It's Ya Boy Chris Haze Also Known As GUNNA Coming Strait Out Of SHELDON PARK In PITTSBURGH PA. U Can Check Out My Music At myspace Ive Been Making Music For About 5 or 6 Years. My Influence Growing Up Was My Brother Sherrod. He Helped Me Become A Better Emcee. His Younger Cousin Kahlil From New York City Came Out Here To Live And Thats When I Was Introduced To Real Hip Hop. They Use To Freestyle And I Used To Just Sit There And Listen. That Was When I Was 12 or 13. As I Got Older I Started Flowing In The Cypher. Even When My Freestyles Were Garbage I Kept At It And Practiced Every Day To Sharpen My Blade. I Never Really Mastered The Art Of Freestyling I Consider My Freestyle Average. But The Pen Game Thats Another Story. Locked Up In Shuman Center A Juveinile Facility In Pittsburgh When I Was 15, I Had Nothing But Time So I Started Writing And The Words Just Poured Out On The Paper. A Year Later I Was Released. For The Next Couple Of Years I Kept Writing Then I Started Recording Tracks From Instrumentals. That Was Cool But I Wanted More, So A Couple More Years Went By And I Bought A Studio And From Then Ive Been Making Music Ever Since. I Started A Myspace Page Just To Get My Name Out There And Be Heard Then I Came Across This Contest For LOUD.COM And I Started To Lay Down Tracks, And By My 3rd Or 4th Track I Was Selected As The Round 7 Winner Of The First Contest. With My Track Called "7th Round K.O" Unfortunately I Was Not Selected In The Top 3. I Was Disappointed But It Made Me Realize That I Had To Work That Much Harder To Get It. So When I Finally Do Get It. I Know I'm Gonna Have To Work Even Harder To Keep It.