Album Notes

Listen up and pay attention! The artist MIXST was born to the public through the independent label Diamond Cut Entertainment's publishing of his debut release, "My Ghetto Story".

Born a halfbreed: a white mother and a black father. Growing up would be a struggle for the Indiana native. Sure, he had the same problems of poverty that nearly every child from the ghetto was faced with, but he had social matters that made his situation even worse. He was not only cast out of the white community due to his black skin, but was also looked at as an outsider by the black community due to his white mother and light-black skin. Fitting in would prove to be quite the challenge for the child!

Oddly enough, during his elementary years of school he was often thought to be some sort of child genius by the school systems he frequented. Teachers, principals, and students alike all thought of him in comparison to the strongest minds of his peers, to be arguably the strongest; but this line of thinking was countered by one major catch: he had somewhat of a biological-chemical imbalalance paralled by a very unstable living environment at home. These two factors would lead his life into a world of darkness and confusion where his so called "genius" mind would be overshadowed by a combination of stress and depression that would leak into his childhood until the result; a flood of wreckless emotions launched from a halfbreed (mixed) juvenile onto a local society in a Midwestern-Indiana-country town; and he would stretch both his city, and his wreckless behavior to their respective limits.

The first real tragedy in his life came when his father died from lung cancer. His father was a strong male figure in not only his childrens' life, but in his surrounding family as well. Losing this man was crucial because his death would provide an unwanted boost in eliminating a consistent male figure out of his remaining life. He would struggle from then on to establish any bonds with male role-model types. Without these bonds, he had a signifinant amount of trouble with learning when it came to the social subjects of life like; respecting other people and their opinions and property, self-discipline, honesty and loyalty, and good sportsmanship, etc.

His 2nd tragedy came in the form of CRACK-Cocaine. His mother developed a severe drug habit. Drugs would come to dominate her life and she would eventually choose the drug over her young children. This devastated him. Without a father he had become the epitomy of a "momma's boy"; so he would not only lose all hope for the chance of a prominent future, but would also never again look at women in quite the same fashion. He lost trust in the female gender. When socializing, he would soon begin to see only deception and lies in women, even family, regardless of their attempts at providing him with forms of love and affection.

He became a juvenile with no parents and no one to guide him other than himself. The long arm of the streets eventually found him, and after that, things began to get interesting...