Born Brian G. Reyes in Antioch, California on August 10,1979, SIDEWAYS, (who received that name after a long reputation of getting “sideways” in his 1967 Mercury Cougar as a teenager), started out as a rapper in the streets of Antioch. The product of a single parent household, music was a way out of the cold realities of poverty, as well as a way to release tension that was building in the young artists life.

Sideways has always had something to say. And as his audience grew, so did the demand for the sound he dubbed the “YOC KNOCK”. Merging devastating drum kicks with earth trembling bass lines, Sideways found himself within a realm with no boundaries, where he could freely express himself through his music.

SIDEWAYS started out at age 16 making “beats” in the basement of the 7th street apartment he shared with his mother, younger brother and sister. Starting with an Alesis SR-16 drum machine that was a gift from his divorced parents, he composed drum beats that he recorded to cassette tapes and sold