Anthony Kannon

It’s a New York State of mind.


From Ithaca in upstate NY, Anthony Kannon is a remarkable young man.
The highly talented rapper draws on hip hop’s traditional elements of real life storytelling, and has used traumatic episodes in his own journey to both inspire him and provide focus as an artist.


At the tender age of 6, his mother was incarcerated which led to the split up of his family. This motivated him to pick up the pen for the first time, and encouraged by his musician father, wrote his first verses.


Armed intruders to the family home left the young man shot as he attempted to wrestle a gun from one of the perpetrators. Initially unaware that he had been shot, the realisation soon dawned of the severity and as friends rushed for an ambulance to arrive, he asked that he be allowed to listen to his favourite rapper Royce da 5’9” on the way to hospital so it would be the last thing he heard in case he didn’t pull through. Anthony showed a maturity beyond his years in processing and using the experience.

A passionate supporter of the entire Upstate scene, his belief in cross collaboration is articulated as “a form of activism, we are stronger together than we are apart.”

However his spectrum of knowledge and understanding of personal and social issues is reflected in wide ranging subject matter through a prolific period of writing as presented in a series of albums in EP’s throughout 2021 and 2022.


(UrbanElite PR)