 SHIT! You gotta see him, man. He's a spitter. He's an alligator on the Mike Heatherby. ALLIGATOR ROCKS! Oh man, he's a piranha on the Mike Heatherby! Perinoid. I go through my day. I can't count how many times I wonder the true intentions of who's surrounding when we stand and out. I don't know if you're proud to wrap me, you're saddled with envy and coward who just be out to get me. My first met Token back when he was 13. I was blown away to see someone so young with so much confidence and so much determination. You know, you don't see a lot of 17-year-olds so passionate about one thing. I would say he borders at a perfectionist level. He's working and thinking differently than most of us. His career right now is just mind-blowing. To me, because a year ago, none of this. None of this was like this. None. Growing up I always felt like I was real different. What helped me deal with it was writing. When asked what he wanted to be, he simply answered rapper. One of the concerns of the psychologist who did the testing was that there didn't seem to be any other possibility in his mind. This was definitely my dream at that age to be performing for the crowds like this. Everybody cheering. That's why it says hated to love, you know, the complete transformation. Literacy is literally limiting to a living, listening, linguist, slicking the lips of the truth. And if I put on a mask and didn't show who I was, I'd be an artist who's strive to be similar to. There was a point where my anxiety got really bad. And I didn't want to make it a big thing. Like my family was having other stuff they were dealing with. I never wanted to be the burden. It was suggested that he get neurological psychological testing because they saw something with not understanding language, particularly expressive language. And of course the greatest irony is that he lives metaphors. Like that's everywhere in his stuff. I've always been a tough strange. Like why you confident, you nutcase, you're awesome in a dumb way. Don't be yourself. When I was I think like first, second, third and fourth grade, I was real overweight. I just made a decision I was going to change it. I would start running. I would just run and run and run until I couldn't anymore. I lost I think like 50 pounds. It was the first moment that I decided that if I put my mind to something that I can get it done no matter what. My sister was the first person to introduce me to rap. Yeah, from like a wiki young age. So the three main artists when I was really young I listened to was Ludacris, Eminem and Tupac. Eminem I think it was just so real. Same thing with Tupac, the attitude of like I don't care and this is me was just something I was attracted to because I didn't always feel like I felt different but I didn't I wasn't always as confident about it. All my stuff used to get hated on. When people in my grade found out they would just make fun of me and I was just like I didn't like it didn't it really it just kind of made me want to do it more. I met Token at a park in my town called Seaside Park. I knew he rapped doing mutual friends. I was like let's spit let's do a little freestyle or something like that and just you know mess around. And I'm Sima Lee metaphor spittin. You can't die vividly let the world kick in. Oh my god. I was telling them yesterday that like we were like really about that. Oh my god. In the beginning we really bought like the lyrical lyrical. And just the syllables. And we were like you got 14 syllables rhymed. What. Yeah. He was very very self-disciplined in his head like I could just tell when we started to rap he made me come to his house to rap. I didn't want to. It's like I thought I wanted to but when it came down to really working he was like you gotta come over we gotta finish this we gotta finish what we started. So I was going by B to G at the time he was going by C Mitch and our first project we put out was called Lethal Combination. It was just really interesting to hear you know they sound like little chipmunks rapping at the time but you know they had bars you know there was some bars in there. John Glass is my mentor from a super young age. It was definitely weird for John when he's bringing like 13 year olds over to like the local ciphers little did I know little did he know that this was about to turn into this this big thing. I had a friend that knew Sway and when Sway heard the music I mean I was just told that he was down to have me on the show and I lost my mind a little bit. Sway has been a huge catalyst for a lot of people's careers in hip-hop. It became this obsession for Ben. He was a wreck. I was rearranging stuff literally the night before and I was a lot more nervous because I spent so much time preparing. You haven't been sticking to the shit that you were doing before you know what I mean like you like I like you have like so much more like melodic like flow like but it's still like you you know I'm saying like I love that and I you know that like every time we bump a new joint in the car I'm like dude this is crazy but it always has like a new word I'm trying to explain it I don't want to say like a mainstream sound to it it's not but it's like it's like you're having fun with it. It was so surreal I didn't even I was I don't I feel like I wasn't even there and then when that beat turned on I even blacked out more before I even rhyme I don't want to be defined by these rhyme schemes of mine they put me in a box labeled two ahead of his freaking time too complex they don't look deep inside 17 designed with a genius mind I can teach the blind to see a fly on a piece of line paper in a secret shrine 80 million feet behind the ankle see my peace of mind they go see this peace of mind you know you could feel it in the room how much you wanted how much you loved being there and and how much you know how seriously took that opportunity and everybody in the room it was palpable Sway video got four million views on facebook and I was looking at my phone and I did one of these things like I didn't believe it at all. Sway this was a dream of mine man that is Trace are you crying? Yeah I don't think that's ever happened in my damn three years up in here but that came from the most authentic space of your soul dude. You know it did huge things for me a ton of more people reaching out a lot of new fans the new project is filled with material that I've been wanting to put out but I didn't feel like it was the time and I feel like I built everything up until this point and I have amazing fans but I feel like on some levels they don't really know what they are fans of and this project answers that question Do you know an uncharted musician whose music deserves to be shared with the world? email artists at who is uncharted