I am truly grateful for everyone that takes notice of my art. Cleveland's biggest news magazine promoted my album This Is Me which featured my "In The Dark" music video. This one means a lot to me particularly because Scene Magazine reaches out the alternative consumers and to Cleveland.
This Is Me will be my final album. I try to give a little bit of everything into this project with R&B, Pop, Rock and Hip Hop. The album exposes a raw and real side of my life. This process took a little more than 3 years, several producers and a lot of soul searching. This is not a typical album, it's an experimental but very earthy and raw feel. The loss for my grandmother and finding my birth mother and finding out she passed away without saying goodbye to her really set the tone for the album. (Which I dedicate to her)
In 2006, I released my first album A-Bombination and I was filled with a lot of anger, guilt and not a lot of clarity in my life. Today, I feel alive and free knowing that my mother and my grandmother are looking down smiling. These confessions that are on this project I am not exactly proud of but it has made me a stronger and better person for acknowledging that they exist. The truth has been told and THIS IS ME!! Special thanks to my amazing family. Oma, Mom, Dad, Rose Marie, my wife Amanda who has stayed by side through the storm. And of course my babies. My 330 crew; Anthony Palko, KJ, Dub and Matt The Lawyer. Thanks to Bobby, Tommie, Art, James, Harvey, Mike and the rest of the Xplosive Music Entertainment family. My big sis Tuan "Earthtone" Hodges. Eric "Drotts", Big Herm and "Big Bro" Carl and all my space cadets. Brad Puette and Mike Brown and the rest of the guys up at Lava Room Recordings. Josh and Matt Maunus and Top Of The World Studios. Jeff Niesel and Cleveland Scene Magazine. Andre Pettis, and all the guys at Voice It Radio. Ryan Wilkerson, "Big Heff" and the Ohio Hip Hop Awards Team. Johnny O and the Nerve DJs. Rick and the rest of Universal Music Group A&R and artist development guys.Thanks for believing in me. Coast 2 Coast Mixtape. Summit County Songwriters Circle. The Earth Entertainment crew. Cali Miles and The Bomb Squad Models. Lo Lo Manguel. Brett Vance and High Art Entertainment. Amy and the Afton Team. All my online radio guys and DJs, thanks for spinning our records! The haters and doubters who thought we couldn't make it this far. And of course my fans. Thank you for all your support and love!! My Bomb Squad is the best!!! |