a lot of things has a lot of good music out and we'll be talking about his career and a lot of things that's coming his way and some of the recent releases i have right here will be talking about that e s p n sleepwalking when we talk a little bit about that so hans good seeing you again like well little how are you i'm well i'm well so for the audience out there who who are not as familiar with you as i am maybe you can tell me about your background how you got the music and how you got started sure no problem first of all  being exposed to a lot of different things being i'm over in new york at stanford connecticut and then at fourteen fourteen i was actually signed to independent label called b m x intertainment so i always tell people that's kind of officially what i started because in a sense that's where i learned you know i was actually in a contract and i actually were you know going to the studio called planet studios in manhattan where i was being brought by a guy name or a stake it he was a c e o of the record label and at the time he just said you know you gotta look you know i mean you need to do this and i said i was a writer always a natural writer and i love writing and that's what brought me in that hip hop game but he was more or less like look you know he kind of made a reality show always tell people music didn't choose was to you know go around me actually promote a record i had this record called the shorty this is in the ninety's midnight and you know i'm like you know basically this you know young kid big hoodie you know you know just out there doing my thing you know i guess it wasn't totally gimmicky but it was a little bit because it was like you know i was young kid it was a rama time you know there was a lot of you know young girls coming out so you know more is just you know kind of put me in a studio i never paid for any studio time or you know i was a real contractor but i you know i learned pretty quickly you know because eventually i got released and asked to be released but i want to pretty quickly about the business and it was a great experience and it was just something i went into it and it will be out there quick inspiration when creating your music yeah it was a great question definitely the reason i mention my verney because i spent a lot more years in stanford connecticut but what inspired me a lot was when i was in mt vernon i was a kid in music the reason i mention it a lot is because i live there and music inspired me because i live next door to a jazz player named right now as he's huge he's a big big time jazz artist yeah you know so he basically used to play you know his instrument you know right next to the above above my apartment you know we were we were basically you know close so i would hear that i was at sean puffy combs home my father used to so close to  mother so i was at his home you know when he was producing joe to see and all these artists i was a kid i was really literally a kill like you know i mean like very young very you know tens of like that but like i used to go to his home because my father was so cool with him with his mother so then i saw like at a very young age i saw pictures with joe to see mary all these things with diddy and him being a he was a promoter at the time he wasn't even he didn't have a bad boy records yet he was promoting and i saw that the beatles i learned about i saw the yellow submarine eight years old and so these types of things influenced me to get involved in music then when hip hop came and you know i heard like two poxy corps and stuff i was like oh you could do that ok now i'm on it and so it's always been like a poetry kind of influence kind of like a letter from a lot of people who say that they're not necessarily into hip hop and i think they're talking about rap because of a few years since case of rap is come on and kind of change the climate of a lot of things that people from a consumer aspect i think people have categorize hip hop is gangsta rap which is not hip hop is so many different things that tribe called quest you had in the way you had you know  funny is to me you know it's a compliment but it's also it's also i think i guess is because most people only exposed to a certain amount of hip hop so i guess they feel like because you know i don't really because they're macho or have a positive vibe or there's different types of elements of real music came in my music that you know i'm like a martian like an alien or something but in reality you know the true essence of hip hop and so right you know a lot of it started off in a humble beginning so the essence of it always motivated me to answer your question it was the essence that made me get involved right now i'm inspired by a lot of music you know as far as in the day you know i  current events and then just good music really pull i really pull from a lot of traditional music but i used the drums of hip hop and the essence of hip hop where the core is there and i'm getting better now at explaining my music  lot of times that's it's really like i just do it and like however it comes out it comes out and people like you know explain music so now i can kind of say it's a fusion of soul jazz and their real essence of hip hop real poetry you know i can pull from you know somebody like shakespeare as much as i can pull from nice and i don't see no difference now ok well you know what i think i'd like to do is that the audience view your music i know well i'd like to put up embrace the rain right now because hey that was just named number one song for many people one best songs of twenty eight team played up and that's our film festival which is the number one film first one in the east coast right now just named the most comprehensive short film festival and that's every million in princeton and i think one of the great things about it is that nassau it's not just fiction movies or documentaries but we have music videos we have animation and i think that's why it's got to be weird is right now but i want to play embrace the rain so everybody can see your music and  awareness right you know what i mean but not even like in a corner where i like to party too and do other stuff as well you know i'm still fairly young there but when you look at it from the perspective when i wrote embrace the rain i just saw like there was a lot of issues going on with homelessness different things his natural empathy but i'm walking around new york and stuff you know just being out there doing my thing and i'm seeing all these homeless people and i think when people get the picture of a homeless person they think of him or the big and i was like really you know and i'm noticing like i had a photographer our guy was you know working when stuff and like i remember you know paying them ahead for shoot and like you know in new york you know he he needed to do  that to be able to get his rent you know what i mean and i'm so glad i was able to do that but this in turn had me just you know dealing with a lot of his friends of so many people and i think when it came to shelters or friends you know different things like that which is really disproportionately where most of the problem is with or friends of people of benefit families they it's just an enormous amount of youth that are homeless seventeen to twenty five and i think if we  you know the people inside the period kind of look at the face of homelessness right as you a little more i think it's sad to say but i believe that we would deal with it even a little differently because people look at it like you know it's like an older person's like this is sad to say but i i think like some people they don't feel as sorry for them as you do for the kids a lot of times wrote a lot of people and when you look at somebody from seventeen to twenty four people don't think of a person being homeless at that age but the numbers are staggering and i think it was something that was being overlooked that's what i felt when i made embrace the rain i said to myself you know i just want to talk about this but if you look at this to the song i'm actually talking about my life and it's about overcoming adversity but the real whole theme of it is you know you can do it you can you can go from here to there from beginning to end keep your mental stability keep everything great i don't even say it's more symbolic i don't even just say you form you know music is a metaphor like i don't i'm not like you guys need to look out for the kids it's almost like that's kind of corny to me to me it's about creating a feeling of of a symbolic feeling and when you hear embrace the rain is very inspirational and it's a song that i made as the music for them to keep going on but when i did the video and were able to do the visual that's where i took goes from i want to give it away but he goes from something i mean from nothing to something you know and that's the entire you know you know theme of the video and he's a yoof and you see him go through the steps from you know being homeless but i was reading the huff post first and then i started to get traction from a lot of journalists and it kind of brought me outside the hip hop box i think too because i mean i'm already naturally am but i think like that i don't think that people were talking about these types of issues like that every day so it kind of put me in a different light and you know a lot explanation but it's really a diff song and i think when the video came out is really when especially was shot was by shane films my videographer and you know we went to the streets of brooklyn and we really went to some really really nice places got some really great shots and really fallen narratives almost like a short film as opposed to some music video and i think that put even more light on it and the blog started picking it up i was picked up in germany i was picked up and you know a lot of  all and they nominated me are four for best music video as well and you know and you know i've been i mean the short awards i mean a lot of places have been really picking it up so that's a big one it's on august second you know you guys would definitely be familiar with some of the art as i mentioned designer and you know we just been working on this new vibe and vibe is more fun energetic you know there's a couple of nice deep themes right but also this album is just going to be fun  like you know high energy i always try to challenge myself a switch up where i'm going to hold up the s p and the sleepwalking here everybody can see see when i look like eddie and maybe you can talk a little about it but these two are like really fully farm sleepwalking  you know was we daydream every day and we dream every night right it's a fact so you know if you recognize ability to achieve your dreams then you're sleepwalking in my eyes so the song that records were about you know people just you know i'm coming up so at a time when i did have a million to me down i don't have anything like that so i'm talking about how you can you know achieve in progress through your music it was produced by got a pop a pill to produce for rock  there's just a slew of them real independent you know real hip power raw hip hop but also with the with the message you know there's a lot of message in that that it's more r is much more intellect involved start to know you here know she is personally as i can brace the rain time and a lot of other records on the air and i have big records like welcome home which is a big record that you know just basically it gave me like you know a bunch of articles as well and it was like a really really epic video shot by showing films in my in my state and you know that kind of got me out there too and then yes piso don't because it ties into you know it's pretty good for tired of being on titles  pizza to typical person is like it's like oh e s p extrasensory perception right right and that is what it means to the world because it's like i did that album like that off it's like having a sixth sense i wasn't like thinking so hard and i think music is best like that but also for p is where i'm from e s p also is like you know it's the label so with all those it's a it's like a triple entendre like there's like three different meanings you know and i mean to where you know lot of people can look at him and think one thing and i think that for me it's a very broad album very more universal than sleepwalking i think there's a lot more songs that even i've got some stuff on there for you look ok i mean that you can you know you can vibe with in the house so you know i basically lived on west trinity avenue so i live little refined minutes from duke university radio east campus right by whole foods literally five minute walk around free and yeah i know it's a slaughter from you know because i went to durham tagline and i went to the classes or you know see so like yeah i kind of funny ended up working there but when i did have the opportunity it was like do basically runs everything in order to live on the business that right now as much as you are u n c is of great interest to and big and runs a lot but in north carolina duke is way more than a college it's an entity so you have  of other people i was a young kid i'm talking from eighteen to twenty four twenty five years there and do just had the access for me to be able to continue to do what i loved on friday nights and you know i know it seems like a little bit of a rivalry there you got going on but when i was going to there i was it was strictly for the radio and when i went i met so many great people and they had so much i had so much access working at duke university radio and saying that i did radio big and it was a time where i was able to get my film and stuff we've had some pretty great conversations and he's a pretty cool guy and you know it is a lot of really really cool people and that is exciting and i like that it's on my resume helps me get my music out there got more ago maybe maybe saying stay focused a healthy and i'll see you next week on another dish and have a good night