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The Black L.A.B

The Black L.A.B is a hip-hop lyricist, singer, screenwriter, actor, and aspiring director from central coast Cali. Being an African-American kid growing up between Los Angeles and Paso Robles where the two sides of his family were spread, he had no choice but to thrive. His music career began in his Freshman year of high-school in his hometown of Paso Robles. He started off making beats at home with his best friend at the time, inspired by Los Angeles and Bay Area influences. They began an experimental Hip-Hop collaboration called The Savage Patch Kids. Shortly after, his friend fell to drug addiction, and The L.A.B struggled with Public High-School in Paso Robles and found it was necessary to move back to the big city in order to start anew and launch his career in the arts. Music Video: https://vimeo.com/120770908 Levi was as well a competitive public speaker in partnership with his lyricism. He had attended a myriad of high school tournaments, most of which he acquired 1st place, but the tournaments that have made the most impact on his life include the Stanford International Invitational, the California State Championships, and the National Championships held 2k15 in Dallas, Texas. Out of 86 competitors at Stanford University, all from South Korea, India, various U.S locations, he placed 3rd in the event of Dramatic interpretation. (A 10 minute speech given as a monologue.) At the California Championships he placed in the semi-final rounds out of 387 competitors and in Texas for the National Championship he placed top 60 in the nation out of thousands of competitors. This was his first year of Speech and Debate yet he was competing at a Varsity level. His speech career retired at the start of his Senior year of High-school, but the art of reciting has since been his forte. Since graduating High-School, he almost immediately moved to Seward, Alaska, to begin working as a Zip-line tour guide to continue supporting his career in the arts. Between the years 2017 and 2019, with the help of Thrifty50 Productions, he had semi-shot, edited, and produced two music videos; one over the course of 5.5 months in the Kenai Peninsula of Alaska: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUv6IbUGfTo And the other, only with a couple hands, within a month, in various locations in Thailand: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDO8GMmnJmI Initially focusing on larger projects, in 2019 he shifted his focus onto an album that he had in the works for nearly four years. His first al

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