Album Notes

TW12LVE arrived just in time at the final hour of the old west; he calls for the Westerection (Resurrection of the West) and new business in the West. Gifted to the world in Southern California, this twenty-something year old rapper is about breaking molds. He is the twelfth child of twelve children and also the twelfth Initiate in his family, and voilà the pseudonym TW12LVE was born. He came up in watts roaming the projects spittin verses. Being fashioned by love, violence, hate, hope and despair; it influenced his music.

Not new to the game, he's credited as a writer and performer with such artist as Ice Cube & Da Lench Mob. Within the past year, he has steadily ripped shows around Los Angeles at the Viper Room, the L.A. Convention Center, the Hollywood Park Casino, and the Martini Lounge captivating the ladies and rousing the fellas. With a unique and flexible voice, he has been identified with the geniuses of Tupac, Ice Cube, and Scarface. These masters of the genre along with Chuck-D, LL Cool J, KRS-One, and Melle Mel are given full props for inspiring him to become a hip hop artist. It doesn't stop there because Billie Holiday, John Coltrane, Miles Davis and Jimmy Hendrix are notable greats his style deeply embraces.

TW12LVE's project, relates to all, from the shorties, pimps, politicians, head-bangers, haters, M.D.s, Ph.D.s and those out for just cheese. He is poised to be inducted into the hip hop hall of fame, among the Legends, where the verses are timeless and can't be measured or defined.

TW12LVE is the last of a dying breed from the West Coast, but he's not bound to it. His passion for hip hop makes anyone realize that TW12LVE is a true hip hop nationalist. The lyrics he spits showers the hip hop world with rhyme and reason. So He ain't just sellin' beats he's got somethin' to say, so listen!