Carrying the torch for griots across every region throughout multiple decades of Hip-Hop, Cashus King’s influences amount to a melting pot that’s both an acquired taste and a sound familiar to the chosen few who can fully grasp his left of center approach. Secluded from the public eye unless he’s speaking through music, he injects self-determination within his art and turns his thoughts inward towards growing into his best self as a man and as an artist. 
 A product of sunny LA’s hard times, King’s developmental stages presented a number of diverse perspectives. A privileged Catholic school background would go on to find him well acclimated with gang culture in the city’s historic Leimert Park after his father’s tragic passing. Explaining this casual affiliation in a section of town associated with the progressive bohemian Project Blowed movement, Cashus says “Leimert has a really rich black culture as far as art and music go, but it’s in between two Crip gangs. The Rollin 40s are going south and the Rollin 30s are going north. I was allowed to be myself and never pressured to join a gang, but that element gave me somewhere to go and a sense of belonging.” 
 Always in tune with his emotions as he pursues inner zen, Cashus King has mastered his craft by studying limitless source material from elite Hip-Hop predecessors.