JC. Naledge

Ethnicity: Salvadorian. Born & Raised: Washington, D.C., Maryland. I was brought into this world on November 16, 198???. Since the death of whom I consider the greatest rapper of all time The Notorious B.I.G. March 9, 1997, I was destined for greatness in the Hip Hop world. I began my creativity in music by making beats and sounds with my mouth called Beat Boxing, and eventually started writing creative metaphoric freestyles that I would memorize and rap at school at our daily “Syphers” that the crowd would start at lunch. My early life full of rebellious wrongdoings eventually got me into an Outdoor Therapuetic Juvenile Rehabilitation Facility on November 19, 2003. Where I learned to take my time with rhymes, metaphors, and punch lines and eventually convert them into verses with which then would lead to whole songs. In this facility is where I was dubbed “Knowledge” (that I eventually wrote out “Naledge”) because my knowledge of the street was equal to my intellectuality, which has always made me a double threat. Immediately after my successful termination of that facility, I registered and currently attend Montgomery College in Rockville, MD with a Major in Business and a Minor in Music Theory, and began recording songs over radio melodies which later became my first Mix Tape, Sangre. Sudor. Y Lagrimas. (Translation: Blood, Sweat, and Tears). In my first Open Mic ever, that included more than almost 30 Emcees in the D.C. Tri State area, I won the title of Emcee of the night, which eventually caught the eye of The Washington Post. I and Three other Emcees were exclusively interviewed and showed up on the Front Page of the Style Section in The Washington Post’s Sunday paper. My First Mix Tape, First Open Mic, and First Major Interview all got immediately recognized with a major Buzz in the D.C., Maryland, and Virginia area. But honestly, the best part about it is, I’m just getting started I Am JC Dot