Inferno began his music "career" in the spring of 2010, when he was recruited by a fellow rapper named Legacy to form a group that would later be known as R&R. After nearly a year of growing pains, Inferno released his 1st mixtape, Back Against The Wall, a project that he was very proud of. To his surprise, it was met with very little acclaim from his peers, many of whom suggested that he stop rapping entirely.
Humbled, Inferno reevaluated his first tape and realized that, while he had improved vastly since he began, he was still a pretty shitty rapper. Eager to prove that he was as good as he believed himself to be, Inferno went right back to work, and released Extra Credit just 2 months after his first tape. While critics of the 1st tape agreed that Inferno had improved, they were still unconvinced of his lyrical abilities. In response, Inferno prepared his 3rd tape, A Man & A Mic, in hopes of showing his versatility with a microphone. The standout track, "Am I Crazy?," opened many people's eyes to his skills. In the wake of the hype, A Man & A Mic was released in the middle of August, just a few days before he left his hometown of Knightdale for the greener, more liquor-filled pastures of East Carolina University. The tape was fairly well received, and with his confidence at an all time high, Inferno prepared the sequel to A Man & A Mic, The Man & The Mic.
Sadly, the mixtape took a turn for the worse when the love of Inferno's life left him for another man just one week after his 18th birthday. As he fell into a deep depression, The Man & The Mic fell as well, and the music became significantly sadder. After awakening from his sadness induced slumber in early 2012 and realizing that he sounded like a huge pussy, Inferno decided to revamp The Man & The Mic, while simultaneously starting another tape called 18. It had been nearly a year since he last released a tape and dropping 2 tapes back to back seemed like the perfect way to make his return. However, working on both tapes proved to be too much. In fear that he wouldn't finish either tape by the end of the year, Inferno combined the tracks from The Man & The Mic that didn't make him sound like a bitch with the tracks he had for 18, he released this compilation as a tape called Destroy & Rebuild.
Destroy & Rebuild was much better than any of the 3 tapes that preceded it.. Yet, it seemed unfinished, and disjointed; as if the two tapes that created it weren't meant for each other, Inferno felt that he could create something much better. Ever the perfectionist, he began work on his next tape. Released nearly 2 years after A Man & A Mic, Eternal Playlist features a reborn and reinvigorated Inferno at levels that his "Back Against the Wall" self never could have imagined.
To be continued..
