 My name is Azad Nafisi and I go by the name of Azad Wright. I'm from Los Angeles and I'm a songwriter, producer, artist. Azad is actually my real first name. It means freedom in Farsi and it's something my parents didn't have. My father, Majid Nafisi, is a well-known poet from the Iranian community. He's also a political activist. Both my parents were exiled before the Revolution and the travel to France to Turkey and then finally ended up here. Wright, I always liked to write. I didn't like the way W-R-I-T-E looked. One day we were just sitting and we were like, yo, just switch it to R-I-G-H-T, your music's positive and it looks better. My father definitely has a big influence on my life. I wouldn't necessarily say that he's the reason that I do hip-hop, but definitely because of him, I've been very interested in reading and writing from a young age. I started writing my own music, my own raps to be specific in 9th grade, so I was 13 years old. I say I need space and you try to get closer. Some of the topics I talk about in my music, family issues, things that are going on in my current life, relationship problems. I've seen a lot of comments on the YouTube videos and on the blog posts like, yo, this kid, when I first saw him, his image on the site, I didn't expect him to rap. Tons of people have come up to me and been very proud that I've been able to break that barrier down. Being on stage is the best part about this. Being able to see these kids and these people's reactions to your music, then you see people like, wow, this is really, really good. And I can relate to this. That's what makes me, like, tangled.