Conscious street music made for those of them who has walked through the storm and survived the rain. Club, hard core, hood, overall ridin' music.

19 MP3 Songs
HIP-HOP/RAP: Rap, BLUES: Blues Vocals



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Antonyo Franklin A.K.A Foe Five A.K.A Deon Davis, born November 20, 1974, raised the only child by single parent Norma Allen fourteen years before his sister (Kiesha Allen) was born. Foe Five grew up in the grimiest parts of the north, south, east and west parts of Detroit, Michigan. At age eleven, fell head first into the street life of Detroit while being taunted and tormented by his peers, in the process of searching for a place to fit in, Foe-Five stumbled across a form of communication that quickly caught his interest, Foe Five found himself spending less time in the street an more time in the basement of his home trying to scratch the surface of his new found âPassion.â Foe five was a ânaturalâ given the opportunity to share his âPassion.â Foe Five found himself running with a crowd that his mother didnât approve of. Shortly after his mom consistent worries of that fatal phone call, came to reality. Foe five was hit by a car barley surviving this ordeal. Foe five was sent down south to Indianola, Mississippi. Where he went to school and lived with his grandmother, with no fear of what happened before happening again. Foe five later stepped up and stepped out in search of a âSipher,â quickly finding what he sought he became that guy everybody with a gift to put rhyming words together wanted a piece of. âThey stepped up I knock âem down.â Foe five said. âJeolousy caused problems though.â While living in Mississippi Foe five performed for the first time at a talent show in Greenville Miss, and won first place âthe crowd went wild.â Foe five said. During the end of the school year in Indianola Miss, Foe Five got in trouble at school; he was suspended later sent back to Detroit to live with his mom. By age sixteen Foe Five had been to jail over fourteen times and, his âpassionâ began to fade. Foe five saidâ it was as thow no one who matter cared for this âpassionâ so I gave up and became a âhustla.â Later locked up again at age seventeen and was later released at age nineteen only to be lead back from which he came to embrace the passion he left behind he recorded his first song âsouljah donât dieâ and it was then Foe Five said âI began to take my passion seriously and make something of it.â He recorded songs titled âstop look listen,â âc u at the end,â âdeep in side my mindâ and âheâs coming back.â Which was released on a compilation presented by âBIG WHEELS rec.â shortly after he was featured on a local album called âfacesâ presented by âBIG FACE rec. â He Performed on a weekly basis at over a dozen open micâs in the Michigan vicinity. During the winter of 1999 he performed two songs at a show case presented by âArista Sonyâ and two other major record companies. Under the name âlil D.â two years later he drop a solo EP entitled âFOE FIVEâ âI GETZ HOTâ hit the street and made it do what it do, like most times in life priority changed face, in the process of trying to live a couple of artist from his past approached him with a proposal âI couldnât refuseâ Foe Five said, so he
Came back,
âWhy set fire to a bridge you must one day cross?