TALONTED

What does it take to be TALoNTED? Take a close look at New Jersey’slatest hip-hop phenom and you’ll find the answer. With an honest and organic approach to music, TALoNTED offers a fresh perspective to an undeniably saturated industry.

Born the youngest of four to Nigerian parents in East Orange, New Jersey, then moving to Newark, New Jersey, TALoNTED wrote his first rhyme at age six. His story of focus and ambition is powerful.Through the determination of his mother, TALoNTED and his family eventually moved to the neighboring suburb of South Orange, New
Jersey. Some may say the move resulted in the young man having a decent resume, with a B.S. from Wharton and a J.D. from NYU.Throughout the years he spent pursuing banging those grades out, he NEVER ceased to keep his music movement afloat. Performing at a number of talent shows and colleges, including Temple, Drexel and NYU,TALoNTED established himself as an up-and-coming artist whose passion and aspirational flavor inspire listeners to think outside the box and explore limitless possibilities.

TALoNTED’s music reveals the many facets of a person that just can’t be boxed in or easily categorized. He introduces us to the new rap hero prototype. With hopes of his music touching the globe and representing, as he puts it, “renaissance men and women,” hip hop has been introduced to something new. Something daring. Something
special.What can we expect T to offer? Well, in his own words…

“To be what ya get if Lauryn didn’t dip,
If Pac wasn’t hit, if Barack chose to spit,
If X at his speech had unloaded a clip,
and Bob Marley lasted longer than 36…”

a promise that he works everyday to ensure is fulfilled.