Born Yohance Serrant, June 17, 1982. Raised in East Oakland, CA by his father, a musician from Trinidad, and mother, a nurse from Richmond, CA.
From day one as an infant, M.E.R.C.U.R.Y.'s father had his hands on the djembe drum, and they both would perform at African cultural shows together. M.E.R.C.U.R.Y.'s house was filled with music, with his father playing sounds from Africa and the Caribbean, his mother playing Soul and Classic Oldies, and his sister playing R&B and Hip Hop.
At age 9, M.E.R.C.U.R.Y's parents divorced, and he and his mother moved to Los Angeles. When he was younger he was home-schooled, which allowed him to skip from 3rd to 5th grade. During 5th grade he was introduced to the sounds of A Tribe Called Quest and Black Sheep, along with the sounds of the West Coast coming out at the time. He began taping music off the radio during every Friday and Saturday night mix show. In Junior High, he played drums in his school's jazz band and became a founding member of his first Hip Hop group in 8th grade.
Around high school he gave himself the name M.E.R.C.U.R.Y, which stands for "Messenger Expressing Rhymes of Consciousness Unto Revolutionary Youth". He likes to be called "Merc" for short.
The Roman god Mercury was his favorite mythological figure because this character served as the messenger between Gods and humans. Merc felt it was the purpose of the poet/musician to be the communicator between the spiritual world and mankind. He's also a Gemini, who's ruling planet is Mercury, and he describes his rap style as being like the liquid-metal by the same name.
By Senior year of high school, at the age of 15, Merc was on stage with his group opening shows for acts such as The Roots, Raekwon, Black Moon, Tha Alkaholiks, Aceyalone, and many others. While in college he made another album with former group members. Even while in graduate school for Urban Planning at UCLA, Merc kept recording and performing. Even when he tried to cut music loose, it kept calling him back.
M.E.R.C.U.R.Y is now on his journey as a solo artist and finished his debut EP "Because I Felt Like It". This is a personal and reflective album dealing with many of the trials Merc has gone through in his life, while also bringing back hardcore lyricism from the early underground Hip Hop scene he was cultured by.
His future releases will draw upon the vast musical background he has dabbled in throughout his life.
M.E.R.C.U.R.Y. has many surprises in store, so stay tuned.
M.E.R.C.U.R.Y- twitter.com/merc80's Friend Space (Top 38)
M.E.R.C.U.R.Y- twitter.com/merc80 has 8236 friends.
Greetings And Gratitude, Respect Raspect I Give Thanks For Reaching Out, Making The Connection And The Friendship !!!!!!! Please Stay Close At JOHNNYALLEN.COM Blessed Love
Thank you so much... My EP, A Moment to Break, is now available on iTunes and Amazon. You can also join my mailing list at www.jamielynnnoon.com-- I couldn't be more grateful for the love and support!
Sorry for the delay in the message. Hope you don’t mind…
When we truly let go of past hurts, hang-ups and disappointments and choose to live in the moment, in the now, in the PRESENT, life truly can be a GIFT.
Hope you liked this one. :)
Also, if you like these, shoot me comments letting me know, join me on my Facebook page and when I send you a link to my website once it gets finished next week, be sure to go it and sign up and I’ll send these to you there as well. Take care
hey do me a huge fav and check out ma new music on ma music page myspace.com/tclarksterr31 and tell a friend to tell a friend about ma music please and thanks much love.
Regrets, none of us can't say we haven't lived without regrets, because we all have. It's how we learn, accept and acknowledge the regret that matters. Saying you are sorry and forgiving the cause and effect of the regret is what will move you on, holding on to the regrets and its cause and effect will keep you captive and captivating: defeat, loneliness, sadness, fear, hurt, depression and much, much more. Release it and you open yourself up to a whole world of possibilities; love, hope, strength, friendship, relationship, self-empowerment, improvement, success, dreams, visions, healing, prosperity, happiness and much, much, much more. Learn to forgive yourself and others. Regret is a heavy load to carry and it so heavy that is slows you down and holds you back. Dump your load and release the regret, by FORGIVING. You know you're "Waiting to Exhale" AGAPE
Hello, my friend. Another Tankism to brighten your week. Hope it helps :)
Look at life from the perspective of what you have NOW, what you are grateful for NOW. If you continue to look into the PAST as to what you have lost, when you open your PRESENT, you will not like what you get. However, by focusing firmly on where you are directing your FUTURE by thinking on those things which are good and pure and what you do want to happen, as you unfold your PRESENT, you will find the gift that you know you really want. And, it really is that simple. As a wise person once said: If you believe you can't, you're rightif yet if you believe you CAN, you're right. What do you believe? :)
Someone once told me that they were lonely, eventhough they were surround by people they loved and loved them. Being lonely isn't being alone. It's not being able to be alone with yourself. Know one can take away loneliness, they can suppress it, become a temporary void, but they can't get rid of it completely. Only the lonely can do that for themselves. I can go anywhere and be in any place and I am never lonely. Because as long as I have me, I am never alone. I love me, who I am and what I have become and becoming. I am happy! I believe that people need to learn how to love themselves, to spend time with themselves and to become happy with themselves. People pleasing and keeping up with the Jones can get you in trouble and in debt. Keep up with you. Please you. Learn to do little things that are pleasurable to you, that lift and feed your spirit. Learn yourself and how incredible you are and how blessed you are to have you. What would you do, without you? Think about it. Then, take yourself to dinner, draw a romantic bath and have an extraordinary time entertaining you. You are the perfect date, so date yourself. Then, when you do date someone else it will be mind blowing, because you will have had a lot of practice enjoying an evening, because you already have done it many times with the most important person of all yourself. Use yourself, learn yourself, know yourself, love yourself. You deserve it! HAPPINESS!
