STYLE MISIA
Long Beach, CA
PRODUCER, SONGWRITER, MC.
Genre: Hip Hop, Rap, R&B
For Style Misia, there is no alternative. Who would have guessed that a troubled energetic kid from Long Beach,
California would go on to turn his life into the soundtrack for the streets. Born and raised on the tought streets
of Long Beach, the poverty and gang violence did little to take him away from his gift of music, instead the
struggle gave him a source of motivation that his 6'0" husky frame would need to knock doors down in the
hip hop game.
A son of Guamanian mother and a Mexican father, he was born into a musical family considering his father
played lead guitar in their garage with his band int he 70's and 80's, however, Misia's initial interest was in
drawing, more specifically graffiti.
When the hip hop avenue of graffiti and DJing led him to discover RUN DMC's "Dumb Girl," he was instantly
dumbfounded by the thickness of the bass. Later, Too Short's "Don't Fight The Feeling," caught his ear and he
was hooked. When he learned that both tracks were made on a Roland TR-808 drum maching, he knew his calling
would be in music making.
In 1991, for the sake of he and his siblings, his family moved north to San Jose, and the Bay Area would
be where Misia would officialy start his defiant musical career. Misia has seen his stock rise as a
sought after producer, crafting high profile bangers for the Multi-Platinum likes of 50 Cent "Queens Pimp"
to lacing gems for underground heavyweights Rasco & Ras Kass "Making the Rounds."
Style Misia made an impact in the mid 90's in the emerging Bay Area Underground hip hop scene. As a
producer/MC, he was part of local crews that musically hustled the West Coast Underground scene with the
D.I.Y. mentality, putting out tapes alongside other heavyweight crews such as the Living Legends and
Project Blowed.
After putting out material as an artist and with his group, he decided to fallback from being an artist.
Around 1997, after his father told him that the real way he could make a career out of music was in
producing, he made a commitment to his father that he would go full force with it. From there on, he hit
the grind hard with his production skills. He started producing tracks for Scarub of the Living Legends, PEACE
of Freestyle Fellowship, and for various underground compilations.
Fast forward a few years later, he moved to Manhattan, NYC in 2004 and continued his grind there. Around this
time he caught the attention of several agents who guided him to expand his sound and to consider shopping his
music to artists with budgets on Major and Indie Labels.
The first move was to hit New York's legendary mixtape scene and scored big when 50 Cent laced the mixtape
favorite "Queens Pimp" on the highly anticipated Dj Whoo Kid Mixtape (G-Unit Radio Pt. 10, 2050: Before the
Massacre).
The momentum would continue to roll when Peedi Crakk of State Property (Roc-A-Fella Records), would do the same
on the Big Mike Mixtape release (P. Crakk 4 Prez). After numerous underground placements and mixtape
appearances (Scram Jones, DJ Unexpected & DJ Kochese), Misia decided to permanently move back to California to
network out of Los Angeles.
Change is nothing new to the ever-evolving Style Misia with more than a decade in the game, this track master has
witnessed the landscape of hip hop replenish itself over and over. Misia is a self-contained entrepreneur who's
endured the ups and downs, and knows that consistency and quality is essential. Having recently laced tracks for
newly signed Major Label artists and underground heavyweights:
Sean Price, Big Pooh of Little Brother, Devin the
Dude, Fish Scales of Nappy Roots, Prince Jarmen, Planet Asia, Equipto, Bash Bros, the producer/songwriter/MC shows
no signs of slowing down!
For more info:
myspace.com/stylemisia
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