The story of Jersey Shore-based rap artist and producer Token Genius begins with learning how to record and make beats in the summer of 2009. He would go on to obtain a Bachelor’s Degree in Music from the University of Delaware and play in University ensembles, balancing formal training with mixtapes exploring his own sound. To date he has two commercial full-lengths, Searching The Signals (2017) and Twentywanting (2021), with a third in the works. Citing left-of-center acts as production templates (The Cool Kids, Phantogram) and bands from all offshoots of hardcore as lyrical inspiration, Token Genius intends to become the exception to the rules of rap- hence the logo of an asterisk.