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ALKEBULAN (Al-key-boo-lawn), the ancient name for Africa meaning “land of the original man,” came to be the first born in a family of seven children. ALKEBULAN began his music journey constantly kicking and pressing on his mama’s insides where she felt he was either a restless baby letting her know he was ready to come out or giving her a taste of one of his early talents…dancing. By the time ALKEBULAN was two years old, he was picking out his favorite cassette tapes, Public Enemy’s “Fear of a Black Planet” and “Apocalypse 91: The Enemy Strikes Black,” to put in the tape player so he could do his favorite Flavor Flav dance over and over. This was just the first step proving he was destined to be involved in the entertainment industry.

When ALKEBULAN reached the age of six, he and his brother asked their parents if they could model. Never pushing their sons, ALKEBULAN’s parents enrolled him and his brother into a school to first learn and see if they would like it. The next several years brought ALKEBULAN joy in doing runway fashion shows for Sean John clothing, voice-overs for the Hip-Hop Station HOT 97 and commercials for TNT & TBS. ALKEBULAN also conducted an interview with the then Chris Lova Lova “Ludacris” at a private function questioning him about his song placement on EA Sports Madden 2000 and telling Luda his career was about to take off.

It wasn’t until middle school that ALKEBULAN’s talents began beating to a different drum… influenced heavily by his father (who was in the marching band in high school), ALKEBULAN was given a practice pad at a young age instructed on rudiments so ALKEBULAN decided to take band. His Uncle, an engineer and producer, shared a program- Fruity Loops that led ALKEBULAN in making beats to put on mix tapes for his friends to rap on for fun. By the time ALKEBULAN entered high school he continued playing in band, yet his passion led him in another direction, concentrating on producing. ALKEBULAN began working in his own pre-production studio learning to master programs needed to guide him around a music studio. Local groups began to take notice in how ALKEBULAN manipulated the virtual instruments in Fruity Loops to where it did not sound like he was using such a program. Listening intuitively to all kinds of music for how sounds merge and harmoniously connect, ALKEBULAN started getting paid for his production skills.

Enter rhyming…during high school ALKEBULAN was challenged by being dissed on a song. Not many knew he actually did music as a profession, so when he answered back, his peers were astonished and gave him props for lyrically annihilating the young man. The boost from classmates & for all the times his father scolded him by giving him the dictionary to read, ALKEBULAN began to take rap and HipHop more seriously.

Destined to be a total entertainer, this is only the beginning for ALKEBULAN who wants to make music to enlighten people while giving listeners something to enjoy life. ALKEBULAN is living up to his chosen name; an original man bringing forth powerful and revolutionary talents who is now prepared to share his gifts with the universe.

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