I soon developed an ear and the ability to sound identical to the music I was reproducing. This was very helpful to me, as I begin to create music for myself I had the ability to sound like I was from the music industry at a very young age.

This helped me for my musical adventures. And this is the very reason why it is so easy for me to teach others how to make music. I did not have a gift, I simply had a drive. Years was put into this craft. A lifetime of effort, successes, failures, ups, downs rights and wrongs and hangin with real musicians and old school producers. Anyone could be as prolific as Dr. Dre, Jermaine Dupree, Scott Storch, Pharrell, Jazze Pha or even Stevie Wonder, Prince, or Quincy Jones but it will certainly take some time, possibly some heartbreak and certainly a whole lot of sacrificing unless you had one of these mentors helping.

These where the dues that was paid, but it began to pay off after all the years of hard work. Before shopping production to major labels, I tested it in the streets. My very first track sold for $150.00 in the hood to some local hustlers trying to put out a record. They came back and bought 4 more tracks. I was only 14 and thought I was rich. That was the first time I got paid more than $100.00 for something that I loved to do......................CONTINUE TO FINALE