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The future
is unknown and holds a big mystery. With determination,
focus, and hard work, I can see a future of being
successful and knowing that I bring good hits to the
streets. That is the mindset of an up and coming Artist
who is set to take rap music by storm! With his street
influenced style of rhyme, complimented by a virtual
funk influenced soundscape as his canvas, YOUNG SICC
ingeniously uses street slang, a strong party vibe, a
solid Mexican heritage, as well as realistic delivery of
good old fashioned west coast gangster rap to bring to
industry!
Needless to say, Young Sicc has never been afraid of
being in the spotlight, whether, talking into the camera
lens, to performing in front of hundreds of church-goers
as a child, saying, my mom told me that me and my cousin
were suppose to perform a song for this church
convention. When it came time to perform my cousin had
gotten sick, but I still went on by myself and was
introduced to the many spectators. My mom told me that I
just went up there and put it down though. Till this
day, I still don't remember.
The twist in Young Sicc's style of flow comes from his
upbringing and influences. Born and raised in San Diego
California, Sicc's love for music would start at an
early age. Both his mother and father were into the 60's
and 70's oldies era. As he recalls, I was bumping
everything that my dad and uncles were playing, whether
it was The Manhattans, Marvin Gaye, The Whispers, to
Smokey, Mary Wells, and the Intruders, I would take
there tapes and records and record them all night long
so I could bump them in my room or in my walkman on the
bus to school.
In elementary and Jr. high, he became a heavily fan of
the rap music of the late 80's and early 90's. Inspired
by artists and groups from, Eazy- E, N.W.A., Too Short
and D.O.C. to Slick Rick, Big Daddy Kane, and Doug E.
Fresh. Encouraged by the music, Sicc began to develop
more of an interest in rap music and by the time he
reached junior high, he had begun writing more lyrics
and would enter school talent shows. Seeing the whole
school bounce and cheer was a big thrill for me, says
Young Sicc.
In his adolescent days, life wasn't always easy growing
up in the often dangerous streets of Southeast San
Diego. Young Sicc, born Francisco Sandoval Jr., slowly
found himself in the center of a low rated neighborhood
of gang violence as well as a heavily distributed area
of narcotics. As he recalls, man I would see it all,
from Mexican homies to all the bloods , I would see
feens getting served rocks right in front of me in broad
day light, like it wasn't shit.
Though being influenced by the rap music that was
storming through the streets, Sicc would soon find
himself influenced by the well known gang activity that
was taking place in the area. His father, an old school
veteran as well, would school Sicc constantly of the
dangers of street life and would try to keep him in
school and away from the neighborhood street gang.
Slowly but surely, Sicc had started running with the
homeboys in the hood and eventually became from the
gang.
See I was lucky enough that I had a pops, but I just got
down with the hood cuzz I wanted to see the streets for
myself. I had homies and relatives from the
neighborhood, that it just made me wanna participate in
the same environment, you know what I'm saying!
Everybody back in the days was bumping Eazy-E, and N.W.A.
and that's how I got influenced to rap. They wasn't
giving a fuck, they were just spilling that shit! Then
2pac came and it was on and cracking!
Getting such an overview of the streets, Sicc began to
transform his street life experiences into music making
underground songs that he and his friends would record.
Me, the homie Shaggs, and Chuy were making tapes from a
karaoke machine to instrumentals off the turntables. We
were making tapes for the neighborhood says Sicc.
Now in his mid-twenties, Young Sicc is determined and
focused to take his shot at the industry doors that lie
ahead! From gangsta shit, to club shit, to the radio we
keep it gangsta and street, but we ain't out here
banging, we trying to make hits. The underground is cool
but we trying to make Mtv and B.E.T hits, period!
From incorporating his past experiences into his own
solid formula, he not only is set to make certified
ghetto hits, but presents a clear picture to the
listener that makes him a well rounded writer/performer
in the over saturated rap music market.
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