HIS GRANDMOTHER IN APEX NC. ALREADY SINGING AND DANCING AT THE AGE OF 5, HE PERFOMED IN VARIOUS TALENT SHOWS AND PLAYS THROUGHOUT THE COMMUNITY. HE WAS EXPECIALLY GOOD AT IMITATING OTHER ARTISTS, SUCH AS MICHAEL JACKSON, JAMES BROWN, AND HAMMER. IN HIS TEENAGE YEARS HE JOINED A RAP GROUP CALLED TRIBE BASS AS A DANCER, BUT WHEN THE LEAD RAPPER QUIT THE GROUP, EDWARD REPLACED HIM AS THE GROUP’S LEAD RAPPER. THE GROUP DISBANDED IN 1993, BUT EDWARD CONTINUED PERFORMING UNDER THE ALIAS "POMPEII". UPON GRADUATING IN 1995 EDWARD SUFFERED THE DEATH OF HIS UNCLE, WALDO WALLACE BRUNSON. HE BECAME WITHDRAWN AND STARTED DRINKING AND COMMITING VARIOUS CRIMES SUCH AS LARCENY, AND ASSAULT. HE DECIDED TO MOVE TO GREENSBORO TO EXCAPE INCARCERATION, LANDING A JOB AT A LOCAL FACTORY. HE PURSUED MUSIC AS A HOBBY AND RECORDED IN HIS HOME STUDIO. TRAGEDY STRUCK WHEN HIS GRANDMOTHER PASSED ON SEPTEMBER 8TH 2002, AND THEN HIS MOTHER ON FEBURARY 11TH 2003. ADDED TO THE TURMOIL WAS THE FACT THAT HE VIOLATED HIS TERMS OF PROBATION, AND WAS SENTENCED TO PRISON. WHILE SERVING TIME HE WAS INTRODUCED TO ANOTHER RAPPER BY THE NAME OF JERRON COPPER(AKA REALITY). THE TWO FORMED A FAST FRIENDSHIP AND BEGAN TO WRITE SONGS TOGETHER. UPON THEIR RELEASE, THEY FORMED A GROUP CALLED VERSATYLE AND BEGAN RECORDING SONGS. REALITY TOOK EDWARD’S ROUGH AND UNTAMED STYLE AND POLISHED IT WITH BETTER DELIVERANCE AND MORE COMPLEX WORDPLAY. ALSO, REALITY WAS A TOP NOTCH SONGWRITER, HELPING EDWARD CREATE CATCHY "HOOKS" FOR A MORE COMPLETE SOUND. EDWARD RENAMED HIMSELF "TRIPLE BLACK" AND BEGAN RECORDING SOLO TRACKS. AFTER A MENTAL BREAKDOWN IN 2004 HE TRIED TO COMMIT SUICIDE BUT WAS SAVED BY HIS COUSIN. HE WAS SENT TO A MENTAL FACILITY AND WAS DIAGNOSED WITH SKIZOPHRENIA, WHERE HE HAS CONTANT VISIONS AND NIGHTMARES AND EXTREME FEELINGS OF DEPRESSIONS. IT WAS THOUGHT TO BE HERIDITARY, SINCE HIS MOTHER SUFFERED FROM THE SAME CONDITION. HE STOPPED RECORDING, FEELING THAT HE WAS WASTING HIS TIME, BUT ANOTHER RUN IN WITH JERRON COPPER CHANGED HIS MIND IN EARLY 2005. HE STARTED WRITING ABOUT HIS EXPERIENCES. HE ALSO BEGAN TO PRACTICALLY LIVE IN THE STUDIO, DOING AS MANY AS 7 SONGS A WEEK. AGONILLZ, HIS COUSIN FROM ALBANY NY, GAVE HIM MUSIC TRACKS TO WRITE TO AND HE BEGAN COLLECTING INDUSTRY INSTRUMENTALS, RAPPING ON ANYTHING HE COULD GET HIS HANDS ON. HIS HUNGER IS UNMATCHED AND HE FEELS THAT HE HAS NOTHING TO LOSE. HIS LYRICS GO FROM HARD-CORE, COMICAL, RELIGIOUS, INTUITIVE, AND SOMETIMES BONE CHILLING. HIS ALBUM, ERUPTIONS, FEATURES GUEST APPEARANCES FROM REALITY, JEREMY JOHNSON, AND HIS ALTER EGO, "VOLCANIC".
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