Born in a South End, Winnipeg basement in 2008, The Lytics started more as a pipedream than a possibility. Growing up on a steady diet of early nineties hip hop and R’n’B, the three youngest members of the group, Andrew ‘Andrew.O’ Sannie, Anthony ‘Ashy’ Sannie and Mungala ‘Munga’ Londe honed their rhyming skills on torrented Pete Rock, J.Dilla and DJ Premiere instrumentals downloaded onto an old family computer.
Meanwhile, eldest of the group, Alex ‘B-Flat’ Sannie – brother to Anthony and Andrew – was a burgeoning young producer, making beats for some of Winnipeg’s best rappers and providing the aspiration and inspiration to his younger brothers’ perspiration.
Alex would join his brothers and newly adopted cousin Munga with the goal of taking the group to the next level. They would eventually add local DJ and family friend, Lonnie ‘Ce’ Compayre and their pipedream all of a sudden had legs.