Music is universal, it doesn't matter who you are or where you are from everyone respects a good artist. Music has no boundaries and always has room for new voices to be heard. The newest voice from Chicago belongs to Brandon Moore (B Moore) aka Jesus Shuttlesworth. Most know B Moore as one of the areas great basketball players, but music has been in his life and in his heart way before that. Born and raised on the Westside of Chicago the Moore household was filled with music from classic R & B to Jazz to Hip Hop. His Grandmother was the lead singer in soul band and music could be heard playing throughout the house everyday all day. From an early age B Moore learned about music from his uncles who were music fanatics and good friends with the Tempatations. At age 11 B Moore, then a 7th grade student at Frederick A Douglas Midle School wrote rhymes and recited them to his classmates to become more popular than the rest of the basketball team. "I loved Hip Hop from a very early age, I always had it in my heart one day me and some other kids in my class heard about this contest on WGCI, I had never wrote a rap before and my favorite song was 'Boyz in the Hood' by Easy E so when we decided to get in the contest my verse was just a parody of that song in my own words and we ended up getting it played on the radio" Eventhough nothing ever materialized of the contest it was just the thing to keep B Moore writing. "I could always rhyme but I was more known for basketball, I wouild have notebooks full of rhymes and would never tell anybody because I never thought anyone would take me seriously" In 1995 B Moore accepted a basketball scholarship to Saint Xavier University on the South Side of Chicago it was there he met the people that would push him to being more than just a basketball player who wrote rhymes. "At SXU my teammates were just as crazy about Hip Hop as I was and we would always freestyle and write verses and compare them to each other, I had a mic that I got from my man Scriptz of the Black Plague and we would be in my dorm room all night just recording everything, the competitiveness made me better, Mikkey was my roommate and he was just so cold with the flow he taught me a lot about being a man and about Hip Hop to this day I don't think he really realizes just how much of an affect he had on me" After transferring to McKendree College in the Saint Louis area B Moore recorded an album called 'The Battle' with emcees Immortal and Black and producer Louis Harden. the album generated a small buzz and gave B Moore the confidence to go further After returning home B Moore linked up with several up and coming emcees such as Moneybagz, Savy and Draft as well as Genuine Drafft. B Moore was taken in by Science, Sco Plisken and J Blade better known as the Battlecats a veteran Hip Hop camp from Chicago. Under their guidance B Moore has refined his skills and became a better all around artist and is now ready to let the world judge his music. The Battlecats (now known as the Windy City Hawks) are focused on spreading their music throughout the world and putting the industry in a chokehold. With the help of the Windy City Hawk family soon everyone will know that Brandon Moore is much more than an athlete. Layout powered by HOT FreeLayouts
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