After listening to a couple songs off of your myspace profile and your website, you guys definitely have a punk/industrial sound going. Was this the sound you were looking for?

Canadian hip hop developed much more slowly than the rock music scene. Although Canada had hip hop artists right from the early days of the scene, the infrastructure simply wasn’t there to get their music to the record-buying public. Even Toronto — Canada’s largest city and one of its most multicultural — had difficulty getting an urban music station on the radio airwaves until 2000. As a result, if a Canadian hip-hop artist could get signed, it was very difficult for them to get exposure, even if their videos were played on Much Music.

Just as Kool Herc is credited in America as being a founding father of hip hop, a DJ by the name of Leron Teeni is given the same sort of credit with being the jump starter of the hip hop scene in Israel in the mid 1990s.

Hip Hop culture first appeared in Brazil in the early 80s a little after hip hop appeared in the U.S. São Paulo was the most prominent location for Hip Hop when it first came out. So how did hip hop get spread around Brazil? 

While most 20 year old girls find an escape from life by spending their parents money, Allyse seeks refuge from the daily struggle of life by indulging in her music and modeling career. The talented song writer, model, beat maker and singer reflects back on how she got here today and what her music and modeling career is shaping up to be.