Vocab Malone

Vocab Malone is a Phoenix Arizona based hip-hop artists and coffee shop poet. He blends fun and diverse topics and emotional ranges with old-school and underground hip-hop to create a sonic pallate all his own. Vocab started rapping in the 5th grade: "I heard a mixtape at school and was hooked." He began recording basement demos but it wasn until he joined a group with John Reuben (Gotee Records) that he would begin publicly performing.

Vocab started rapping in the 5th grade: "I heard a mixtape at school and was hooked." He began recording basement demos but it wasn until he joined a group with John Reuben (Gotee Records) that he would begin publicly performing. He left his native Columbus, Ohio in 1999 to attend Bible college in Arizona. It was there he would begin organizing "reverse battle" tourneys as well as leading teams of fellow artists in street outreaches on Mill Ave. off the ASU campus. This led him to form a non-profit orginization, Urban Artists United (UAU).

Vocab has been on a number of notable compilation and had guest appearences with other artists (John Reuben, illtripp), a slot at the National Poetry Slam Finals, plyed the lead of Dr. Luke in the world's first "holy hip hopera" (The One). And release four albums.