Butta Verses

A meticulous lyrical writer, Butta Verses was introduced to underground hip-hop audiences with the lofty endorsement of De La Soul, something only a few MCs can actually claim. Born and bred in the Bronx, Butta (aka John Cullen) embraced hip-hop culture early on with street ciphers and battle-rap freestyles serving as his lyrical training ground. In his teens, he relocated to Fort Lauderdale, FL, around 1993. Naïve and rebellious, Cullen had ambitions of being a surfer, which he never actually pursued, and at one point he enlisted in the U.S. Marines, but was eventually expell...