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Solomon Jazz - The Bio

"Now where I'm from some people don't attend college academies, families fish in the Francis Drake for salaries. The kind of motivation that could come from the inside, making a man grow a couple crops in the hills is for real," - Solomon Jazz

In an area where hip hop is not as commonplace as reggae and calypso, Solomon Jazz (born Tremis Skeete) was 11 years old when his brother gave him a hip hop mixtape which contained music from Dana Dane, DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince, Salt and Pepa, just to name a few. Before that time, the only rappers Solomon knew of were Run-DMC and the Fat Boys. "I did not realize how creative hip hop music was until I heard Dana Dane rap a story about Cinderella - except he was the "Cinderella" character and he called himself 'CinderFELLA'. It was genius. That was when I became a student of hip hop."

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