3 THE HARD WAY

ZAY POE STARTED RAPPIN AT THE AGE OF 10 IN 1999. HE WAS INFLUENCED BY HIS BIG COUSION ERIC AKA TWIN. ONE DAY ZAY AND DEREKE SAT AT THE TABLE AND ERIC HELPED ZAY WRITE HIS FIRST RHYME. ZAY SAID HE COULD ONLY REMEMBER A LITTEL OF THE SONG "ILL PUNCH A HOLE IN YOUR CHEST AT RECESS" SAID BY ZAY, WHOS NAME WAS DOUGH BOY AT THAT TIME. ZAY GRAB 2 OF HIS BEST FRIENDS AT THE TIME AND STARTED A RAP GROUP CALLED THE "RECESS BOYS". ZAY AND HIS GROUP. HAD THE WHOLE KINGS BURY ELEMENTRY SCHOOL RAPPIN. BUT AS THEY GREW UP AND WENT THERE SEPERATE WAYS THE RECESS BOYS ONLY LASTED 1 YEAR. DURIN THE SUMMER OF "99" ZAY STARTED HANGIN IN LAKE WOOD PROJECTS WHICH HIS OLDER COUSIONS ERIC, DEREKE,AJ, AND JAMAR HUNG OUT AT. IN LAKEWOOD ZAY MET FAMILY MEMBERS THAT HE NEVER HUNG WIT. AND CJ AKA HOLLOWEEN P WERE ONE OF THEM.ON THE OTHER HAND ZAY AND SPENCE BEEN AROUND EACH OTHER SINCE THE AGE OF 5.ZAY HAS 2 SIDES TO HIM WHICH ARE "ZAY" AND "POE" ZAY IS MORE ABOUT GETTIN MONEY, GIRLS, AND STUNTIN THIS PERSONALITY LOVES ATTENTION. POE ON THE OTHER HAND IS MORE GRIMMEY, HEARTLESS,AND LOVES TO BE IN THE BACKROUND.YOU COULD TELL THE DIFFERENCE IN PERSONALITIES IN HIS MUSIC.SINCE 11 ZAY HAS BEEN BACK AND FOURTH FROM JAIL FOR ASSAULTS AND THEFTS,BUT NEVER DRUGS.PROD STARED WRITTEN IN 2001.PROD WAS GOOD AT THE RAPPIN AS SOON AS HE STARTED. SHYNE WAS A BIG INFLUENCE IN HIS MUSIC.THE THING ABOUT ZAY AND PROD THEY RAPPED LIKE THEY WERE GROWN.THE WORDS THEY USED WERE RAW AND REAL.PROD REALLY STARTED GETTIN ATTENTION IN HIGH SCHOOL AT WILBY WHEN HE WOULD TAKE OVER THE LUNCH ROOM AND HALL WAYS WITH HIS RAW RHYMES. PEOPLE LOVED TO HEAR PROD RAP ITS JUST SO EASY FOR HIM TO FREESTYLE HE BARLEY WRITES HIS MUSIC.PROD IS ALSO FROM LAKE WOOD WHER HE COMMITED ALOT OF CRIME AND DID ALOT OF THINGS HE "DOES NOT REGERET". PROD HAS BEEN IN JAIL ONCE FOR CONSPIRACY.LUCKY FOR A GUY WHO DOES ALOT OF DIRT.CJ STARTED RAPPIN AT A YOUNG AGE ALSO.HE WAS INFLUENCED BY HIS OLDER COUSION SHO WHO IS ALSO FROM LAKEWOOD. CJ STYLE IS SO SMOOVE AND RELAXED FILLED WIT PUNCHED LINE.HIS RHYMES ALSO REACH OUT TO THE LADIES, BUT DONT GET I TWISTED THERES A THUG BE HIND THAT VOICE.CJ HAS BEEN IN AND OUT OF JAIL SINCE THE AGE OF 13 FOR DRUG CHARGES.THREE THE HARD WAY WAS FOUND IN THE HOOD BY A LOCAL RECORD LABEL N/A RECORDS WHICH THERE NIGGA FROM THE HOOD TEK AKA MAG PUT THEM DOWN WIT. N/A LOVED THE WAY THE GROUP EXSPRESS THERE EXPERENCE IN THE STREETS IN THER MUSIC.THE GROUP WAS WITH THE GROUP FOR A YEAR WITH OUT DROPPIN A ALBUM.THE GROUP GOT TOGETHER WIT ANOTHER FRIEND FROM THE HOOD ANT MAXWELL AKA MR. FRESH MAG AND STARTED THERE OWN LABEL TRUMEN ENT.