Bio
Taylor Code has emerged from the wreckage of the gangsta rap era with
something to say:
“Like so many of my homies and loved ones who are dead or still behind
the walls, I was a casualty of the gang epidemic that caught fire in the
90s. But the time I did in prison gave me a chance to reprogram myself. I
had to cut through layers of rage, fear and sorrow to get to the gold
buried at the core of my being.” Bone Deep is the raw reflection of that
process.
Like a live oak tree rising from the scorched earth of Lynwood and South
Central LA, Taylor Code bears witness to the struggles of many people, as
they played out through his own life and the life of his family.
Battle-scarred but unbroken, he represents for an entire generation of kids
who watched their fathers disappear into the streets; for all the victims
— standing and falling — on both sides of a gun; and for all those
still locked down behind prison walls.
“Taylor Code is like a period on the end of the long run-on sentence that
is gangsta rap. After listening to Bone Deep, there is no turning back.”
- Chenjerai Kumanyika (a.k.a. Hypno of the Spooks), Associate Professor,
Media Studies, Clemson University
