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Leon Legacy

An insatiable imagination and a natural tendency to question tradition often put him at ends with his peers growing up. As such social alienation and ridicule became a part of his life from a very early age. In these early years Leon found that creative writing and poetry were a powerful way for him to escape the cruelty of the other kids in school and in his neighborhood, But It wasn't until his teenage years where Leon finally found a medium to which he could speak his mind freely to the world and actually be heard, Music. After receiving an electric bass and acoustic guitar for his birthday one year he began exploring his new craft, experimenting with multiple different genre's ranging from Post-hardcore to pop, Absorbing influence from everyone from Michael Jackson to Linkin' Park. Until the summer of 2008, when Leon would find a his musical home, a genre where he could creativley blend all of his prior influences, Hip-Hop. Years of creative writing and poetry had set him up to be a master word smith. With a Natural talent for free-styling and hook writing. Taking major lyrical influence from masters of the craft, Lupe Fiasco, and Eminem. As well as being heavily inspired by the content of artist like Kanye west and eventually Kid Cudi, And stylistic influence form producers, Kanye West, Dntel of the postal service, Mr Hahn, and Mike Shinoda Of Linkin Park, and Noah 40 Shebib, Leon slowly but surely began to piece together his own original sound.