Don Is Breaking

Still, Blas is not one to sit around and be complacent. Like many artists, he seems happiest when he's busy. Currently, he's working on his next release, Modus Operandi, and overseeing the completion of upcoming Mob Style releases from the group Cession and Johnny Da Bad Appleseed. Most important, Blas remains a family man.

"I'm inspired by my children, my family, my brothers and my younger brother, who is actually CEO of the label," he says, proudly adding that his brother recently earned an engineering degree from the Colorado School of Mines. But perhaps Blas's biggest influence and the person most directly responsible for getting him into music -- and exposed to the likes of Curtis Mayfield and Sly and the Family Stone -- is his father, Joseph Ray Fisher, a working musician in Denver in the '70s. "He used to sing with Earth, Wind & Fire," he recalls. "There was never a dull moment in my household. There was always music playing, there was always some type of instrument around, whether it be congas, maracas, piano -- he always had something. Because of his love for music, I was always messing with those things, so this was my destiny."

Rapper Don Blas exudes a Mob mentality on his debut album, Capo di Tutti Capi.

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Spoken like a true Don ready to uphold a legacy. Thankfully, in Don Blas's case, it's a legit one.