"'The Death of Me' - coming soon!"

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Ahmad Ali Lewis was raised in South Central Los Angeles. He secured his first recording contract while still a senior in high school, and promptly earned a gold record for the chart topping hit "Back In The Day." Ahmad later formed a band called 4th Avenue Jones, a collective whose sound he dubbed "hiprocksoul." Ahmad has toured extensively as a solo artist, and as a member of 4th Avenue Jones, visiting such places as the Netherlands, the U.K., Canada, Sweden, Denmark, and the southern African nation of Zimbabwe.

Wanting to provide a more stable environment for his toddler son Yeshuwa, Ahmad enrolled three years ago at Long Beach City College and graduated as valedictorian, with a 4.0 grade point average. He was accepted as a transfer student by several universities for the fall of 2008 and chose Stanford University. Ahmad is a 2008 recipient of the prestigious Jack Kent Cooke Scholarship, the largest private scholarship for two-year and community college transfer students in the country.

Ahmad's transition from hip-hop artist to scholar has not gone unnoticed; in fact, his story was featured on the front-page of the Los Angeles Times. Ahmad has said that he will be "the first rapper with a PhD."

Ahmad recently formed a new music company called WeCLAP, an acronym for We Change Lives, Attitudes and Perceptions. WeCLAP is partnering with Syntax Distribution, to release the forthcoming WeCLAP catalog. Ahmad's highly anticipated sophomore solo project "The Death of Me" is slated for a late 2009  release and will be the first for the label.