-: I always loved music.
I always was recording.
I was always in a different studio.
But I had no idea that I could make this a life choice.
So I just bought all of my equipment.
I had it shipped to my apartment over
on Carlisle and Oxford.
I just recording myself in the house everyday.
I got my speakers,
my mic stand and the whole system kinda set up.
And once I was gonna take classes during the day,
like six classes in a week and then I would kinda
go home and record myself.
So you have to be able to kinda improve and be able
to speak in front of people and be able to
impromptu performances.
You have to learn how to talk and narrate.
So my public speaking class actually helped me a lot
in that area.
Favorites, I mentioned before, pop song writing.
One of my favorite classes, the engineering class
that I took for Pro Tools.
So learning skills and how to record on your own
makes you more efficient in sessions so you can talk
to these engineers and producers and know how to
communicate and actually make your music
turn out really good.
Marketing wise, oh man, I just did a bunch of challenges.
I was down, challenges that were viral online.
Just me rapping in my dorm room,
just trying to figure out how to get a response
and how to get these numbers up.
I was down in subway stations singing.
Trying to hustle and get it anyway I could.
I started interning down at a studio in South Philly,
which kinda helped me more.
Being around a lot of music professionals that are doing
this full time and that's when I started to see
you know what, I can,
I think I can make this my career choice.
I started to believe it a little more.
And then, next thing you know,
fast forward eight months later,
I'm taking a bunch of shows.
Taking a bunch of spending a bunch of time at the studios
and in my own place.
And I ended up signing with my production team,
Star Island, and then not even two months later,
I was meeting the CEO of Craig Cowman.
And I met Julie Grimwald over at Atlantic Records
in New York and I did my deal with them two months later.
Went in my senior year and signed.