Simon Hill (born September 14, 1990), better known by stage name Top Billion or Topic-L, is an aspiring southern hip-hop artist hailing from Monroe, Louisiana. He is co-visionary of Cipher Music Group and renowned for the Nation of Gods and Earth's inspired mixtapes released annually since 2007 with True Wise Allah. He began recording music on his desktop Compaq computer in early 2004 with the intention to battle other rappers on the internet for entertainment. At first, a pair of CD player headphones, a microphone purchased from Wal-Mart, and digital recording program Cool Edit Pro 2.0 were all that were used to record his tracks. Later that same year, he began to pursue music more seriously with the purchase of a MB 3k Audio-Technica microphone that drastically upgraded the quality of his recordings; thus giving him more confidence in his work.
He then began to prodigiously record music every day. His work ethic resulted in a prolific library of work which he then distributed to his peers at his high school on CD-R discs. Family circumstances, failures with his computer, and slipping grades though resulted in his focus temporarily being taken away from music and forced onto other things. Music seemed to be diminishing to Simon in importance until his interest was sparked by the Nation of Gods and Earth and/or the Five Percenters. His chance aquainting with Five Percenter True Wise Allah resulted in Simon not only becoming a Five Percenter himself, but with him putting out one of his best received works, the first of the 5% inspired mixtapes: Knowledge Equality: The Prelude.
He has since then been more determined to succeed in the music industry and be a generative artist by promoting heavily on the internet (especially the site Imeem.com), releasing several freestyles and songs free to download, and plans on majoring in something related to Music Business.
Sites:
www.myspace.com/ciphermusicgroup
www.myspace.com/ciphermusicgroup09
www.imeem.com/toplyricist
www.youtube.com/topicalone
Twitter Updates
@xxclusivee u alrdy know lol naw for real i tweeted them on accident
about 11 hours ago
Top Billion:
Yo, I appreciate the love for this Myke Diesel track, but if you are going to use our track to re-sell for yourself, please keep the INTRO in the beginning.
We are going to have to discuss this matter.
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Thank you for your time,
Imacel V. Robinson
CEO/ Owner
A-Train Productions