def.sound is an LA-based writer, producer, published poet, a community-building entrepreneur, and a contemporary hip-hop artist. def. (shortened from Definitive Sound and spelled all lowercase in honor of bell hooks) is a friend and ally to LGBTQ and Trans community with music that confronts Hip Hop’s homophobia and embraces our human complexity.

Marked as an artist to watch by LA Weekly, spun by KCRW, and featured on BBC’s year-end list, he’s built genuine buzz from the ground up with no end in sight.