Poison Pen

about

Rhyming is an art form. Just like painting, dancing and hustling. If you don't know the techniques of the genre you can easily be swept off your feet. Enter Hip Hop staple, Poison Pen, a battle MC turned street prophet. The Brooklynite started in 1996 at the first online radio station 88HipHop.com, before tearing through the streets as the undefeated champ of the NYC MC battle circuit. After participating in the Blaze Battle, Pen decided to retire in 1999 and later host the most popular lyricist competition to date, Da Cypha Emcee Battles featured throughout NYC including special showcases at Kevin Powell & Russell Simmons' Hip Hop Speaks. It was hunger, not chance, that brought Poison Pen to the forefront. Founder of indie rap clique Stronghold, members including Breez Evaflowin' C Rayz Walz, Immortal Technique and DJ Static before the group released the acclaimed mixtape Stronghold Volume 1. The result was a classic collaboration. "As far as the recording, I don't do Pro Tools rap. I don't do that record & send it out to a nigga I don't know have him email me a verse back... Naw, I don't make music like that." Good music has always been his focus. His first appearance on wax "On the Mic" floated off the shelves in '98 just two years before receiving his own distribution through Landspeed Records for his debut single "Top of the Food Chain". But the microphone monster didn't stop there. He lifted Rainmakerz Records with his second solo joint "Fall Back" before slaying the

top songs

albums

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I'm F*ckin' You Up b/w Inner City Hoodlum

The Money Shot

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Asterisk:Three

Pick Your Poison (The Mark Of The East)

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Pick Your Poison - The Mark Of The East

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Hip Hop Classics

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Stronghold - Mixtape Vol. 2

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This Is Hip Hop

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Monster Hip Hop

Immortal Technique Presents Pick Your Poison: The Mark Of The East

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Legacy

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Venomous Villain

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