 I guess it all started for me when I was like 12 or 13. My mom got me an Akai MPK Mini for Christmas. I had no musical background whatsoever, but I didn't want the gift to go to waste, so I started making music with it. As I was teaching myself how to produce music as a kid, I knew I wanted to get beyond making beats in my bedroom and learn how to work in the studio. Coming to UVM kept me close to home in the Bronx, offered good scholarships, and allowed me to create my own music nature, which I named music business, a mix of music production, community entrepreneurship, and business. Everything was intimidating at first. The music theory, analog equipment, all the slides on the console, but it taught me the technical skill to support everything that I taught myself, and it's allowed me to take my beats to a new level. It's that late night flow. Listen to this if you think you can't make it. Think fast, cause I never move slow. Just find your spot and a little inspiration. Hard work and a little dedication. Listen to me, it's a free education. I would have had the studio space, my own recording studio, like I built without the connections from the music program. There's definitely a scene here in Burlington for my work. There are artists looking for a space where they could express themselves to make the music. That's what I want to offer. If people think of my music, I want them to think of my instruments as being unique. Like a mix of my own creativity with influences from the drill scene and my home in the Bronx. Stepping out of my own studio space, I already created and a business sense for how to run it. I know I can make it.