The start of something great...

November 2009 was when I started something I never thought I'd find so much love for. My friend Leonard Muccio (Jersey Boii Get Em) came to me while I was in the weight room and asked if I wanted to start rapping. "Rapping.." I thought, "I'll look like a wanna-be Eminem." Boy did I ever.... but I said "Yes." He had the names and everything picked out. He had the group name, Yung Stunnas. He had his name, Jersey Boii Get Em (better known as Jersey Boii). I had nothing but a silly dream. I actually thought it was a joke when he first asked, just something to pass the time. So did EVERYONE at our school lol. Well we pushed through it. I actually got my name (T da B) off of a joke more than anything. I didn't really have a rap name, just Theo (my first name is Theodore) and one of my friends Isiah would say "It's the beast!!!" So I just put two and two together (Theo... the Beast). Well "The" sounds lame in Hip Hop, so I used Ebonics and turned it to "Da" and shortened it to T da B. We made one mixtape together (On Tha Rise) and each of us made one solo (Mine was titled "The Other Side," his was titled "The Invention."). NO BODY took us serious. We would spit lines at lunch, rap battles, sharing some flows, but more people laughed than anything. It took the release of a diss song to an ex rap group called "Young Mafia" to make anyone take us serious. Now the quality wasn't that good AT ALL. We recorded the song (and the whole first mixtape) in my closet using pantyhose as a pop filter and an old stage mic strapped to a broom handle  (talk about ghetto). Well you have to start somewhere right? I'll post the link to the song on youtube in case you're interested in hearing it: ( YS All Day (Young Mafia Diss)  ). Well now you see that the production wasn't good at all, but it was a start. We officially released the mixtape in August of 2010, which helped to get us our first official show at the DV8 Night Club in Tucson, AZ.