Deep in their roots all flowers keep the light.  Shining brightly from the Mecca of Hip Hop  is the EmCee, Flowers.  Lyrically, he illuminates the origin and history of Hip Hop beyond the façade of what has become.  Every verse brings with it a true to life testimony that you will only visualize through the music of Flowers!. He was around nine years old when his big brother, Bam (aka Afrika Bambaataa), started allowing little Flowers! to tag along with him and his friends around the local music circuit.  Initially aspiring to be a DJ; but quickly changed his mind after attending a performance at Evander Childs High School Field.  There he saw one of the greatest EmCees of all time, Melle Mel.  Flowers! related to not only the words; but everything that Mel did.  He said, “I can do that!” and soon Flowers! found comfort and success in rhyme.   

 

Denouncing the life in the streets and name he was most known by “Flour”,  he personally felt the effect of drugs in the urban community.  He chose to turn a negative into a positive. He kept the pronunciation of his name; but changed the spelling.  In his own words, “I had taken a life selling that junk and I am done with that part of my life.  Now, I give life back through my music; just as trees, plants and flowers do for us human.  We cannot survive without those essential things”.  Then, “Flowers!” was born.

 

Having written for various artists including Whodini, Angie Stone, BlackStreet, UTFO,

Doc Ice, and Men of Vision; Flowers! is no rookie to the music and entertainment industry.  He has shared the stage with such greats as GrandMaster Flash & the Furious 5, Wu-Tang Clan, Whodini, George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic, Busta Rhymes, and Mobb Deep. What makes Flowers! different from the rest?  He says, “The game itself makes me different.  Everyone sounds the same.  Saying the same things and singing the same songs.  It has even come to people hiring writers and spitting other people’s so-called gangster.  I think way outside of the box and you can feel that in my music”.   What Flowers! brings to the industry is definitely what is missing -- the REALISM.  He brings the true essence of Hip-Hop that corporate America has taken and replaced with the face of drugs, sex, violence, corruption and the love of money.  Flowers! presents the world is positive meaningful lyrics and straight music with real feelings…. True Hip-Hop.