I'm just your friendly neighborhood rapper from the 242 🇧🇸
Kyliss Keron Martin, born January 10, 2000 better known as SKAITHEMUSICMAN, is a Bahamian rapper, singer, songwriter, poet, record producer and engineer from Nassau, Bahamas. At the age of 10 he began dabbling in music with his first inspiration being Michael Jackson. Later on he was influenced by Eminem’s music, ultimately falling in love with rap.
In high school he would participate in frequent rap battles and later joined a group called Neon Ink. After having creative differences with the group he went solo and continued to pursue music. Later he partnered with his lifelong friend, Louie (Mark Sawyer) , and together they founded the record label, Now & Forever Records, where Skai is the head artist of the label, and Louie is the head producer working behind the scenes making sure everything runs smoothly.
His main influences are Eminem, Logic, Drake, Russ, and NF respectively.
He also started producing his own music at the age of 18 when he was able to buy some music equipment. His producer influences are the late Speaker Knockerz, LondonOnDaTrack, Metro Boomin', Ryan Leslie, and OG Parker.
The name SKAITHEMUSICMAN stems from him wanting to showcase his versatility throughout different genres of music. In his words he’s just “all about the music, man”. Even going as far as dubbing himself “The Friendly Neighborhood Rapper”. His major goal is to unify people with his music and to become one of the most celebrated musicians in history
