Monday, 31 December 2007

hERstory summed up

I was born on the 30th November 1987. Both of my parents are French but i was born here in London. I lived in a flat in Wembley until i was 4 and then moved around the corner to a house. My dad was very strict and believed in discipline, he thought by doing things his way it would make me learn from my mistakes, but instead it made me retaliate. When i was 12 years old i always used to have to go to bed earlier than my brother, i would always get woken up the the sound of him mc'ing in his room. Now i had nobody to look up to at that age and he was the closest around a bit like a role model so i thought i would try it out. I started writing my own lyrics and they sounded appalling, from then on every day i write at least 3 tracks. My dad found them, read the content then ripped them all up, that afternoon i had my head in the wheely bin trying to get them all out so i could sellotape them back together. I used to write about things i couldnt relate to but certain events in my life made me stop and think to myself you know what im going to broadcast my life and i dont a shit what people think or have to say about it im not going to keep silent like a dog without a bark. I was in and out of studios when i was 13 paying ridiculous prices for studio time, eventually i had no more left and so i gave up and stopped writing for a while. I was failing all my subjects at school and on the verge of being kicked out having being suspended 8 times. When i got to 16 i started smoking half an ounce of skunk a day, i failed most of my GCSE's and dropped out of college. I was a was a nobody. I had nothing going for me. And my mum just asked my dad for a divorce. I used to listen to a hip hop radio station called itch fm and thats how i started getting my name out. There was an advert for a mc rap battle (lyric pad) at the Oh! bar in camden and this was being held every 1st Thursday of the month so i thought to myself im going to go and try it out see what happens. 1st April 2004 i had my fake ID and i was signing my name down at the door to battle, at the time i went by the name of Debz. Battled started at 11 and funny enough the first guy i battled was a good friend of mine at the time! So anyway i had the whole crowd backing me the whole way to the end and eventually i got knocked off in the finals by an mc called Ill one. I kept comming back every month until i was introduced to The Jump Off (www.jumpoff.tv). My first battle at the jump off was at The Roots concert at Brixton Academy and there was around 6000 people there i gave off a couple of good punch lines but then was knocked off by Professor green. After that battle i continued to battle for the jump off and was winning money. I got to battle at Londons Earls Court, Cirque in leicester square, Missions in Bedford and the main jump off arena in Mean Fiddler. I also got to battle at The Streets concert in Essex and battled Professor Green in the finals. After battling for jump off i was dealing with several problems, a two year violent relationship which resulted in me having an eating disorder, battling anorexia and severe depression. I stopped making music and didnt do anything with my life. My mum thew me out of the house and i lived with my violent partner in a small boxed room for 6 months. After 6 months i went to college and started a Secretary course which i later passed. In febuary 2007 i put an end to the relationship after my life being threatened on several occasions. I moved back in with my mum. We just got a new lodger and here is where my adventures started....