DialySus Photo Shoot - Oct. 24, 2010

I had the pleasure of photographing hip hop artist "DialySuS" (Derek Simmons) from Scotch Plains, NJ. He is currently the Freestyle Champ on the Mix Tape Comedy Show which hold battles for up and coming hip hop artists every month. He just won the title last Oct. 17th but unfortunately Mix Tape's website has not yet updated their video links. When they do, you can check it out from the link below:

http://www.mixtapecomedy.com/category/freestylebattle/

Read on after the images to get info on this promising new artist.








Taken from his myspace page: http://www.myspace.com/dialysus

Derek Simmons - DMoney - DialySuS Born on March 12, 1989...and that's when it started! A lot of people probably wonder how or why I have the name "DialySuS." Well at first, I had the name DMoney. This was a nickname given to me by many of my peers. It was a chain reaction, one person, then another, and then everyone! However, due to life experiences, and advice from my older brother, I decided that DialySuS would be a better fit. At the age of 10 I was diagnosed with a kidney disease. This disease became worse over the years, and in February of 2006 I had to go on dialysis. This was an everyday thing for awhile. I was hooked up to a machine 10 hours a day, 7 days a week. Dialysis is "the process by which uric acid and urea are removed from circulating blood by means of a dialyzer. " In a sense, you could say that dialysis "flushes" out your system. I like to think of the hip hop world as a "system." A lot of artists nowadays use inappropriate language in their songs. I, "DialySuS, pride myself in saying that i don't curse in my songs. In a way, I say that I am "flushing" out the hip hop system, therefore, giving myself the name DialySuS. With much prayer, family, and friend support, I was lucky enough to have a perfect match for a new kidney: My father. On July 12, 2006 I had a kidney transplant at St. Barnabas Hospital. After 6 other surgeries I was finally released from the hospital on August 26, 2006. After I was released, I wrote a song about my life and received a lot of compliments. This encouraged me to keep going and I feel I got better and better with time. Now, I am where i'm at today. "I been through the pain, i been through the tears, held it down for myself, and held it down for my peers, I been through the struggle, i been through it all they tried to knock me down, but I'm still standin tall" SO NOW....SHOW ME SOME LOVE