Happy Birthday Tech N9ne!

Tech N9neToday not only marks the arrival of the Tech N9ne Collabos album Welcome To Strangeland, but something much more special, the birthday of the Strange Music general, the one and only King of Darkness, Tech N9ne.

Today marks the Alucard of Hip Hop’s 40th birthday. From his start as a head-turner in Kansas City to a worldwide independent superstar, Tech N9ne has filled many of our lives with great music, touching our lives with his charisma, talent, and boundless enthusiasm.

Wish Tech N9ne a very special Happy Birthday in the comments section below.

Some things to think about…

  • How has Tech N9ne touched you in your life?
  • How did you first hear Tech N9ne?
  • What is your favorite song or album and why?

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  • Reptile

    happy birthday tech!

  • Samantharubio11

    Tech, music aint shit without you. I’m so grateful that you play music and you don’t change for nothing. happy birthdaay tech. <3 ;)

  • Samantharubio11

    Tech, music aint shit without you. I’m so grateful that you play music and you don’t change for nothing. happy birthdaay tech. <3 ;)

  • Brayn watson

    Happy Birthday Tech!

  • Brayn watson

    Happy Birthday Tech!

  • Phiphi8908

    Happy Birthday you sexy mother fucker!! ;) can’t wait til you come to Massachusetts again and I can see you!! Love your music, persona, style etc xoxo hope your birthday was an amazing one!!

  • Phiphi8908

    Happy Birthday you sexy mother fucker!! ;) can’t wait til you come to Massachusetts again and I can see you!! Love your music, persona, style etc xoxo hope your birthday was an amazing one!!

  • Pat Balusek

    Happy birthday tech. you have helped me in every aspect in my life. i remember the first time i heard you it was on misery loves company and the song was fan or foe. and i just remember thinking who the fuck is this cat. and since then its was on. AND I WILL Forever.Accept.N9nes.Soul.

    TECHNITIANS!!!!! AHOOO AHOOO AHOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Pat Balusek

    Happy birthday tech. you have helped me in every aspect in my life. i remember the first time i heard you it was on misery loves company and the song was fan or foe. and i just remember thinking who the fuck is this cat. and since then its was on. AND I WILL Forever.Accept.N9nes.Soul.

    TECHNITIANS!!!!! AHOOO AHOOO AHOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Steven Hernandez

    Happy Birthday Tech!!! YOU are The greatest Rapper Alive !!!  Technician 4 Life
     

  • Paulie

    happy birthday tech looking foward to many more years of the kings music

  • Paulie

    happy birthday tech looking foward to many more years of the kings music

  • TGKANE

    YOUR MUSICS CHANGED MY LIFE I WOULDNT BE THE PERSON I AM TODAY OR MAYBE EVEN FREE IN 08 WHEN I FIRST HERD YOU IT SEEMD LIKE YOU WOULD BE THE NEXT BIG LEGEND KEPT IT REAL AND NOW YOUR A GOD TO MUSIC THE STRANGEE MUSIC WELCOME TO STRANGELAND

  • Mikegimpy

    Happy birthday from the kc metro. Keep the hits rollin’!

  • Alicia

    Thanks tech for keepin it real for yourself n for your fans!! We love you nina!

  • Jcupapplet

    Happy birthday to the King of Darkness! Your music has touched people in ways that are unimaginable. Love the new album. You never disappoint. Thank you.

  • Estabon89

    Tech, happy 40th, make it grand! I’ve considered you the best rapper in the game since about ’05, when I first heard ‘be warned’.  Your rhymes bring me up when I’m down, and take me even higher when I’m up. Feel like I’m trapped in a psycho’s body sometimes, too, that’s my shit. Technician for life, much love!

  • Mrs. Yates

    Happy Birthday Tech!! You are the only rapper i will listen to, your music just does something to me and mezmorizes me. I first heard your music 6 years ago and saw u perform in Columbus that same year youve changed my life Tech. I am still to this day a dedicated Technician. I even got the strange music snake and bat tattooed on my back, and i named my pit bull Nina, she is white with black spots and seriously has a black shaped 9 over her eye. Keep doing you Tech and come back to Columbus soon, I cant wait to see you again!

  • Prince_ati

    HAPPPYYY BDAAYYY TECCHH… I hope ur bday is as amazing as ur new album

  • Mamalette23

    I’ve been listening to your music for about 7 years now, ever since I was 12. You have been a huge part of my life and always will be. I also have to say you put on the best live show ever! Happy birthday Tech! Much love.

  • frank rizzo

    happy birthday n shit
     

  • Blaze

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY TECH! MANY…MANY MORE TO COME! I HOPE YOUR FAMILY AND THE WORLD WILL CONTINUE TO BE BLESSED BY YOUR PRESENCE AND MUSIC!

  • Frankrizza2001

    Happy b-day G.O.A.T/K.O.D.

  • Jake

    Tech my man your the best. Your music keeps me going each day bro. Keep up the good work! Technician for life!

  • Sushifingrz

    Your music will live on long after you gone, homie!

  • Kyminbranson

    Happy birthday Tech! You were my husband’s and my first concert together. And our three month old daughter is so happy and care free when we listen to you. You have been her favorite music since she was in the womb. Thanks for making my family an awesome one! Withoit you, would have one sad little girl. Much love!

  • http://twitter.com/_Shelisa_ Shelisa Hankins

    Happy Birthday Tech!! I can honestly say that your concert’s are the best concert’s i have ever been too :) and I’ve been a fan since I started HS almost 10 years ago :) …. Topeka make the planet rock !!!!!
    much love n have a great birthday… im hoping to make the show on the 19th.. got my fingers crossed :)

  • Jerbear85

    Been rollin witcha since Anghellic Tech. Always have been, and always will be my favorite artist of all time. Nobody flows like you, nor deserves the respect. Keep on keepin it Strange! Hope to see ya on your next tour around the midwest

  • sean archer

    happy birthday tech ,ya da da mean from vegas !! been listen since #4 on thugged out (yuckmouth). they couldn’t rap fast enough or clean thanks for schooling them…………and always remember you are alive the rest is icing on the cake and if u were an alligator u would be a pair of shoes by now ……………peace ,citiboirealistic

  • Jesterzac (Zac Dale)

    I heard my favorite rapper Tech N9ne while I was really big into listenin to ICP. I heard Tech on Thugpit and knew right there that I had to listen to the rest of his music. I started from Anghellic and moved up. I had never been so excited about an artist until I heard you Tech. When you rapped about all your sadness I knew you is a real rapper, an artist greater than any. I don’t have a favorite album because everytime I think I do, my itunes shifts to the next song from your other albums and changes it lol. Or you put out new shit and continue to shock me. I literally cant help but get hyped everytime I hear your music. Your lyrics have inspired me for a long time now, I’m glad I have lived to see such a legendary rapper. Happy Birthday again Tech N9ne ( I’m sayin again cuz i posted on your facebook page yesterday lol)!!!!!!!! Technician til I die!!!!!

  • frankie morris

    happy birthday tech! been listenin to ya since that riotmaker track dropped and been a fan ever since! keep it up man!

  • Guest

    Happy b-day Tech from south KC in Marlbourough, 85th an Paseo TECH N9NE fo life!

  • NOCTURNAL_TNB

    HAPPY B~DAY TECH, I’M SOOOO GLAD YOU WERE BORN.  SLC UT, LOVES YA

  • Ryan Hubbard 1

    TThe first time I ever head the name Tech N9ne I was in Cape Girardeau, MO. I was blasting Tormented going through downtown in a 91 Civic. But no song has ever hit me like Mama Nem. When I heard that, it made me think of my mom who passed in 04. Tech, you have been blowing my speakers out for 9 years now, and hopefully many more years to come. Happy birthday to the KING OF KANSAS CITY!!!!!!!

  • L a u r a 2 5

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY TECH!! Hope you enjoy this year and the many more years to come :)
    And to be honest I’ve always listened to rock more until I met my fiance in 2008. He is a huge fan of yours and knows everything about you,.he also is wants to become a rapper but things are just getting in his way and you inspire him. He is the one that introduced me to your music and I’ve been listening to it ever since! I love your K.O.D. album..especially Blacken the Sun. I love all your songs really. We listen to you everyday. I took my fiance to see you for the first time here in Spokane, Washington for your K.O.D. tour..we had a blast!! We then saw your independant grind tour and we were excited to know that you were coming here again for your lost cities tour. Unfortunately we couldn’t make it because we didn’t have the money nor did we have a babysitter. We’re hoping to see you again.! Happy birthday once again. Keep doing what you’re doing and stay strange :) lol <3

  • Kwernet

    Happy Birthday Tech! I will always remember the show you did in cleveland at peabodys (one of the many I’ve been to) that was on your birthday a few years back! Keep doin what u do cause ur the best. STRANGE!..music..

  • Fullmetal Juggalo

    Words can’t express the love I feel for Tech and all of Strange Music.

  • Skysaldivar

    Happy bday Tech N9ne. Thanks for the all the wonderful years of great music & the best concerts EVER. You will forever be known for bringing me Now It’s On. One of your greatest songs ever

  • Jeff

    Dear Tech my name is Jeff Alexander and I am not gonna lie at first I was a big hater im black and I thought tech n9ne was just for the white kids,  I went to highschool to dassel cokato highschool and all my friends listened to you 24/7 and I would always tell them to turn it off and that you were garbage until around last year I started going through some really messed up stuff in my life and I just felt weighed down, alone, and just dark and depressed and at times i felt like just putting a end to my life I just needed something to relate to so one day I was riding around town listening to music and the song that got me into your music was the rain so I later borrowed sickology 101, KOD, and the gates mixed plate from friends and I was never the same I later bought my first tech cd the day after it dropped all 6s and 7s,  your music was just what I needed to relate to and to keep me going you inspired me and keep inspiring me to be something and to maybe pursue music so I can make music that is as deep and influential as yours for kids who have been where I have been mentally and emotionally thank you and happy belated birthday oh and my favorite tech n9ne  song dysfunctional favorite album sickology 101 or Kod 

  • Sascha L.

    Happy Birthday Tech N9ne!!! Never been a real musicfan before
    but ever since I heard your music a lot changed for me, so I thank you
    and wisch you healthy and happy years in the future.

    And something special:

    He’s in the air
    Like a god takin care
    As a shepherd, we are his herd
    We follow, cause his music we heard
    We’re technicians following
    The one and only Technician
    He’s our leading, he’s guiduing
    Us in a world of his construction
    A strange land, a land of joy for lovers
    But a disturbing horrorfull pain for haters
    We will hail him as our king
    For us he’s the king of kings
    For some his the King of darkness
    A monster cold and heartless
    But us he is a man with a beautiful mind
    Blessing us a gathering more of his kind
    At strange music Inc we sent our prayers
    And hope a higher power will crush all haters
    A million facebook fans are a strong force
    Few on the “I dislike tech” page. No remorse
    Lost souls, facing a million salvated
    Maybe one day they will be saved
    Cause don’t hate on Nina’s music
    Take the pledge and be a technician
    He the best musician alive. Don’t confuse it
    But it’s still your decision
    But listen:
    When I hear his music its like heaven
    But in the same it feels like hell even
    This makes your mind spin and in trance
    Once you feel this your one of his fans
    If you call him fuckin cultleader
    Then call me a fuckin fundamentalist
    This can’t be stopped by neither god nor reaper
    Together we marsh. He’s leading us in a battle
    Slayin the industry with a clear conscience
    Like a butcher killin cow or cattle
    Trying to stop us? Noway, nonsense
    Tech N9ne will lead us to victory
    Having all wearing white, black and red totally
    Till the whole world knows sickology
    In a not distance future hopefully
    Technician all are wholeheartedly
    In life and in death

  • Calamity

    Sendin out love from the East Coast!! Happy Birthday Tech!! your music gets me through all the bad times.Hope to see you in Woosta in the very near future :) Party it up!!!

  • Medina

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY TECH NINE! YOU ARE AMAZING AS AN ARTIST AND AS A PERSON! YOU ARE SO DOWN TO EARTH AND I AM SO GLAD I GOT TO MEET YOU AT THE MEET AND GREET! YOU ARE MY FAVORITE ARTIST :) SEE YOU AGAIN HOPEFULLY SOON! HAE THE BEST BIRTHDAY EVER!!

    MEDINA

  • Medina

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY TECH NINE! YOU ARE AMAZING AS AN ARTIST AND AS A PERSON! YOU ARE SO DOWN TO EARTH AND I AM SO GLAD I GOT TO MEET YOU AT THE MEET AND GREET! YOU ARE MY FAVORITE ARTIST :) SEE YOU AGAIN HOPEFULLY SOON! HAE THE BEST BIRTHDAY EVER!!

    MEDINA

  • Andrew vonW

    Dear Aaron Yates (a.k.a Tech N9ne!),

    I have followed you since Anghellic and honestly I cannot see myself being the fan that I am towards you to anyone else. Your music is so real and honest and chops anything in its path. I remember when you said Tech will never go mainstream, Mainstream will go Tech and look what happend! I am happy that you are finally blowing up like you were supposed to when you were working with Tupac before he died. You are the true definition of an entrepreneur and you deserve everything you now have! I have seen you in concert 2 times and both of them i had an absolute BLAST! I saw both your K.O.D. tour and your Independent Grind Tour both in Lawrence, KS when you went there. Any time I am having a bad day I play All 6′s and 7′s (my favorite album btw) and it just makes me forget my problems and i just remember you only live once so make the best of it. TECHNICIANS FOR LIFE! STRAAAAANGGEE Music! Oh by the way if you see Carlos Shumpert any time soon tell him v-Dub said wussup!

  • Andrew vonW

    Dear Aaron Yates (a.k.a Tech N9ne!),

    I have followed you since Anghellic and honestly I cannot see myself being the fan that I am towards you to anyone else. Your music is so real and honest and chops anything in its path. I remember when you said Tech will never go mainstream, Mainstream will go Tech and look what happend! I am happy that you are finally blowing up like you were supposed to when you were working with Tupac before he died. You are the true definition of an entrepreneur and you deserve everything you now have! I have seen you in concert 2 times and both of them i had an absolute BLAST! I saw both your K.O.D. tour and your Independent Grind Tour both in Lawrence, KS when you went there. Any time I am having a bad day I play All 6′s and 7′s (my favorite album btw) and it just makes me forget my problems and i just remember you only live once so make the best of it. TECHNICIANS FOR LIFE! STRAAAAANGGEE Music! Oh by the way if you see Carlos Shumpert any time soon tell him v-Dub said wussup!

  • Amandabentley13

    Happy Birthdaaay Tech ! ( :
    Look at all these people , sayin they didn’t know of you till Tha Carter IV, Daaayum . How can you NOT know ! Lmfao .
    KCMO is where it’s attt . Missouri all the way .
    Loveeee,
    Amanda <3
    P.S — Im from Missouri too ( :

  • Amandabentley13

    Happy Birthdaaay Tech ! ( :
    Look at all these people , sayin they didn’t know of you till Tha Carter IV, Daaayum . How can you NOT know ! Lmfao .
    KCMO is where it’s attt . Missouri all the way .
    Loveeee,
    Amanda <3
    P.S — Im from Missouri too ( :

  • Ghost_unknown_403

    Happy birthday homie! you are the reason I am who I am today, you made me realize thats its ok to be myself and not try to be something im not, thank you mane much love to the true king of hip hop Tech N9ne.

  • Xxrickterxx

    Happy 40th Mr. N9ne! I’ve been blasting it since the Calm , and I’ve never stopped bumpin the Strange yet. Keep it big, the shit will never die.

  • Kelseymoon07

    Happy birthday tech!! Love love love ur music and u! Keep it strange!