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Bishop Lamont has been hard at work lately. He's been in the studio night and day recording music in preperation for an explosive 2007 for Aftermath. Bishop's debut "The Reformation" is currently scheduled for Summer of next year, with Dr. Dre's "DETOX" following in September.
Dr. Dre will be the first to tell you that there “Ain’t no Stoppin’ Carson”. But that’s because he knows Bishop is the truth and that he’s going spray all these wack so-called MCs with some of that Aftermath holy water.
At the early age of 12, Bishop was showing signs of interest in the arts with his many renderings of cartoon caricatures and characters in his art work. He filled many sketchbooks with the art that thrust itself from his psyche onto paper. It seemed to flow like a constant stream from his life experiences into the many shapes of his mind. He was, and still is, an avid reader.
The years that followed were filled with drawings, video games, comic books, and books of every kind. He has an insatiable quest and unquenchable thirst for knowledge and constantly consumes literature from fiction to non-fiction, from science to religions, from the supernatural to the astrological and has a remarkable command of the English Language.
As effortlessly and quickly as his art came to him, it seemed to subside in the same way. One day he just said it no longer interested him. Then, at the age of 13, he began his journey into the world of music. Songs just came naturally to him. He could hear them with a certain type of beat, flow, and ending. He would systematically put them down on paper.
He grew up on the music of NWA, Beastie Boys, Aretha Franklin, Credence Clearwater, D.J. Quik, Snoop, Dr. Dre, Too Short, Rakim, Stetsa-sonics, Poor Righteous Teachers, King-tee, X-Clan, Public Enemy, The roots, MC Lyte, Big Daddy Kane, MC Eiht, Above The Law, The Dogg Pound, Warren G, Threat, D.O.C, Rass Kass, just to name a few.
Then, as fate would have it, he placed his mix-tape “Who I Gotta Kill to Get a Record Deal, Vol. 1, in the hands of Dr. Dre at a video shoot. When Dr. Dre mentioned that he would listen to the CD on his way home, Bishop, though exuberant about encountering the mythic producer, thought it would never happen.
Weeks later, Dr. Dre was on Los Angeles radio station Power 106 celebrating his birthday and touting Bishop Lamont as a talented up-and-comer – one he had his eye on and planned to work with.
Finally, in September 2005, after years of hard work, sacrifice, riding the waves of a bidding war between all the major Labels, and an unshakable faith in God, he signed with Dr. Dre of Aftermath Entertainment. His dream had finally come true.
When asked “what he’d like to do most – even if he didn’t get paid for it” – he says unequivocally, “My music. I can share my truths of life with the masses thru my music. I can give people the truth on both sides of the fence and have fun doing it”!
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