David "Stretch" Hughes

Bio

David "Stretch" Hughes  is a Greater Pittsburgh Native who graduated from the Pittsburgh School System. He attended Brasher High School 

Where he constantly connected with friends around Hip Hop. He started rapping around 15 years old and it became his passport to engaging other neighborhoods traveling across the city, finding his way through several cyphers, around the city. It was in these music connections, Stretch developed a Fraternity of artists that he would create art, bands, and life. 

After High School he attended Culinary Training at Manchester Craftsman Guild. His passion for music lead him to Detroit and eventually New York City. In NYC he learned the art of delivering immersive experiences through street preforming, open mics. and theater. It was in NYC that daily being immersed in Hip Hop Music he forged the idea of Rhyme Calisthenics with James Armstead Brown. Stretch continued being an emcee preforming for many musical acts, and studying his craft. Through his experiences in New York he also was certified as a Real Estate Agent, this helped him grow in the hospitality industry and ground all his creativity in to the engine that Rhyme Calisthenics became. 

Stretch has been the only Host of Rhyme Calisthenics and his ability to forge 1:1 relationships with the artists competing and the audience makes for an incredible immersive atmosphere.  Stretch is synonymous with the Wheel itself. This Hip Hop Game is designed to bring the warrior out of all those who seek to be their best selves. No one expresses this more than Stretch