What's up yow!
Netherman from the Netherlands respects and supports the ones who took the initiative to set up this forum!
It might be handy to have a topic for new members though,(maybe it is there... but i couldn't find any) so they can introduce themselve you know.
But I'll use this topic as one to introduce myself and to drop some links so you can hear some of the things i made a few years ago. (Before going on a trip to Australia)

I'm 22 years old and a resident of Holland. That country name always seems to bring up names 'n words like: Amsterdam, weed, smoking, legal drugs, alcohol under 18, blunts, bucketbongs and all that. hehe
I'm from a different city than Amsterdam called Sweet lake City (Zoetermeer: MOD Black Marvel lived over here for years).But that shit is definitly happening over here as well know waht i mean!?
I've been chopping the vinyls and doing my thing over here since I was like 7 years old you know. Just playing the strings on my guitar, piano, bass and of course I play them drums too... Writing lyrics down everytime I got those words in my head. All for fun, to spread a message and so I can lose that stress you know?
Now I got a studio fixed and a study coming up. So I'll be dropping my things this year and hopefully I am coming out with alot of new tracks in the incoming months. A forum like this one can really help me out with working out my beats, rhymes and it also helps me to get to know better what the people from other countries think about HipHop, politics and all that these days you know.

I think it's a great initiative from you guys. Big up! Since there are so many forums where people can't read shit cause of all the advertisements, boys bragging 'n spamming. Let's hope this forum will define itself like one different and hopefully better then those huge blown up other digital "libraries".

My sources of inspiration are too much to be named but here are some of my favorite artists which I'd like to name in this topic:
Madlib,J. Dilla, MF Doom, Ghostface Killah,Led Zeppelin,Yes,
The Doors,Bob Marley, MED,Ashes Baboe, Wu-Tang, Cypress Hill, Nina Simone, The Temptations, Soul Sisters, BB King, Ennio Morricone, Mozart, Bach, Jay-Z, Django Reinhardt, Howling Wolf, RZA and many more.

As you can see, very diverse... I'm not the kind of artist who's very recognisable cause of one certain style because I'm simply into a whole lot of things...

Anyway... I hope we (The members, the webpage masters and I) will have nice conversations and discussions in the future.

Peace!

Ow... Before I forget: My website are these:(it's old tracks, the things I'll be dropping within two months will be very different and in my oppinion better too. Feel free to check the page out ones in a while to see what i've got going on)

www.showcaseyourmusic.com/sonsofsoul
www.sonsofsoul.com (is in a beginning stage, old tracks, I recommend the showcase)
www.myspace.com/gtotheice