ARTIST. MUSICIAN. POET. HIMSELF

 

"DC" was born Darius Isaiah Carter on March 2nd 1989. Growing up in a small Cleveland home on an off-street of St. Clair, Darius was exposed to a plethora of great music at a very young age. As the likes of Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, and countless other quality musicians pieced together the soundtrack to his early life, Darius began flirting with his first love; writing. While developing his penmanship, Darius amassed a small collection of literary awards throughout his late elementary school years. As his writing skills became increasingly pronounced, the awards he received also increased in stature--eventually resulting in a second place finish for a national essay contest in honor of the African American peace advocate Rosa Parks.

With such a budding abundance of literary experience under his belt, it would seem only natural for Darius to pursue a career as a promising young author. However, wanting to emulate his older brother--an emerging hip-hop artist at the time--Darius began to slowly develop a penchant for crafting songs, relentlessly pursuing a sufficient musical education in the process. In the fall of 2006, the start of his junior year of high school, Darius became fiercely determined to hone his talents and become a full fledged hip-hop artist and music producer--a daunting task that would take him nearly four years to accomplish

In the fall of 2009, armed with an Axiom 61 midi controller and an At2020 condenser microphone, Darius began shaping his first full musical pieces while pursuing higher education at Kent State University. Possessing a self-acquired reservoir of knowledge on the subject of musical composition, Darius expressed himself wholly through musical means, creating works that ranged from the likes of classical, movie themed instrumentals to hard-hitting, bone-jarring soul sampled beats. Subsequently, it was in the winter of 2009 that Darius began working on his most ambitious project, one that would later become known as the "Freedom" EP.

"Be you, that someone else you were trying to emulate is already taken."