Well, before we continue on in this Indo-Flow journey I want to thank everyone that has supported me from day one which isn`t a lot of people?here is the small but yet thankful list?The Whole West Island Crew, Chris Tisdal, Matthew Wilding, Alex Mackenzie, Giulia Tripoli, Kyle Stanley, Dharmesh Lad, Tom Kuchiran, Daryl Layton, Melissa Wood and Chris De Sa?not a very large list but these were the people that have supported me since day one? Anyways now to embark on my journey? Well, it all started the day that I was conceived May 11, 1984 and??aahhh just playing. I don`t got time for a long childhood explanation, so I was raised well and I ate rice almost everyday?. Coming out of elementary school, my food for thought was the good old Green Day "Dookie" album and The Offspring`s "Smash" Album. Yes indeed I was a hardcore rocker and never even considered hip-hop as a music besides The Fugees. Well as my musical integrity progressed through high school, I tended to look up to the older kids, one of these people being my neighbour Alan Misner. This boy showed me the way of the streets, not in a ghetto type way but the way hip-hop was. This was truly the first time I was exposed to hip-hop in any form. Well, baffled by the words and rhythm of the musical entity I bought my first hip-hop album ever?Nas Escobar `s "It was written" album. At first I really didn`t like it but then I was refered by some friends of mine to listen to certain tracks and these songs took me on a journey that I will never forget. I found myself breaking out of my timid bubble and exploring new and different things in life, and oftenly I found myself bopping my head to absolutely nothing. For a while I found myself just listening to hip-hop but never really expressed it for some odd reason, but then one day I was watching a special on KRS-ONE and he said that hip-hop needs to be expressed everyday by the world. This small statement bewildered my view of hip-hop, I never really thought I could represent this music in anyway. Well, this is when writing came into my life. I used the form of poetry to start my writing ideas off. I was known to everybody as "Poet". That name makes me laugh to this day because it`s so softcore?.anyhow?I just wrote about life in general, Love, God, Change?the usual;nothing really special about my material and I realized that after getting some constructive criticism?but these few people told me that perhaps I should start rapping these poems out. It had never occurred to me that I would be rapping one day but "for the first time" I realized that maybe it was my destiny?I followed my gut instinct. After months of hard work, I came out with my first tape which had 7 tracks on it?I was satisfied but the listeners thought it was boring or that I was just trying to be black (ignorant comments). After such thoughtless criticism, I found myself scared to touch a mic just because I was ashamed of preaching my actual words and thoughts? Well my rep lived on as the Mc of John Rennie and this is where my hip-hop/writing career changed. I got in touch with fellow Mcs from Hudson High School and we set up a recording session at my house. I really didn?t know what I was going to do but I just said I was going to do it for experience?it proved to be a positive occurrence. These guys Jay Newcomen (Aspen Winters) and Mike Larsson (Nero-Logical) showed me something different without even realizing it. After that experience I started writing on the non-stop and developped my new name, which is the one that I have now, Indo-Flow. Ever since that day I`ve been igniting dopeness on paper and have been rocking the mic wherever I go, whether at parties, on stage or even in French Class?I`ve become down for whatever?in hop-hop terms that is?

March 26 2001
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