My name is Joel Mason Tanner, my artist name is Lil Mase. I was born in Birmingham, Alabama September 3, 1992. My love for music started when I was 15 years old when a friend of mine invited me to his studio to rap with him and every since then I couldn’t stop. I’m 18 now and I’ve already started producing at my home studio, I play guitar, piano, rap, write songs and I produce tracks for my associate. Now I can’t go a day without listening to music, it’s turned into my life. When it comes to music I am very opened minded and I don’t want to stay in just one genre. I want to venture out into the alternative and R&B; genres to sell the songs I write. The sound that I go for is different and fresh, I try not to go in the same direction as everyone else. Even though I was born down south I use to visit my family in Utica, New York every summer so my style is a good mix of north and south. My inspirations are Lupe Fiasco, Common, Kanye West, Q-Tip, N.E.R.D., The Cool Kids and The Digable Planets. I’ve been currently promoting my music on Myspace hoping to be heard and all the feedback I get is great! Now even DJs in the United Kingdom say that they want to play my music. I sincerely don’t care about the fame and glamour I just want to make great music, this is something I want to spend the rest of my life doing..