Martrel “Tramatik” Hargrove of Henderson, North Carolina was born February 20th 1991. He has a twin brother, one older brother, two younger brothers, and two older sisters. Martrel lost his mother to cancer at the age of 6, and did not meet his father until he was 13 years old. He got the name Tramatik from traumatic situations that have happened to him growing up. After high school he attended Livingstone College, but left after two years because his grandmother passed away. Martrel wanted to be more around his family. One of his skills besides rapping is drawing. Tramatik used to do comic books but situations caused him to lose them. His first comic book characters name was “Tramatik.” Tramatik’s first mixtape back in the day was called Supervillain, but he never put it on the internet. Everything was recorded on a chat mic around the AOL days. His goal for the year is to make more money than last year. I thought that was a great answer. He says he has been to jail, gotten a criminal record, and people judge him because they see him with tattoos, or prejudge him on the clothes he wears, but one of his accomplishments was having the highest exam scores at his high school, class of 2009. “People misjudge me, but I wanna show the world what I am capable of. I’m not just doing this, it’s my passion. My word play is nice, and I am confident in myself.” I asked him what keeps him strong and he said “I feed off knowledge and wisdom.” <br>