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EZ is a man with a past. He moved to the United States at the tender age of seven, from the civil war zones of Liberia. “I remember a good little bit, the reason I am here in the first place was that there was a civil war. I was raised by my grandparents and my Grandfather was a government official down there, which basically brought the war to my Grandmother’s front door. When we left, it was just my Grandma, my little brother and myself.†On American soil EZ has lived in Brooklyn, Texas and Cambridge. He was the only guy in the church choir once the teens hit and all the other guys ran for cover, but music never really shook him to the core until he discovered rapping in college. He went to Virginia Tech as an engineer where he met one of the executives at Afro Productions who realized immediately EZ’s enormous talent. Not only was EZ into rapping, but he could bust down the performance poetry and won every contest he ever entered. To him Hip Hop is nothing but a style of delivery, a culture has built up around the music, but he feels that Hip Hop artists are just talking about the same things that singers, country artists and others do. “My most amazing musical experience has been watching my younger brother develop as a singer, how he practiced all the time, he is the most amazing singer I have heard in my lifeâ€. Coming from a family where dedication is taught before you take your first step, one of the most important things to EZ is the positivity which seems to elude a lot of modern rap artists. “Hip Hop is the music I grew up listening to, but nowadays the music is going down hill. I want to bring the positivity back to the music, through my music. I want the music to make changes, and if it brings in money, I want that money to bring changes to the world too. I’ve seen so many horrible things, that I need to bring something good, something positive to the world.†EZ is strongly influenced by different things that he sees around him that he thinks are wrong, he believes too many people are blind to the world and someone needs to strike a torch and being to lead. A lot of things he’s been through, he doesn’t believe anybody else should ever have to go through- he might be the biggest R&B fan around, because the music talks about love and that is what he himself is trying to put down. A lot of people believe that Hip Hop is carving itself a new direction right now, creating a new path and EZ thinks he has found it. This is what Hip Hop is supposed to sound like. He switched from engineering to English in college to hone his craft, to learn the history and architecture of the words that he is going to use to change the world. Instead of learning how to build a bridge to close the gap between twin cities, he is learning how to build a bridge to close the gap between the minds of the people within those cities, people who brush by one another in a busy street, blind to the fact that these shoulders up against them are those of real people and not just a mob. And the place where EZ feels most comfortable, is in the studio, making it happen. “I feel the most free in the studio, when I’m in there alone. You are free in that little box and you can do whatever you want, turn the lights out if you want and just let the music flow.†Check out the artist's website: http://www.afroproductionsinc.com Track List: 1. Never Give It Up 2. Nobody 3. It's All Relative 4. Groove Me 5. Game 4 A Buck 6. What I Been Through 7. Definition of a Thug 8. Nothin Like a Friend 9. Rain 10. Waitin' 11. Real Hip-Hop 12. Walk Within the Light 13. Boston 14. Angel Other Genres:
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