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MyRapNameIsAlex My real name: also Alex
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I'm Alex. I have loved Rap music and Hip Hop culture and break dancing ever since I was a small child. But as a seriously shy type I thought that actually performing in front of people was absolutely impossible. I used to write rap lyrics and post them on the internet to collect a little internet praise but knew better than to try to ever rap out loud.
In the 2000s the political climate angered me to the point that I forced myself to read some of my lyrics as poetry at open mics. That led to me eventually joining the performance poetry group ice 9. Then a band called
[BloodTHirsty Vegans] strongly suggested to me that they were going to play music while I said my poetry out loud. So I invented a Rap super hero, My Rap Name is Alex --much more confident than myself-- to cavort with the BloodThirsty Vegans.
In the mid 2010s I learned and became enthralled with the art of Live Looping. I started a thing,
[Live Loopers], to explore the art form and My Rap Name is Alex became a solo live looping performer as well. I mostly perform my own
original songs but occasionally perform some
cover songs as well.