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Anthony “Stone Face” Dakala has prevailed, for over 15 years, as a hip hop artist, garnering accolades from producing, indie radio hosting, local unsigned T.V hosting, ghost writing and book author while gracing magazine and radio interviews.

His recipe for good street music-making has led to the receipt of the most talked about underground album on social media “Georgia Scars” and “Kryptonite” listed on iTunes as well as Amazon as Best new hip hop Underground/Indie Artist. With a writing style that has been heavily inspired by true life events and inspired by his favorite artist Tupac Shakur. As an individual who has diligently sought to find his destined self in this forever changing world, each song delivers pictures of how the projects once were and still are between his vocal arrangements and soul searching story-telling to listeners through the world.

Stone Face was born in the Carolina's but spent his years hustling the streets of Georgia, Washington DC, Baltimore Maryland, Charlotte North Carolina and Bensalem Pennsylvania until his luck ran out after getting stopped by under over narcotic agents in South Carolina in what started out as a drug bust, but after no drugs was found, they charged him with possession of 3 firearms. Banned from the Carolina's and pleading to a hefty fine, Stone Face started to take his music more serious In 2000, hooking up with local artists and formed the rap group the Alley bums. That lasted for a couple of years but dismantled over creative differences. So he would be introduced to another local rap artist and producer Don Mac, they created Hood City Fame, a local hip hop group made of four members out of Charlotte NC. Though he was banned from parts of the Carolina's, he managed to sneak in and out of the city late nights from Baltimore Maryland to record two full albums, but decided to move to Atlanta Georgia to extend his skills to a bigger market.

In Atlanta Georgia he started her own indie recording label AlleyBum Music Group (ABMG), and opt to manage himself Despite industry pressure to adapt and become a mainstream artist, Stone Face chooses to “keep it real” and maintain his authentic self by putting artistry ahead of commercial ambition and success. Hood City Fame dismantled but Don Mac and Stone Face vowed to continue recording as solo artist and working together monthly on join projects even to this day.

The Atlanta-based artist/book author also have 9 books ready to release with his first book “Scars of a Butterfly” doing very well since its release on Amazon in 2013 and has scheduled releases of “The Blackest White girl Ever” and “Scars of Butterfly” part II in 2019. Now added to the mix of many accomplishments is his short story blog adakalabooks.com and a new Podcast entitled “The Chatty Que’” scheduled to be aired summer of 2019!