I’m from a mean town called “Anniston” inside of the state called Alabama. I was raised with pretty much a good childhood, but I also had the options of school or the street. I thought the street was cool, because of the girls until a few of my friends lost their live behind the street. So I began going to school. I never had the best grades nor any academic achievements, but I had hunger in my heart to someday reach that. That’s what earned me scholarships to college. Full Sail University was a dream school inside my head, that I was convinced didn’t even exist outside of Berkley. It wasn’t until I picked up a skill called research. Beginning in a regular university for college, was a strange one but learning one. I was introduced to a lot of parties that would try to fit in the mix of education, but only certain were able to balance. I always wondered the reason for the hardship in the first place, so I made my move to Full Sail and it became my home.
I was seven years old, when I first heard, “Lil Bow Wow” and “Ludacris.” I knew right then music was for me, just didn’t know it was all the way for me as a passion until I grew older. I learned how to burn cds at that same young age visualizing a career in manufacturing, the creation of music was a far out wonder that I would yet encounter. Music was medicine for me growing up helping me get through the hardships over the years. One day I began to wonder why I couldn’t find songs with a certain message I was yearning. A classmate of mines was working with a program called, “Mixcraft.” He was able to make his own songs straight off his lab-top. That’s when my mind began to wonder about the creation of music. I’m not embarrassed to say as usual, my classmate’s sister started me out on a pirated version of FL Studio, until Full Sail changed my life.
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