IZM WHITE - Mr. Rocky Mtns "The Heart Of CO"
Put on to rap and hiphiop at the young age of 6 by his older cousin, Izm imediatly became infatuated with the music. Growing up listening and memorizing every song from such classic albums as Dr. Dre "The Chronic", Mobb Deep's "The Infamous", Snoop Doggy Dogg's "Doggystyle", Tupac's "Strickly for my ni##az" and countless other influentual rappers and albums had Izm living, sleeping, breathing hiphop. At 13 he started to write his first rhymes and try to actualy rap. Soon he began performing in local talent shows, rapping at house parties, even traveling to Denver to compete in rap battles. As Izm was approaching his senoir year in High school things were going great he had formed a rap group named 4WD and had a little studio in his room where they would hang out freestyle and write and record songs. But In 1999 3 of his closest freinds in Ryme Kryme Family were charged with a string of armed robberys and later sentenced to prison. Not wanting to end up in the same situation Izm took the advice of his freinds in jail and headed to Vancouver Brittish Columbia where he enrolled in a Audio engineering program to learn how to record, mix, master and produce his own music better. After completing the year and a half program in Canada, Izm headed back to Colorado and started up his own independent record label: Ryme Kryme Family Ent. But before the first project was about to be released, Izm was charged and convicted of two cocaine distribuiton felonies. A set back yes, but after being released from jail Izm continued to work harder putting out new material while still on probation. As the years passed his freinds that were in prison finally had gotten out on parole and began to get in the studio recording a slew of songs for Ryme Kryme Family Ent. In the years to come Izm and RKF would put out such mixtapes as 2005's "Bullet Proof Love", 06's "I-70 Traffic" and 07's "Colorado Crack" until the Fam got seperated once again by a police investigation/raid that ended up leaving Noso and Creepy Loc back inprison for a number of years. With no way to keep reppin as a group Izm had to keep doing what he was doing as a solo artist. While still keeping the Ryme Kryme Family Ent. label together and name alive, he began to focus more on promoting him self as a solo artist. In the spring of 08' Izm hooked up with Murder Mansin (Denver) and released a joint effort with his label Twissted Records called "MurderCrack". Still enjoying the local success of that project Izm decided to go ahead and release his latest solo project : IZM WHITE Mr.Rocky Mtns "The Heart Of CO". With the end of the 08' summer approaching and lots of recording, promoting, traveling, performing etc to still be done he is out on his grind trying to make his goals reality, instead of hoping on dreams... TO BE CONTINUED