Lemmy Valentine a kid of the 80’s born in Changamwe Mombasa. At the age of 12 my parents moved to Nairobi this was due to my dad’s work since he worked and still does for the Kenyan ministry. During my Primary school education I joined a public school in Nairobi and during my final two years my parents took me to the country to sit for my national exams from there since they believed that that was the best way to have me keep my cultural roots alive, and thankfully I have been able to keep them alive and believe in them. Soon after Primary School I joined high school in the Rift Valley and there I have to say I tended to catch up with a couple of behaviors not saying that they were bad behaviors and I aint saying that they were good behaviors either. But I have been able to interact with many people of various ethnicities and came to understand some of their cultures and their understandings in life and with life. I came back to Nairobi after high school and settled here since then permanently I might say for now even though I do have thoughts of leaving the city and going somewhere else other than this place and don’t ask me why. My life hasn’t been a bed of roses, and it hasn’t been a bed of thorns either but I know that whatever has turned out of me is with a reason and that has me purposeful. I have lived in Eastlands for almost my whole life; I have met and made friends who have also changed my life in different ways. I have lost a couple of friends and even though it always kills me due to their untimed departure I do believe that my life and my time for my presence is with a meaning. Am an upcoming rapper going by the name of Lil’ Tears I aint got any single out, yet, but that doesn’t mean that I don’t exist. In my hood my people call me ‘Loco’ which came as a result of my behavior which is a Spanish word for crazy. As I said before I picked up various behaviors with time and some of them were considered crazy behaviors. So there my name was derived. I have to say I have got in trouble with the law a number of times and in trouble with some of my friends from now and then but things do change as they say, right? So I’m bound for nothing but greatness actually, love it or hate it I will be in the books sooner than later I will make my mark. Right now am working on a couple of singles but I can promise you this, by the end of May you will be having my first single both hear and from various sites and probably if radio stations don’t prove to be dick suckers you will hear it there too. Over the time my love for music has grown and I believe my creativity too has gone through boarders. Thanks to my mentors in the music industry like the late Mr. Tupac, the late Mr. Wallace, the late Mr. Big L, the late Mr. Jam master Jay, the late Mr. Big Pun, the living legend Mr. Jay Z, Mr. Snoop, Legendary group Wu Tang Clan, Public Enemy, Run DMC, and the list goes on. Hip hop to me is a way of life and its not adopted actually hip hop adopts you only if you are fit for it that’s what my belief for hip hop is. How it adopts you aint the same way that it adopts me, necessarily, because it all depends with how and where you grew up, mostly how you grew up, but I aint judging. As for me I have to say that it adopted me and though I never knew it from the beginning with time I came to understand that there was no where it would ever let me go and there was no way that it was going to let me let it go. During hard times in life I have thought of my rap life a nothing but a waste of time but the more I say that to myself the more I more I got to know that it meant everything to me than life itself. Don’t find my cynical but I don’t think if I will ever have a life if hip hop is not part of it. Looking at new cats in the scene at the moment like Asher, B.O.B, Wale guys like J. Cole, Kid Cudi it aint hard to understand what hip hop is doing to people but looking at cats say like Soulja Boy its kinda confusing to what’s happening to hip hop. I aint saying that what they are doing aint great it is but its just hip hop is on a revolutionary realm at the moment and that’s why I stated that hip hop adopts you. Where hip hop got you is what you will talk out to portray it, if you know what I mean. Much of me will be on the shelves with time through my own words but you coming around now and then and checking out what’s new will fill your urge of trying to know me. I appreciate your love and support for coming around and hope and believe that you will do come around again. Do feel at ease to drop me a word in the ‘talk to me’ section and if you have any questions I will truly answer you. Thanks once again and Jah bless. lemmyvalentine.typepad.com
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