F.I.S.T. Perspective on Winner..

Who are you?  : F.I.S.T.

What do you do? : i am a producer, writer, rapper, mixer and engineer.

As a young child between the age of 3 and 4, and throughout my upbringing, music was always being played.

I started as a D.J. in 1990, 1994 i began producing and engineering, in 2012 i began writing, rapping, and mixing.

Hip-Hop/Rap, Pop, Funk, Rock

My sound and style is always changing with each album release. The changes in the music/sound, govern the changes in my vocal performances.

My tour pick would be "Stevie Wonder". He is a well rounded tatlent that has evolved throughout the ages, with his sound and style and subject content that pushed the boundaries, and established standards that define legendary. 

i see also see him as being a great mentor, and contributor to my success by teaching, and leading by example.

My sound musically, is a fusion of genres bridged by a hip-hop core of drum loops and bass lines,; with the adiitions of synths, various guitars and samples, which radiates to the various genres that span Funk, Pop, Rock, Jazz, Reggae, R&B/Soul. 

As a rapper,I have proclaimed myself as "The Voice of The People", i try to speak what my listener is thinking, and afraid to say, or would have said it differently from my approach. i am a self conscious rapper with my subjects and topics that cause you to evaluate, or examine yourself, or just introducing a different maybe more diplomatic approach to a situation.

Prince

Why?: because of his variety, and being in his own lane. As an artist i see myself in him with his boldness to embody his sound, style, and subject content, and topics, without any apologies, like myself. And he gave a great show.

A sold out venue with thousands of people, with my group "Rock-Hop" and myself as the featured headliners. a D.J. would be a must for my segments of the show. The D.J. would dictate the playlist in a mixtape, club/rave type of fashion. Once the D.J. establishes the song, my band which would be my group "Rock-Hop" , will kick in and play along with the d.j. before the lyrics start.

i would like to collaborate with "the Carters"(Jay z/Beyonce), as a producer. i would like to produce entire album projects for them both.

The genuine and originality of my sound in my music, and my commitment to the track with my truth in my lyrics.

1. Iconic
2. Legendary
3. Trendsetter

a listener left a negative comment to one of my songs, before i saw my comment page, one of my supporters responded before i could in my defense.

Success for me would be having a fan base no matter size, earning some type of income, some type of social media or radio broadcast breakthrough. the 1st two, i have accomplished, the third im working on.

Keep my sound original, stay true to myself and my liseners, continue to evolve and grow, own what i bring, and take the lead, with no apologies.

As leaders and influencers, that are accountable for what they say and. how they influence their followers

My song "Dispensary", from my debut album "Disconnected..."

This story starts with me paying for promo campaigns at the beginning of my career. i had paid for campaigns that would guarantee certain threshold amounts of streams. my earlier campaigns, i would pay for packages that would guarantee between 3000 to 10,000 streams; i would always surpass what i paid for three fold, and never once was i ever flagged for bot streams.

Since i was recieving such good results with my other songs, i decided to up the ante for "Dispensary", on how many streams i would pay for. This was my first and only time that i paid for a campaign for 50,000 streams. The campaign ran 7 days and recieved over a millon streams. My distribution service flagged me for bot streams, suspended my account, and pulled my catalog from the shelves. After their investigation, those streams were proven to be real organic, and they had to pay me.

I haven't had one quite yet, but my fear is performing.

I would altar the lack of opportunities and vehicles used to discover new breakthrough talent. Since the streaming platforms, discovery opportunities are a far and few luxury, with unestablished artist are being gouged through their eyes for any and every resource and tool presented to acquire any type of exposure/opportunity with no guarantee of discovery

I wear many hats because of my job experience:

1 first job was McDonalds: Cook/Cashier-Drive Thru

2 United Parcel Service : Truck Loader/Package Driver/Delivery (18 Years)

3 Wells Fargo Bank: Customer/Merchant Teller (Cash Handling)

4 In Home Supportive Services: Care Provider

Other Skills: Forklift Operator, Pharmacy Technician, Website Developer

1. How to have tough skin
2. Take the good with the bad
3. the lulls of this journey
4. can't write songs for everyone

God and the talent that has been validated by those that have been fortunate to take a chance and explore playing one of my recordings without promotion, and appreciating the true artistry and talent which is validation enough for me and my confidence in my talent.

To become Iconic, and Legendary. To leave a body of works, and a legacy behind worthy of being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.