“If his goal was to reach young people: Done!” - Regina Lewis, CNN Headline News Ohio Hip-Hop Award winning, Cleveland rapper Dan 5mith's has released 4 studio albums. The first 2 were comedy-song albums: "The Caucasian Invasion" & "D.E.B.'S Kid." The first comedy song he recorded, "Baby Got Book," went viral before YouTube was launched, racking up over 26 million hits in just over a year at whiteboyDJ.com. The 2 most recent albums have been hip-hop with a strong dose of humor, wordplay, and brutal honesty - "North Coast Patriarchs" & now introducing the "WordSmith" album. The NCP album landed him an OHHA. Smith is a ordained Christian minister with positive, honest, God-centered lyrics of struggle, fatherlessness, grace, forgiveness, and unconditional love. "[This] pastor has made it his mission to turn the notion of earnest, boring, humorless Christianity on its head — and tickle its feet until it laughs." -Kevin Sites, Yahoo! News Smitty has rapped at a Cleveland Cavaliers post-game show, an NFL retirement party, churches, youth groups, bars, public schools, high school concert band performances, gospel choirs, Christian youth conventions, parades, and festivals. “The crowd…loved it, applauding and offering woot after woot.” -Erin O’Brien, Cleveland Free Times