After the quarantine lockdown I went back to work and started to save up to move downtown for a while just to get a new feel out of life. The city was a more vibrant and fast pace environment as compared to being in Decatur although Decatur was not at all far from the city. I had been going to the city to network and hang out for about two years before I decided to move there so by the time I did move out there I already knew exactly what I wanted to do differently. I got acquainted with a distant friend I had met in the city, Ron, who was an event curator and was interested in making a comeback after covid had shut almost all events and parties down. I asked if I could DJ at his event and he did. I didn’t know it then but this would be the start of my career as a DJ in a way.
Ron was having his annual Halloween party which I had been two the previous year so I knew there would be a bunch of people there. It wasn’t the first time I had DJed at a party but it was the first time I would be DJing for Ron and I wanted to make a good first impression and I did. My set was so good they asked me to do two sets at that one party. For the next couple of months Ron put me on every single party he curated. This helped me expand my connections and soon I would be DJing for other people as well. This was a big turn around for me because it felt like it all happened out of nowhere. I had been DJing since the end of 2018 but it felt like it was so hard to get people to take me serious as a DJ until the pandemic. The pandemic went from the worst possible thing that could’ve happened to 2020 to being the best possible thing that could’ve happened to me. I was happy because it felt like I took advantage of opportunities that actually helped move me as an artist.
Unfortunately, through out all of the change I was experiencing, my best friend Lawrence had also been going through changes but of different sorts. I could go into how close I was with Lawrence but that would be an extremely long story in itself. To say the least he was the only person I called my best friend since I was in the 3rd grade. On February 14th of 2021 my best friend past away. This was to date the hardest thing I had ever been faced with in my life. I hated the world and I started to involve myself with certain things that were not in anyway good for my health. I was still DJing parties which was making things a lot harder for me to cope with loosing my best friend. I started looking a lot of things differently, especially my future. Not long after that I lost the life of another close friend I had named Chrys, who was like an older brother figure to both me and Lawrence. I felt like I was dying in a way trying to cope with these deaths until I moved from the city back to Decatur and started to get booked for out of state shows. From April of 2021 to November of 2021 I had been DJing, making music, and traveling all while trying to figure out where I really stood in the world. My mom, being one of the only support systems I had left, encouraged me to go back to school which is how I winded up here.
