House SmartCity

House SmartCity

Mr.SmartCity grew up on the notorious E.Hastings St. in the downtown eastside of Vancouver, B.C. Canada. Surrounded by lost souls addicted to drugs, prostitution, and crime, combined with the trademark gloomy atmosphere of the Pacific NorthWest, Mr.SmartCity's could only find sunshine through expression of art, music, writing, acting, and reading. Heavily influenced by Seattle's 90's grunge-metal scene and a fascination with clever wordplay and technical rhyme structure found in modern written acapella battle rap, Mr.SmartCity adapts these elements into his poetry to create a distinctive way of storytelling and recounting real-life experiences. After a string of devastating losses of loved ones, bouts of homelessness, a 2 year self-isolation period, dedication to an on-going 6 year sobriety, and finding major successes in several business projects, you can find a similar theme of polarization in Mr.SmartCity's poems, which he describes his genre as "Doom-To-Bloom". Throw in a splash of psychedelic and you have an idea of what to expect from Mr.SmartCity.

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