There are two artists known as Matty: 1) Solo project from Matt Taveres, keyboardist from jazz band Badbadnotgood. 2) Rapper from Salem. Raised in Salem -Keizer Or, Matty was introduced to hip hop in middle school listening to everything from 2Pac to Nelly, from Biggie to Mos Def, Matty was hooked. It wasn’t until high school that he started writing lines, which eventually turned into songs. He released his first ep album entitled "Blowin Up" in 2006 but was very low quality and a limited quanity was released.