| Born in 1982, Ilana grew up with one older brother. Hearing her brother rap all the time she started picking up on hip hop music. She grew up listening to artist like McLyte, Dabrat, public enemy, sugar hill gang, curtis blow, YO,YO Salt and Pepa, Nas, RunDMC, 2pac and Notorious B.I.G. She started writing lyrics and poetry at the age of 13. When she entered high school she started recording songs with a tape recorder and her mothers radio and entered in a talent show at school. In her first show, the group she was in took second place. While in High School, she made contact with a producer named david hall of deep rooted production. When recording with david hall she learned about many business parts of the industry and picked up some traits on how the industry works. She recorded with him for a while and eventually went seperate ways. |
