In addition to performing hip-hop, Forbes—a 2008 graduate of RIT's College of Applied Science and Technology—is an accomplished drummer, songwriter and communicator. His debut album, Perfect Imperfection, contains 12 American Sign Language music videos that are coupled with his original songs. He has been featured on CNN, National Public Radio and the Ovation Network series, Motor City Rising, and articles about him have published in Spin,new York Post and The Washington Post, among others. He has performed hundreds of live shows for both deaf and hearing audiences and has achieved viral success on YouTube. Forbes is also the founder of D-Pan, the Deaf Performing Artists Network, which has created videos produced in American Sign Language that interpret songs such as Christina Aguilera's beautiful, John Mayer's Waiting on the World to Change, and others. He has opened for the nationally known rap artist Ludacris.

[source: NTID website, 2015-Oct-5]