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"Hey....where the fuck are my keys at.....??" Right around the time Ice Cube was writing "F*** The Police", young Carlton Banks (born Anthony Scott Davis) was learning how to throw tha finger to one time. It wasn't all chips and stacks growing up in KCMO, no sir; there's gangbangers, mob cats and the perils of life in the ghetto. Born and raised in the slums of Kansas City then later migrating to lower-middle class Oklahoma City, Banks' life experiences are major factors in the music he creates. The fact that he is half black and white neither adds to nor deminishes from his lyrical skills.

Raised on N.W.A. but taking cues from other rappers and musicians, Banks was into the art at a early age. Penciling his first poems at age 10, he never realized these would evolve into intricate lyrics. At 12, he learned to strum the guitar. His eclectic sense of music draws his influences from all respective genre's. Embracing r&b, respecting rock music, understanding the blues and walking and talking hip hop, the emcee emulates early southern rap but simulates the lyricism of an indie rocker.

Nowadays, everybody's a rapper...... this doesn't mean everybody can rap. Banks doesn't fall into that category. He brings that fresh breathe that everyone says they bring, but exhales it effortlessly. After bangin on hip hop's pool house door for way too long, he's opted to kick it in....hood keys. With more tapes in the works, bigger features and better shows coming, a GIANT has awoken. Whether you choose to acknowledge it or not, you feel him coming. It's not unusual to feel this emcee the way you do.