Editorial Reviews This multi-layered concept album, including a six-panel story board charged with haunting images, is one young man’s journey home to self-discovery and truth, and an exposé of America’s contradictions. Through his boldly honest and thought-provoking lyrics, echoing the voice of the past, present and future, Profit shares with listeners tales of his struggle and those of his people. Speaking in paradox, Profit reminds us that we ultimately share the same fate as one human race -- thus his last words on the album: "Our souls to be your shovels. Dig and you shall find us . . ." The album is also musically enticing as Profit breaks down the barriers and fuses the old with the new and the cultured with the raw. Live guitar, bass, piano, violin and trumpet also deliver a poignant yet potent mix. American Famine is a catalytic voice that will stir the hearts and minds of many.
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About the Artist
Profit was born on June 18, 1976 in Washington, D.C. as the only child to an inter-racial couple (Korean & Black American). Both of his parents were independent filmmakers and Profit grew up in a stimulating environment surrounded by artists/writers/thinkers and political/community activists. His parents divorced when he was 10 years old and he moved to New York where he lived one year with his mother and his Korean family. Later they moved to the West Coast and Profit spent most of his teen years in San Francisco with his mother and some in Los Angeles with his father. His multi-cultural, and multi-racial experience gave him an interesting outlook on life but it also became a source of confusion and pain as he began to face the world as a teenager -- encountering racism, prejudice, hypocrisy, authoritarianism, broken homes and poverty. In his search for freedom and inner-peace, he abandoned all faith in what was taught and presented to him and began his journey to find his own truth. He walked a gray line between life and death, causing much agony to himself and family. Profit's empathy for suffering children, urban youth, the poor and the abandoned comes from his own experience. This is when he began writing ferociously. His exposure to music came at an early age through his mother, also a trained classical pianist. Although he sang in a choir, and played the clarinet and baritone in a school jazz band, he was always a writer at heart. Then at the age of 17 he met Horus Tolson through SGI (who was very instrumental in Profit's realization that making rap music was what he really wanted to do in life) and began learning the equipment and making his own beats. The rest is history, and the struggle continues . . ..
Album Description
With his debut album, American Famine, Profit emerges as a powerful writer/producer/rapper.– breaking molds and setting own protocol.