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Edward Kaufman,(professionally known as Big Nes), formerly Eliot Nes is an American rapper and producer. Born in Los Angeles, California, Big Nes has released multiple rap solo albums, and has been featured on numerous songs in genres ranging from reggae to rock music. In the summer of 1992, Big Nes began writing rhymes as a way to pass time.

What began as a hobby, slowly became a focal point of artistic release for Big Nes. During an audition to join a rap group during his freshmen year in high school, Big Nes was invited to the studio to appear on a group song with the final selected artist. Though the other artist were older, they were impressed by the deep voice and lyrical content of the young rapper. The four recorded a three song demo, and began to open up for groups such as the Black Eyed Peas before BEP released their debut album.

During a group hiatus due to the older members graduating high school, Big Nes recorded four solo songs, two that were self produced, and decided to release the songs as a solo demo tape. The first song,"What I Write" written at just 15 years old, would later become a single released on vinyl. Shopping the demo tape brought many experiences, as the tape was given to artist such as Young MC, Eazy-E, MC Eiht, Dj Muggs, and Sen-Dog to name a few. Due to Big Nes being just a teenager, nothing transpired from the demo. Big Nes would sell the demo during the summer at Venice beach as a means for summer recreational money.

After graduating high school, and being two years removed from making music, Big Nes purchased music equipment and began working on his next demo tape. Before finishing the new music, Big Nes submitted the tape to a friend, Stone 1 of Chapter Eleven who then passed the music on to Jungle Josh a music producer from Long Beach,CA. Josh remixed the production to "What I Write" and produced a new song "Got Hits" written by Big Nes, that would become the A and B side of the self released vinyl "Got Hits". The two songs received positive reviews from local Djs, and became the first of many professionally self released songs from Big Nes. Big Nes and Jungle Josh completed an Ep called "It's A Miracle" that featured the two songs along with five other songs and was released through Tower Records.

Upon seeing the positive response from the Got Hits single, and Jungle Josh being the drummer for Chapter Eleven, Big Nes began to perform throughout California with Chapter Eleven. Performing solo concerts and with the group, kept Big Nes busy as he and Jungle Josh began to work on a full length album titled "Stay Live" in the summer of 2002. The album featured production from Tim Wu of the Long Beach Dub Allstars, and guest appearances from Def Squad rapper Khari Santiago, I-Man from the Mexakinz, Kris Ransom, Chapter 11, and The Bredrin Daddys. In 2003, the album was self released through Tower Records and Amoeba Records.

In 2005, Big Nes and Jungle Josh released a single called "Keep Spinnin" a reference to the old song "Right Round", before Flo Rida released his hit song that similarly referenced the old song "Right Round". Big Nes would release promotional songs over the course of the following two years, during a time where the landscape of the music business was changing from albums to singles.

In 2008, seeking to expand their artistic horizons, Big Nes, Jungle Josh, and Bredrin Daddy lead singer Eric Shipley, decided to form a super group called Seth Davis. The music consisted of a reggae,rock, and hip hop mix that brought together sounds similar to Weezer, Linkin Park, and Chuck D. The group released an EP in 2011 before disbanding due schedule differences.

Big Nes released promotional songs between 2012-2014 while being featured on records by other artist. In 2016 Big Nes was featured on "Stone Soup", a mix-tape produced by The Dirty Heads base player, David Foral. The album received positive reviews, with well over 10,000 downloads on sound cloud alone. In 2017, Big Nes was once again featured on "Stone Soup" vol 2., as the mix-tape received positive reviews as well.

In 2017, Big Nes released his self written and produced singles, "Still Like That" and "Girls Night" via i-tunes. Both singles were featured on his 2017 album release, "Showtime", via i-tunes.

In 2018, Big Nes released his self written and produced singles, "Love Like This" and "Rap Vibes" via i-tunes. Both singles are to be featured on his upcoming album, "The Masterpiece", slated to be released in 2018.