About this Artist
Reco Price (born April 23, 1970), better known by his stage name Supernatural (a.k.a. Super Nat or MC Supernatural) is an African-American rapper best known for his "on-the-spot" freestyle and battle rap abilities. He has been a regular performer and main host of the Rock the Bells Music Festival for the 10 years (2004-2014) it existed.
Born in Marion, Indiana, Supernatural began rhyming at the age of 14. Moving to New York City at the age of 19, Supernatural began to make a name for himself on the hip hop scene and by 1993 he won the New Music Seminar. A week prior he was signed by Elektra Records, where he recorded an album titled "Natural Disasters". His first worldwide known single was "Buddha blessed it". In 1994 he landed a radio-show on 98.7 Kiss-FM where he met KRS-One from the group Boogie Down Productions who became not only a friend but his business manager. He is renowned for his improvisational talents, or freestyle, about which he said in a 1997 interview, "my definition of freestyle is coming from the deepest realms of improvisational skills. Just being able to formulate and make rhymes on the spot that's the definition of a freestyle. Freestyle is the highest form of expression through one's self".
A compilation album of previously recorded tracks entitled “The Lost Freestyle Files” was released in 2003 on Babygrande Records. Supernatural has said in the press that "this was something that | wanted to put out as like a piece of my history", and "there are little tidbits and pieces of history on there that the real heads like to have, and it takes you back to those times. You got the dates on there, when you see the whole cover it has all the dates, and what | was doing at the time in there so you know’.
Supernatural's story and performances are reported in the 2000 documentary film Freestyle: The Art of Rhyme, which contains clips of his and Craig G's battle and of the epic battle between Supernatural and MC Juice.
In 2005 MC Supernatural also released a second full-length album, called S.P.I.T. (Spiritual Poetry Ignites Thought) on Up Above Records, which featured Raekwon (of the Wu-Tang Clan), B-Real (of Cypress Hill), and Chali 2na (of Jurassic 5) and had producers like Vitamin D, Jake One, Bean One, Marco Polo, DJ Muggs, DJ Khalil, DJ Rhettmatic and Evidence (of the Dilated Peoples).
On August 5, 2006, Supernatural set a new world record for the longest continuous freestyle rap at the Rock The Bells Festival in San Bernardino, CA. where he rapped for 9 hours and 15 minutes. After setting the record he continued to travel across the world as well as nationwide, touring with the likes of Wu-tang Clan, Slaughterhouse, Redman, Pharcyde, Slum Village, Pete Rock, KRS-ONE, Dilated Peoples, Linkin Park, and a host of others.
Supernatural continued his journey on elevating himself as an artist by becoming a producer (since 2003), visual artist (since 2013), and he incorporated his music into his artwork and curated the first freestyle integrated art exhibit in Los Angeles in 2017.
He was featured on the third season of the Canadian documentary series ‘Hip-Hop Evolution’ in 2019 which was aired on HBO Canada and picked up by Netflix.
Throughout his 30 year career, he has taught countless workshops internationally at universities, colleges, and youth centers having an innate ability to connect to students of any age.