So I’m currently employed at Marco’s Pizza, and I unfortunately only make minimum wage, hence cheese and a little feta. $7.25. Any money is great but it takes more than just a few dollars to hit your goals. I’m always lookin' at the next level and I work hard to reach it.

Oddly enough, I did not like Habits and Contradictions by Q. Not to say I dislike it, but it didn’t turn me into a fan. But, over the course of a year he’s become one of my favorite artists and a huge inspiration. So yeah, word to Barrk.

Freestyled. I was having a bad day.

So me and Ryte go way back. Our parents grew up together, but we didn’t actually know each other until I was about 14. I don’t remember everything clearly but one day he posted a cover of Trust Issues and I somehow ended up doing a verse for it. This was basically the start of my rap career. All precisely documented on Facebook, ha.

I met Thai in middle school and we were good friends for the most part, and did a lot of writing back then but it was mostly short stories and poems. In 8th grade we found out that we had similar interests and talked about doing music together but that’s all we really did was talk. It was before I ever thought about doing music seriously and before I met Ryte. I think it was my 9th or 10th grade year and Thai dropped Coronation (possibly One in a Million) which was the first I’d heard of him actually doing this music shit for real. Fast forward to August 2012 and we’re dropping “Rest in Peace” which was recorded with Adobe Audition. Later that year, he ended up changing schools and we had Gym together and sometimes we’d just kick some knowledge back and forth, about any and everything.

After Rest in Peace dropped, I started taking things a lot more seriously and kind of reinvented myself. Changed my name, changed my focus. But the big changes didn’t really come until a few months ago when I got a job and started making enough money to buy equipment, leases and all that. Phase 1 is in reference to the fact that this is technically Audition Day v2, as I worked on AD for about 2 months and hated everything and started over from scratch.

So, Ghosts was one of our first songs that got a good bit of attention, and it’s kind of how I measure my progress. Because my delivery/flow/etc is awful compared to what I can do now. But even then, I feel like I’m not where I should be after a year so I gotta work harder, and faster. Life doesn’t wait.

Senior year, I’m almost 18, buying a car, getting insurance, taking all those steps to get myself right to be on my own. It’s literally crazy because I was just 15…