Adam Kipling A.K.A. Da Kippa was born on May 31st 1983 in Freeport Long Island where he was raised for the first 8 years of his childhood. Due to the level of violence and crime in the community his parents felt it was best to move to a safer, more quiet neighborhood, Smithtown, a 98% white community. This is where he attended High School, but the switch from a racially mixed community to a predominately white town was a very challenging transition emotionally and mentally for him and his brother even at a young age. Da Kippa and his brother were popular in Freeport as the only white kids on the block hanging with the older crowd, but in Smithtown, friends were much harder to come by. Refusing to act fake and try and fit in with the upper middle class white kids, Da Kippa became very isolated, conflicted, and angry with his peers. Hip Hop became his non-destructive way to vent his bottled up emotions and anger.

Exploding on the underground scene in 2001 debuting the song "Am I Crazy" with a record setting score of 85% votes "Phat" on Insane Clown Posse's weekly underground artist competition "Phat or Whack". Da Kippa's rap career took off with a blast, and started quickly gaining attention from anyone and everyone. The explosion would soon die down as he disappeared from the public/Internet's eye. Hip Hop was put on the back burner as Kippa dealt with; depression, loneliness, and disappointment with how things were going. While dealing with inner conflict and isolation, he attended college at Adelphi University on a full scholarship for Baseball. Kippa was looked at as a loose cannon and very intimidating as he lashed out, sold drugs, "attempted" robberies, and turned to drugs for self medication. Kippa was also becoming even more frustrated with the behavior and overall "fake-ness" of his peers. He, despite his problems and hardships, graduated with a degree in Communications and is currently working at KandoKid Films where he has his foot in the door as a Production Assistant on music videos and commercials. After four years of a continuous downward spiral, abusing drugs, and bad relationships with peers as well as girlfriends, Kippa moved back home in Smithtown, and left his problems in Hempstead where he had been living during his college years.

Hip Hop has been a diary for Kippa to express what he has been going through during these turbulent years in hopes to reach other young people and to comfort anyone going through similar times. As things seemed to be looking better, Kippa plummeted to rock bottom in 2005 when he crashed head on into a telephone pole at 50 miles an hour without a seatbelt. He was taken to the hospital and treated for head injuries but was arrested and taken to jail that same night because of alcohol on his breath and open beer bottles in his totaled car. He got a slap on the wrist for this was his first offence and was ordered to; community service, attendance in an alcohol abuse class, and was hit with multiple fines. Since then he has come along way with maturing as a man and living life more positively. His story is far from over and every new song is another entry in his diary. Each song released is a page in his story, from his first album in 2001, "Underneath The Underground", to his sophomore release in 2004, "17 Sneak Attacks", to his most recent songs released on the Internet which will soon be put into the third installment of his rapping career with the release of a highly anticipated third LP "Product Of My Environment" which does not have a release date as of yet. He has now reached the next chapter where he searches for a place in Hip Hop Underground history. He WILL and has already began making his mark as one of the undergrounds fiercest, no holds bard, flame spitting but yet most humorous rapper. Being the true Gemini that he is, there are many sides to his personality, and each song shows a different side of him. Be a witness as Da Kippa, the Gemini Genius, continues to grow and his story continues to unfold.