Marco Polo

An earnest pupil from the early-’90s boom-bap technique, underground rap manufacturer Marco Bruno, aka Marco Polo, was created and raised in Toronto, Ontario. Bit hard with the hip-hop insect, he enrolled into an audio anatomist college in 1999, purchasing his initial MPC along with his student education loans. Once he completed up college, he shifted from Canada right down to NY and resided in his friend’s cellar in Queens to obtain his career began. He began having to pay his dues as an unpaid intern on the Slicing Room documenting studios in Manhattan, which ultimately converted into an on-staff administration position. He utilized to play his beats at work while customers like Talib Kweli, Excess fat Joe, and Inspectah Deck arrived through for documenting sessions. One particular passersby, Masta Ace, loved what he noticed and added among Polo’s productions (“GET IT DONE Guy”) to his 2004 work A Long Warm Summer. The track opened up a lot more possibilities for him, and quickly he became an in-house maker for N.Con. indie Soulspazm. He was getting beats for a number of noteworthy hip-hop performers, including Supernatural, Jean Grae, Immortal Technique, the TRAINING Clik, and California MC Rasco, who released Polo’s 1st beat Compact disc, Canned Products, on his Pouches Linted imprint in 2005. When Soulspazm experienced a falling out in clumps using its distributor, the business prearranged another jv with Rawkus Information. Rawkus championed the ambitious beat-maker and his 2007 creation album, Port Expert. With his clean textures and back-to-basics approach, Polo aptly selected veteran MCs like Kool G Rap, Huge Teacher, O.C., and Masta Ace to elegance various songs for the LP.