Annakin Slayd is tagged as: |In Hip Hop these days, imitation is found more often than inspiraton. Enter Annakin Slayd, armed with witty and provocative lyrics, pulse pounding beats, hair raising melodies and a ferocious live band that help make him one of the most unique voices in modern music. Annakin was inspired at a young age by many genres, including Soul/R&B, Heavy Metal and Hip Hop. He has artists such as Stevie Wonder, Suicidal Tendencies and Nas to thank for the fusion of lyrical aggression, unbelievably catchy hooks and heavy musicianship that created his distinctive style, not unlike a merging of Linkin Park & K-Os. Even though he has only been making music since 2003, Annakin has been in the entertainment business since the age of 20. Trained as an actor and playwright, he started his own theatre company called Untimely Ripped Entertainment (He is now a screenwriter as well, with his first film ‘South of Houston’ being released later this year). He soon found himself living poor in Brooklyn, New York doing Off-Off-Broadway theatre. It was in Jamaica, Queens where he was so desperate for work that he auditioned for an upstart label called Full Blaze Records. With only the experience of rapping for kicks with friends back home, Anni nevertheless auditioned and Full Blaze si... Read More About Annakin Slayd Biography...  Send Annakin Slayd ringtones to your cell
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