Born and raised in Salem, OR, underground rap beat-maker
Kruse began most of his work producing for his idols, West Coast underground mainstays
the Living Legends. His lightweight, smooth jazz-threaded productions appeared on the
LL group album
Classic (2005) as well as on
LL solo records, including
Sunspot Jonz's Back in Black (2006) and
Luckyiam's Most Likely to Succeed (2007).
Kruse gave a small sampling of his own rhyming abilities on his 2006 EP Raw Materials (which was tagged under the name A. Kruse), but returned a year later with the full-length effort
True Stories, displaying not only his skills behind the boards, but his common-man raps of everyday life and struggles. ~ Cyril Cordor