What up I'm A-Frame, that's Mike Clouds. This is our story. I grew up in Washington, Maine, a little redneck town 1 1/2 hours northeast of here. At age 8 I went into a local Laverdires and bought a breakdancing magazine. Within months I was astounding crowds at local Clam festivals across the mid-coast. By 14 I was consumed by the unique urban lifestyle (hip hop). My favorites rappers as a youngster were: NWA, Public Enemy, Slick Rick, and Too Short. This music was movies for the blind for a young kid from the sticks. At the same time Mike Clouds roamed the back streets of Munjoy Hill Portland Maine scoping out old buildings salvaging copper pipe to hock to the local junk dealer. His older cousin Danski steered him towards Redman and Wu rather then let the 1989 Metal revolution swallow him up like a bad mullet. Skip some years to 1999 when Clouds and I officially met. It was Stonecoast open mic. A new scene had broken in Portland. I always knew I could rap, but never had the balls to do it. To be honest, seeing Eminem on MTV really is what inspired me to get up and try. Back then Clouds was an MC but had recently acquired his first beat machine. As soon as we met it clicked. He wanted to make simple 4 on 4 bass driven beats and I wanted to spit nasty punchlines. Everything we do is out of hunger to get put on. When I say get put on, I don't mean videos and big cars (although it would be nice!), I mean just an honest living from music. Our first album, Against The Grain, dropped in 2003. We did it on my friend ’s computer; it was our demo and a lot of people liked it. Personally, Clouds and I thought it sucked but maybe we were just picky. One night that year we did a house party and met Kut Kaper a 23 year old DJ/Producer from L.A. who had recently started Real Time Recording at 10 Exchange ST in the old port, Portland, ME. There we recorded Life on a Barstool. Barstool is a tale of my life done through punchlines and comic relief laced with many body blows and much aggression. I love to do drugs. I've written some of my best punchlines while smoking coke. Thank god I got away from it, it would have killed me. Which leads us to the new project, Life With A Hangover. It's the other side of A-Frame, it's Aaron Libby. My parents are true back to the land hippies and raised me very liberal. I went home for the summer of 2004 smoked a lot of pot and wrote Hangover. It will drop sometime summer 2005 on Milled Pavement Records, which I'm very happy about. The only way to get notice is to work together. Oh yeah and by the way - don't think we're done with the hard shit. I started writing for punch drunk the mixtape coming out Fall 2005 featuring all new punchlines from Portland Maine’s finest. Till then from A-Frame and Mike Clouds - we out bitches. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.