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Aaron Dontez Yates (born November 8, 1971), better known by his stage name Tech N9ne (pronounced "Tech Nine"), is an American rapper from Kansas City, Missouri. In 1999, Yates and Travis O'Guin founded the record label Strange Music. Throughout his career, Yates has sold over one million albums and has had his music featured in film, television, and video games. In 2009, he won the Left Field Woodie award at the mtvU Woodie Awards.
His stage name originated from the TEC-9 semi-automatic handgun, given to him by rapper Black Walt due to his fast rhyming style. Yates later applied a deeper meaning to the name, claiming that it stands for the complete technique of rhyme, with 'tech' meaning technique and 'nine' representing the number of completion.
Aaron Dontez Yates was born on November 8, 1971 in Kansas City, Missouri. He began rapping at a very early age, and would rap the letters of his name in order to remember how to spell it. He never met his father, and his mother suffered from epilepsy and lupus when he was a child, which emotionally affected him and inspired him to "search for God." He would wander around abandoned buildings with his best friend, Brian Dennis, hoping to catch a ghost on film. In 2003, Dennis was shot and killed by his girlfriend's ex-boyfriend, which further inspired Yates' search for a higher power, as well as giving him the drive to vent his frustrations in his music.
Serj Tankian (Western Armenian: Սերժ Թանգեան [ˈsɛɾʒ tʰɑnˈkʰjɑn]; born August 21, 1967) is a Lebanese-born Armenian-American singer–songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist, playwright, record producer, poet, and political activist. He is best known as the lead vocalist, songwriter, keyboardist, and occasional live rhythm guitarist of the rock band System of a Down.
During his musical career, Tankian has released five albums with System of a Down, one with Arto Tunçboyacıyan (Serart), as well as three solo albums Elect the Dead, Imperfect Harmonies and Harakiri. A live orchestral version of Elect the Dead incorporating the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra named Elect the Dead Symphony was released. In 2002, Tankian and Rage Against the Machine/Audioslave guitarist Tom Morello co-founded a non-profit political activist organization, Axis of Justice. Tankian also founded the music label Serjical Strike Records.
Tankian is ranked 26th in the Hit Parader's Top 100 Metal Vocalists of All Time.
Listen to the step taking you further towards something you know will make your agony sustain
Against your own knowledge the sound and smells react like repulsive hits to your mind
You harden as it gets closer, preparing yourself
You harden as it gets closer, preparing yourself
The decay of it all is overwhelming
Surrounded by it all it's hard to keep the guard up, swallow the anger
Like running into a wall voluntary, head first
As time decays your inside, your weakness grows
Tired ripples that grows without control
The decay of it all is overwhelming
Closely following your desperate attempt of denial
The hold witch makes the pain flow free
It tastes your squandering twitches
Like a foul thought that just wont leave your mind
Strangely it hits you like a surprise every time
Like pebbles of tears, your eyes cry
The familiar sense of reprisals
Been here before, welcome to decya
Eaten from inside, ready to suffer again
My soul will not take anymore of the agony to come
Been here before, welcome to decya
Eaten from inside, ready to suffer again
The sarcastic look of the hordes passing you by
Like faces of smoke they shape to the thing you fear the most
The decay of it all is overwhelming
Pulsating, inside of it all
Swarming through your whole being
Black holes, like denial in a wake world
The taste of it all
What to become in the end?
Is there an answer to it all?
Can it be won?