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A meticulous lyrical article writer, Butta Verses was introduced to underground hip-hop viewers using the lofty endorsement of De La Spirit, something just a few MCs can in fact claim. Blessed and bred in the Bronx, Butta (aka John Cullen) embraced hip-hop lifestyle in early stages with road ciphers and battle-rap freestyles portion as his lyrical schooling surface. In his teenagers, he relocated to Fort Lauderdale, FL, around 1993. Naïve and rebellious, Cullen acquired ambitions to be a surfer, which he hardly ever actually pursued, with one stage he enlisted in the U.S. Marines, but was ultimately expelled for narcotics make use of. Hip-hop music was demonstrating to become his just constructive outlet. Throughout the convert of the brand new millennium, Butta Verses helped come up with the Glee Membership Detention, a collective of potential performers and DJs who backed one another in obtaining their music noticed. In 2003, a few of his use the crew arrived in the lap of De La Soul’s Maseo, who was simply beginning to create functions in Florida. Maseo got Butta under his wing, putting your signature on him to his fledgling Carry Hill imprint, and quickly De La Spirit MCs Posdnuos and Trugoy the Dove had been support the newcomer aswell. After his appropriate debut within the monitor “No” for De La Soul’s The Grind Day (2004), Butta Verses appeared to be in all the proper circles. He was the starting act for most worldwide trips headlined by performers like Common, John Tale, and, obviously, De La Spirit. A few of his music was also becoming licensed for tv make use of, including for Sunday Night time Live, MTV’s REAL LIFE, and A&E’s Puppy the Bounty Hunter. Nevertheless, frustrated with waiting in the wings, in addition to presenting a finished recording that received no appropriate advertising or distribution (Brand Spankin’ was just available on-line), the excited MC left Carry Mountain. With a fresh 12″ sole, “Jones in Ya Bone fragments,” in 2007, Butta Verses rebounded rapidly, releasing Six Mins to Ten that same yr.
