User:Brokendoperecords/Threat1

Threat1 is a Malaysian born, New Zealand raised MC and producer that independently releases his music on BrokeNdope Records since 2004-Present.

Threat1 also known as Julian Luke Sammy, (born November 17th 1985) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He migrated with his family to Christchurch, New Zealand in 1988 where he attended St Joseph's Catholic School until 1992. In May 1992 his family moved to Auckland and attended Rangitoto College, he currently still resides in Auckland City. After being kicked out of high school in 2003, he worked fulltime at a minimum wage job, then attended Auckland University of Technology, completed a Certificate in Computing with disctinction and was accepeted into a higher level of study, he has completed a degree majoring in Economics and is continuing to study further in Management.

Music ran in his family as his father Andrew was a well producer and studio owner in Malaysia. Threat began his own music career at a young age, busking in the streets of Auckland at age 8 with his brother and sister. He co-wrote his first song with his brother at age 12, he continued drifting in and out of bands until 2004 where his band rap rock band Dysruptiv/Crookline split up for good due to various reasons, other members split Zorran Mendonsa (Soulstate & Newayhome), Jake Kagan (Master Cardinal) are still on good terms. In 2007 he was working in a progressive metal group "Sleep Severity" but no tracks were released.

Julian suffered from serious substance abuse issues from after the split, and the first Threat1 unreleased album conveys the pain that he was feeling as a young asain man growing up in a western culture, his run in's with the law to living in his car, selling drugs for a living.

Threat1 cleaned up his act through the support of family and close friends in 2006 and since then has composed 2 albums, one of which was released online last year in October on Arkade.com and the singles were put on sale on Amplifier.co.nz.

Latest album "Poetically Correct" due to be released on Itunes & CD Baby was slated for a late 2009 release but was postponed by what he has described as his "last run in with the law in NZ" where Threat1 was serving Public Detention, for a charge that could have resulted in a mininum of 6 months imprisonment if it wasn't for his prolific lawyer.

The new album is due to be released in 2010 with what Threat describes as his "purest" stuff yet.