Zev Kanter is a 20-year-old hip-hop recording artist, songwriter, producer, and aspiring entrepreneur from Baltimore, Maryland. Born on August 24, 1995 into a family of four, Zev has always had a love for music. His father Michael Kanter, a drummer from Baltimore, Maryland, and mother Michele Kanter, an artist from New York, N.Y., are both creative and self-starting people embracing their journey through life. Having creative parents, Zev’s interest in writing poetry and being creative began at an early age. With his father playing drums, and his older sister Zoe Kanter being an opera singer, he had been exposed to multiple genres of music and art since before he could walk. “Whagiy”, which stands for “Work hard and get it young”, is a term Zev created at a young age feeling that people don’t work hard enough in this generation. Zev has always been a hard worker. By the age of 18 he was already a certified personal trainer in NSPA, and he had built his own home music studio with money he earned working full time. In 2015, by age 19, Zev had created his own clothing line, his own website, his first mixtape, and much more while navigating through life’s obstacles. Presently, Zev is unsigned, working on his entrepreneurship, and pursuing his passions, saying, “I can’t rep Whagiy and not work hard”. So early in his career Zev says “I love music and expect to be doing this for a long time. It’s about the journey and doing what you love while living happy, and as long as doing this makes me happy I’ll be here. This is only the beginning of what’s yet to come”.