Christopher Jon Snipes, born January 28, 1986, Brentwood, Maryland, USA was raised in Brentwood, MD. Snipes states, hip-hop? It's not dead it's just dormant. Believe it or not Snipes music career started when he got a job at the local IHOP in College Park, MD which was when he decided to the 9 to 5 life was not for him, and his music ability began to grow. Everyone that was staffed at IHOP did music in some form; it was like waiters by day hip-hop heads by night. While customers were waiting on their food, the entire staff that was associated with music would have freestyle battles in the kitchen during the work day. Thinking that he couldn't depend on anyone but himself he came across Nisha Management who assisted him in putting out his previous project " I Love CJ Snipes," the mixtape hosted by DJ Casper of the Good Fellaz DJ's.
Snipes
Christopher Jon Snipes, 28 January 1986, Brentwood, Maryland, USA was raised in Brentwood, MD. Snipes states, hip-hop? It's not dead it's just dormant. Believe it or not Snipes music career started when he got a job at the local IHOP in College Park, MD which was when he decided to the 9 to 5 life was not for him, and his music ability began to grow. Everyone that was staffed at IHOP did music in some form; it was like waiters by day hip-hop heads by night. While customers were waiting on their food, the entire staff that was associated with music would have freestyle battles in the kitchen during the work day. From IHOP Snipes met up with a young engineer that had a studio in his basement where he recorded his first mixtape in 2004, "it's Just Me C-Jeasy." It was love at first track.
After the release of his first mixtape, Snipes hit the streets and the internet hard, selling and giving out his music. Thinking that he couldn't depend on anyone but himself he came across Nisha Management who assisted him in putting out his previous project " I Love CJ Snipes," the mixtape hosted by DJ Casper of the Good Fellaz DJ's. He is currently promoting the release of his 3rd mixtape Progression, and working on his latest project The Flood. He began appearing on other indie artists mixtapes and albums through networking and collaboration projects, and performing state to state, doing online radio interviews and having his music featured on those same stations, to gain further exposure. He has been featured on 244 different independent artist sites, and counting, and is taking the internet airwaves by storm. Although in demand as a guest independent artist for collabs, Snipes found the time to write, and teach himself the art of engineering. He decided to in part-finance his music career by recording other unknown artists.
Currently he has released his Fourth mixtape "The Flood" which will take the streets by storm and is working on his fifth project titled "Contamination," Snipes is looking to take the hip-hop industry by storm and restore it to what brought him to it in the first place, which are artist's like: Eminem, Jay Z, Outkast, Devin The Dude, Pac, Big, and Lupe Fiasco to name a few. Look out for CJ Snipes; he is coming for hip-hop with a vengeance.
About Snipes
CJ Snipes has been killing tracks all his life, but didn't start recording until 2004. Growing up in a broken household where his father use to abused him and his mother, he knew that he was going to grow up and be different. After the divorce, CJ was kicked out of school because of his behavior, and forced to leave is sister and move to Laurel, where he would stay with his oldest sister, that he didn't get along with until he got older. While staying at her house he was a very angry child that kept his feelings to himself, until he started writing everything that came to mind on paper, walls, books, cabinets, you name it was written, until he found a old tape recorder and started reading what he wrote on paper.
After a year he returned back to Brentwood, where he would attend Hyattsville Middle School. He didn't have any friends when he came back but made a quick impact once word got around that he was back in town. Always been popular with a group of people he started hanging out with an older crowd once he got to Northwestern High School in 2000. Making poor decisions lead him to get arrested and locked up for a short time. Once he got out he, realized that he had to change the squares that was in his circle because he knew if he didn't he would get arrested again or even worst, be stuck in Brentwood for the rest of his life so he decided to make a change.
Wasn't until 2004 when CJ got a job at the local IHOP in College Park, where his music ability started to grow. Everybody that was staffed at IHOP did music in some form. So while customers were waiting for there food, all the employee's that was associated with music would have a freestyle battle inside the kitchen during the work day. From IHOP CJ met up with a young engineer that had a studio inside his basement where he recorded his first mixtape "It's Just Me C-Jeasy." After that he started learning on his own different recording programs so he could benefit from them.
Knowing that he couldn't depend on anyone but himself he started his own studio so he could record in his own. Now in 2008 CJ Snipes is under Nisha Management and his new mixtape "I LOVE CJ SNIPES," will be ready for release the second week of February 2008.