Originally released in 2016: What is dedication, and how can one’s focus be beneficial (or detrimental) to his or her’s said dedication? I don’t have the exact answer to that, I’m still on this journey myself. But I do have a story. Download: https://vonpoevii.com/ Back in 2005, I started this journey with my first official project “The Atma Within”. I was fifteen going on sixteen, and have since dropped fifteen solo project (not including the collab projects I’ve done). I didn’t have Facebook growing up, no YouTube, Soundcloud, DatPiff, Worldstar, none of that. Some of us had Myspace, but the site shut down two years after allowing us the ability to have music pages. Never had access to a videographer, no editors in my small town, no producers at the time either. From a time when video looked like a box and recorded on tapes (video and audio). I was only 26yrs old back when this album first dropped, but there was a good five years where I was playing catch up to the changing times. I believe a lot of artist born in the late 80s were, and still are. My point is this; Despite the constant changes, despite always having to rely on myself to record and mix my own stuff, and shooting and editing my own videos, I always kept going. I keep going to this day. When they ask about my contribution to the culture, I can proudly point at this picture. I can testify to dropping fifteen full length solo projects within a ten year time span, and using those projects as a means to perfect my craft. I never catered to the insecure, never played on female emotions. I’ve always kept solid with regards to wordplay and vision. Never cut no corners, never tried to sell projects with sex appeal. A true artist is what I am, and I’m very proud of that.
