Kastrofobia Da Mixtape Vol.1
Born in Jan 1976 the son of Antonio Rivera and Ileana Colon was born in da Bronx, Ny... Steven Rivera a.k.a Kastro~Kastrofobia was born with a lyrical gift.... at the age of 14 he became obsessed with music.... not just any music but Hip Hop... He grew up listening to groups like Black Sheep,KRS 1,Das Effex ,LL Cool J etc .Living in P.R. at that time he started developing skills and knowledge of the Hip Hop game where he formed a group called Triple x men.... from there due to problems in the ruff streets of P.R. he was forced to leave P.R. and moved to NY to the city of Yonkers with his Mom. While in Yonkers he met two guys afro americans who tought him how to write rhymes in English, thats where he got the name of f.l.e.a which stands for freaking ladies every angle..... he was the only Boricua between morenos to be killing the Hip Hop game at that time when groups like Da Lox,Dmx and Mary J. Blije where blowing up... he was part of Doom ent. from there he got together with Geolani Gambino and they became The Hillside connection......These two became more hungry and more unstopable and formed a company called Affiliated Ent which was part co owners with Illfigga records out of Dc Maryland area. Affilliated Ent was involvoled in other things like promoting parties to collect funds to record street tapes or mixtapes on a monthly basis. From there he became Fleadel Kastro and then stayed with Kastro due to the fact his grandfather changed his last name from Kastro to Rivera he felt it was a way to hit his family in the head with this... he got connected with Rey Pirin a large reggaeton artist at that time and a long time childhood friend got him connected with everyone like Dj Blass, Don Chezina and Speedy who were artist from the Reggaeton scene that were hot. After that he did a few promotional parties in the states of Conneticut,Maryland,Philly,New Jersey,New York and Virginia and thats when he met Mr Notty Boy from the group Nottyplay these two became real good friends and Notty told Kastro to write a song in Spanish to see how he would sound....At that time a guy name Doble from Mafu Crew wrote the song for Kastro.. he recorded 3 demo songs that were hot and mailed them to Notty. Notty fell in love with Kastro's unique style and flew him out to Puerto Rico to sing... made him a record deal with his company Money Machine. From there he came out on albums like Dj Anquiera,The score,Warriors4 and the smashing album Bandokorrupto 2.5. After that he moved on to labels like Buddahs family,White lion,New records and now Flow Factory inc where in da past year he has recorded hot songs with Arcangel,Cheka,Baby Rasta y Gringo,Notty Play,Dj Blass, Jowel y Randy, Calle 13 and the list goes on.Now he has formed his own Co called Fobiamusik.... joint partners with Beyond Limts Musik where the smash hits like Put yo hands in da air and Bien guillao have come out.Making alot of noise for 2007 with his unique style.. he plans to take over the Hip Hop,Latin hip Hop and the Reggaeton scene... 07 the year of Kastrofobia are u ready? jajajajaja