User:Acer Tankz

About Acer Tankz

Acer Tankz, born on the 22nd of January 1996 a South African Rapper/Producer born and raised in Virginia a small town in the Free State Province. Acer Tankz has quite a wide range when it comes to his sound, as a producer his beats range from Hip-hop, Boom-Bap, RnB, Jazz, Ambient filled Sounds, Club Banger’s, Neo-Soul, Under-Ground rap, Pop, Upbeat, Chilled Rap and in most cases you could hear a fusion of either 2 or 3 of the above making a melody filled combination of sounds and as a rapper he switches up flows to match the beats ranging from aggressive rap, soulful rap, sing-along songs, poetic rap also adding a sometimes dark sense of humour to get is point across and not being afraid to add heavy backing vocals as part of the mix. Acer Tankz draws most of his inspiration from songs from the 90’s and sometimes 80’s which include RnB, Hip-hop, Blues, Pop and Jazz but also keeping up with what’s new and relevant.

'''Acer Tankz’s Background'''

Acer Tankz started making music in 2008 for the wrong reasons but at the time made sense to him, all he wanted was a phone that was popular at the at the time and the only job that didn’t require him to not be minor was music then later learned there’s more to music then just blabbing out words when his brother asked him who would pay to year your voice alone without a beat and it was then when Acer Tankz started producing his own beats, however he had a bad start lacking resources and equipment he had to make it work out of what he had access to at the time. Acer Tankz Started making beats with a video editing software which you could imagine was terrible even he admitted it but at the time to him was gold, having to record without a standard microphone he used phone headsets (yes, the little microphone that came built in the headsets for calls) which forced him to yell out each and every word only to get a fraction of the volume on record. This of-cause meant Acer Tankz did not have his craft ready enough to get that phone he wanted so he kept going on along the way forgetting why he stared. In 2009 an actual D.A.W was introduced to him by a fellow rapper and Acer Tankz found to be the easiest way to make beats (of-cause) that was because he started with the software that was not designed for making beats however that worked for him and gave him the edge and has been at it ever since.

The Name Acer Tankz   

The name Acer Tankz was created two different times Tankz being the first part of the name he actually liked and as for Acer the idea has been in his head as Ace long before Tankz but was not taken seriously, but one day while he was free-styling quietly to himself repeating Tankz, the part of his name he thought was official at the time he kept free-styling using everything he saw something along the lines of “I aced the test I’m a true Acer” once he settled and set down he started reading every word on the desk including a Laptop’s brand “Acer” only this time he said Tankz right after and sounded catchy and that was it, as for Tankz in the name Acer Tankz, that came from his real name, his last name in particular – his real name is Tshepo Kanono – Kanono meaning War Tank and That’s how Tankz came about and after googling what acer is (A tree) it was official, Acer Tankz it is. For his beats he uses “DJ Tankz Of-Cause” as a beat Tag.