Bio

[b]MY NAME IS HALSTON D. CANTY; I WAS BORN IN MIAMI, FLORIDA. I CAME TO SYRACUSE WHEN I WAS ABOUT 5 YEARS OLD DUE TO AN ILLNESS IN MY FATHER'S FAMILY, PLUS THAT'S WHERE HE ORIGINATED FROM, I ALWAYS LISTENED TO HIP HOP, AND ALWAYS LOVED IT, I REMEMBER MY OLDER BROTHER AND HIS FRIENDS USE TO PLAY KRS-ONE, PUBLIC ENEMY, INTELLIGENT HOODLUMS, LL COOL J, NOTORIOUS B.I.G,2PAC AND NUMEROUS OTHER HIP HOP ARTIST. BEING RAISED IN A PREDOMINATLEY BLACK COMMUNITY I ALWAYS LOOKED UP TO THESE HIP HOP FIGURES AS A VOICE, SOMEONE WHO SHOWED THE SAME VALUES AS I DID, AND COMING FROM THE SAME CRIME-INFESTED ENVIROMENTS SO IT WAS EASY FOR ME TO RELATE. MY FATHER WAS AN ALCOHOLIC, ALWAYS INTOXICATED, SO IT SEEMS LIKE WE WERE GROWING UP IN A SINGLE PARENT HOME, I WENT TO THE U.S NAVY IN 2000, AND MY MOTHER DIDN'T REALLY HAVE ANY MONEY TO SUPPORT ME THROUGH SCHOOL. SO AT THE TIME THE NAVY SEEMED LIKE THE ONLY LEGAL ANSWER I CAN COME UP WITH. DURING MY 4 YEAR STINT I REALLY FELT ALIENATED AND LONELY SO I BEGAN TO WRITE MUSIC AND REALLY JOT DOWN MY FEELINGS FROM WHAT I LEARNED FROM MY ENVIROMENT, AS WELL AS MY FAMILY. WHEN I LEFT THE MILIATARY I CONTINUED TO WRITE AND PUT MY EXPERIENCES ON PAPER, I REALIZED WITHOUT AN EDUCATION OR BEING FINANCIALLY ESTABILISHED YOU ARE NOT CONSIDERED MUCH IN AMERICA. I ENROLLED IN COLLEGE AT SUNY ALBANY WHERE I'M PRESENTLY ATTENDING. I LOVE HIP HOP, I LOVE DOING MUSIC, AND I WILL NEVER STOP, I'M PUSHING FOR A CHANGE; I WANT TO BE A VERY IMPORTANT FIGURE IN THIS GAME 1 DAY, AND SHOW PEOPLE FROM MY ENVIROMENT THAT DREAMS COME TRUE.