Ok so it’s been a little too long since I last wrote a song and even longer since I last recorded some music. To my fans and friends who are wondering I want to apologies for being out of it for so long. I haven’t even posted a note on facebook in forever and I used to do that like all the time. Things are changing for me in ways I don’t quite understand. I don’t have the same vigor towards the same subject s that concerned me before. I guess it’s why I started calling myself something different in conjunction with my original emcee name, prof-b (pronounced Professor b). Now I’m known as not only Prof-B but as Apollo. (The name is a story for another time entirely)
I think it is a safe assumption to say that my style is developing as an artist and that I do not quite grasp what direction I am going. I seem to be sea weed drifting between the changing currents of the oceans wondering where I will land. The only think I know is where I have been as an artist so I guess I’ll go from there.
I started rapping as a way to escape. I made music because it was something to do in class back in 7th grade. I always knew one thing from the very beginning, I wanted to be different. My taste in music has changed and my style has repeatedly changed but I still hold on to that one true desire to be different than everyone. Original. Unique. Hell weird would even do it. I soon found a niche in rap and stuck too it I wanted to enrich. I wanted to show and teach anyone who would listen, the wrongs of the world and the ways to be better as people. You know, stop aids, cure hunger, all of those rainbows and unicorns. That was me sometime around the end of 8th grade. I wanted big things and I rode a high horse. Back then I want to admit that the world was still black and white. Every evil was outlined every right was shown. Overtime I have found the grey, all of it. The genocides, oppressions, destruction, covert annihilation, doomsday, the cast system, and the very first understanding that other religions are as valid as my own, steam rolled one by one into my consciousness and into my life.
Looking back I see this as the first real push from my analytical and book consciousness into my now artistical and world consciousness. I went from learning to understanding and in a very short time frame. In my southmore and junior year I made yet another transition from my very thoughtful person to one of very high running emotions. I believe this was best described in a line I wrote “I once wrote raps to impress my friends, now I make songs to make the bad dreams end”. Now though the bad dreams are gone, so where do I go from here?
So basically I wrote this to explain where I was, were I am and where I’m going. I’ve answered 2/3 that’s passing right?
As far as my hiatus goes I’m not sure why I stopped or when everything will come back so that I can keep on making music but I do want to make 2 songs I already drew up. One of them is about a year old and the other about 4 months. When I’m done I’ll let you know. Till then this is Prof-b aka Apollo sining out, dazed and confused…
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