Champ-Payne is more than ur ordinary rapper. His name was born from a horrific jet-ski accident that destorried most the upper part of his right leg. After 11 or 12 surgeries, 6months at John Hopkins and a 3 month stint at Mt. Washington rehab. The future basketball hopeful was left to find a new Dream. Seen in a vision one day the artist then known as D-Man seen his name right in front of him. As a bottle marked Champ-Payne with the date of his accident clearly as the creation date, begin to pour into a glass until it was full. Reconizing the clearity of thiis moment he quickly scribbled down the name...And has carried it ever since. In the 8 to 9 years since seeing his vision...Champ-Payne has grown from a strickly battle punchline Emcee. Into a more diverse conscience artist. After the birth of his daughter Charity and the change in hip-hop. Champ decided that instead of tryn to be where hip-hop is at...He wanted to be where hip-hop was going. Making the decision to follow suit with the artist he grow up with(Wu-Tang,Nas,KRS-ONE,and The Roots) instead of the one's coming up now. What you here today is a man who knows where he's going and who he is.

Champ-Payne Da Iconoclast!