In less than 24 hours

Monday, March 28, 2011

In less than 24 hours

I will take the stage for what is probably my biggest performance to date. Phi Sigma Pi and UNT's Progressive Black Student Organization will be hosting UNT's Got Talent starring a slew or artists, performers and entertainers - including myself, all competing for a cash prize and whatever other small time acclaim and notoriety comes with winning a campus-wide competition of this magnitude.

I introduced a poll using facebook's new question feature inquiring my friends, fans and supporters of which song I am to perform. Of Heart on a Record, Speak Up and Waiting For Tomorrow (a currently unreleased track), an overwhelming majority chose not one of the two songs they were most familiar with but the new, unreleased Tomorrow - a track very few, if any, have heard. It's both exciting and nerve-racking knowing that I'll be performing a song I've never done live and that the audience is unfamiliar with. But with every challenge presents an even greater reward. Hopefully, all goes well tomorrow and I can show those in attendance that I am ridiculously serious about my dreams of pursuing not just music - but a place in society as the voice of the people.

Hope to see you there!
(footage will be uploaded in the impending weeks so stay tuned.)

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Brief Biography

One night, when I was a child, my family and I were sitting around the television watching the Banana Splits. A commercial for a compilation disc/tape set of hip-hop songs came on and I remember, I was five at the time, being in awe of all the different songs, artists and styles with which they chose to deliver the message. My father took note of my attentiveness and told me, “that could be you one day, homeboy.” I will never forget that feeling. The very next day, I woke up and immediately stood before my father and told him that I wanted to learn how to rap and that day, we painstakingly set out to write my first rhyme. Since then, I’d written small compositions from time to time, but I didn’t seriously consider becoming an artist professionally until I was about sixteen and able to express my ideas as an individual. I continued to compose songs and develop my own style and it was pretty much understood within my circle of close friends and family that I would look to get signed some day. It was when I was most confident about my abilities and preparing to leave off for college when out of nowhere, my mother died in her sleep. It was exactly a week after my eighteenth birthday and a few months before my high school graduation and God had taken my mother, a woman who worked three jobs at a time, slaving away daily to provide for her husband and children, away from me. This sent me down a path of self-destruction, I attempted to take my own life a number of times and my relationships were falling apart. It was then that I’d began writing intensely and allowing my emotions to bleed through my work. The result of which was Bornfree, an identity I inherited that encompasses all of my trials, triumphs, artistry and imperfections. I'm not anyone's favorite rapper and I'm no one's leader. I'm a guy with a song to sing to the world if such a world would allow.

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Monday, March 28, 2011