Growing up in the 80's Square Root became fixated and fascinated with the Hip-Hop culture that was pouring out of New York City through groups like Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 5, The Sugar Hill Gang, etc.

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Music Lover- There is little doubt that this is what describes Monty Young, who is also known as MC, and most recently Squared Root (X2). X2 has always been a performer since coming from a long line of musicians, his most famous ancestor being the late saxaphonist Rusty 'Nightrain' Bryant.

Growing up in the 80's he became fixated and fascinated with the Hip-Hop culture that was pouring out of New York City through groups like Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 5, The Sugar Hill Gang, etc. It was during this time that he became a devout disciple of rap, and by paying special attention to the lyricism of the mc's, realized that he could perform this "new"type of music. From this point on he bean sharpening his skills, making sure his words would "flow", together into rhythms that would later earn him neighborhood celebrity status. It was durring this period that he realized that rap would be his art and Hip-Hop would be his domain. Still, he always maintained that hip-hop was the ultimate common denominator, that through rap and rhythm many people could ignore thei differences, and no matter what their musical preference, unite under the banner of perfect rhythm and wise words being spoken.This attitude caused himself and another musician to form the group R.O.A.R. (Raise Of All Righteosness). The group would tour together for the next nine years and develop a modestly strong audience in the mid-west, down south, and in the prison systems of New York and New Jersey. The group then recorded a CD on an independent label entitled "Dozen Dimonds of Warfare." Square Root has since further developed his musical creativity by forming a production house to manufacture his brand of progressive and conscious hip-hop.It is this vision of hip-hop as a common denominator which causes Square Root to stand out in a crowd. And while the flow of hip-hop is threatened by stagnation, he is the shot in the arm that the industry needs.