I was introduced to hip-hop in elementary school.  My friend Dave was super cool and he was the first person to play me Run DMC and the Beastie Boys, show me Krush Groove and Beat Street and Breakin’, and turn me on to something my parents thought was just a fad, but would become a way of life.

In junior high I started writing rhymes (I still have the notebooks) and at my Bar Mitzvah I grabbed the mic for the first time and never felt more at home.

In college I really took my love of hip-hop to the next level.  I scrapped my high school moniker of G-Cue Smoove, and became ViScOuS, the MC with a solidified flow like lava.  I started working for the University of Colorado campus radio station (KVCU, Radio 1190) where I had my own show (The Cypher w/ ViScOuS and Hope-1) and eventually I became the hip-hop music director for the station.  As all of this was going on, though the connections with Hope-1, I met up with the guys who would become my crew for years to come.  DJ Avalance Infinity, and a producer named Kwasi who went by Cosmic Threshold.

Together, DJ Avalanche Infinity, Kwasi and I became Sixth Sense and we spent some years doing shows, producing tracks and preparing a demo.  The Cypher became Basementalism, and along with Mike the Addict, the Dragons of Eden and others we aimed to change the hip-hop game in Colorado, as the premier source for the best new stuff out.  In fact, 22-years later and Basementalism is still on the air winning awards for its influence on the Coloroado hip-hop scene.

In 1999, after years of prepping a demo, I did the unthinkable, and fried a computer’s hard drive, deleting all the masters.  Not only my masters, I fried the radio stations production drive erasing a ton of people’s work.  You would think we would have had backups, and so did we.  Apparently the zip discs we thought the masters were on didn’t actually hold the master audio.  I lost it all.

IT WAS DEVASTATING!
Crushed.  So much hard work down the drain.
I had graduated school and it was time to figure out my life, and after so much hard work and effort my rap career was done.

Well, until about 10-years later after I pursued my other love of pro wrestling.  Hip-hop had my heart, and I couldn’t ever let it go.

During that “comeback” I had the opportunity to open up for some of my favorite rappers of all time, true legends of the game.

• Kurtis Blow
  • Denver, CO
  • Zanzibar in Santa Monica, CA
• KRS-ONE
  • The Key Club on The Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, CA
• Digital Underground
  • The Key Club on The Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, CA

Just as the shows were popping and things were taking off again, I got my dream job and began working for WWE.  I was with WWE for 8.5 years and unfortunately had to put music on the backburner, but in January 2022, due to corporate reorganization I was let-go, which allows me to grab the mic, speak my mind and do what I’ve always done best… Spit fire!