From rap to rock- Lyricist Hunter Beard
Hunter Beard Rarely do we get things right the first time. We are not perfect people. We make mistakes and then can only hope that we will get a second chance. For Arkansas rapper and lyricist, Hunter Beard, a second chance came in the form of a handheld cassette voice recorder and a nosey prison guard. Riding out the latter part of a drug-related sentence, Beard, who now resides in Hermosa Beach, took to avidly writing and recording raps about his past and the feelings he had with being locked up for nearly seven years, starting at the age of 18. As Beard’s verses spilled from his small prison cell, one of the guards, intrigued by Beard’s knack for storytelling, approached him, asking if she could listen to the tape. She claimed to have direct connections to some bigwig promoter for Flipside Entertainment, and could probably get him to listen to Beard’s choppy tape. “She told me she was going to pass it to Don Coleman of Flipside and I didn’t believe it. Who would?” Beard told Easy Reader in a recent interview. “Then the following month she asked if I was going to be out in a few weeks. Coleman needed someone to open for Chris Brown at a show that Flipside was putting on.”…
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