Biography

Long time respected member of LA’s hip-hop scene, emcee + singer Ariano is releasing a remix for “Not Going Back” featuring Slaughterhouse/Shady Records artist Crooked I. The original track, produced by LDontheCut, is off Ariano’s 2012 LP, Everything You Can’t Take With You and the remix will be on the Ariano’s fall 2013 project The Collection vol 1.

Ariano is hardly a newbie. He’s been on the grind in the southland since meeting LA deejay known as LDontheCut, aka LD, in early 2005. The two co-founded a label, Technicali Sound and released their debut A Thin Line in 2006. The next year, he dropped a self-produced LP, Music2breakup2.

Since then, Ariano has continued to join with LA icons for tracks, like 2005’s “Hidden Jewel” with DJ Rhettmatic, “Lost Angels” in 2006 with Akil of Jurassic 5. In 2006, Ariano was featured on LMNO’s Ps & Qs and was featured on 2Mex and Murs 2010 single “Roller Coaster”. In 2011 Ariano was featured on “High Off The Fame” by Candyman187 & Snoop Dogg. In addition, he’s collaborated with Glasses Malone, Wu Tang Clan, the Visionaries, The Mars Volta, KRS-One, DJ Khalil, Dudley Perkins, M.E.D., Evidence, Chali 2na.