Lil SLice (Shaune H. Crawford), Talent off the raw streets of Brooklyn, NYC, grew up in a family with a background for show-biz and music. An individual who recently got into rap at the young age of thirteen years old when Hip-Hop and Alternative Rock were being combined as a musical composition.

Born in the year 1991, his generation and age-group were brought up in a technical society where computers and musical devices were storming the economy. He was a problem child in school, never had good grades and only paid attention to the more social things in life such as his personal identity, close friends, girls, and obviously music.

The road to Lil SLice becoming a Hip-Hop artist is similar to other upcoming rappers trying to do the same thing, he started writing poetry and rhymes when listening to songs by Tupac, Big Pun, Biggie Smalls, Dr. Dre, Eminem, Jay-Z, Nas, Talib Kweli, Mos Def, etc. But his lyrics are very different. Most mainstream and even underground Hip-Hop artists today write about the hood, the violence, the money and jewelry that comes out of it, they never educate in their music, they just brag about the things that they have and how they came from nothing to something.

Lil SLice was sick of such lyrics and songs and resented the fact that these artists had talent and degraded themselves as human beings by showing a greedy, obnoxious side to them, a very ignorant side. While growing up and going to school, he watched and even conformed himself to the personality traits of a stereotypical Hip-Hop fan. A lot of cursing, unfaithful relationships with girls he was dating, fights and baggy clothes. He ended up in a gang-related rap group of 3 People and went through many different ghetto's trying to promote music as a African American, Trinidadian rapper. Currently,Lil SLice is respected as a young unsigned rapper from New York City.

He has a mediocre reputation but his music has a huge impact on his fans worldwide. Meeting up with another upcoming singer from Charlotte,North Carolina, Lyrekal they established a group called Yung Riderz and got together a third member,803 Hell Rell to join the movement. Today the independent group has little recognition but they are working on making it big. Everything takes time and with a few promises it won't be long before the Yung Riderz are getting the respect and appreciation they deserve.Lil SLice is one of the most hard working, spoken word hip-hop artists in the game today, with no record deal and no contract signings, he's able to still spread a message through his music to his fans everywhere whether through websites such as Myspace or Soundclick or even to people locally.

His style of Hip-Hop is unique and of one nobody has ever heard before, and they love it. " A legend isn't made overnight, What's legendary is the music he writes. " - Lil SLice He will be heard, and Hip-Hop will change once again. This time, to embrace the positive. Not the negative.

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