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Artist
Thad Reid
12+ albums
Hip-Hoprapunderground hip-hophip hopFM4
about
Thad Reid is the streets. Not only is he a grimy Richmond boulevard, he’s a cracked rural Amherst County road, a rustic Clifton Forge trail and a smoothly paved parkway in Fairfax. Aptly nicknamed, “The Voice of the Commonwealth,” Reid’s rap style exhibits the depth of Common, the clarity of Ludacris, and the passion and knowledge of Krs-One—abstractly packaged behind piercing eyes and a newly-slimmed physique. With his independently released album, “Memorial Day,”— inspired by a car accident, claiming the lives of two close friends after Reid’s tired eyes were shielded from the road ahead of him—four mixtapes, including the “No Beat is Safe" series, and a stage presence witnessed by patrons of various local venues, Reid is well on his way to building his personal brand in the music industry. Born and raised in Lynchburg, Virginia, a rural city about seventy miles south of Charlottesville, Reid contributes to the southern takeover evident in hip-hop music today by areas such as Atlanta and Houston. His interest in hip-hop and rhyming was peaked at 17, but it was during his undergraduate years at James Madison University when he started seriously writing, recording and performing. With a plethora of artists already in the long distance rap race and a mob of potentials waiting in the reigns to become the next big hit, what differentiates Reid from the rest? One, simply put, Reid is exactly who he is, Thad Reid. No bricks. No weight. No white girl. Just pure grind. Two, althou
