"I started rapping when I was around 13 and by the time I was 16 I started to perform at nightclubs and rap at competitions. I won the UK freestyle battle championships in 2000, I used to enter a lot of battle rap competitions like the one seen in the film "8 Mile" but after a while I decided to focus more on recording tracks and releasing songs. I got together with my group, Poisonous Poets in 2002. We released a CD called "poisonous poetry" and after that I also released a single with a video called "What estate r u from?""

ZZ: Can you please tell us little bit about yourself.

Pouya Mahmoodi I was born in Tehran year 1973. At the age of 10 I started playing guitar by the encouragement of my father. At the age of 11 I went to France and for two years I was away from my family. I started developing a special relationship with this instrument as it could calm me during that period and would keep me occupied. I returned to Iran and had to learn how to read notes and with the push of my mother, a private teacher was hired. But I never managed connecting with my teacher as my relationship with the instrument was very special and thus my behavior a bit strange.

Z.Z: Those who would like to know you as an artist, can read your biography on your website (www.farzadonline.com) or read our older interviews with you on zirzamin's archives (Here), but let me start by asking you how it's going with the recordings of your next album "Three"?