28/02/2021
CHAPTER 4: INSPIRED... SELF PROCLAIMED 4 DROPS IN 2 days...It was 2017 now (photo from 2017). I was drawn to poetry. I never wanted to rap. I grew up in Canada and was from a different walk of life than anyone I had seen as a successful hip hop artist growing up. I wasn’t from the streets, I had no experience with crime or run ins with police, for f**k sakes I had never even tried a drug. I thought it would be impossible to be accepted. I just played basketball and really couldn’t relate to much of anything I was regularly hearing and I refused to make music about things I had no business speaking on. I had decided I was going to just be a Spoken Word Poet until one day at work me and Alonzo, my boss, were talking. I finally summed up the courage to show him my poetry. He was amazed. He then told me Tupac had also done poetry. I was shocked. I began doing my own research. It was true. A couple days later I walked to the Town West Square Mall. They had a cheap theatre Called The Movie Machine. I watched “All Eyez On Me” and after that it was Game Over. I told myself I was going to find a way to integrate my poetry into musical format while staying true to myself. That’s how Tupac became an inspiration of mine along with Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan who had always been. I then started to slowly bridge the gap between my poetry and music. Many of my songs you hear today like Dear God were actually poems I started over 3 years ago. I wrote all these remixes (videos on my Instagram post) you see after I watched the movie. drops Thursday...
