180 Days of Teaching & Hip Hop: What's Real Anymore?
What’s good, good people?
There are many stories left to be told. Everyone has a different story and each of them are interesting and thought-provoking. I did not live a life full of encounters with the law, drugs, and wild sex. To me that does not give me creditability in the circles I am interested in being credible with. That is not to say, I don’t have a past we all do, yet I am not trying to impress drug dealers, prostitutes, strippers, pimps, and criminals.
As a school teacher one of my main battles is to convince some of my students there is more to life than those aforementioned lifestyles. I am a school teacher and have been for the last five years. Of those years I have also been pursuing my music career. I see myself as a living and breathing example of not having to live a dark, dangerous life to make it in the music business.
Contrary to popular belief, our favorite mainstream artists are not always high, with big booty, promiscuous women, and driving fast cars. Their lives are much more than that. Some of them are fathers, husbands, caretakers to relatives, charitable back home in their communities, and really upstanding individuals. It is all about what they choose to project. Me being on the outside looking in, I see myself as one of many (Yes, there are many of us out there.) individuals in Hip Hop willing to telling different stories. Stories of overcoming, not following the crowd, staying motivated when no one else can see your vision, etc.
Truth is, we’ve all been there. My challenge to everyone who reads this blog is to embrace the positivity around you and be mindful of the things you hear, see, and say. Reason being, eventually the things you hear, see, and say most will become your reality.
Next Up:
1st Sundays @ Brinsons October 5, 2014 (2pm-6pm)
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