Last April, San Francisco based Hip-hop music producer Tom Cleary -- commonly known as TOMC3 of rap group Dopestyle1231 -- released Project Polaroid, an album which has quickly become a favorite among Hip-hop fans around the globe.

The combination of TOMC3's funky, hardcore, and original production style, paired with the usual off-the-wall lyrics by rap legend Kool Keith, has firmly established TOMC3 within the Hip-Hop arena.

Cleary, a former SF State Student, talks about what it took to make it happen.

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