Photo by Marcellina. It’s been a banner week for Christon “Christylez” Bacon, who last week joined Muhsinah as the second D.C. artist to receive a Grammy nomination for 2010. He is also one of the artists that the D.C. Commission on the Arts recognized with a Young Artist Award for 2010. DC CAH awarded more than $59,000 to a combined 29 artists, whose ranks include performance artist Mary Coble, fashion/able photographer Nicole Aguirre, and…

To say things are looking bright for Christon “Christylez” Bacon is a major understatement. Last year, he was the first hip-hop artist to be named an Artist-in-Residence at the Music Center at Strathmore. Just in the past month, he performed to a packed house on the Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage, delivered an impressive performance at this year’s Wammies, and picked up two awards, Rapper of the Year and Rap/Hip-Hop Recording of the Year for…