He brought these qualities to his own work as he joined groups like Black Mafia, 57th Street Rogue Dog Villians, Nnutthowze, and the Yukmouth project the Regime. Later, music helped him deal with his mother's ongoing struggle with lupus, while an interest in horror and ghosts would offer an attractively dark form of escapism. Issuing a quartet of Top Five albums in the early 2010s - All 6's and 7's, Something Else, Strangeulation, and Special Effects - he built a vast and devoted audience with little help from the mainstream.īorn Aaron Dontez Yates in Kansas City, Missouri, Tech learned to read and do math through educational raps. When it comes to influence, Tech has arguably topped underground trailblazers Insane Clown Posse thanks to collaborations with mainstream artists and a style that evolved from horrorcore to hardcore and confessional. In the process, he built his Strange Music label into a Psychopathic Records-styled empire with an accompanying loyal fan base. Even though he debuted in the underground realm of horrorcore and seemed destined to be a future footnote, rapper Tech N9ne grew to become an indie rap superstar.
