I met a man named Derrick when I lived in palatka, Fl. He is a great guitar player, he came to be a brother/ mentor to me and taught me alot of what I know. I've always had a passion for music and always wanted to do something that envolved it. When I was in 7th grade, attending Jenkins Middle School, I had a guitar class where I learned a good bit too. I recieved my first guitar (classical) for christmas in '05 when I was 15, and I've been playing ever since. I also grew up from the time I was 12 or 13 in section 8 housing. (projects) Needless to say, I learned how to rap there. Living in a community and going to school where the majority were black, I picked up on alot of that there. I was never a racist kid so I got along relatively okay. Since then, I've had experience working with beat making softwares and recording softwares. This is what motivated me to want to become a recording artist. In '07 I was a 'roadie' for a local band to Palatka, Fl. called "Lunar Red". The guys there taught me how to hook up the amps, guitar leads, tuning guitars and bass, placement on wires, microphones, as well as even setting up the drum kit, occasionally. So alot of my thanks goes out to those guys for allowing me to gain some knowledge in that field, too.

The first concert I ever went to was a Weird Al Yankovic concert. I was living with my biological Father, down in the outskirts of Lake City, Fl. and my dad ran a lawn bussiness at the time and I remember wanting him to buy me something and him telling me that he was saving for a special occasion that was going to be better then the toy I wanted. I was 11 or 12. So I remember being in the car, falling asleep, waking up, like, 3 or 4 times, and finally my Dad woke me and said, "Look around you, buddy!" I was so confused. He says to me, "We're in Valdosta, Ga, at Wild Adventures, time have some fun!" Well, we has a blast that day and then finally we came down to the concert area and Weird Al just put on the greatest show. He was so fast, in and out of different costumes, and the band up there on stage was insane with the loud speakers and playing guitars and keyboards, and I just remember thinking to myself: "I want to do that so bad!" The fans went crazy for him, it was a really incredible time. I'll never forget it.

Currently, the only instrument I possess, is my Epiphone PR-4E, it's an acoustic and electric, with a thin body and a cutaway, and I am very pleased with it and may permanently use Epiphone. Plus, it's a gift from my Grandfather, the only thing I have from him, so needless to say, it's very sentimentle. I definitely plan to buy more "gear" as time goes on and things start getting better financially.

Growing up, my biggest musical influences would have to be, Limp Bizkit, and Kid Rock, due to their fusion of Rock and Rap. I always loved the sound of crunching guitar and bass with the drums, just mixed fluently with the poetry of rap lyrics. Something about it always facinated me. As of late, I've grown to like a rap artist by the name of Haystak. I love everything about his music. His beats and the quality, but more importantly his lyrics. Everything seems so sincere and the way he tells a story is so poetic and appealing and people feel that. His ability to have fun on a record and tell honest tales, and how he presents a decent message sometimes, is what compells me to want to be like him in ways. I want to have fun in my music and tell stories the inspire as well.

I have been in two bands actually. I used to write rhymes with a great friend of mine named Terrance Gibbs, and because he is black and I am white, we called ourselves "ColorBlind". I remember going to his house and having pre-used beats that we would play in a DVD player that we had rigged to a kareoke machine and we would sing and rap into it, recording our songs on to tape decks. Good memories right there. We never did any shows but we were young and just having a blast doing what we both loved to do.

I have had another band that I created and formed originally with my older brother, that we called "Dysfunktional Reputation", which was a fusion of anything, honestly. We would do rap, rock, and even country if we could pull it off. We did tiny shows in our neighbor hood, where we would perform for people we knew. We later formed with a couple of guys, Scotty Phillips (guitar player/ song writer) who definitely helped liven us up a bit, and his Uncle, actually, who is a song writer, named Russell Bruce. He really brought a sence of inteligence to the group. He allowed us to touch on a religeous base, as well as a, what I want to call: "out of this world" base. We just had so much creativity and could approach our following with a variety of topics. And people responded to this. They absolutely loved it. I would check our e-mails and get comments about the "really big guy" with a mean vocabulary. It trully was amazing and I would love to start again with these guys and see where we could take it, given of course we were in better positions in our lives.

Honestly, if I could jam with anyone, I would say, Jon Young & Jay Cash. They're from Orlando, Florida and they have numerous hits and they aren't even signed. I like their music and their flows and they spit some honest, real life stories. I can relate to alot of it, and I would just love to jam on stage a night with them. Those guys rock. They're doing their thing and I'm giving mad props.

Okay, this a tough question for me to answer. Ugh!! We'll start with the smallest crowed I've ever performed in front of, and that would have to be when I was doing Kareoke with my friend/ sister, Fallon. It was in Palatka, Florida, and her and I did Kid Rock and Sheryl Crow's "Picture". Very good song. I hadn't drank at all, so I was sobar and nervous because there was at least 45 to 50 people in there that I didn't know. Fallon is a fabulous singer and she had perfomed many times, so she was on que. I was doing great and it came to the part where Kid belts it saying, "I was off to drink you away". I could feel the butterflies because I did not want to mess this up. The part came up and I pulled the mic away about another two to three inches and belted it and I remember looking out and seeing my friends all like, "hell yeah!" and Fallon smiled at me, and the crowd of people were obviously in shock that I did it, as was I. I let out a sigh of relief and when the song was over people were cheering us on and telling me I needed a record deal, and I was like, "you guys are drunk, whatever" lol. But that was the smallest crowd.

The largest crowd I've ever performed for was upwards at about 500 to 600 people. I was in a 6 month program at Greenville Hills Academy. A program for juveniles. My cottage or house group, was doing a thing in the autotorium for empathy. So me and a 3 other guys in my group had to get on stage and perform a verse that we wrote basically saying sorry for what we did to get in there. We had a beat and everything and we each wrote a verse, thus making a song. So, I'm the only white boy up there and we'd all practiced. The other guys go first, I guess they figured leave the white boy last. We had black fitted caps on and we got to wear our own jeans as long as we wore the blue sweater that represented our cottage. The other guys showed no emotion as they did their verses, standing like stiffs and holding their pieces of paper that they wrote their verse on. Finally it comes to me, I've been swaying left to right, feeling the beat and everything for three verses now, and when it gets to me, I broke out of the formation, jumped out in front of these guys, cocked my hat to the right, and spit my verse like a true perfomer. When the song was over we had a 4 minute standing ovation. Best thing I ever experienced. I was in shock, and I even think my mind went blank because I was just overwelmed. But I had up to 5 or 600 people clappin and screamin and it was amazing! Never going to forget it.

If I was stuck on a desert island and only got to bring one album with me, I think that would be Godsmack's acoustic album: "The Other Side". Always loved that album. I love acoustic, and I have liked the band every since I heard the band's first studio recording: "All Wound Up". I could listen to them all day long.