Raymond Strife

Trenton, New Jersey Rapper Raymond Strife is too old to keep rapping. He doesn't care. He's doing it anyway. After twenty years of fronting bands and doing solo rap shows he's not as jaded as he should be, but he's close. Jersey to the core, Strife is know for being polite off stage while being rowdy and aggressive yet somehow still cool on stage. Pulling influence from a broad range of artists that goes from Biggie to the Circle Jerks, his style comes off completely original and is hard to compare to anyone else. Ray stands out as a human representation of when keeping it real goes horribly wrong but he's always trying to do better. He raps about ego and low self-esteem simultaneously, being drunk and on drugs, being sober, being just drunk, punk shows, comic books and horror movies, often in the same song. Being serious but never taking himself too seriously, being funny but never a parody. The guy's a walking paradox.

Known in the past for fronting hardcore bands such as "Crack filler" and "Over Everything" while also founding the rap crew "DKFG" he is now currently doing solo live performances again doing material off the upcoming release with Selekta Fuzz "Ghost Party." He is also currently fronting the hardcore band "Gusset" who recently released a record of three demos simply titled "Demos." In addition to all he's still one of the hosts of "The Aging Punks" podcast, has trained in improv at UCB and has been in a couple TV shows and films such as "Mercer Bounty" and "Hi-Def."

At the end of the day, Ray is working on improving his life. Balancing a blue collar job with trying to make time to still be creative. It's the American Dream. 

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