Where are you from and how has it affected your music?

Nyzzy Nyce: Being from Fort Wayne, being from a small town and being one of the first people as a male rapper to do some things out here it made me very diverse to all elements of music because we don’t have a sound. That being said there was really no point for me to make a certain type of music to where it’s like “oh that sounds south.” I adopted anything that was big and put it in my own words. My music is very motivational and very dynamic. You can turn on one track and it could be in the club and you could turn on another track and its smoking music and turn on another one and lift weights. Being from a small city I evolved around everything.

How did you get your stage name?

Nyzzy Nyce: Growing up, my real name is Deangelo so they always used to call me D-Nice. When I started to rap there was already a D-Nice, I switched the “i” to a “y” but I didn’t want to be D-Nice again, so I was in the booth and said “It’s Nyzzy” before I started rapping. I have no idea why I said it but I said it and ran with it and everybody was fooling with it. So I was like I’m going to be Nyzzy Nyce and that’s my name

When did you start rapping?

Nyzzy Nyce: I started rapping when I was 13 or 14 years old, sixth, seventh grade at the lunch table when we used to beat on the lunch tables and kick freestyles. That’s around the time Rap City: The Basement was going on and Big Tigger and all boys was freestyling a lot. It was something I picked up and did for fun and it turned into a career after I tore my ACL doing BMX. I come from an extreme sports background also.

Who are some of the biggest influences to your career?

Nyzzy Nyce: Master P, The Diplomants, Michael Jackson, those are the main ones. Also Korn and Limp Bizkit on that rock side dealing with the extreme sports, I picked up some rock influences also.