Fira Heffner

FIRA , who ’s got the look of a bagman rather than a beatmaker started to get familiar with rap music at an early age around 1992. Back in the days he only saw videos from MTV but he totally fell in love with them coz he really had a similar personality and lifestyle what these videos were representing. At the time he got a tin-pot tape : Megasound system (Hungarion rap band) which he played all the time and it appealed to him a lot.

Growing up in Kispest (district of Budapest) he was always hanging out with gangs , gangsta lifestyle wasn’t unknown for him at all, even though it wasn’t as serious as what he saw in the videos. He spent a lot of time with friends who shared the same ideas about this „rap thing”. In 1994 he saw the movie „Juice” and that’s when he started rhyming : one boombox played the instrumental while the other recorded his rhymes over the beats. He started putting down more serious rhymes in 1996. The same year he met Pain (Hungarian MC) they wrote lots of rhymes and verses together and they were living a tough ghetto life, since FIRA was the ganger of ASC - a gang of 40 members. He got a toy piano from a friend which he was using to try to imitate his favorite artists’ tunes. In

1999 he moved into District 8 (dodgiest , ghetto area of Budapest) and he lost contact with almost all of his old friends and gang members. He bought his first PC and from another friend (CJ – Hungarian rap artist) he got the FastTracker2 software. After many years of practicing and producing music, in 2002 he started using Fruity Loops. By that time he was rather a producer than an MC, rhyming kinda passed out of his mind... in 2004 he started using Cakewalk Sonar and Reason softwares taking producing really seriously into a high level...

In 2006 he met Suba (Hungarian rap artist, producer) and decided to set up the Playaz Only community to be out to bring those together who are on the loose and love cool really smooth beats and rhymes. Meanwhile other people like graphic artists, beautiful models joined as well. 2007, in these days: FIRA makes average 1 beat a day. (told ya he is a freak) He doesn’t sell them too often, most likely he is saving them for „Playa” albums and tracks so community members would have some quality beats to use when needed.