Bukue One

Born to Dark Panther parents, Tion Torrence was raised equally influenced by both skater as well as the hip-hop civilizations found prevalently within the Bay Region, where he grew up. His father, who was simply sang back-up in Marvin Gaye’s touring music group, surrounded his kid with music, and by his teenage years Torrence acquired began rapping himself. Nevertheless, he discovered that he was an adept businessman, aswell, and began his own firm, Urban Productions, which, in 1998, come up with a four-day celebration that united skating and hip-hop. Immediately after, he was handling L.A. rapper Aceyalone’s Austrialian tour, a move that also became successful to his profession as MC (and graffiti article writer) Bukue One, as his tune, “4 tha Graff Minds,” was fulfilled with enthusiasm abroad. More travels, singles, and mixtapes emerged in the next years, and in 2007 Bukue One arrived with his initial formal full-length, Intromission, that was released in digital-only format in cooperation with Alpha Pup Records.