Whether traveling around the world as on tour with Bun B, chopping it up on songs with Talib Kweli or producing and engineering for some of the biggest names in hip hop, Cory Mo is right at home. What he brought to the table for other artists was vital; now it is time for him to make his own mark. ”I couldn’t afford no studio, I couldn’t afford no beats. It kinda of forced me and my brother to build a studio in our garage, in our moms backyard. It was like, we can’t afford no beats so let’s just go ahead and get this little bootleg keyboard and see what it do.”

Cory Mo began his career as a gifted MC, but by 1999 he had a strong buzz on the Houston hip hop scene as a lyricist and a producer. He decided to produce his own music rather than waiting for others or paying for tracks that were manifestations of someone else’s vision. It was a recording session with the late Pimp C from the legendary group UGK that sent Cory’s career on a different trajectory.

”I met Pimp thru my older brother, Mike Mo. Back in 1994 my brother was in college in Beaumont at Lamar University, which is about ten minutes from Port Arthur, where Pimp and Bun are from. My brother was pretty popular on campus, he bought Pimp C’s Cadillac from him and they became good friends. So once Pimp comes to Houston my brother is like “my brother does beats, you should come by the studio.” First day I met him, we made a song. Since then we clicked, and he became a mentor/big brother type of dude.”