Chicago’s Coldest Lyrical Freestyle Assassin, Michael Jordan of Recording, and Sensational Streamer “Nec16” aka “Neco”, is on his quest to continue to build success as an independent artist. As a youth, he always had a deep passion for music and entertainment being influenced by his mother's gift of rhyme. Nec16's flame for Freestyle Rap was ignited while observing his older sister composing beats by rapidly thumping fist to wood in a rhythmic motion on their living room table. Enamored with the sound, he began to spontaneously freestyle, stacking bars with a clever melodic flow like Legos, leaving his sister and mom in amazement by his newly found talent.
Nec16 honed his craft by performing at local venues, often leaving his audience captivated with every performance ending in great reverence and praise, further motivating him to pursue a career in music. He started booking studio time to record his freestyles, however, he was disappointed with the sound quality of the studio mixes. He then decided to take music production courses, where he quickly discovered his ear for music, mastering recording and mixing techniques that produced a superior quality sound. Immediately after, he learned how to construct monstrous beats, making him the triple threat he is in music today. Nec16 became not only a music artist, but adding to his repertoire of skills and talent, an audio engineer as well as music producer. The world began to take notice leading to calls, offers, and opportunities coming in rapidly, still unable to keep up with this shooting star, Nec16.
Unfortunately, his music career was interrupted, coming to an abrupt halt due to the misfortune of 3 life changing events leaving him terribly devastated. Firstly, the passing of his musical inspiration, his mom. Secondly, 3 days after celebrating his birthday, surviving gun violence from 6 almost fatal gunshot wounds while protecting a younger family member during a random shooting in Chicago; and thereafter multiple complex life-threatening surgeries that were essential in saving his life. Lastly, shortly after, losing his beloved equally talented sister to domestic violence.
For most, this trauma would be enough to be a dream killer, deterring them from wanting to go on another day in this life. Nevertheless, this had an opposing effect on Nec16; instead within him sparked a courageous fight lead with great resilience and calculated concentration to beat all odds stacked against him. Thanks to one of his cousins, he was introduced to streaming, achieving tremendous success on a variety of apps such as TikTok where he ferociously freestyles comments from supporters during his lives like a true wordsmith. He eventually secured trademarks and licenses for his Nec16 brand creating and producing music to further share his lyrical genius with the world. Nec16 has established himself as a prominent powerful artist creating engaging content including musical masterpieces from free-flowing mind-blowing freestyles produced straight from the top of this Pharaoh’s crown.