“Every inch of every song you hear is affected by where I was raised and where I grew up, so I think it affects it immensely.” He wants his music to reach people that live in situations like where he came from. “A small mindset would say, ‘From the hood, from bad environments, from drug addictions.’ I’m not negating that, but in a larger mindset, where I came from was just a place of hopelessness, desperation, ignorance, lack of resources, lack of knowledge. That is where I came from.”
He says that a person can be raised in a good environment, but still have negative situations in their mind and emotions. “When you hear it, it sounds like the hood struggle, and it is, but that struggle is synonymous in certain key areas, regardless to the amount of money you’ve got or the color of your skin.”
“My music is music of hope. It’s music that says, ‘Our savior is stronger than any struggle.’”
“Since I came from where I came from and the Lord delivered me, my young brothers, my cousins, my little homies will be able to look at it and say ‘Man I don’t gotta play this ping pong prison game,’ and ‘I don’t have to settle for being whatever my GED gets me’ or something like that. That’s what inspires me. The ability to be more and grow more.”
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