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"Music has always been a huge part of my life. I'am the daughter of a soul singer, and the grand-daughter of a jazz singer. I guess you could say, my path was already chosen for me. I was introduced to hip-hop in my teens, by the likes of Run DMC, The Fat boys etc. Trying to learn the latest dance moves with my best friend Adrian, that was our contribution to the art form. Then it was Salt-N-Pepa, i was totally blown away to see females hold their own in a male dominated music genre."

"Adrian and i now had someone we could emulate. I had no idea this was the beginning of something special. I had already been a avid listener of WEBB (1360 AM),radio station here in Baltimore. This is when i first heard MC Lyte's Paper Thin, and it was then i decided to start writing my own rhymes. I called myself MC T and Adrian was Champagne. We would come up with hooks and verses to memorize. I was fascinated with putting words together. However, Adrian started to lose interest in rapping, i would soon become a solo MC. I still say till this very day if she would've kept on writing, she would've been a far better MC than myself. So, i decided to dive head first into this rap thing, and would later rename myself Silouette. I hooked up with a guy from my neighborhood (DJ Hurricane Heath). He would let me record over instrumentals so i could hear myself on tape. That went on for months."

"Pretty soon i had mad demos, but didn't have a clue what to do with them. Even though i loved recording those tapes, i still had to deal with real life. After i graduated high school, i decided i would go on to job corps and get me a trade.I spent a couple years there and earned two trades and a few trophy's for winning the talent shows they used to have. When i came back home i gave them to my mother, it was then she realized i was serious about rapping.My mother completely supported me from that point forward. My second day home i couldn't wait to go over Hurricane's house to record the raps i wrote while i was away. I threw my rhyme books in my book bag and walked straight to his house.I was so happy so see him stick his head out the window and say, here i come!. He opened the door to let me in and once inside i noticed his equipment was gone.He told me he wasn't doing the music thing anymore, I could've fainted. Then he told he knew of a DJ that was looking for rappers, he wrote on a piece of paper and handed it to me. Still feeling a little down, i shoved the paper in my pocket and headed home. When i got back in my room, i pulled out the piece of paper and read it, it said "DJ Concrete" along with his pager number. I had no idea my life was about to change.I reached for the phone and paged him. When he called back, i told him how i got his number and asked if he would listen to my demo. We hooked up the next day. Crete pulled up in front of my mother's house, i jumped in his car and played my tape for him. He told me i sounded tight, and i was pumped. Since he was a DJ his opinion really mattered to me. Crete was already known DJ, he had the hottest mix tapes in the city. He asked if i would do some intro's to his tapes, and of course i was down".

"That was the start of the Concrete Foundation. After a few intro's we began to get a buzz around the city. People wanted to hear more. Crete and a friend of his Wiz started a independent label called The Concrete and Wiz Foundation. We recorded our 1st album, The Blue Tape. The Tape was actually blue in color.This made it stand out amongst all the other tapes.The Blue Tape made us local celebrities in Baltimore ,with hot hip-hop joints from beginning to end. The song, Can U Feel It got a lot of radio play, and helped us set a mark forever. We opened shows for every hip-hop act that performed in Baltimore. Following 'The Blue Tape' it was my turn to do an solo album. It was titled 'Chocolate Malibu'. I started coming into my artistry. There was finally a style behind Silouette. After that, was a compilation called Time to Shine, it featured some of Baltimore's most prominent rappers. We all came together and made it happen, but there's also more to come Stay tuned! ".......

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from ANNEXX CLICK (THE BLUE TAPE) LP, released February 4, 2013

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A NYC based Independent Record Label specializing in amazing sounds, past, present, and future.An unparalleled selection of underground groups ,experimental styles, and originals .Home of vintage - imports and out-of-print rarities pressed on vinyl.A unifying aesthetic for a cornucopia of seemingly disparate rap styles; an attempt to classify the unclassifiable . We are SIX2SIX Records ... more

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