3. What has been the toughest obstacle you’ve faced, and how did you push through it? A: Switching from being a rapper to a pop singer, then having my first song as a pop artist doing 50k in the first 4 months and having managements, producers and labels hit me up promising me dreams and me listening to them and putting my career in their hands which led me to not drop for almost two years and stall my moment as a brand new artist. Now I’m working from the ground up again to maintain and curate a new organic fan base without a label or management and just pure talent, Godsense direction and research.
Lone Wolfe, Musical Artist
4. In an industry full of trends, how do you stay true to yourself while still innovating? A: I mean depends on the trend, if it aligns with who you are or if you just want to have fun with your art there’s no problem with that either. Grabbing inspiration from the world actually helps your art as well and not making it only about you 24/7. So sometimes you can take trends and flip it to your com- fortability and that can be used as innovation. Think of it as the saying says “use the world as your oyster.”
1. What inspired you to start your journey as an independent artist/ business owner, and what were those early days like? A: Bow wow. Simple. My mom took me to my local record store in my neighborhood and she let me buy the scream tour vhs and the beware of dog album. Seeing a kid not to much older than me move so many people on stage and have people inspired and screaming his name moved me like nothing else. I instantly became obsessed with the process of writing songs and making music. Since I didn’t have any equipment or money for that matter my mom got me a old school tape recorder and some tapes and I would beat box and harmonize melodies into the tape recorder and then writer over that around the age of 8. I honestly still do the same thing today but with voice memo on my iPhone.
2. What does “hustle” mean to you, and how has that mindset shaped your path so far? A: Means to do what you love and make it not feel like work. People think in some aspects that hustle means to grind hard with labor and do things you don’t have to get where you need to be. but to me that’s a mindset everything you do, even the stuff you don’t want to do, is what I love to do because it’s all apart of the mission I was as- signed since that seed the cre- ator planted in me when I was 8 to create songs. So I won’t label things in negative ways if it’s getting me to the goal of being an artist.
5. How do you stay creatively motivated while managing the business side of things? A: By not fixating on trying to “stay on” all the time. Every light bulb burns out and that’s ok but when I’m in that flow state I let it be that and take full advantage. I create a song everyday when I’m inspired by joy, pain, love, grief whatever but there is also times where it’s time to just chill and I embrace that chill as well and maybe switch it to other things that life has to other such as nature, traveling, golf, crocheting, learning a new lan- guage, etc. I also take time to focus on promoting my body of work too so in that time I might shift my motivation to promote my brand and artistry instead of creating
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