Common said it best, “I used to love her” Her being hip-hop. My her was the music business overall. You see, when I started my journey into the music business, I thought I wanted to be a rap star, nah fuck that, I wanted to be a mogul! But as I grew into the business, I quickly realized that wasn’t what I truly wanted at all.
My love for music started extremely young. Maybe that’s why my parents made my brothers and I take piano lessons. As I started to dive deep into the exploration of hip hop, my world changed. I wanted to rap ever so badly. I used to move from my friends cribs, who were DJ’s and had instrumentals and microphones. We used to make these tapes (remember those?) back in the day.
As an artist I felt I couldn’t be touched. I was from the Bronx, the birthplace of hip hop. I felt that nothing could stop me. That was until I realized that producers wouldn’t give me any beats. Guys who had equipment, wouldn’t part with their beloved beats. So I needed a plan . Fuck it, I dropped some money into some equipment and learned how to make beats with the help of an OG from my block. (Shout out to Infinity Phree!)
I would literally spend hours upon hours working on music. It was like the air I needed to become alive. Soon after I found out my cousin was also into music and we immediately started to share ideas. Fast forward, we started to achieve; scoring platinum and gold records from the most legendary artist hip hop has to offer. We had gotten a large production deal and we were working the best of the best in the business. When we were flying at our highest, I literally felt my lowest.
