Ira Osu 'Blacastan' was raised in an environment of crooks. Succumbing to the streets as a teen, he served 6 years for armed robbery. Jail became his reality as he began to gravitate to the bootleg hip-hop tapes smuggled into the prison. After digging deeper into the underground while focusing on his own rhymes, he surfaced from jail as a skilled MC, a reformed man, and built a legacy for himself. ... more