 My name is Barry Moses or it's Barry Mohan, social media and we've come to the last segment or the last interview of the day And this guy is a conscious conscious rapper. I like the lyrics. I like the beats I like the the path that he has taken despite the pop culture Currently he goes by the name Trouble Lee and is in studio with us. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Trouble Lee You're one guy who doesn't follow the wave. I don't follow the wave Yeah, I create my own how I feel how you feel is how you create it. Yes, exactly Wonderful. Mr. Trouble Lee, you can introduce yourself on camera one I go by T. R. A. B. O. L. W. E. Trouble Lee that is truth reigns above but only love exists eternally I'm a hip-hop artist and Sometimes the spoken word artist and I express myself on raps and beats and things of those nature You express yourself on raps and beats and things of that nature. Yeah, I appreciate that Thank you very much for coming through to why in the morning. It's a pleasure to meet you, man So how long have you been in this music thing? Like seriously, I started like actively being involved. I think was late 2013 between 2013 and 2014 is when I actually went to the studio and started like putting out music Trying to get it out there And you started shooting videos as well. Yeah, like now 2014 to 15 year from there. I like that. Which producer are you working with currently now? I'm working with the killie black. We have a project an album that you can find it on iTunes It's killer streaming side. Yeah, it's called telos and I've been trying to just release visuals for it So I've done three videos for from the songs of the album just to give you how many albums are on the song How many songs are on the album? How many songs are on the album? Thank you for the question All right, nine songs. Nine songs on the album. Sorry for that miss. All right Raph is all about what play anyway so Nine songs you've shot three videos so far Yeah, but this is my fourth project your fourth project now. All right. It's called a black sheep now Black sheep is just a single a black sheep is a single. All right. It's not even from the album it's not from the video we did because The director of the video liked the song and he wanted to interpret it So I was like if you want to collaborate with if you have an idea, let's do it All right. How did you meet this director? How did he get to? Through my previous content go to my youtuber and a couple of songs. He was a fan And so he sent me a treatment. He was like, this is the idea of this song I have if you have something we can do something out of the box. I was like, all right, let's do it And I like that it's definitely out of the box if we can project the video on screen Black sheep it's one of my favorite songs by you and when I listen to the song The lines that get me thinking yeah, yeah, like I said back and think have you ever had A situation where people are asking if you're a gospel artist by chance Yeah, I have I have that but it's just I just express myself and I think it's consciousness I have I think I have a little bit of both I can be I can be positively negative even if I want You're ready You can be positively negative ignorant. I like what is this concept about? Yes, where you get Your neck gets checked. Yeah, like in the old days like some game of thrones thing The whole song was about just being an individual In a society that's trying to tell you be like everyone else So there's a line I say Thanks a lot for throwing salt on my wounds that only made me a season to see it's just like you can use You can use the the darkness of the world and transform it into your own life Through salt in your wounds made me a season don't see only made you a season don't see Lions bars for days The reason I got you here probably is not to have this conversation I mean right now is for the bar the last segment of the day I where we get artists rappers to just show off their skills And then we'll upload them on youtube as well and then we can share with the world hip-hop from ke But you're quite an interesting guy already. I'm getting interested in more So this project that you were working on with Akili black akili black is from Nairobi as well Super producer mixed and mastered by akili black as well. Yes The latest single is called cc first cc first that is the one on youtube. Yeah, the latest song on youtube It's called cc first. Yeah cc first also It's it's you know greek mythology So cc first was like this king Who was cast to push to push this rock over here and every time the rock will reach the top It will fall down So I was just using that as an experience of what happens in the world All right, you almost get that and then they bring you down I think like that But now you just gotta be enjoy the process So, uh, you're an identity there Yeah, I just in this can you escape information in this age? It just finds you I guess Yeah, I don't even actively But I do I do read you do read. Yes. So what are you what are your topics of interest currently? What are some of the things you're interested in? philosophy spirituality What happens in the world things like that All right, I'm curious as a conscious rapper or somebody's interested in philosophy. Yeah, uh, do you party from time to time? Yeah, I um, I parted. I did all those things. All right. Perfect. Perfect Not as much as I used to not as much as you used to but you party So do you get to jump to these songs? Like bud and bougie When it bangs in the speaker, I think they they all have a place In music because hip-hop was started as a aside from jamaica actually jamaican DJs went to brooklyn And they in african bombata hip-hop was all about be boring Break dancing is an element of hip-hop So all those parts is if you leave life, you know, so I think it's essential even like everything has its place the me goes Yeah, and I I think I don't think like They should be taken away from the hip-hop from hip-hop all those. They're just sub-genres of hip-hop. Yeah, so every Yeah, everyone can express Yeah, yeah, let's kill them to a get a piece of true true. I like that troubling uh, uh, so, uh We are going to play a game. Okay. Uh, but before we play a game Uh, do you think you're ever going to do a commercial track? I actually have a couple you have a couple of commercial tracks. I don't consider them commercial but we We just down a little bit. No, we don't even down it down like we're like this beat sounds like this Let's let's do what how the beat sounds. So yeah, there's a couple that's song called bamboo bear with amokamili Have a bunch of them I think I've heard that one. Yeah Uh, is that guy from Tanzania? No, no, no, no, it's from Kenya. All right. Nice one. So let's play that game It's called read the bar. Okay, so we are going to have it be having some bars from songs that you have heard before Maybe or never had before that would be and then you're going to tell us in a scale of one to ten Are you going to read this bar and then after you read the bar? You are going to tell you The artist who came up with the bar. All right, so this one, maybe you can read it out I think if it's I think it's a trap song like from the flow from the flow and the syllables All right, and uh also You can tell from the The length of the lines Yeah, I can tell it's if on a beat I would actually enjoy this song. You actually am I supposed to rate it? All right on a scale of what on a scale of one to ten, but before that, uh Uh Let me see What are some of the styles you see in this verse some stylistic devices? Um The rhyming is good is good and then there's the internal rhyme. I think it's just too To to make the flow more interesting. You have the internal rhymes and the rhyme the rhyming stands out