the streets of the predominantly Latino city of Lawrence,
MA, informed the half-white, half-Puerto Rican MC's lyrics as he
graduated from silly freestyles at age nine to full-fledged verses at
the age of 15. He constantly had to travel back and forth from Boston
to New York in order to pursue various opportunities, releasing his
first material on vinyl in 2001. Closely tied to fellow Lawrence native
and mixtape DJ Statik Selektah, Termanology earned the respect of Boston's hip-hop scene with several 12" releases as well as his Hood Politics mixtapes, which gradually came to feature more highly regarded lyricists like Royce da 5'9. After releasing the collaborative LP "out the gate" with producer Dc the midi Alien at the onset of 2006, he caught his big break when distinguished producer Dj Premier, whom he met three years earlier, finally gave him one of his signature, scratch-laden beats. The result, "Watch how it go down" became an underground hit. Declaring himself the resurrection of his biggest idol, Big Pun
in the opening verse, the conscious hood anthem garnered the earnest MC
tons of praise, landing him on the pages of many hip-hop publications,
notably The Source's "Unsigned Hype" and XXL's "Show and Prove"
columns. The Dj Premier produced hit later appeared on the "Hood politics Vol. 4" mixtape november 2006. Now it's time for his Solo debut "Politics as usual".