Who I am.

The name

Blake Robert Mankin. The initials are B, R, M. Reverse the order and you get M, R, B. That is Mr B. The letters change places. They are not flipped.

@MrBinspire is the handle on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and X. Songs, lyrics, and the contact form live at mrbinspire.com.

Scottsdale, then the road

Scottsdale is home. Nashville and Los Angeles are where the earlier songs were made. I studied at Belmont University. Ice Cream 4 Breakfast came out in April 2014, and Belmont Vision sat down with me that August. In April 2017, Belmont FEED came to the Hoose in Nashville, where Tribal Hoose was the band.

I opened for Bone Thugs-n-Harmony and toured with DMX. I'm a Grammy voting member, with 150+ shows and 120 songs, and I'm still independent. I still own my masters.

Rhymes, then classrooms

Mr. B's Rap App started as a book of rhymes for rappers. A professor pushed it onto a phone: beats, and a changing list of phrases, so someone could build a freestyle. Teachers used it for vocabulary. I guest-taught with it, then substitute taught.

Groups of rhymes started to feel like families. The tidy ones lined up. Orange did not, so Orange became a girl in a town where everything else already rhymed. She meets Silver, who is stuck the same way, and they make a rhyme of their own. Hays Free Press told that story on October 14, 2026, from the classrooms through the Austin recording sessions.

What I built with AI

I teach this the same way I use it. Major Without A Label is the team I built for my own songs first. You text a manager. The work splits across six jobs: Manager, Releases, Content, Day Ones, Money, and Street Team. Nothing goes out without your yes. You bring your own Grok Bot plan. ChatGPT is optional. Tuesdays at 5 PM Arizona time there is an open Q&A. The manager registered about 40 of my songs that needed to be registered.

The lessons and the team are at majorwithoutalabel.com.

Shows for Artists is the booking desk I built for independent musicians. I talked about that work on AIBiZ, June 21, 2026, in Effort Is Your Responsibility.

Where the work lives

The picture books are What Rhymes With Orange? and Hoose Moose and the Tiny Seed. Orange's world is whatrhymeswithorange.com. The moose shop is hoose.com. The songs, including the eight you can play on this site, are on the music page.

A longer Hoose Moose cartoon is still on the way.