Ripper says “working for Tempo allows me to be in my element and keep in tune with what’s going on in the entire Caribbean visually on a music stand point. I get to go to different islands and learn about their culture. It also allows me to create links for not only myself but other struggling artist from the Virgin Islands because I know how it was when I was coming up not having that much outlets and getting that slight feeling of hopelessness. Now with my position I can be a kind of light at the end of tunnel for those artist really trying to make it that get far enough in the game to actually have a video come out. With me at Tempo they know they at least have a chance or opportunity to get their work displayed on a national level.” Tempo aside, Ripper’s main ambition is music and one of the 1st things he did when he came to New York was find a studio and quickly began recording. Some of the 1st songs he recorded were: 1 Wish, Hugh, Stay Far and Ruff. In shopping and networking these songs Ripper landed himself a few stage shows opening for such acts as Rocafellas Uncle Murder and Universal Records artist Jae Millz and Ripper also got himself in a few talent show cases where people like Desert Storm’s DJ Clue among other A&R’s got so see his talent.

The songs Ripper really pushes at these events are Stay Far which is described in the opening of this article But in Rippers own words he says “it’s best for me to scream my anger off in a song than to actually have to scream at people and tell dem to stay far. I know everybody is thinking the same thing too. So when I perform this song at my shows it’s something that the majority of the crowd can relate to because we all take the subway or bus some time or the other and majority of the time it’s crowded. So I’m expressing in song what most people would like to express themselves plus it’s easy to sing along too.” The next song is called Ruff, in describing the song he says. “I jus had to make a song for the gurls dem, off of experience I know some of dem like yuh to go on sick on dem so I had to make a song to teach the man dem who don’t know about that style how to deal with dem kind of woman so and that style is ruff . As far as my rap style goes; the long name, the Virgin Islands accent and all the hyper behavior is all me. A lot of performers are in to gimmicks but to me gimmicks are just for a time, a fad. People who use gimmicks are quickly forgotten and end up on shows like where are they now. I don’t want that to eva be me my boy. So I keep it real with myself and I perform songs in the aspect of I living it not if I was living it or if I was to live it. I am just me, Quick the Ripper—The Wild Child, the one man show, the man who needs no hype man.