Armaggon. A Georgia native who resides in the city of Austell, Georgia. Though born in Hensdale Illinois on the 17th of April in 1981, Armaggon, who's real name is Justin Graves, moved to the Westside of California with his father shortly after his third birthday. Shortly after his sixth birthday, his Mississippi-born grandmother took him to Georgia, where he was raised. He finished elementary school, and middle school, and graduated high school in the city of Marietta. At the age of 20, he joined the United States Marine Corps. It was during that time in the service that he practiced how to write rhymes and taught himself how to "spit." Most of the rhymes he wrote were a direct lashing at the people he worked with, who would some times pick on him about his performance as a cook. At the time, Justin didn't know how to cook that well, and he had a strong dislike for his profession. While some of his strongest interests include drawing and playing video games, rap became a new nitch for him as he uses it as good therapy during the trials and tribulatinons of his time in the Corps. While the pressures of Marine life was always on, Justin always made time to write. Putting songs together became constant, and easy for him. People would hear the songs he made about those who'd pick at him, and would tell him that he has a similar style to multi-platnum grammy award winning rap artist Eminem. The next few songs that he made had many people calling him the "ghetto version of Eminem," which later became "Ghetto "M". While Justin admits that Eminem is his biggest inspiration, he would never put himself on the same sheet that Eminem is on. "I am lyrically enclined, but I'm not that good yet," he would say. "I would have to be rapping for the same amount of years and do the same things he did in order for me to get the same stats that he has. Eminem lives in the studio. I have yet to even step my foot in one." While serving in the military, he was deployed to Afgahnistan for seven months. It was there that the name Ghetto "M" would die. One of his good friends was killed in the war that took place during that time. Before deploying there, the friend, known as Ryan Payne, was playing video games with him. "We'd play video games all the time," he says. "We were playing a Ninja Turtle's game when he called me by the name of 'Armaggon.' It was the last thing he said to me when I last saw him. I looked up the name Armaggon, and it happened to be the name of an evil shark in one of the Ninja Turtle sagas. After we came home from Afgahn, I went and got it tattooed on my left arm in rememberance of him." Now, the name, Armaggon, is an acronymn for "A Rogue Mystery And God's Grimiest Overgrown Negro." While Armaggon is still unsigned, many people tell him that he sounds like he has been doing this for years. "I was on the chatline one day and I had made like a little freestyle as my introduction," he explains. "The responses I've gotten were too many to count. One of them was a female telling me that I owe it to the world to show my talent and show the rest of these rookie rappers what it's all about to make music. I laughed, because even I am still a rookie. But I practice quite frequently. I want to make sure that my skills are truly up to par before I decide to jump head first into the rap game." And he continues to practice, making home-made albums at his home with just his computer. He owns no studio equipment.
Armaggon is single, with no children. |
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