Mark Five

About Mark Five

Missouri born and raised move to Columbia Missouri in 1983 from north (expired link) at the age of five. Came from a family of musicians so the music was already in me, influence b my older brother tony ford and his rap group in the late 80s they were called Gateway City Posse which consisted of Monterey Jack Jonathan alligator which is also my cousin and bud sneedwNWA, Slick Rick, Rakim, all of Memphis ,UGK ,rap a lot as a whole ,cash money and others. Ended up meeting three fellas n my older brother king bey that would end up making my first rap group titled Midwest ballers one of those guys goes by the name of John Dre a producer also from St Louis Missouri this will be my beat maker and rap partner we would go on to make several albums mixtapes and cover songs doing shows in and out of town creating a buzz then I ran into a guy by the name of young Ray Taylor also joined in the group and we ended up making a movie documentary about Columbia Missouri for clubs all the celebrities rappers an artist that came to Columbia Missouri to perform we recorded sketch comedy added in The Nightlife fights and created what we call today after set the movie we ended up editing the movie pressing it up and selling it which did a lot of numbers and was a staple in the streets District create a huge Buzz now the town wanted any and everything that we touched. Out of 50 rappers and Columbia high rank myself in the top five lyrics originality energy and some of the best Concepts ,topics and ideas just have a natural knack for the music ,beats and style. I have a lot of love for the music I never stop recording I would like to push the new label I began to build just get it records and entertainment be on the lookout for new songs new music new artist new videos maybe even motions films from the label.