Jonni's special guest for this episode is Crystal Wood AKA Lyric.
Musician/Rapper. Crystal shares her experiences of being a women in the Hip-Hop industry and the challenges she faces, and the therapeutic nature of song writing!

Personal Bio ~ Crystal Wood

Crystal is a military brat; born in Madrid, Spain. She has lived in Missouri, Tokyo, Japan, Maryland, Washington D.C. and Tucson, Arizona. She’s lived here in Tucson for 18 years so says she’s from here (Tucson) now!

Crystal went to Utterback middle school for the last 5 months of middle school, and went to Palo Verde High School. She was freshman class president, but she dropped out in sophomore year, but got her GED in 2009. She went to all of the Pima Community College campuses except Desert Vista. She went to school for Business Management.

The focus of Lyric's Rose LLC is to distill my own essential oils and create health and beauty products using all natural ingredients. The product line will also be alkaline (with a PH balance of 7). it is meant to replace all of your health and beauty products with harsh chemicals (all of them). To ensure the quality of the products, and a higher oil yield, I am looking to buy a plot of land and grow the plants used in these products. I'd also like to use this land as a community garden.
I would like to eventually expand and own a health and wellness center that has the product line for sale in the front and has a focus on yoga, fitness, stretching, breathing, and nutrition. at night it could double as a venue space to help local artists and musicians of all genres have a place to practice and perform.

Currently I am a rapper, singer, songwriter, and performer. I've recently had the opportunity to open up for a couple famous rappers including; Bizzy Bone (from Bone Thugs -n- Harmony), The Luniz, and DJ Paul (from Three 6 Mafia). I have an album

I'm working on coming out soon it's called Scam Likely. One of my main songs  Revenge has a feature from X-Raided and there is plenty of tucson local rappers featured in the album as well. I will be performing at the arizona mixtape music awards and the tucson hip hop showcase