- Audience: 10.3K
- Video Views: 3.2M
- # videos: 102
- Estimated Earnings: $801 - $12.82K
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Category:
Electronic music
Hip hop music
Music
Pop music
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Date Created: 2012-12-01
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Date Updated: 2024-06-29
Audience activity: 311
Views per video: 31.41K
Keywords:
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Epidemic is a Hip-Hop group comprised of two MC's: Hex One and Tek-nition. The two MC's, then teenagers, met during their early years of high-school. Immediately after learning of each other's ability to rap and love of Hip-hop music, they kicked it off and grew to become very close friends. Hex One (Christian Ortega) was born in Barranquilla, Colombia. At a very early age he and his family relocated to Elmhurst, Queens in New York City, where he first became exposed to and inevitably fell in love with the Hip-Hop culture. Around the age of 13, His family moved again, this time to Miami, Florida. Tek-nition (Edwin Canela), on the other hand, was born and raised in South-Florida having lived most of his life in Homestead.
Both MC's were born in the month of April in 1989 and oddly enough, transferred to the same high-school within a few days of each other. Although both were already fairly skilled, neither Hex nor Tek had fully developed their specific styles of rhyming upon initially