Artist Profile - illRow

Brendon Herschelle Titus ( born march 21,1995). Better known by his stage name illrow, is a South African, record producer, sound engineer & a rapper from Cape Town, Western Cape. In 2012 he started a movement called Unite The Mic (UTM), and had it registered as his record label/talents management company in 2016. illrow has released various production singles through Unite The Mic records, Skeem Saam, Awe, moja boss along with the help of his rap family sole, TrP, Virgo and Yung Reza. The artist is well known for his rap, produce and engineer simultaneously , directing is also a growing art under construction. 

Early Life : Brandon Titus was born and raised in the Mandalay Neighbourhood of Cape Town. He attended at Livingstone high school where he discovered his passion for music by realising what he learnt in school served him no real skill purpose in life. illrow has been a lyrical writer since the age if 14, as he started high school he never stopped writing. He started rapping at the age of 16 and he had his first record done at the age of 17 when he finally afforded to buy himself some home equipment. He matriculated in 2013, and chose sound engineering as his career choice as it was the closest thing to music and could keep his creativity while pursuing his actual career for himself. While studying at cape audio college, illrow kept making music his priority while learning to perfect the craft and produce quality. He stated that there was no use of wasting time studying something else then only pursuing gis career after 3 year course because that would be a waste of time and resources. He credits TI, immortal technique and Hopsin as the 3 main rappers that got him interested in making Hiphop music.

Music career
Illrow began writing about all his observations in the modern world .As a quite kid in school he would always question why people his age acted so reckeless and careless and began writing all those thoughts down. he started his personal compilation called "contemplation), where hence, he wrote about everything he used to contemplate about. Contemplate 1 was released in mid-june 2014 roughly produced and mastered on purpose so it could maintain  the Raw feeling he was trying to portray. In 2015, he got introduced to more active members in the cape town musical scene. He was seen as an engineer and therefore mostly deemed as one till this day as well, which is why he hasn't released any debut material as of yet because he has been working on other artists and pushing the quality that was needed in cape town in terms of engineering and production. 

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