I've set my mind to so many other things and as long as I stick to them, they come through.
So that's what I'm here for and that's it.
I don't know how to end it.
I don't know how to end it, like I'm sorry.
They told me I have to do something like a really important outro sentence of, I'm trying,
I'm trying.
On my life I moved to different states, different cities and I was fortunate enough to have
to move overseas to Japan so I spent about four years in Okinawa.
I moved there when I was 11 years old.
My father was in the military so it was great, it changed my life.
Moved back to the United States, I was living in Oceanside which is near San Diego County
which is actually another beautiful place right on the coast and I started studying
television production and while I was in college I actually met a lot of Japanese exchange students
and these guys that I met were like into hip hop.
From there I was just like, it just really, really opened my eyes like wow, you know,
this hip hop thing that I'm so in love with is universal, it's going on in Japan, you
know, it's like wow and they're rapping in their own language so I made a point to come
out to Tokyo.
Starting in about 2003 was my first trip to mainland Japan and I came to visit some friends
as well as there was a really big dance competition going on called Freestyle Session which still
goes on every year and it's a huge dance battle, break dance, popping, locking, all different
categories of dance styles held in Japan and in America and it was amazing like that.
You know, back in the States after that just doing video work and working regular jobs
but always continuing to stick to what I love to do, I eventually landed a really, really
great job with a website that was all about hip hop culture and they sent me all over
the country, all over the United States on major tours, I got to interview and be around
some of my most famous artists ever and eventually I built up my credits enough to say hey, you
know what, you need to fly me to Japan, you need to fly me out there to document what's
going on because nobody else is doing it and I know what's going on out there and I speak
the language and I showed them the footage that I'd shot four years ago and they were
like how much do you need to go to Japan, they were like writing the check already you know
and I got really fortunate, I got to reunite with my friends again, was huge, it was way
more than what I was expecting.
Things are going really well, you know I was still traveling the country around America
doing a lot of stuff, doing a lot of big things with that company but unfortunately in 2008
the economy crashed in the US and they had no more money, I was like I'm going to do
my part to expose what I know at least to America, you know at least to the real hip
hop scene that I know of, I want them to know what's going on out here so I kind of proved
myself to a lot of really important people in the hip hop scene in Japan that who I am
and what I'm serious about doing and nobody has to give me anything to do it because I'm
going to do it anyway and because of that a lot of people are pushing behind me and
I'm hoping that things continue on in that direction and that you know I have something
to say five years from now, ten years from now you know about this song.
Music and Strength TV is a website that's featuring 24 hours of raw underground hip
hop culture from around the world, it's got different write ups and features as well as
a 24 hour streaming channel that I run so there's some times where I'm live on location
if you go to the website you can see me live at some nightclub where people are performing,
other times it's pre-recorded things that I've shot interviews with people backstage,
live performances things like that running on the channel featuring people's music videos,
documentaries so I kind of created a monster with that it's like there's endless amounts
of people in San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Tokyo, Osaka and I made a personal
goal for myself that I was going to do this full time, I was going to make a living off
of this, present myself and present other people through the work that I do and that's
music and strength to me.
One of the main things I want to do as far as fulfilling my goals and my dreams is to
be the resource for what's really going on in America in the hip hop culture scene, black
music scene and what's really going on in Japan in the music scene.
For those that don't really understand or really want to understand or those that really
do understand I want to be the resource for the knowledge through the visuals and the music
and the connections that I have to provide that to them so that's it, I mean I hope everybody
likes it, the DVD series that I have coming out, the internet stuff, it's coming to your
cell phone, it's going to be all over the internet as well, theaters, have movie screenings
and however you got to find it, find it, get to it, watch it, like it, love it, peace.
I'm out.
