![]() I’ve just been at it throughout my entire life. My first thing when I went to college, I started my own independent label and built a studio and all kinds of things. ![]() By ten years old I’m writing raps and songs and stuff, and by the time I’m thirteen, I’m making beats. My mom sat me down and started teaching me piano as early as six years old, so that was the start of it. Seeing that instilled something in me like, I can do this, you know? You never question yourself when the people who raised you are doing it at the highest level. So as a youngster, coming up, I was always in the middle of jam sessions and church services where the people on stage, killing it, were my family. He played behind Destiny’s Child, you know, you name it, he probably played for them. He played for like, Chaka Khan, Prince, he toured the world with everybody. So it started with her, my mother and my uncle both do music professionally. But she was in the studio and they were like, “Alright, we want you to sing it like this,” and she was like, “Oh, no, baby, I’m gonna sing it how I sing it,” you know what I’m saying? And they were like, “Alright, well if you’re not going to listen you can do your thing,” and she was like, “Thank you, goodbye.” She actually sang “Midnight Train To Georgia,” among other songs, you know, before it came out. And then somebody discovered her, so to speak, and she had an opportunity to get signed. She was one of those singers that had to enter through the backway because she was singing in clubs where she couldn’t actually hang out. Her father was a pastor, and then when she became an adult, she was always touring, singing in clubs. She grew up playing in church, singing in church. So, my family’s musical background starts with my grandmother.
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