Michael Gene Dionne, better known by his stage name Eyenine, is an American hip hop recording artist from Dover, New Hampshire. Eyenine began writing and recording music at the age of 16, inspired by acts including Eyedea, Sage Francis, Adeem and Atmosphere. In his twenties, Eyenine began touring the country with such acts as PT Burnem, Paulie Think, Ecid, Prhym8 and Farout. He helped found an upstart recording label called Flyrock Records which released multiple albums from various New England artists including The If In Life, Rio Bravo, The Nasty and others. After years of freestyling at the weekly Rap Night in Portland, Maine he entered and won two separate Ruckus Cup Classic battle tournaments. He went on to win two separate Church of Providence battle tournaments hosted by B. Dolan and refereed by Sage Francis and later came out of battle rap retirement to win the first Overcast battle championship in Cincinnati, OH, the birthplace of the Scribble Jam, in 2018. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyenine) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)