A singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist who is also an actor, producer, entrepreneur, and author. He has written and published one book, three scripts, seven albums, and more than a thousand songs. He has had a hit on the U.S. Billboard charts and a #1 on MTV’s Most Popular Music Videos. One of his songs is approaching a quarter of a million streams on Spotify. He has traveled to 40 countries and performed for thousands, and the videos on his official YouTube channel have gotten a combined total of well over two-and-a-half million views. He recently formed a new band and they have five new songs coming out in 2021.
"Rap is a incredible art. It's a way of expressing yourself in a way of poetry that can't really be mimicked in any other type of art."
"When you're a musician... you keep advancing as a musician. And so, ya' know, I went from playing music to producing music, from producing music to writing music, from writing music to rapping music. And it was kind of a natural progression to go from rapping music to singing music."
"One of my songs is currently on the radio in Sri Lanka right now and last year I think I had two number one hits there."
"I really look at this industry, especially when you're looking at the arts, as something you have to, you have to love it. It's not easy to be in this industry forever. You have to really love it. If you're doing it for fame or money, it's likely that, I've seen people start after me and finish before me in the music industry... They weren't passionate about just being a musician and I think that's kind of like step one."
"I think it's more about changing the paradigm of the way someone views their ability to accomplish a goal."
"The bottom line of music or entertainment is that it speaks to the masses."
"I got famous when I was really young, saved up money, saved up money, and I'll tell ya', I saved up 180 thousand dollars over ten years. And then I lost it all."
"I went hard, and I paid for these marketing and promotion companies and radio promoters and all these guys, and I was in hip-hop, and I got taken, bad."
"I hired a radio promotion company, cost me 30 or 40 thousand dollars. This guy worked for Universal, supposedly, ya' know, in quotes, and now he had his own company and then he took me for a ride. And then he disappeared, didn't answer his phone, and just basically took my money."
"I changed my direction into singing so that way I could kind of last the test of time because I don't want to be, like, a 40-year old rapper... At the end of the day what I wanted to do was just change my direction so I can have longevity. Like, Lionel Richie can be 80 and still singing and people would love him."
"If you want to achieve a goal, like, be a musician or be an actor, you have to do the art a lot. Because doing the art a lot is what makes you good at the art and being good at the art is what allows other people to see your talent."
"Listening more than you talk is probably the best lesson I've learned."
"Constantly asking for outside evaluation constantly causes artists to skew their original thoughts and ideas for someone else's willingness or wants."
"I sold a movie during the pandemic. I started my band during the pandemic. I got a million views on a song during the pandemic. I wrote my book and got the deal during the pandemic. So, you can't use the pandemic as your excuse. It should be actually the reason why you should push harder."
"All I Need"
"The Countdown"