Merc Love
Merc Love
Great Barrington, MA
Hip Hop
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Born 1980 Goldsboro, North Carolina, Merc Love has always had a love for music. Inspired by his father's passion for singing, but driven to find his own voice, Merc started rapping at age 12. For the first few years, rhyming was a hobby for Merc, until he was incarcerated in 1996.
It was in prison that Merc Love began to use rhyming as a tool for expression. In 1997, after he was released from prison, he began working with DJ Stress. He dropped a couple of mixtapes before becoming incarcerated again in 1998. It was during his second sentence that Merc saw imprisonment as a time to seriously develop his writing skills, and to work the prison battle-circuit to hone his vocal delivery.
In 2000, Merc arrived back on the scene as a true MC. He began working with some childhood friends, and formed a group called Downside. They produced a street-level album entitled Young Niggas for Blind Fate in 2001, but after a Fed bust that summer, he decided to leave his Southern roots for new opportunities in Western MA.
By 2002, he had teamed up with Wolfpack, and was working the mixtape circuit throughout MA. It was through this that he created a rising buzz around the area, leading him to team up with Knoble Gasses, Jake Case, and the DLS Family in 2003. In late 2003, Merc Love began working with producer, The Arcitype. Putting out mixtapes every summer, Merc worked toward his first promotional LP with The Arcitype, which he released in spring of 2006. Truth, Trust and Triumph: A Soldier's Story sold over 1000 copies, expanding Merc's fan base and allowing him to continue performing and working toward his first full-length album, A Window in Time.
It was in prison that Merc Love began to use rhyming as a tool for expression. In 1997, after he was released from prison, he began working with DJ Stress. He dropped a couple of mixtapes before becoming incarcerated again in 1998. It was during his second sentence that Merc saw imprisonment as a time to seriously develop his writing skills, and to work the prison battle-circuit to hone his vocal delivery.
In 2000, Merc arrived back on the scene as a true MC. He began working with some childhood friends, and formed a group called Downside. They produced a street-level album entitled Young Niggas for Blind Fate in 2001, but after a Fed bust that summer, he decided to leave his Southern roots for new opportunities in Western MA.
By 2002, he had teamed up with Wolfpack, and was working the mixtape circuit throughout MA. It was through this that he created a rising buzz around the area, leading him to team up with Knoble Gasses, Jake Case, and the DLS Family in 2003. In late 2003, Merc Love began working with producer, The Arcitype. Putting out mixtapes every summer, Merc worked toward his first promotional LP with The Arcitype, which he released in spring of 2006. Truth, Trust and Triumph: A Soldier's Story sold over 1000 copies, expanding Merc's fan base and allowing him to continue performing and working toward his first full-length album, A Window in Time.
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