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There is more than one artist with this name:

1) Alias, born in Portland, Maine to a jazz drummer and a church organist, grew up in a suburb called Hollis and played drums in his high school band. Isolated in a small town, alias found no music that captivated him until at age 13 when he saw “Yo MTV Raps.” Alone in his interest in hiphop, alias sought to immerse himself in this foreign counter-culture. He bought The Source monthly at the one shop in Maine that carried it, and by age 14 he was writing his own raps. In support of his new found passion, his parents bought him a drum machine for Christmas, and alias rapped over his own beats in the privacy of his bedroom, too shy to share his rhymes with anyone.

However, in 1993, upon meeting Sole, who was already recording and doing shows, alias began rapping in ciphers at parties. He moved his “studio” from his bedroom to a friend’s basement where he taught himself to use an MPC 3000 and an ADAT machine. In ‘96 he started doing shows with The Live Poets (sole’s group) around New England.

In ‘98 during the deep puddle dynamics sessions in Minneapolis with Slug, dose and sole, alias realized that music would be his life’s work. Now taking himself seriously as a rapper and producer, he moved with the first wave of the anticon West Coast migration into a warehouse in East Oakland with his wife Jen and sole. Within a year he had recorded the other side of the looking glass, his first solo release, a rap-heavy introspective opus.

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  • penigra

    Canadian AOR Band and Us Power Metal is Great

    Yesterday 11:59am Reply
  • coa11

    @it_ends die bitch.

    26 Apr 9:40am Reply
  • TheLukieBoi1

    Oh please, get rid of this faggy band!

    20 Apr 5:32am Reply
  • it_ends

    @coa11 mentally retarded trash, fuck off ahahahaahhahaah

    17 Apr 12:16pm Reply
  • Eitental

    dude what's with all the photos of a '70s-looking hair metal band? is this the result of some kind of mass trolling?

    27 Mar 1:59pm Reply
  • xVictimOfADownx

    Guys, metal and hip hop are awesome, stop fighting!

    17 Mar 6:46pm Reply
  • Sor_Piero

    Anticon foreva!

    12 Mar 9:51am Reply
  • varg_vikerne

    no problem- i've just voted down

    7 Mar 9:57pm Reply
  • Caravaggio_by

    wote for this picture please! i'm fed up with this shit http://www.lastfm.ru/music/Alias/+images/87428241

    5 Mar 10:48am Reply
  • varg_vikerne

    Stupid haters of haters of hip-hop

    26 Feb 6:57pm Reply
  • okayshutup

    i love this picture of alias

    20 Feb 4:34am Reply
  • Deato

    That old band is irrelevant today. Change the picture to match the #1 profile below it, Alias of the Anticon roster.

    6 Feb 5:49pm Reply
  • In_bloom_

    Stupid haters of hip-hop(

    5 Feb 12:11pm Reply
  • DrKKE

    неужели их нельзя как то разъединить?! а то портят всю картину в моих чартах!(

    27 Jan 1:05pm Reply
  • Drew744

    Fuck)))) Who's that????

    24 Jan 6:49pm Reply
  • coa11

    @it_ends i'm sick of you .. your IQ of brain isn't bigger than a grain of bean .. think again before you said something .. i feel so sorry for you ..

    17 Jan 6:15pm Reply
  • it_ends

    @coa11 AHAHHAHHAAH LOOK AT THAT RETARDED GUY, GET CANCER AHAHAHAHA

    17 Jan 10:11am Reply
  • malloun4eG

    i brought justice here...Only hip-hop Alias!

    16 Jan 6:36pm Reply
  • coa11

    @it_ends you're fuckin' emo trash .. hang yourself please .. give me a favour ..

    3 Jan 11:36am Reply
  • it_ends

    hairy metal faggots is only faggots there. deal with it, fucking trash.

    29 Dec 2012 Reply
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