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With unlimited environmental influences ranging from huge vinyl collections at home containing KISS, Michael Jackson, Diana Ross, The Beatles, John Denver, and countless others to sitting in on an afternoon's jam session, there was almost no question that Zac would grow to love music in all its forms.

"As soon as I realized people liked the same things I liked, it was pretty much a wrap. No pun intended," MIME said in an interview. "The hardest thing about being any kind of artist is putting your entire self into your works, because if they're rejected then you feel a personal blow. But thats how good music gets made, and I had to learn that. I was scrapping too many projects."

In fact, MIME's discology is only at a whopping 2 semi-final products. The second effot by Zack, The PreWritten Mixtape, was finished and released in winter of 2004. The title poked fun at rappers who would memorize verses so they could spit them in cipher like they were freestyles. "When the mixtape game got heated, everybody had exclusive 'freestyles' on records. Only you'd hear those verses three or four times on a collection of beats, on different mixtapes," MIME remembers, chuckling. "I felt like people were being misled. Hence the title.

Taking some time off from the stage, MIME became a music enrichment teacher for the Akron Public School system, and taught afterschool classes to middleschool children in over half the district over the course of two years. Focusing on the instrumentalization of is music during that time, he produced something for almost everyone he's worked with. He now runs a SoundClick site where he sells his production and allows people to preview his works.