Deffine

Music, ahhh music to describe me I have to explain music.. noun: any agreeable (pleasing and harmonious) sounds noun: (music) the sounds produced by singers or musical instruments (or reproductions of such sounds) noun: an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner.. Now that you know a little about the meaning let me explain something else.. Some people say Hip hop/ rap is not music well if what us rap artists do is not music why do many people hear it and like it, why is there every kind of instrument mixed with our beats, why do we mix every culture of music with this hip hop some would say is not music. Well bottom line I think anything you hear any sound weather its the wind blowing or someone talking, if you like it, it is music, if you don't like it it could still be music just not what you like. So to me music is my life, Music is my religion. I love all types and kinds but what I do is what I love the most, Hip Hop. So if you are reading this i'm sure you are interested in my music and who I am, well I go by the name of Deffine, No i did not misspell that there are two Fs in there. I go by the name of deffine because my music is the way I define my life, what I think, how I feel and sometimes I just like to have a little fun with it. The extra F stands for free because music is what takes me away gets me by and makes me feel free. So now you know a little bit about what I think of music and my name lets get to the rest. My birth name is brad wall I was born on june 28 1987 in Fort McMurray Ab. Since this isn't a bio on my life i'm going to focus more on the music side of things but i'm going to give you a quick run of what got me to where I am now. So yea I was born like you were and I grew up having a pretty normal life until my brother died. Shortly after I started not caring about school or anything else, my parents sent me away for a year to another school (to get better schooling they said) and I got back to find out my parents got divorced. Boo Hoo right. So I went back to the same school I was in my whole life the following year and all the friends I had turned on me, not some, all of them. I started not caring about much got into drugs and a bit of trouble with the law at a early age. This is around the time I started writing rhymes. So in a nutshell my mom kicked me out, sent me to live with my dad in the worst low budget crack head infested apartment complex in the city. My dad wasn't around much and when he was he was usually drunk so I didn't have many rules to follow or anybody to tell me what to do. I met some new people cant say they were good people but they became my people. That lead to more drugs more cops less school and more court dates. What can I say besides your only young once I had fun ha-ha did you. So I dropped out of school to pursue my career in lets just say experimenting. Kicked in and out of my dads house I finally was officially kicked out at 17. I tried to make ends meet get a job with a grade 9 education and get my own place. Well I had expensive habits so it didn't take long before I was stuck since I couldn't keep a job, or make enough money to do it so I got an offer to move down to edmonton. I sat down thought about the music I wrote the dead end town I was in where I might be a couple years down the road and where my friends were (jail, dead, on drugs, in gangs). so 5 minutes later I had half my stuff packed (I didn't have much). Hitched a ride and I was there. Now i'm not saying my life was a sad sad story up to here but a lot of it made me who I am now lets just say we all go through some shit, and my life was pretty fucked up. So I quit the career I chose (experimenting) and realized I would have nowhere to live if I didn't get a job so I got into the work world. I didn't have many options with no education and learned pretty quick that I hate working and that I had a pretty wicked gift I hadn't put much use too yet (music). So I got my shit together pulled out my rhyme book and tried to throw some songs together to go record. They were some awesome rhymes but I wasn't a gangster and I guess I though I was when I wrote most of them so I decided to start from scratch and decided if I was going to do music I was going to do it 100% real. influenced and inspired by many but never have ever thought about copying someone or something I heard which gave me my own authentic sound. Not that you have never heard a hip hop song before but I write things from my outlook from my point of view, from my life in my way with my own flow so I hooked up with a couple djs and got a couple beats and wrote my first two songs that weren't free styling or something I wrote on a page and threw in a pile. This lead to the recording of Another Way and To The Top. I was 18 and it took that long to finally record 2 songs I guess greatness doesn't happen over night. So I sent it off to friends built a myspace page and posted up my songs. People were feeling it I mean like really feeling it. This inspired me to pursue it more but at the same time people were feeling it hate was building from some other people that made music in the same town I grew up in. People I was cool with I guess hate to see you do good. the love and inspiration I got from the people that loved it was incredible but I found that people hating me was even more of a motivator. Well most haters think if you don't like someone or start something with someone they well quit. in some cases different people etc that might happen but not in this case I wanted to take my dream to the next level. I started making more and more Good music met more and more people, did collabos with other artists and groups for mix tapes etc. Got a bit of an internet buzz going and turned everything around doing the things people thought I never would do. Music has now turned into the only thing I see myself doing and the only thing I want to do, Music has always been my crutch what gets me through what I need when I was feeling low so I try to give that back as my gift to the world. I even moved to other cities to try and get my music out well I was there for a couple months at a time. now its 2009 and finally I have dropped my first CD (Can you hear me now Hip Hop) featuring some other awesome artists. along with a couple mix tapes I have featured in across canada. Now this is just the beginning I finally did something Now I have to get my name out keep on making more music, I'm just your regular unsigned artist well not regular I guess, I have skills I have a message and its real. you don't find that often now days. I have plenty shows to rock way more beats to speak on, and a billion more people that need to hear me. I wont stop because well its simple... we all live and we do this or that get that job because my parents did that or because I went to that school and have that trade and we look back and say I wonder what would of happened if I had of done my dream or tried, or if you did try you might say tried a bit harder. I don't want to be one of those people so I guess if I never do make it I just didn't try hard enough but the main thing is, I'm doing what I love weather or not some label signs me and I make money from it or I die broke. What did you do lately. Me i do what I love everyday. I guess I got to eat well I do this so I still work a 9-5 but i'm doing what I can. Really i'm not shit. I'm just a guy with a dream a voice and a mic, i'm not here to change the world just to inspire change and have some fun, don't take everything so serious before you know it your run is over weather or not you have a good one its up too you. Deffine