Flowers!

Homicide Flow Entertainment
Bronx River, NY
Dallas, TX
Email:  flowercool174@gmail.com

Phone: 817-404-8879 





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BIO
 

Full Name

Stephon Strader

 

Date of Birth

November 4, 19??

 

About Flowers!

Deep in their roots all flowers keep the light.  Shining brightly from the Mecca of Hip Hop is the EmCee, Flowers!.  Lyrically, he illuminates the origin and history of Hip Hop beyond the façade of what has become.  Every verse brings with it a true to life testimony that you will only visualize through the music of Flowers!.  He was around nine years old when his big brother, Bam (aka Afrika Bambaataa), started allowing little Flowers! to tag along with him and his friends around the local music circuit.  Initially aspiring to be a DJ; but quickly changed his mind after attending a performance at Evander Childs High School Field.  There he saw one of the greatest EmCees of all time, Melle Mel.  Flowers! related to not only the words; but everything that Mel did.  He said, “I can do that!” and soon Flowers! found comfort and success in rhyme.    

The name “Flour” came with a past life; which the reformed hustler denounced following the death of a very special friend.  His mentally challenged friend became addicted to cocaine.  With his addiction spiraling out of control, his friend asked his mother for $10.00 one morning to buy drugs.  When she refused, he brutally stabbed her to death.   Facing a murder charge and unable to cope with what he had done; he later hung himself in jail.  Immediately, that game was over for Flour whose name had already created a buzz throughout the city.  Personally feeling the negative effects of drugs in the urban community, he chose to turn a negative into a positive.  He kept the pronunciation of his name; but changes the spelling.  In his own words, “I had taken a life selling that junk and I am done with that part of my life.  Now, I give life back through my music; just as trees, plants and flowers do for us human.  We cannot survive without those essential things”.  Then, “Flowers!” was born.



When asked who his musical influences are, there is no surprise that first on the list is his big brother, Afrika Bambaataa and the Universal Zulu Nation.  Others included Pow Wow, Globe, Dot-A-Rock, Rodney-C, KRS-One, Glostface Killah, Raekwon, Nas, The God Rakim Allah, and Lyricist of the Nature just to name a few.  Flowers! Has graced the stage with many greats including GrandMaster Flash & the Furious 5, Mob Deep, Wu-Tang Clan, Busta Rhymes, George Clinton & Parliament, Whodini and Horace Brown.  Flowers! Has also written for many artists such as Men of Vision, Doc Ice, BlackStreet, Angie Stone, UTFO and Whodini.  What makes Flowers! different from the rest?  He says, “The game itself makes me different.  Everyone sounds the same.  Saying the same things and singing the same songs.  It has even come to people hiring writers and spitting other people’s so-called gangster.  I think way outside of the box and you can feel that in my music”.   What Flowers! brings to the industry is definitely what is missing -- the REALISM.  He brings the true essence of Hip-Hop that corporate America has taken and replaced with the face of drugs, sex, violence, corruption and the love of money.  Flowers! presents the world with straight music with real feelings…. True Hip-Hop.  

 

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Hear Flowers! Music

 

iTunes: 

Truth Album:  https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/truth-feat.-b-eazy-bishop/id934620617

 
XXL Magazine:  
  Bishop Lamont Featuring Torae And Flowers “Invasion”, By Eric Diep December 12, 2013
   http://www.xxlmag.com/rap-music/new-music/2013/12/bishop-lamont-featuring-torae-flowers-invasion/

 

Slovo Magazine:

“Flower Love Universal”, March 2015 https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ru&u=http://slovomag.com/rubric/%25D0%2598%25D0%25BD%25D1%2582%25D0%25B5%25D1%2580%25D0%25B2%25D1%258C%25D1%258E%3Fpage%3D2%26per-page%3D8&prev=search

 

PR Log:   
“Homicide Flow Entertainment presents "Flowers" see how he bloomed!”: https://www.prlog.org/11410957-homicide-flow-entertainment-presents-flowers-see-how-he-bloomed.html
 

YouTube:

“Lyrical Worker”:  https://youtu.be/pWXb2Zholxk

“Oatmeal”:  https://youtu.be/sCa7RVjsKwo

“True Form – Tru Form/King of Yes Yall (Rare 1996 NY rap ):  https://youtu.be/vvjMeXO9frs

“Man Down (Kendrick Lamar Diss)”:  https://youtu.be/ZfR_1NyjPjg



Audiomack:  http://www.audiomack.com/album/eddy-starks-1/the-digital-king-21-hosted-by-obie-trice


Hot New Hip Hop: 
Bishop Lamont - Invasion Feat. Torae & Flowers:  http://hnhh.co/sduozo
 

Spotify:

  Truth Album:  https://play.spotify.com/album/4hVNG1JW7giMgMGdS3XmCR

 

Tidal:   

  “Rockstar” (Single):   https://listen.tidal.com/album/50649271






Official Website

http://homicideflowent1.wixsite.com/hfe1