User talk:Crispacrisp

Crispy (AKA Crispa Crisp, Mr. Crisp, Crisp, Criss, Mil Gates) was born July 16th 1988 in the south of the UK in the city of Hastings, at the age of seven, Crispy moved to the city of Cambridge with his mother & father. Crispy was exposed to hip-hop from a young age by his father who was a hip-hop/jungle DJ, by the age of eleven Crispy began to start writing lyrics and learning how to operate turntables and for the next few years he would concentrate his interests mostly on the turntables. By the age of thirteen Crispy had entered the Young UK DMC championships (Under 21’s) and made it to the final and came third overall, this was a big achievement considering their were over five thousand applicants to start out with and also Crispy was one of the youngest among the finalists. As a DJ Crispy has played alongside some of the biggest names in US & UK Hip-Hop, including: Ghostface Killah & Theodore Unit, Ice T & SMG, Klashnekoff & Terra Firma, Skinnyman & Mud Fam, Taskforce, Skitz & Rodney P, to name a few. At the age of around thirteen, Crispy started to concentrate more on writing lyrics and making beats, by the age of fourteen he started to work on his first project ‘Military Raptics’, this project was completely produced, written and recorded by Crispy at home, and showed him how to independently make and distribute his music from a young age. From the age of fourteen to sixteen Crispy kept on writing and producing tracks which were originally meant for his 2nd project ‘Father Told Me’, due to the amount of time spent on the project of a two year period and other issues such as the styles of songs and production styles, Father Told Me was never officially completed and still remains in Crispy’s archives as unreleased material. At the age of 16, Crispy hooked up with longtime friend and NY producer Cartel to start work on his LP ‘Young, Gifted & Black’ the aim of this LP was to bring the rawness of the UK scene and mix it with the original essence of the NY hip-hop flavor. The two spent around a year and a half at work on the LP and nearly completed the project, but due to more important things going on in both their lives they didn’t get around to finishing and releasing the LP. For 2007 Crispy has started working on his official double disc debut LP ‘Beginners Luck’ some may say it is untraditional to release a double disc for a debut album, but Crispy feels he has numerous concepts and a lot of to say for his first release. The album is set to drop in the 4th quarter of 2007, and will feature some of UK’s finest rappers and some of the finest producer’s worldwide.