Christopher “Taco” Toney is a 26 years old artist from a rough neighborhood in Chicago known as “ LeClaire Courts”. His love for music and potential to inspire change in today''s society is what motivates his dedication for music. Taco''s passion for rapping began in 2002 when he was in the 8th grade and over the years have grown. Taco recently obtained a Bachelors Degree in Business from Northern Illinois University. Taco currently resides in Chicago, Illinois and has recently dropped a mixtape title “The Truth”. This mixtape goes into factual details about his personal life and entitles real life situations that we see in our world today. Through his creative writing and music skills his hopes and dreams is that our youth will take a different approach with living their life in ways other than whats portrayed. This mixtape can be found on Datpiff.com (Taco the Truth),soundcloud.com, coast2coastmixtapes.comand audiomack.com Taco reps his city in an unique fashion, he''s not the average drill rapper that you will normally hear coming from out of Chicago. His lyrics comes straight from the heart based on his very own life experiences that he feel many should know about. His music has meaning in which he puts passion and pain into expressing through lyrical visuals. He is most influenced by some of the best artist in today’s music industry such as, J. Cole, T.I., Lupe Fiasco, Nas and Tupac. His favorite quote is by none other than J. Cole himself, “ There is no such thing as a life better than yours”. This quote motivates him in a way like no other pushing him to go harder and be different from his peers.