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The hotter the scholar be, the larger the lottery. Squallery harder we need dollars comradely Now I got it all my enemies wanna clobber me. I'm about to get that money like a robbery, She's trying to say that I rushed her then crushed her. When your lover say tecca nina's a brother, Round these hustlas homie don�t be a sucka. Petite beast, feast, these G�s will rock ya. Species release freaks, please the monster. Ya gotta let tech knees tease your shakra.? I like all woman, tall woman, and small woman. Helpfully let me hit this model in the grado.? Whoever the Nina choose, we about to pounce. How they say on Diary? You think you know, but you have no idea.�Īnd she will leave with me because of my stature. Going on inside my mind, they think I'm Mr. �Everybody around me always think they know what's Moon stricken, animal need, bad seed, untaimable beast) To the list of improbable Tech N9ne qualities, add underground hip-hop mogul who, 20 years in, still wants his late mom to be proud.(Insanity at it's finest. "Never faked it, look, mama I made it, that's a fact now," he spits on "Look What I Did," off 2020's Enterfear. And though he's never actively pursued aboveground success, each of his 11 full-length releases over the next two decades landed on the Billboard charts, and he found room for collabs with the mainstream-beloved likes of Eminem and Kendrick Lamar. With his third album, 2001's sordid Anghellic, Yates secured his horrorcore supremacy. At the turn of the millennium, Tech N9ne cofounded his own label, Strange Music, conceived as a home for his intellectually charged lyrics and experimental approach to vocal patterns-namely, the Midwest-native chopper style, an unrelenting rapid-fire delivery that features hard-edged pronunciation and a breakneck cadence. Born Aaron Dontez Yates in 1971, the Kansas City native got his initial footing in the early '90s with the occasional radio single as a member of the group Black Mafia and on the soundtrack for the 1997 film Gang Related.
And though his childhood was stained by instability (a chronically ill mother) and violence (her abusive partner), he's known for extraordinary reliability and courtesy as a performer. He's known for his stinging chopper delivery, but claims The Doors as a major musical inspiration.
He's an icon in the horrorcore genre, yet cites his religious faith as one of his primary influences. Tech N9ne is many things, not all of which neatly align with the image of a rapper who's named for a semi-automatic pistol.