In 2008, Fairfield County Weekly readers voted Sketch Tha Cataclysm their favorite hip-hop act in the area. A handful of months later, he felt it was time to see where else he could make an impact.

"My idea," he explains, "was to come out to another area of the country and try to get something started the way I was starting to build up things in Connecticut and regularly return to Connecticut, not abandon it, but be really supportive of my state. I love the people there."

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