Aki "Butta Da Prince" Fort
Every ten years the unimaginable consummates with spectacular and gives birth to a musical phenom that unconsciously captivates the heart and invigorates the mind. The phenom is given to a city in which salivates at the idea of revival, musical dominance and limitless growth. On December 11th of 1983, the city of Chicago's prayers were answered as Aki "Butta" Fort was born.
Almost a half century ago, before Chicago adopted Aki Fort as its musical majesty, the Fort name was as legendary and royal to the city as the Ford name was to Detroit. Jeff "Chief Malik" Fort (Aki's uncle) was the one driving force to popularize the Fort name; as he was the co-founder of Chicago’s most powerful organization, the Black P Stone Nation, and founder of its El' Rukn faction.
The Black P Stone Nation was so powerful at its height that it accounted for over 5,000 members, so powerful that President Richard Nixon invited Jeff Fort to his Presidential inauguration and so powerful that Jeff Fort and the Black P Stone Nation was incorrectly but still in all featured on BET's popular show "American Gangster."
As one of the last Fort men not incarcerated or deceased, Butta musically carries the legacy of his family, by following their "Five Principles of Love, Truth, Peace, Freedom and Justice." From standout Jesse White Tumbler onto his role as starting point guard for the Conference Champion Dunbar Mighty Men onto city wide hustler (hence the name "Butta"), he finally found his calling in his musical inhibitions. He discovered an outlet to speak on several issues he deemed important to air out.
"No CEO can account for the actions of everyone of his employees, " Butta says when speaking on the dark cloud placed over of his uncle Jeff Fort. "If the Deacon of a church extorts people or the Choir Director sells drugs, does that mean the Pastor is operating a Continuing Criminal Enterprise? No. I'm trying to present to the world, no one man can account for the actions of another man. We are all victims of temptation, that doesn't necessarily mean we're evil, musically I'm trying to bring that and many other principles to the forefront."
After the nationally reported murder of his brother, Calvin Green, Butta took it upon himself to rid the mutually accepted stigma of the Fort family and to shake the curse of death or incarceration by pouring all of his worth into an auditory delicacy called Hip-Hop. The 2009 debut of his DJ Holiday produced mix tape, "Millionaire Minded: The Album Before the Album," literally scorched the streets of Chicago.
"I had some people buying 50 CD's at a time, strictly to show extreme support to the movement," explains the 26-year old Chicago native. "So my goal is to drop a mix tape every six months to flood the streets with a sound that they've never heard. A sound with a wealth of history and supreme validation. And I'll keep coming with hot material until their banging on my door for my debut album, "The Fort."
What sets Butta's music apart is his ability to narrate the harsh realities of Chicago's history from the inside looking out, as he has soaked in all the knowledge fed to him by the 'heavys' in his family. What sets Butta's music apart is his high-pitched yet aggressive voice, that spews lines of verbal cyanide onto instrumentals shipped to him by producers from all four corners of the United States. What sets Butta's music apart is his personal struggles to be his own man and make his own name.
"This aint a gang bang movement, gang banging was dead decades ago," Butta angrily states as his frustration on the topic looms. "If you go back and study history, my uncle encouraged about 21 different smaller organizations to join under one umbrella, the Black P Stone Nation. It wasn't gang banging then or my crew against your crew or my hood against your hood, that ignorance was for hoodlums, pimps and thieves. It was about brotherhood, alliance, discipline and education."
As his mix tape, "Millionaire Minded: The Album Before the Album" continues to propel him to heights beyond street glory, he gives musically what Chicago has been missing, honor and validation.
The torch has been passed in the Fort family and this time musical dominance is the objective; brace yourselves as Chicago's 'Answer' is on his way.
Every ten years the unimaginable consummates with spectacular and gives birth to a musical phenom that unconsciously captivates the heart and invigorates the mind. The phenom is given to a city in which salivates at the idea of revival, musical dominance and limitless growth. On December 11th of 1983, the city of Chicago's prayers were answered as Aki "Butta" Fort was born.
Almost a half century ago, before Chicago adopted Aki Fort as its musical majesty, the Fort name was as legendary and royal to the city as the Ford name was to Detroit. Jeff "Chief Malik" Fort (Aki's uncle) was the one driving force to popularize the Fort name; as he was the co-founder of Chicago’s most powerful organization, the Black P Stone Nation, and founder of its El' Rukn faction.
The Black P Stone Nation was so powerful at its height that it accounted for over 5,000 members, so powerful that President Richard Nixon invited Jeff Fort to his Presidential inauguration and so powerful that Jeff Fort and the Black P Stone Nation was incorrectly but still in all featured on BET's popular show "American Gangster."
As one of the last Fort men not incarcerated or deceased, Butta musically carries the legacy of his family, by following their "Five Principles of Love, Truth, Peace, Freedom and Justice." From standout Jesse White Tumbler onto his role as starting point guard for the Conference Champion Dunbar Mighty Men onto city wide hustler (hence the name "Butta"), he finally found his calling in his musical inhibitions. He discovered an outlet to speak on several issues he deemed important to air out.
"No CEO can account for the actions of everyone of his employees, " Butta says when speaking on the dark cloud placed over of his uncle Jeff Fort. "If the Deacon of a church extorts people or the Choir Director sells drugs, does that mean the Pastor is operating a Continuing Criminal Enterprise? No. I'm trying to present to the world, no one man can account for the actions of another man. We are all victims of temptation, that doesn't necessarily mean we're evil, musically I'm trying to bring that and many other principles to the forefront."
After the nationally reported murder of his brother, Calvin Green, Butta took it upon himself to rid the mutually accepted stigma of the Fort family and to shake the curse of death or incarceration by pouring all of his worth into an auditory delicacy called Hip-Hop. The 2009 debut of his DJ Holiday produced mix tape, "Millionaire Minded: The Album Before the Album," literally scorched the streets of Chicago.
"I had some people buying 50 CD's at a time, strictly to show extreme support to the movement," explains the 26-year old Chicago native. "So my goal is to drop a mix tape every six months to flood the streets with a sound that they've never heard. A sound with a wealth of history and supreme validation. And I'll keep coming with hot material until their banging on my door for my debut album, "The Fort."
What sets Butta's music apart is his ability to narrate the harsh realities of Chicago's history from the inside looking out, as he has soaked in all the knowledge fed to him by the 'heavys' in his family. What sets Butta's music apart is his high-pitched yet aggressive voice, that spews lines of verbal cyanide onto instrumentals shipped to him by producers from all four corners of the United States. What sets Butta's music apart is his personal struggles to be his own man and make his own name.
"This aint a gang bang movement, gang banging was dead decades ago," Butta angrily states as his frustration on the topic looms. "If you go back and study history, my uncle encouraged about 21 different smaller organizations to join under one umbrella, the Black P Stone Nation. It wasn't gang banging then or my crew against your crew or my hood against your hood, that ignorance was for hoodlums, pimps and thieves. It was about brotherhood, alliance, discipline and education."
As his mix tape, "Millionaire Minded: The Album Before the Album" continues to propel him to heights beyond street glory, he gives musically what Chicago has been missing, honor and validation.
The torch has been passed in the Fort family and this time musical dominance is the objective; brace yourselves as Chicago's 'Answer' is on his way.
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