User:KingKasilo

Kasilo is a word that was created by Kermit King in 1997. He took the K in King and used Ka from Chemistry and added silo. The Silo in Kasilo was thought of because he saw a Silo in the country side. As we know a silo holds grain or water for a bad harvest or drought. Being that Mr. King wrote poerty and lyrics, he refered to himself as "The King That Feeds The Nation Through The Music." So he combined Ka plus Silo to represent his new belief that he would help the music scene keep moving and counter attack wack music the indusrty feeds us through the radio.

He was born in Oakland, California in 1969 and moved to San Jose, California in 1977. At a young age he was exposed to all types of music from Doo Wop, Blues, Freestyle, Rock, Jazz, Zydeco, Rhythm and Blues, Salsa, Poetry, Rap. Music consumed his life. When Hip-Hop came to the surface he understood that this new music couldn't be labeled due to the fact that every music genre was being used to create Hip-Hop.

In the beginning he was exposed to music like Blow Fly and early pioneers like MC Caz, Cold Crush Brother and music like Superfly Soundtrack. The cadence of the 80's when he grew up consisted of music like Black Sabbath, Billy Idol, Luther Vandross, Iron Maiden, Chicago, Jeff Beck, Ready For The World, Stephanie Mills, Teddy Pedergrass, Madonna and Stevie B. That's just to give you a piece of the 80's influence to Hip-Hop. In the 80's he went from Jackson 5 to Prince to The Time to A-Ha to Rick Ashley to Public Ememy and Diamond D. In the 90's music took a serious turn when 2 Live Crew, Salt-n-Pepa, JVC, Too Short, Brand Nubian, Lifers Group, Jungle Brothers, DJ Quik, Coug Nut, and NWA and many more Annie Up'd the influence. By this time Hip-Hop had consumed this music junkie for ever.

At about 7 years old he began learning how to understand the making of this new sound called Hip-Hop. By the time he was 13 he was almost ready for rap battles. See he was going from one extreme to the other being that he was a Break Dancer. Then it happened! While in middle school he started roasting MCs from the neighborhood then the skating rink and then middle school dances. At that time he was known as Kid Krush. He attended Piedmont Hills High School in San Jose when he met Chris Manak aka Cut Master Chris aka Gold Finger aka Peanut Butter Wolf, Steve Helmer aka Sweet Steve aka Baron Zen. They Made music, parties and talent shows all over the South Bay.

I meet Charles Hicks, Charizma while at my friend name Roosevelt and Keiths house. Keith and Charizma were good friends and had a rap group. When I would go to Roosevelts house we would rhyme, DJ, study lyrics and battle each other. I was considered a rhyme master and Charizma would come thru and master his craft. The boy got real tight. I finally realized where I know him from one day when we were studying the rhyme schemes of Rakim. I was like "Hey you were on Home Base"! A local show that plugged local dope artist. Charizma, Keith and a dude name Tejahde had a rap group that was managed by Charizmas parents. His parents backed this kid all the way and knew this kid was a gift. So when I seen the potential he had I devoted time to share the knowleged of rhyming and began to help transfer my knowledge to him. For instance the use of rhyming dictionaries, synonyms and anynomyms, jointing down thoughts and being ready to battle. We were thuggin back then but our parents did know it. We listen to underground from Above the Law, DJ Quik, Run - DMC, NWA, Expose, Salt N Peppa, Comptons Most Wanted, Lord Finesse, Rap City, Yo Mtv, Too Short, Heavy D, 2 Pac, Public Enemy, JJ Fad, The Acknickolous One, Steady B, James Brown, Digital Underground, 3 Times Dope, Craig G, Brand Nubian, MC Caz, Master Ace, E-40,New edition, MC Hammer, Tweed Cadillac, BDP, Stevie B, 2 Live Crew, The Artifacts, Toni Tony Tone, Coug Nut, Jungle Brothers and 50 Grand. We were heavy in the game.

We depended on our friends that had relatives from back east to write us letters and send us tapes and grafitti to stay up on the music and culture. At the time I had been wreckn with Chris Manak. He was my school mate at Piedmont Hills in San Jose,Ca. Chris aka Peanut Butter Wolfe, at that time he was known as DJ Gold Finger and I considered him a dope producer and DJ. Our Lab started in his room at his parents house. Long story short I went to the Navy and before I left I introduced Charizma to Gold Finger and DJ Baron Zen (Steve Helmer). The rest is History! These dudes started Charizma and The Peanut Butter Wolfe. Went on tour with Wu-Tang, Organize Konfusion, Red Man, ODB and Gang Star and many others. I was in Virginia when I got work of his Murder. I asked a few Street Generals from the area what happen to him and I was told that he was set up. I found out that he was not known to be strapped and had cash like a baller and was marked. Dudes didn't know this dude was getting paper from rap in a major way. Little did anyone know but he had vibes and strapped up the day of his murder. He was riding with a dude that stopped at a designated stop sign in EPA ( East Palo Alto)refused to be robbed and was shot and pulled out and shot the dude that approached the car for the jack. The driver drove around trying to figure out what to do with Charizma as he bled, making cell phone calls to other gang affiliates to figure out what to do. He finally left Charizma at a hospital door to die and drove off. I cry as I write this... I loved Charles like a brother. I came home on leave to be there for their signing party with Hollywood Basic at Charizmas parents home. His sister is Kizzy! This was my friend. One thing about it is That NOBODY can destory a Spirit and Soul of Charles "Charizma" Hicks. Here are a few songs you might want to check out.. Apple Juice Break - Devotion - The Vapors ( Dedicated to BIZ) R.I.P Granada Rida!

Now That I got that out the way, see it's been on my mind to get it off my chest and off my heart about my friend.