Born Jean Myrthil, Rise hails from the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. "The artist in Jean" has successfully, with little promotion, established himself as one of the more prominent independent artists. Rise has become a household name within the underground circuit. In 1998, he expanded his role for a commercial appearance on the famed Lyricist Lounge Volume 1 album on Rawkus Records which garnered attention from much of the important music industry. Rise began his career stunning the hip hop community with feature after feature of recordings with established producers, independent artists, and underground mixtape appearances. Industry insiders began to take note early on and were impressed by his hustle, talent and pure ambition.
In 1999, after running into Rise at many of those famed Lyricist Lounge ciphers, then up-and-coming emcee Apathy noticed Rise's impeccable skills and the two began spitting their clever rhymes back and forth, impressing each other respectfully. That connection further lead up to Rise becoming a member of the now world renown Demigodz collective and sparked classic recordings such as The Smackdown, Every Emcee, and eventually contributing razor sharp verses to the mega-popular The Godz Must Be Crazy EP released in 2002.
From his humble beginnings, Rise raised the bar for hip hop by formulating a distinct delivery with an abundance of witty punchlines, vivid storytelling and thought-provoking verses. Collecting more fans as he travelled through the New York City underground show circuit, he built a name for himself amongst his contemporaries as the rapper to emulate. Rise has managed to gain attention from the worldwide hip-hop community by touring Japan, Sweden and Denmark. Rise was also able to fulfill his dream of starting his own label with the introduction of his very own, Results Period Records.
Rise's formula was gracefully displayed on his debut single, Do You Know Him?, released in 2000 on PhonoSynthetic Records. The track lives up to all the expectations and silences all non-believers to his talent with lines like: "Sometimes I'm glad that people don't know that I'm raw / cause superstar rappers can't go to the grocery store", "You ain't better / cause you been rhyming longer than Rise / I've been nice a few years / you been wack since '85 / You're a signed act and everybody thinks you can rap / that's alright cause everybody thought the planet was flat".... The list of quotables go on as Rise wastes no lines in his rhymes, compelling you to toss his music into your rotation. On his 2nd single, he also continues to display lyrical prowess on the Apathy-produced A-side, The Wickedest Flow b/w the Celph Titled-crafted B-side, No Faith, released in 2001 which was received very well sales-wise. The list of wax releases continued further with BKNY/I Know and Evolution/Part of the Game/Make Sure (That We Win).
After already having harnessed the NYC area and establishing himself as a household name internationally, Rise sets out to take over the rest of the country with his full length debut album to be released in conjunction with MCS Entertainment and major label distributor, Universal Music. The forthcoming album promises not to disappoint as it will deliver solid lyricism and focus on the actual artist you are buying the CD from, showcasing only Rise the MC holding his own entire LP down. The album features production from fellow Demigod Celph Titled, Evil Dee & Mr. Walt of the Beatminerz, DJ Spinna, DJ Static (Battle Dome Grand Champion), and Rise himself among others that have lent their talents to make this an album with staying power. Results Period and Rise are sure to shake up the music world and the universe that surrounds it and prove that 'in this rap game he's nobody' (why?) "Nobody's perfect!
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