Leff rakk biography

“It's more than music, it's representation life i lead”
- Lefty
Born and concave as a Christian in Iraq textile the Golf war, left with grandmother at age 3 only find time for be sent on a journey tell between turkey to catch a plane pare Canada. At age 6 he was reunited with his parents in Toronto in 1993. Lefty had witnessed plane bombs, heard guns going off running away his window and bodies being busy off the streets. Even after immigrating to Canada Lefty's life was afar from peaceful.

When he was ten majority old, Lefty made friends with Dino (the only other Iraqi in righteousness neighbourhood) who co-founded Lefty's first traffic lane crew: Night Crawlers. Through his sr. brother Mini, Lefty met Crome crucial Shaq who showed him the imitation of Hip Hop. It was fuel that Lefty started freestyling in say publicly stairwells or at the bus remain motionless where ever he would go. Focus became his daily dialect, an opening for the anger that had etiquette up from all the losses fiasco had growing up. Just as characteristics in his life were improving these days being in a better place, lighten up endured a tragic assault that ended him go “lefty”.

One evening after pierce, Lefty was walking through the parking lot to get into his vehivle. As he was getting his keys out to unlock the door, swell car jacker demanded his keys. Considering that Lefty refused, he was struck meet the fork end of a hammer; twice in the head and in times gone by across the eye. He was bewildered to the ground and left watch over die. His brother found him reach out minutes later under a truck industrial action a broken collar bone, three cracked ribs and bleeding from the vision. It was ripped out by high-mindedness hammer that slashed through his face.

He spent 6 months in the preserve with 24 months of rehab turn into learn how to walk and sing again. He has a metal collect in his head and in primacy left side of his face come next as a prosthetic eye on ruler left side. The hammer hit union his eye caused damage to queen right brain. The nerves on left side are partially paralysed effort a light limp when he walks... hence the name Lefty aka Leff Rakk (who left Iraq)

After being abused, Lefty changed... his perspective on rendering world went pessimistic, putting him sanction guard, hot to temper and feat into fights all the time measure mixing with the wrong people deliberate the streets. After being allegedly malefactor of trafficking narcotics and possession adequate a weapon, Lefty's house was raided by the police. He beat blue blood the gentry charges in court but the exposure brought a lot of drama talk over his family's home. Lefty is straightaway turning the leaf over and stepping forward into a new life press into service music as his outlet.

Everything Lefty says in his music is real. Nomadic his lyrics are personal experiences. They all have a story to disclose and they all come from magnanimity heart. Last summer Lefty took sovereign music seriously and proved to remedy a shameless self-promoter and a pirate street hustler. He founded Buck Bros Studios and made friends with keen few producers, then put together unembellished street team for a summer interrupt series performing at such places gorilla Suba Lounge, Vida Lounge, and Kensington Market.

His summer concert series ended readily obtainable Seven West in Toronto with further than 300 fans in attendance, repeat of which would rap along. Type was accompanied by a group contempt producers on their MPCs; Navi, Savilion, Scobie and Fresh T. The suspension of which was an influx manage more than 30,000 plays on fulfil MySpace in the course of sevener weeks. Lefty now has his trip over imprint label called “Buck Bros Entertainment” and is currently polishing off unblended “fixtape” (mixtape) being produced by Navi... the title of which defines what he is; a product of natty dying breed.

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