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I HIT HARDER THAN IRON MIKE AT THE PEAK OF HIS GAME / SO YOU SHOULD WATCH WHAT YOU SAY WHEN YOU SPEAK MY NAME / CAUSE IF I SWING AND CONNECT I'MA DAMAGE YA BRAIN / AND AIN'T A PILL ON THE PLANET THAT CAN MANAGE THE PAIN / SO IF YOU WANT IT COME AND GET IT I'MA PUSH YOU TO YOUR LIMIT / I'M STRONG TO THE FINISH AN I DON'T NEED SPINACH / SO ONCE AGAIN IF YOU WANT IT COME AND TEST ME I'MA SHOW YOU WHO THE BEST BE / YOU WANT BEEF I GOT 100 RECIPES /
Mr. Profane
On the brutal streets of Gary, anything worth having comes hard. Nobody gives you nothin’. You’ve got to take your time, learn the game, work your hustle. And if you do, and you have mad skills, that glorious intersection where your preparation meets opportunity is way more than luck: It’s a stroke of brilliance.
Mr. Profane is a hip-hop performer from Gary, who’s working with Wiz da Kid as well as many others in the world of music. He couldn’t slow down if he tried.
“It’s always come up, even though I was just beginning to break out when I started,” Mr. Profane says. “I’ve always tried to stay in my own lane, do my own thing, as far as content and that stuff. I’m not trying to follow in anyone’s shoes or emulate anyone’s sound or anything like that. Yeah, those comparisons are going to come, but I really don’t let them bother me at all. If anything, it’s more motivation to prove people wrong. ‘Oh, you didn’t think I could do it because no one else did it?’ I want to kind of rub their faces in it.”
Mr. Profane – who, like any truly creative mastermind, never wants to repeat himself – sees obvious distinctions. “I'm much different from other rappers,” says Profane. “I'm more on the gutter side of things, but still appeal to all ages, with well thought, precise, dominant lyrics, which is unique today for anyone.”
Mr. Profane, who was given two tracks to prove his ability before a producer even would agree to talk to him, says, “It’s sure to be a great chemistry going on, man. It’s like everything he hears, no matter what the track sounds like or what feel it gives him, he’s writing to that feel. I have fresh new songs that are incredible. I mean, I love every one of them. I’ve been arguing back and forth about which ones are my favorites, and everybody has a different one, which is a good problem to have.
“Also, I have like nine years of training in studios all over the place,” he adds. “My first producer, QB Traxx took me on when I was 17 and I worked with him for years, so I’ve had a lot of practice, and I think that really helped. QB was really impressed with the way I recorded and just nailed it. Basically all the connections I’ve made are just off people believing in me, my sound and my talent. That’s really what drives me.”
That drive began as a child, when he began his love affair with music. At the age of 13, he had progressed writing his own songs. “I listened to BB King, John Lee Hooker, Stevie Ray Vaughan, all those guys,” says Mr. Profane, who cites his wide-ranging musical influences from Eric Clapton to Tupac Shakur. By 16, “the music my peers were listening to, you know, at the middle school and high school dances, are what really got me into rap. I started getting deeper into it, but I never narrowed my genre down to just one type of music. It was like everything just kind of tied into each other.”
Entering my high school, “I was the reigning champ for like 5 weeks running,” he recalls. “Eventually they just asked me to start coming to hang out. ‘‘No one can beat you, why don’t you just come by and do your thing?’” He began networking with all the DJs he could find, as well as the other R&B and hip-hop artists in the city.
During all this, he also was freelancing on the side creating concert flyers, which helped my shameless self-promotion,” he says with a laugh. “In the flyer business I met all the DJs, club owners, club managers, producers, all bringing me in to design their stuff. They were like, ‘Man, you do music, too?’ thinking I was doing it on the side, “but once people heard that I was making music also, they were even more supportive.”
For someone who once named himself Elite Flowz in his teens as an underground MC, Mr. Profane admits his soaring career potential has been dazzling, even to himself. “Yeah, it’s definitely exciting,” he says, “but more motivating than anything, just to keep going. Because I could have stopped when I had one my myspace page, gotten lazy and said, ‘Aw, at least I got my music played.’ But my thing is, I raised the bar that time, now the bar is higher and I have so much more room to go. You can’t get distracted, you’ve got to stay humble. What it adds up to is, I’m more excited than ever and trying to be as productive as possible.”
Now that the ball is rolling at top speed, Mr. Profane’s five-year plan is “to have three or four albums out by then. QB says once you get a deal you’ve got to put out an album every 18 months. Hopefully they’re successful, and I’m on the road and touring.
“Eventually I’d like to establish myself as an artist and get my music out, but I also want to get my music into films and TV and all that stuff, and piggyback into getting into movies myself. I consider myself not just a rapper or an MC. I’m an all-around artist – recording artist and performing artist. I’ve always liked expressing myself in different ways, so the more I can do that, it’s awesome.”
Now instead of chasing after a record deal with a major label Mr. Profane has established himself a company all his own Synista Sounds ENT where it's more than music, it's a movement launched in 2007 unleashing underground hits and club bangers for da streets now has a slew of artists on the roster all hungry and ready to eat. Mr. Profane has established himself and his company as a stable in the world of hip hop music as well as branching off into other genres as well with pop, reggae and rock all soon to become major parts of the movement.
That’s sheer brilliance.
Formation Date: August 28, 1997 Record Label: Synista Sounds Ent Label Type: Independent Band Members: Mr. Profane Influences: not exactly what you would expect, I'm influenced by my former teachers who told me I could be whatever I wanted to as well as the ones that told me I would never amount to anything, I am influenced by the streets and the hood I grew up in simply because it allows me to use my personal experiences as material for my music, I am also influenced but certain artists such as 50 Cent, P Diddy, and Dr. Dre because I 1 day hope to make it to where they are Sounds Like: Haven't been told I sound like anyone so I guess that means that I sound like me City: Gary, IN Hometown: Oakland, CA Country: United States |
